Avanced Simulation Methods for Seismic Performance of Urban Regions

该奖项为密西西比州立大学NSF资助的工程研究中心(ERC)提供资金，用于三个小组之间的探索性交叉协作研究，以促进模拟和可视化大地震对城市地区的影响的最先进水平。这项提议将创建一个分布式模拟框架，其中整合了卡内基梅隆大学地震项目CMU-QUAKE的地震地面运动建模、加州大学伯克利分校太平洋地震工程研究中心的结构和基础设施系统建模，以及密西西比州立大学ERC关于计算场模拟的先进计算和可视化方法。这项提议将地球物理学家、地震工程师、计算科学家和工程师以及计算机科学家联系在一起。这一综合模型将允许研究地震断层参数与各种类型损害的分布之间的关系，范围从单个部件和结构到集体破坏到特定类别的结构。这一模型将为政策制定者和应急机构提供比目前的区域破坏模型更全面的大地震对人口稠密地区的影响的图景。

AbstractEEC-9910786TrotterThis award provides funding to the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center (ERC) at Mississippi State University on Computational Field Simulation for exploratory cross-collaborative research among three groups to advance the state-of-the-art in simulating and visualizing the effects of a large earthquake on an urban region. This proposal will create a distributed simulation framework that integrates earthquake ground motion modeling by Carnegie Mellon University's Quake Project CMU-Quake, modeling of structural and infrastructure systems by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and the advanced computational and visualization methods by the ERC on Computational Field Simulation at Mississippi State University. This proposal links together geophysicists, earthquake engineers, computational scientists and engineers, and computer scientist. This integrated model will allow investigation of the relationship between earthquake fault parameters and distribution of various types of damage, ranging from individual components and structures to collective damage to particular classes of structures. This model will provide policy-makers and emergency response agencies with a more complete picture of the effects of a major earthquake on a densely populated region than is possible with current regional damage models.