Earthquake performance simulation

Physical earthquake performance simulation 
The best way to do it is to put the structure on a shake-table that simulates the seismic loads and watch what may happen next (if you have no time to stand out in the field and wait for a real earthquake to strike, of course). The earliest experiments like this were performed more than a century ago.

 Computational earthquake performance simulation 
Another way is to evaluate the earthquake performance analytically. The very first earthquake simulations were performed by statically applying some horizontal inertia forces, based on scaled peak ground accelerations, to a mathematical model of a building. With the further development of computational technologies, statics approaches began to give way to dynamics ones.

References

Other websites
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) 
AEM Earthquake Simulation 

Category:Earthquake engineering
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