SimCenter Engagement at 12NCEE

July 8, 2022

SimCenter researchers and software developers actively engaged the earthquake engineering community during the 12th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (12NCEE), “Reimagining Risk and Resilience,” which was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from June 27-July 1, 2022. Presentations made by the SimCenter team included the following:

• "Site-specific Adjustment Framework for IDA (SAF-IDA) for Regional Earthquake Damage and Loss Simulation" - Kuanshi Zhong. Summarized a structural response estimation method he developed that will be incorporated in future versions of SimCenter tools.
• “Towards the Integration of Socioeconomic Impact and Recovery Modeling into High-Resolution Regional Earthquake Simulations” - Adam Zsarnóczay. Summarized how SimCenter engages socioeconomic model developers and integrates their tools into the SimCenter framework.
• “High-Fidelity Testbed Development for Regional Risk Assessment in Alameda, California” was featured as a poster by Tamika Bassman, with Adam Zsarnóczay and Greg Deierlein as co-authors.
• “Using NHERI SimCenter Software and NHERI DesignSafe Computing Resources to Calibrate an OpenSees Model for Reinforced Concrete Walls” - Laura Lowes.
• “DesignSafe use-case: Constitutive model parameter calibration and site response analysis using integrated SimCenter tools and DesignSafe infrastructure” - Pedro Arduino.

Other SimCenter domain experts participating in the conference included Henry Burton, Jon Bray, Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Jack Baker, and Rachel Davidson. SimCenter software tools including Pelicun and R2D were cited in other presentations and plenary talks during the conference.

The 12NCEE conference brought together professionals from the full spectrum of the earthquake community to discuss and debate new research, advancements in practice, and a multitude of new and ongoing issues related to seismic hazard, risk, mitigation and public policy. Professionals from the United States and around the world represented a broad range of disciplines: architecture, civil and structural engineering, seismology, geology, geophysics, geotechnical engineering, business, public policy, the social sciences, regional planning, emergency response, and regulation.