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

http://www.avs.com/
http://www.avs.com/software/soft_t/avsxps.html


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

http://www.opendx.org/
http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/


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

http://www.ceintl.com/
http://www.ceintl.com/products/ensight.html


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

http://www.amtec.com/
http://www.amtec.com/products/tecplot/tecplot_main.htm


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

http://www.llnl.gov/VisIt/home.html