July 31
SimCenter Welcomes 2024 REUs
June 7
SimCenter Engagement at EMI/PMC 2024
May 24
SimCenter engagement at Natural Hazards Research Summit 2024
March 14
WE-UQ Application Update (V3.2.0)
February 15
SimCenter Featured in the NHERI Science Plan, Third Edition
Februay 7
Vickery elected to NAE
NHERI Computational Symposium
January 30
Major Release of R2D (V4.0): Transportation infrastructure
January 29
SimCenter at PEER-LBNL Workshop
Updated quoFEM (V3.5) Application
December 22
SimCenter Development Team Profiles – Winter 2023
December 18
SimCenter at ASCE-INSPIRE Conference
December 7
SimCenter at NHERI Wall of Wind Workshop
November 30
SimCenter featured in UNESCO Webinar
November 3
Update to WE-UQ (V3.1.0): CFD Model for Wind Loads on an Isolated Building with Complex Geometry.
October 20
SimCenter Developer Profile — Fall 2023
October 10
REDi Seismic Downtime Model Released as Open-Source Software to Advance Resilient Design
October 6
Community Input Summarized in 2022 Natural Hazards Research Summit Report
September 22
SimCenter Engagement at ICWE 16
SimCenter Engagement at ICASP 14
September 21
SimCenter Engagement at COMPDYN 2023 and UNCECOMP 2023
SimCenter Engagement at 17th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics
September 1
SimCenter announces an open Postdoctoral position in any of four focus areas
August 31
New Version of WE-UQ (V3.0.0): CFD Model of an Isolated Building
August 9
SimCenter Use Case Published in IJDRR
August 8
NHERI Computational Academy 2023
August 7
SimCenter Developer Profile Summer 2023
June 21
SimCenter Developer Profile Summer 2023
June 20
SimCenter Welcomes 2023 Summer REUs
June 16
SimCenter Engagement at EMI 2023
May 24
SimCenter Engagement at SEI-NIST Workshop on CWE
February 22
SimCenter special issue article in EESD
February 9
SimCenter Development Team Profile Spring 2023
December 21, 2022
SimCenter researchers participate in the NHERI@UC San Diego User Training Workshop
Postdoctoral Positions open
December19, 2022
2022 SimCenter REU at the AGU Fall Meeting
December 9, 2022
SimCenter Leadership Transition
December 7, 2022
The NHERI Hackathon 2022
December 1, 2022
Teaching Gallery - Educational Resources Available
November 16, 2022
SimCenter Symposium - November 4, 2022
SimCenter researchers attend MFEM 2022 Conference
SimCenter researchers attend NHERI Natural Hazards Research Summit 2022
November 4, 2022
2022 SimCenter Symposium
October 1, 2022
quoFEM New Release: Version 3.2.0
July 8, 2022
SimCenter Welcomes 2022 Summer REUs
SimCenter Engagement at 12NCEE
April 28, 2022
SimCenter Development Team Profiles Spring 2022
April 25, 2022
2022 ASCE J. James R. Croes Medal to Xihaier Luo and Ahsan Kareem
January 7, 2022
Visiting Researcher Program, Winter 2021 Profile: Barbara Simpson
November 8, 2021
SimCenter Data Science Interns Fall 2021
October 25, 2021
The SimCenter is inspired to share the National Science Foundations (NSF) recent Dear Colleague Letter
Valuable Resource about Extreme Winds
October 20, 2021
UC Berkeley Announces Two Postdoctoral Position Openings: Software Development for CFD and Machine Learning
September 17, 2021
The National Science Foundation has awarded the NHERI SimCenter a four year renewal
August 31, 2021
Kareem Awarded ASCE Newmark Medal
August 12, 2021
SimCenter at Natural Hazards Workshop.
July 28, 2021
NEW:HYDRO-UQ Application.
June 22, 2021
Recent Publication and News: SimCenters AI Software and NHE.
June 9, 2021
SimCenter 2021 Summer REUs featured this week on DesignSafe Radio.
SimCenter Welcomes 2021 Summer REUs.
Regional Resilience Determination Tool (R2D).
April 28, 2021
Taflanidis Awarded ASCE Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize.
April 20, 2021
Software Development Team Profiles: Spring 2021.
March 3, 2021
SimCenter Leverages Citizen-Science in Zooniverse Launch.
February 23, 2021
NHERI Features SimCenter Programming Bootcamps
February 23, 2021
January 29, 2021
Recent SimCenter Engagements - Winter 2020
January 29, 2021
SimCenter Developer Team Profiles Winter 2020
January 27, 2021
Kareem Receives Recognitions from IABSE and EAJ
December 30, 2020
Software Development Team Profiles: Fall 2020.
