quoFEM Overview

The Quantified Uncertainty with Optimization for the Finite Element Method (quoFEM) application facilitates Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) for various simulation models. It offers a user-friendly interface with OpenSees and other tools, and provides access to advanced probabilistic analysis algorithms. quoFEM supports global sensitivity analysis, reliability analysis, Bayesian calibration, surrogate modeling, Monte Carlo-type forward propagation, and deterministic optimization techniques. It makes robust and practical UQ algorithms more accessible to researchers and practitioners in the natural hazards engineering community.

This application was developed by the NHERI SimCenter.

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quoFEM Website Application Summary User Guide

How to Cite quoFEM & DesignSafe

Please include both of these citations if you use quoFEM on DesignSafe.

quoFEM:

Frank McKenna, Sang-ri Yi, Aakash Bangalore Satish, Adam Zsarnoczay, Kuanshi Zhong, Michael Gardner, & Wael Elhaddad. (2023). NHERI-SimCenter/quoFEM: Version 3.5.0 (v3.5.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10443180

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.