EE-UQ Overview

The Earthquake Engineering with Uncertainty Quantification Application (EE-UQ) Tool is an application to determine the response, including UQ, of a structure to an earthquake excitation. The tool focuses on the structural model and will evolve to include soil-structure interaction models imposing boundary conditions necessary to impart the earthquake motion. The application is focused on quantifying the uncertainties in the predicted response, given the that the properties of the buildings and the earthquake events are not known exactly, and that the simulation software and the user make simplifying assumptions in the numerical modeling of that structure. In the application, the user is required to characterize the uncertainties in the input. The application will, after utilizing the selected sampling method, provide information that characterizes the uncertainties in the response measures.

Learn How to Use EE-UQ

User Guide  Application Summary

Use Cases

3.2. Including Spatial Variability in a Site Response Event

3.3. Ground Motion Selection and Nonlinear Response Analysis

3.4. AutoSDA and Nonlinear Response Analysis

Video Tutorials

Multi-fidelity Monte Carlo simulation for efficient seismic risk analysis using EE-UQ

How to Develop and Deploy Surrogate Models for Structural Response Prediction in EE-UQ

Ground Motion Selection and Scaling for Nonlinear Time History Analysis in EE-UQ

EE-UQ Part 1: An overview of the SimCenter, a description of the research and educational applications, and an introduction to EE-UQ

EE-UQ Part 2: Ground Motions in EE-UQ; stochastic models available in EE-UQ; record selection and scaling; a brief introduction to site response

EE-UQ Part 3: A presentation of the s3hark module in EE-UQ that provides ground motion simulation using the finite element method

EE-UQ Official Resources

EE-UQ GitHub

EE-UQ User Forum

EE-UQ Website

How to Cite EE-UQ & DesignSafe

Please include all of these citations if you use EE-UQ on DesignSafe.

EE-UQ:

Frank McKenna, Kuanshi Zhong, Michael Gardner, Adam Zsarnoczay, Sang-ri Yi, Aakash Bangalore Satish, Charles Wang, & Wael Elhaddad. (2024). NHERI-SimCenter/EE-UQ: Version 3.5.0 (v3.5.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10902075

Deierlein, G.G., McKenna, F., et al. (2020). A Cloud-Enabled Application Framework for Simulating Regional-Scale Impacts of Natural Hazards on the Built Environment. Frontiers in Built Environment. 6, 196. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2020.558706.

DesignSafe:

Rathje, E., Dawson, C. Padgett, J.E., Pinelli, J.-P., Stanzione, D., Adair, A., Arduino, P., Brandenberg, S.J., Cockerill, T., Dey, C., Esteva, M., Haan, Jr., F.L., Hanlon, M., Kareem, A., Lowes, L., Mock, S., and Mosqueda, G. 2017. “DesignSafe: A New Cyberinfrastructure for Natural Hazards Engineering,” ASCE Natural Hazards Review, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000246.

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