NEESit featured my Ph.D. research (see pdf) on their website (NEESit website). We used structural analysis programs to make an earthquake collapse analysis of a building. Such software are extremely useful in the seismic assessment of existing buildings which were in many cases designed and built prior to 1980s in absence of seismic codes. In particular the so-called "non ductile" buildings represent a common practice foe many seismic prone Countries. Engineers also call them "killer" buildings. An initiative called "Concrete Coalition" (http://www.concretecoalition.org/) has been launched to identify these potential killer buildings in the Los Angeles area.
Structural model of the Bonefro building
In this research (see abstract) we made use of two powerful tools provided by NEES: the supercomputing resources of TeraGrid at the San Diego SuperComputer Center and the structural modeling capabilities of OpenSees parallel. Our goal was making a probabilistic seismic response and collapse assessment of the Bonefro Building. The structure was heavily damaged in the Molise 2002 earthquake. We used the framework developed within the PEER Performance Based Earthquake Engineering methodology (http://www.peertestbeds.net/) to practice the probabilistic assessment on this reinforced concrete structure.
San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD (http://www.sdsc.org).
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