EE-UQ Overview

The Earthquake Engineering with Uncertainty Quantification (EE-UQ) application enables the creation and execution of simulation workflows to evaluate a structure's response to earthquakes. It offers tools to: 1) model seismic hazards with acceleration time histories, 2) build a numerical structure model, and 3) conduct both deterministic and probabilistic simulations. Probabilistic simulations account for uncertainties in seismic events, the structural model, and the solver, providing a probabilistic response description. Results can be used for sensitivity analysis or to train surrogate models.

This application was developed by the NHERI SimCenter.

Learn How to Use EE-UQ

EE-UQ Website Application Summary User Guide

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

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.