Visualization Applications for
Earthquake Engineering Simulation
The complexity of earthquake engineering problems, including both
material composition and unstructured geometry, place great demands on
visualization tools. Thus it is important to find and utilize
visualization applications that can readily render the various
complexities found in typical transient earthquake engineering
applications. The applications listed below include
representative visualization tools that are suitable for general use in
earthquake engineering computational simulation.
AVS
AVS (Advanced Visual Systems)
provides a suite of products suitable for
visualization of engineering datasets, including the complex data found
in earthquake engineering applications. AVS's products include
visualization applications and associated development environments for
creating custom visualization solutions.
URL's for AVS Information
Data Explorer
Data Explorer
Data Explorer is an open-source data visualization development project
that is based on the commercial IBM visualization product
"Visualization Data Explorer". Since 1999, when IBM released this
product into the public domain, great progress has been made in
extending the Data Explorer product into its current incarnation as the
OpenDX visualization framework.
URL's for Data Explorer Information
Ensight
Ensight is a powerful
post-processing application that is widely used in scientific and
engineering settings, including industrial venues and within the
national laboratories. It is supported on a wide variety of
hardware platforms, and includes native and user-extensible support for
many of the analysis tools commonly used in earthquake engineering.
URL's for Ensight Information
TecPlot
TecPlot is a widely-used
visualization program that combines
ease-of-use with a full set of features required for visualization and
data exploration in science and engineering. This application is
widely-use in academia and in engineering practice.
URL's for TecPlot Information
VisIt
VisIt is an open-source
scalable visualization tool recently developed at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratories. VisIt runs on Unix and Windows platforms,
supports a wide variety of data formats and visualization capabilities
(including distributed datasets appropriate for parallel computing
settings), and is free for use and distribution within the United
States.
URL's for VisIt Information