SimCenter researchers and software developers actively engaged the engineering mechanics community at the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute 2023 Conference (EMI 2023), which was held in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 6-9, 2023. SimCenter developers Sang-ri Yi, Aakash Bangalore Satish, and Jinyan Zhao made presentations, and they also met with SimCenter alumni Charles Wang and Kuanshi Zhong.
- "Stochastic emulation of seismic structural response using enhanced partial replication strategy." Sang-ri Yi, Alex Taflanidis. - presented by Sang-ri Yi. This talk introduced a new surrogate modeling method to estimate uncertain responses of structural systems subjected to earthquake excitation. This method is included in SimCenter applications quoFEM and EE-UQ.
- "Efficient Bayesian Posterior Sampling Aided by Kriging Surrogate Model." Aakash Bangalore Satish, Sang-ri Yi, Alex Taflanidis. - presented by Aakash Bangalore Satish. This talk presented a method for Bayesian updating of the parameters of a model that has high computational cost, using a Gaussian process surrogate for the response of the costly model. This method will be incorporated in a future version of quoFEM.
- "Computational tool for community-level probabilistic building performance assessment under excavation-induced ground settlements." Jinyan Zhao, Matthew DeJong. - presented by Jinyan Zhao. This talk introduced a computational tool developed to perform probabilistic building safety assessment from ground movements induced by tunnel and open-cut excavations.
During the conference, SimCenter software tools such as R2D and BRAILS were cited in other presentations including:
- Leveraging Automation and Surrogate Modeling to Quantify Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery Performance at the Regional Scale. Laxman Dahal, Henry Burton.
- Informed post-earthquake building inspection planning using adaptive batch-mode active learning. Amirhossein Cheraghi, Ge Ou, Yinhu Wang, Nikola Markovic.
- An AI-based framework for damage estimation of hurricane-impacted residential communities through CFD simulations. Sejin Kim, Fei Ding, Seymour Spence.
SimCenter domain experts Alex Taflanidis, Seymour Spence, and Michael Shields chaired several conference sessions.
EMI 2023 provided a forum for researchers and practitioners to showcase recent developments in the fundamentals and applications of engineering mechanics, with the aim to advance engineering mechanics education, research, and practice.
SimCenter developers (L to R): Aakash Bangalore Satish, Jinyan Zhao, Charles Wang (alumnus), Sang-ri Yi, and Kuanshi Zhong (alumnus).
