SimCenter at 2020 PEER Annual Meeting

Feb 21, 2020

At the 2020 PEER Annual Meeting held at UC Berkeley on January 16-17, 2020, the role of computational simulation in natural hazards research was emphasized in presentations provided by SimCenter co-directors Sanjay Govindjee and Greg Deierlein. The SimCenter development team made a strong showing during the poster session, and SimCenter domain experts also made presentations. The meeting was attended by over 200 researchers, practitioners, and community decision-makers from around the country.

Sanjay Govindjee presented “SimCenter Tools for Next Generation Regional Natural Hazard Engineering” during a plenary session featuring Simulation Platforms, and noted that past research projects were being leveraged to move into the future of regional simulations and new hazards. View the slides. View the video.

Greg Deierlein presented “Opportunities and Challenges in High-Fidelity Simulation of Disaster Recovery” at the “PEER Future Direction” plenary session. View the slides. View the video.

The SimCenter development team also attended the meeting and presented posters at the Poster Reception on January 16.

• Regional Simulation of Anchorage M7.1 Earthquake using rWHALE - Wael Elhaddad
• Surrogate Model Development for Rock Slope Failures using quoFEM - Michael Gardner
• Detecting Building Vulnerabilities to Natural Hazards at Large Scale using Deep Learning - Chaofeng Wang
• Regional Workflow for Hazard and Loss Estimation - Adam Zsarnoczay

The following SimCenter domain experts also made presentations:

• Jack Baker - “Performance-based Engineering for Simulation of Regional Post-Earthquake Recovery and Resilience”. View the slides. View the video.
• Jon Bray - moderated plenary session “Future of PBE for Community Resilience”
• Tracy Kijewski-Correa - “Accelerating the Disaster Data to Knowledge Life Cycle through Coordinated Reconnaissance: The StEER Perspective.” View the slides. View the video.
• Patrick Lynett - “From Post-Tsunami Survey to Policy: Building Resilience in Ports and Harbors.” View the slides. View the video.

PI and Co-director Govindjee

Co-director Deierlein

Development team (L-R): Wang, Govindjee, Elhaddad, Zsarnoczay, Gardner, McKenna, Deierlein

SimCenter team (L-R): Wang, Zsarnoczay, Elhaddad, Gardner, Arduino, Schoettler