7. Release Notes

7.1. Version 4.1.0 (Current)

Release date: March 2024

Highlights

  1. Upgrade the earthquake event generation toolbox to support simulation of Peak Ground Velocity (PGV) and liquefaction induced Permanent Ground Deformation (PGD).

  2. Enhancements to the BRAILS-Buildings widget, providing detailed user interaction with the existing BRAILS building inventory generation capabilities. In brief, these enhancements enable:

    1. Importing footprint and building data from i) OpenStreetMaps, ii) Microsoft Global Building Footprints dataset, iii) FEMA USA Structures, and iv) user-specified data sources.

    2. Using National Structures Inventory data or other user-specified data to create a baseline building inventory.

    3. Requesting a subset of BRAILS attributes for inventory generation.

  3. Update the damage and loss engine Pelicun to v3.3.

7.2. Version 4.0.1

Release date: Jan. 2024

Highlights

  1. Support the assessment of transportation infrastructure.

  2. Revised interface for earthquake scenario simulation tool.

  3. Added Brails-Transportation tool to generate transportation infrastructure inventory.

  4. Allow using PreTrained Surrogate Models from EE-UQ as structural analysis models.

7.3. Version 3.0.0

Release date: May. 2023

Highlights

  1. Revised Interface, added new Tools section and moved some existing applications to that pulldown

  2. Hazard Occurance Model added to earthquake selection

  3. Revised input file format in anticipation of multiple asset types with multiple options for each

7.4. Version 2.2.0

Release date: Sept 2022

Highlights

  1. Obtain information from Census and ARC

  2. Updated ground motion input options for OpenQuake

7.5. Version 2.1.0

Release date: March 2022

Highlights

  1. Ability to perform regional site response analysis taking motions at rock to surface

  2. Ability to import hazards as a raster

  3. Ability to employ custom fragility functions in Pelicun DL framework

  4. Support of tsunami hazards

  5. Ability to import population demographics from census and merge with building inventory

7.6. Version 2.0.0

Release date: Dec. 2021

  1. QGIS integrated into R2D with the ability to:

    1. load several types of GIS files into R2D to visualize and extract information post-process results based on advanced queries and expression filters join external databases to GIS features to add additional information for pre- and post-processing export GIS layers into many supported formats for viewing in other GIS applications

  2. Filtering of assets to include in an analysis based on advanced queries and expressions

  3. OpenQuake source selection tool

    1. OpenQuake Scenario-Based Seismic Hazard Analysis to calculate intensity measure from OpenQuake rupture sources

    2. OpenQuake Classical Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis to calculate intensity measures from OpenQuake seismic source and ground motion logic trees

  4. Widget to import building inventory in ShapeFile format

version updates to 2.0.0 as older versions run at design-safe will not load due to changes in backend.

7.7. Version 1.0.0

Initial Release allows assessment of impact of earthquake on a region

  1. Ground motion Selection using EarthquakeScenario application to obtain scenario specific ground motions for user defined scenario utiling PEER NGA & user defined inputs

  2. Building Inventory input by user

  3. Building Modeling utilizing MDOF-LU

  4. Building Loss Estimation using Pelicun and Hazus fragilities & consequence function.

  5. Interface incorporated ArcGis