"SimCenter Tools to Support Natural Hazards Research: From Local to Regional Scale", part of "The future of Infrastructure today!" webinar series

Lecture date: Friday April 19, 9:00-10:00AM PST

"The future of Infrastructure today!” is a monthly webinar series under the Auspices of the UC Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure (https://smartinfrastructure.berkeley.edu/). 

The fourth webinar in the series is titled "SimCenter Tools to Support Natural Hazards Research: From Local to Regional Scale" and is presented by Prof. Matt DeJong (Ray & Shirley Clough Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering, University of California at Berkeley). A brief description of the webinar follows:

The SimCenter provides next-generation computational modeling and simulation software tools and educational materials to the natural hazards engineering community with the goal of advancing capabilities to simulate the impact of natural hazards on infrastructure, lifelines, and communities. One major goal of the Center is to enable leaders to make more informed decisions about the need for, and effectiveness of, potential mitigation strategies. 

This talk will highlight recent advancements in SimCenter simulation tools, including: 1) new local-scale tools to simulate structural response to earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes, 2) new uncertainty quantification tools for risk assessment, sensitivity analysis, and calibration (quoFEM), and 3) and new tools for higher fidelity simulation of the regional rensponse of infrastructure and lifelines to natural disasters (R2D). The talk will include case studies to demonstrate the utility of the simulation tools, as well as related research.