The SimCenter provides next-generation computational modeling and simulation software tools, user support, and educational materials to the natural hazards engineering research community with the goal of advancing the nation’s capability to simulate the impact of natural hazards on structures, lifelines, and communities.
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2022 SimCenter Symposium: November 4, 2022, at TACC
SimCenter Welcomes 2022 Summer REUs: The NHERI SimCenter is excited to host three REU students this summer. NSF’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program promotes education and research through internships in active research.
SimCenter Engagement at 12NCEE SimCenter researchers and software developers actively engaged the earthquake engineering community during the 12th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering.
ASCE awards the 2022 ASCE J. James R. Croes Medal to Xihaier Luo and Ahsan Kareem for their paper titled “Dynamic Mode Decomposition of Random Pressure Fields over Bluff Bodies,” published in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics, April 2021.
Version 2.1.0 of the Regional Resilience Determination (R2D) Tool includes new capabilities to perform regional site response analysis, import hazards as a raster, and import population demographics from census and merge with building inventory.
New Release: Version 3.0.0 - New features include surrogate modeling using Probabilistic Learning on Manifolds (PLoM) and site-specific seismic disaggregation.
New Release: Version 3.0.0 - New features include surrogate modeling using Probabilistic Learning on Manifolds (PLoM) and improvements to the user interface, including interactive plots for the results visualization.
Current Software: Simulation Framework and Tools
SimCenter Renewal Objectives: Years 6-9
Community Engagement
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SimCenter Early Career Research Webinars – A Call for Candidates
The SimCenter is seeking Graduate Students, Postdocs, and Early Career Faculty who would like to share their simulation-based natural hazard engineering research with their peers. Webinars are anticipated to be 45 minutes in length followed by 15-30 minutes of Q&A. Complete the .