December 4, 2020
SimCenter Webinar:Model- and Prototype-Scale Physical Modeling of Wave Attenuation and Wave Force Reduction by a Mangrove Forest of Moderate Cross-Shore Width
December 3, 2020
Kareem and Kijewski-Correa at IAWE Seminar
November 25, 2020
SimCenter Article in Frontiers in Built Environment Journal
November 24, 2020
SimCenters Student Intern Profiles - Fall 2020
November 23, 2020
SimCenter Webinar:Computational Frameworks for the Implementation of Performance-Based Wind Engineering. Seymour M. J. Spence, University of Michigan.
November 2, 2020
The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure network, NHERI, has published a new book, NHERI Impact 2020, a 70-page collection of illustrated articles detailing research in the field of natural hazards engineering.
October 16, 2020
SimCenter Webinar: Partial Turbulence Simulation for Predicting Peak Wind Loads on Buildings
October 6, 2020
SimCenter Webinar: Hurricane Loss Analysis for Single-Family Houses Considering Current and Changing Climate Conditions
August 18, 2020
Valuable Resources for Natural Hazards Engineering
August 10, 2020
Luo-Kareem paper awarded 2019 Innovation in Computing Award
August 9, 2020
Lu Article Third-most read in Earthquake Spectra Journal
August 5, 2020
NEW SimCenter Webinar: Effects of Flow Shielding & Channeling on Tsunami-Induced Loading of Coastal Structures
July 24, 2020
SimCenter Webinar: Inundation and Wave Loading Processes in Hurricane Scenarios
Presenter: Andrew Kennedy, University of Notre Dame
June 29, 2020
SimCenter Welcomes Sang-ri Yi to the Development Team
June 24, 2020
NEW SimCenter Webinar: Predicting the Wind Pressure Coefficient Distribution on a High-Rise Building Using Computational Fluid Dynamics, Presenter: Catherine Gorlé, Stanford University
June 23, 2020
SimCenter seeks feedback on the 2019 State-of-Art Report in Computational Simulation and Modeling
April 9, 2020
Kareem - 2019 Best Paper in ASCEs Journal of Structural Engineering (Structural Hazards)
March 6, 2020
SimCenters Workshop on Disaster Recovery Recap
February 28, 2020
SimCenter's New User Forum Released
February 21, 2020
SimCenter at 2020 PEER Annual Meeting
February 18-19, 2020
SimCenter Collaborates on AI Workshop for Natural Hazards Engineering
February 5, 2020
The SimCenter Welcomes Dr. Ajay Harish to the Software Development Team
January 30-31, 2020
Simulation and Data Needs to Support Disaster Recovery Planning Workshop
UC Berkeley, Blum Hall
December 19, 2019
SimCenter Webinar: Gathering Data for Natural Hazards Engineering Using Web Automation
Presenter: Wael Elhaddad
September 1-6, 2019
Kareem Delivers Opening Keynote at ICWE15, Re-elected President.
July 22-26, 2019
Programming Bootcamp.
The second annual SimCenter Programming Bootcamp - UC Berkeley's Richmond Field Station.
July 2, 2019
Upgrades to SimCenter Research Tools and DesignSafe HPC.
Research Applications uqFEM, EE-UQ, and PBE should be updated to the latest version to take advantage of the recent NHERI DesignSafe web portal upgrade.
July 1, 2019
Postdoctoral Position Available.The SimCenter seeks a postdoctoral researcher in software development.
June 20, 2019
SimCenters Kareem Receives ASCE Ernest E. Howard Award
June 18, 2019
SimCenter at Two Upcoming Conferences Plan to Attend!
The NHERI SimCenter will participate in two conferences this summer.
June13, 2019
SimCenter Welcomes 2019 Summer REUs.
The NHERI SimCenter hosted four REU students at UC Berkeley this summer.
May 17, 2019
SimCenter Collaboration on $4.9M PEER Research Project
May 6, 2019
SimCenters Deierlein Named ASCE Distinguished Member
April 23, 2019
SimCenter Webinar:
Uncertainty Characterization in Earthquake Engineering Simulation:
An Introduction to SimCenter's EE-UQ Tool.
Presenter: Frank McKenna, PhD
April 20, 2019
SimCenter Webinar:
Earthquake Damage and Loss Assessment with SimCenter's PBE Application
Presenter: Adam Zsarnóczay
April 11, 2019
Postdoctoral Scholar Position Available
April 1, 2019
The SimCenter Welcomes Dr. Ziad Ghauch to the Software Development Team.
