WE-UQ Overview

The WE-UQ Application is an open-source software that provides researchers a tool to assess the performance of a building to wind loading. The application is focused on quantifying the uncertainties in the predicted response, given that the properties of the building and the wind loads are not known exactly, and given that the simulation software and the user make simplifying assumptions in the numerical modeling of the 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 WE-UQ

User Guide Application Summary

Video Tutorials

SimCenter | WE-UQ Tool Training - Day 1, July 8, 2020

SimCenter | WE-UQ Tool Training - Day 2, July 9, 2020

SimCenter | WE-UQ Tool Training - Day 3, July 10, 2020

Characterizing the atmospheric boundary layer flow […] using WE-UQ

WE-UQ Official Resources

WE-UQ GitHub

WE-UQ User Forum

WE-UQ Website

How to Cite WE-UQ & DesignSafe

Please include both of these citations if you use WE-UQ on DesignSafe.

WE-UQ:

Frank McKenna, Abiy Melaku, Fei Ding, Jiawei Wan, Peter Mackenzie-Helnwein, Sang-ri Yi, Michael Gardner, & Wael Elhaddad. (2024). NHERI-SimCenter/WE-UQ: Version 3.3.0 (v3.3.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11087165

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.