Session Abstracts:
This session provides an overview of the BRAILS and R2D tools developed by SimCenter, highlighting their individual capabilities and how they can be integrated for comprehensive natural hazard loss assessments. BRAILS is a powerful computational engine designed to automatically generate detailed inventories of building and infrastructure elements. R2D is a desktop software application that integrates BRAILS and other tools/libraries for characterizing hazard events, and simulating damage and losses across large inventories of buildings and civil infrastructure. Recent developments have expanded R2D's capabilities to evaluate the post-disaster performance of transportation and lifeline infrastructure systems, as well as to simulate community recovery. Through practical examples, this session will showcase how BRAILS' automated inventory generation can seamlessly integrate with R2D's library of methods to assess the regional and system-wide impacts of natural hazard events.