March 5, 2019
SimCenter: Affiliate of QuakeCoRE
The NHERI SimCenter has been endorsed as an Affiliate organization ofQuakeCoRE, New Zealand Centre for Earthquake Resilience.
February 25, 2019
SimCenter Webinar: Running Large-Scale Regional Hazards and Loss Simulations
Presenter: Wael Elhaddad
February 18, 2019
SimCenter at 2019 USACM Conference
The NHERI SimCenter participated at the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Solid and Structural Materials Modeling Workshop, held on January 17-18, 2019, at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
February 12, 2019
Regional Workflow for Hazard and Loss Estimation New Release v1.1.0
This application framework enables researchers to create scientific workflows to study the the effects of earthquakes on society at the regional scale.
February 1, 2019
State-of-Art in Computational Simulation for Natural Hazards Engineering
The NHERI SimCenter released a report on simulation requirements and software tools for natural hazards engineering.
January 20, 2019
SimCenter at the 2019 PEER Annual Meeting
The NHERI SimCenter participated at the 2019 PEER Annual Meeting, Seismic Resilience 25 Years after Northridge: Accomplishments & Challenges, held on January 17-18, 2019, at the UCLA campus.
November 14, 2018
SimCenter Webinar: HPC Ground Motion Simulations of Large Hayward Fault Earthquakes
Presenter: Arthur Rodgers
November 6, 2018
SimCenter Webinar: AI & Machine Learning in Natural Hazards Engineering: Technical & Modelling Q & A
Presenter: Stella Yu
October 29, 2018
New Tool Release! PBE Tool
Oct 24, 2018
UQ Computational Advances for Natural Hazard Risk Assessment
Presenter: Alexandros Taflanidis
October 16, 2018
Postdoctoral Position Available
October 15, 2018
SimCenter Welcomes Dr. Gardner to the Development Team
October 2, 2018
SimCenter Webinar: AI & Machine Learning in Natural Hazards Engineering: Approaches to Deep Learning
Presenter: Stella Yu
Oct 1, 2018
New Tool Release!EE-UQ Tool
September 26, 2018
SimCenter Webinar: Application Framework for Regional Earthquake Loss Estimation
Presenters: Frank McKenna and Wael Elhaddad
September 25, 2018
SimCenter Welcomes Dr. Zsarnóczay to the Development Team
The NHERI SimCenter is pleased to announce that Dr. Adam Zsarnóczay has joined the software development team.
July 18, 2018
SimCenter Welcomes 2018 Summer REU Students
The NHERI SimCenter is hosting three REU students at UC Berkeley this summer.
July 1, 2018
The SimCenter has Released an Updated Version of the Pile Group Application
The Pile Group Application is an educational tool to study the behavior of a pile or pile-group in layered soil.
June 30, 2018
CWE-UQ Application
The SimCenter announces a new tool: CWE-UQ is a CFD interface to analyze the effect of wind on structures.
June 30, 2018
uqFEM Application
New software release! A tool to enhance modeling through the incorporation of Uncertainty Quantification.
June 30, 2018
Regional Earthquake Workflow
Demonstrating the SimCenter's computational framework, the Regional Earthquake Workflow is now accessible for execution, modification, and community enhancement.
June 30, 2018
EVW Learning Tool
Explore structural dynamics with a new educational app that bridges wind and seismic loading.
June 30, 2018
SimCenter Welcomes Dr. Wang to the Development Team
The NHERI SimCenter is pleased to announce that Dr. Chaofeng (Charles) Wang, has joined the software development team.
February 21, 2018
Stephen A. Mahin passes away, February 10, 2018
The SimCenter mourns the passing of Stephen A. Mahin on February 10, 2018.
February 8, 2018
2017 ABAG study identifies expected housing losses in the Bay Area after an earthquake
In 2017, ABAG replaced previous housing loss numbers developed in 2003 with updated loss numbers. These numbers tell a compelling and personal story about the Bay Areas potential future after an earthquake: how many buildings will be damaged?
February 8, 2018
Hayward fault earthquake simulations increase fidelity of ground motions
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) and Lawrence Berkeley (LBNL) national laboratories have computed 3D ground shaking from a M7 scenario earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area with far greater fidelity than previously achieved.
February 5, 2018
Collaboration Between NHERI Facilities: Hybrid Shake Table Tests
The collaborative effort of hybrid simulation experts from the NHERI SimCenter and UC San Diego Experimental Facility produced successful hybrid simulations involving experimental substructures on the largest shake table in the U.S.