Performance Based Engineering Application

Adam Zsarnóczay, Frank McKenna, Chaofeng Wang, Wael Elhaddad, Michael Gardner

The Performance Based Engineering Application (PBE app) is an open-source research application that can be used to predict the performance of a building subjected to earthquake events. The application is focused on quantifying building performance given the that the uncertainties in models, earthquake loads, and analysis. The computations are performed in a workflow application that will run on either the users local machine or on a high performance computer made available by DesignSafe.

User Manual

• 1. Acknowledgments
• 2. About
• 3. Installation
• 4. User Guide
• 5. Troubleshooting
• 6. Examples
• 7. Requirements
• 8. Bugs & Feature Requests
• 9. Copyright and License

Technical Manual

• 1. Technical Manual

Developer Manual

• 1. How to Build
• 2. Software Architecture
• 3. How to Extend
• 4. Verification
• 5. Coding Style

Contact

Adam Zsarnóczay, NHERI SimCenter, Stanford University, adamzs@stanford.edu

References

ATC12

Applied Technology Council ATC, editor. FEMA P58: Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings - Methodology. Volume 1. Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1 edition, 2012.

DDK17

Mayssa Dabaghi and Armen Der Kiureghian. Stochastic model for simulation of near-fault ground motions. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 46(6):963–984, 2017. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eqe.2839, arXiv:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/eqe.2839, doi:10.1002/eqe.2839.

DDK18

Mayssa Dabaghi and Armen Der Kiureghian. Simulation of orthogonal horizontal components of near-fault ground motion for specified earthquake source and site characteristics. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 47(6):1369–1393, 2018. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eqe.3021, arXiv:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/eqe.3021, doi:10.1002/eqe.3021.

DK14

Mayssa Dabaghi and Armen Der Kiureghian. Stochastic Modeling and Simulation of Near-Fault Ground Motions for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering. Technical Report, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, 2014.

FEM18

Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA, editor. Hazus - MH 2.1 Earthquake Model Technical Manual. Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2018.

SSGA97

Paul G. Somerville, Nancy F. Smith, Robert W. Graves, and Norman A. Abrahamson. Modification of Empirical Strong Ground Motion Attenuation Relations to Include the Amplitude and Duration Effects of Rupture Directivity. Seismological Research Letters, 68(1):199–222, 01 1997. URL: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.68.1.199, arXiv:https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/srl/article-pdf/68/1/199/2753665/srl068001\_0199.pdf, doi:10.1785/gssrl.68.1.199.

VPD18

Christos Vlachos, Konstantinos G. Papakonstantinou, and George Deodatis. Predictive model for site specific simulation of ground motions based on earthquake scenarios. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 47(1):195–218, 2018. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eqe.2948, doi:10.1002/eqe.2948.