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Tools for Earthquake Engineering SimulationThere are many types of computational simulation tools available for use in earthquake engineering research and practice. In structural and geotechnical settings, the most common examples of analysis software utilize finite-element modeling techniques to estimate response due to earthquakes. Finite-element analysis is an incredibly general simulation technique, and hence great care must be taken to validate important analyses via real-world (e.g., experimental) data, and to insure that the application used is properly verified.In addition to these concerns, most high-fidelity earthquake engineering analyses are inherently nonlinear (e.g., ductility of structures, inelastic soil response, free-surface fluid flow in tsunamis, etc.), so that appropriate care must be taken to account for convergence of the nonlinear solution. The prototypical taxonomy of tools used here decomposes the world of earthquake engineering analysis applications into production-grade commercial tools, community-developed research tools that are robust and reliable, and various utility applications for mathematical manipulation, visualization, and conceptual modeling of laboratory and computational simulations. Archive of Simulation Tool Information
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