Seismic respones analysis for whole structures in city using integrated earthquake simulator
Muneo Hori, Tsuyoshi ICHUMURA, Hikaru Nakamura, Akihiko Wakai, Takemasa EBISAWA, Naoya YAMAGUCHI · Journal of Applied Mechanics · 2004
For local government administrators, it is a key task to make efficient counter-plans for earthquakes by forecasting possible earthquake damage. To support them, this paper proposes integration of analysis and visualization for responses of whole structures located in a city. An integrated earthquake simulator is used to this purpose, since the simulator is aimed to combine various simulation programs to it and to visualize calculated structure responses. Integration uses a wrapper called mediator which is automatically made by analyzing a source code of the simulation program. The possibility of such integration is discussed by developing a prototype of artificial intelligence that makes mediators for a given simulation program.