5. Capabilities

Version 4.1 of R2D app was released April 2024. The following is the functionality available in this current version. New features and fixes in this release are marked blue in the following list of features. The major update from Version 4.0 is upgrading the regional earthquake event generation tool, regional inventory generation tool BRAILS, and :blue:` damage and loss engine Pelicun`.

Release date: April, 2024

  1. Hazard Types:

  2. Asset Types:

    • Buildings:

      1. Load building database in a .csv format.

      2. Load building database in a .gis format.

    • Transportation infrastructure:

      1. Load transportation infrastructure database in SimCenter’s .geojson format.

      2. Load transportation infrastructure database in common .gis format.

  3. Asset Modeling:
    • Buildings:

      1. MDOF-LU (MDOF shear building model)

      2. OpenSeesPy script building generator

      3. IMasEDP, i.e., no structural modeling, and the Intensity Measures (IMs) are considered the Engineering Demand Parameters (EDPs)

      4. CustomPy

    • Transportation infrastructure:

      1. IMasEDP, i.e., no structural modeling, and the Intensity Measures (IMs) are considered the Engineering Demand Parameters (EDPs)

  4. Asset Analysis:
    • Buildings:

      1. OpenSees

      2. OpenSeesPy

      3. IMasEDP, i.e., no analysis as the IM is considered the EDP

      4. CustomPy for CustomPy in Asset Modeling

      5. None for IMasEDP option in Modeling.

    • Transportation infrastructure:

      1. None for IMasEDP option in Modeling.

  5. Damage and Loss:
  6. Uncertainty Quantification:
    • Dakota:

      1. Latin hypercube sampling (LHS)

      2. Monte Carlo Sampling (MCS)

  7. ** Additional Tools To Perform Tasks Generating or Using Data in Workflow**:
    • Earthquake Scenario Simulation (ground motion selection)
      • Site definition:

        1. Grid

        2. Point

        3. Scattered sites (user-defined sites in .csv format)

      • Rupture forecast models:

        1. OpenSHA UCERF rupture forecast models

        2. OpenSHA Point source user-defined

        3. OpenQuake rupture forecast

        4. Hazard Occurrence Model

      • Inter-event correlation:

        1. Baker and Jayaram (2008)

      • Intra-event correlation:

        1. Jayaram and Baker (2009)

        2. Markhvida et al. (2017)

        3. Loth and Baker (2013)

      • Record selection:

        1. PEER NGA West 2 ground motion database

        2. None, i.e., stop at the IM stage and no record selection

      • Ground motion models:

        1. Abrahamson, Silva & Kamai (2014)

        2. Boore, Stewart, Seyhan & Atkinson (2014)

        3. Campbell & Bozorgnia (2014)

        4. Chiou & Youngs (2014)

      • Intensity measures:

        1. Spectral acceleration (SA)

        2. Peak ground acceleraation (PGA)

        3. Peak ground velocity (PGV)

      • Ground failure models:
        1. Liquefaction triggering

          1. Zhu et al. (2017)

          2. Hazus (2020)

        2. Liquefaction lateral spreading permenant ground deformation (PGD_h)

          1. Hazus (2020)

        3. Liquefaction settlement permenant ground deformation (PGD_v)

          1. Hazus (2020)

      • Vs30 model:

        1. CGS/Wills Vs30 (Wills et al., 2015)

        2. Thompson California Vs30 (Thompson et al., 2018)

        3. Global Vs30 (Heath et al., 2020)

        4. User Defined

    • Hurricane Scenario Simulation (hurricane wind field generation)
      • Site definition:

        1. Grid

      • Hurricane track definition:

        1. User-defined sites in .csv format

        2. Select from a database of historical hurricanes

        3. Truncate hurricane track functionality

      • Landfall location and parameters:

        1. User selects on GIS map

        2. Manual user entry in the input box

      • Wind field generation model:

        1. Snaiki and Wu (2017)

    • OpenQuake Selection

    • Census Data & American Community Survey