Seismic Damage Forensics

大地震后建筑物的损坏或幸存情况提供的信息可能会改变随后的设计、施工和使用。目前，对相同数据的调查经常为最终状态的存在产生相互矛盾的理由。该项目旨在开发一种方法来评估地震后建造的各种解释性情景。这次调查将处理设计形式的质量等主观信息，劳动力和金融环境以及这些特征对存在错误和随后的结构故障的可能性的影响。此外，还将把可衡量的信息与主观评价合并，为评估各种方案的相对优劣提供依据。这项研究将加强对结构在地震前的状态的基本了解，以及对结构进行最终响应的建模。

The damage or survival of structures after major earthquakes provide information that can alter subsequent design, construction and usage. Presently, investigations of the same data often produce conflicting reasons for the existence of the final state. The project is to develop a methodology to assess various explanatory scenarios that are constructed after an earthquake. This investigation will deal with such subjective information as the quality of the design form, the labor and financial climate and the effect of these features on the likelihood of the existence of errors and subsequent malfunctioning of a structure. Also measurable information will be merged with the subjective evaluation to provide a basis for assessing the relative merits of the scenarios. The research will enhance the fundamental understanding of the state of the structure before the earthquake and the modeling of the structure which exhibits the final response.