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NEEShub NEW Tool Releases
October 24, 2012
NEEScomm IT has been busy installing and configuring a broad set of software tools, all of which are now available on NEEShub. A huge THANK YOU to our community members who contributed their time and hard work to share the following tools:
For a number of months, NEEScomm IT has been in negotiation with CSI to host the latest student version of SAP (version 15) on the NEEShub. CSI is a structural and earthquake engineering software company based in Berkeley, CA. SAP 2000 is a popular analysis and design tool familiar to both engineering students and practitioners around the world. NEEScomm is excited about this first step in a partnership with CSI. Please follow this link to see a comprehensive list of enhancements for version 15 .
Another promising tool added to the NEEShub tool suite is the West Point Bridge Designer (WPBD). This educationally-focused software provides users with the ability to model, test, and optimize a steel highway bridge, based on realistic specifications, constraints, and performance criteria. This tool supports a yearly contest, sponsored by the United States Military Academy, for middle school and high school students. Each member of the winning team receives a $10,000 scholarship, each member of the second place team receives a $5,000 scholarship, and each member of the six finalist teams win a notebook computer.
PocketStatics is a structural analysis program for the PocketPC (Windows Mobile) and Microsoft Windows (Desktop, Laptop or Tablet PC) Operating Systems that can be run on NEEShub. PocketStatics is very interactive and simulates to a great degree working with an engineering pad and a pencil. The structure to be analyzed can be sketched on the screen simply using a stylus or a mouse. The program automatically computes and displays results in real-time whenever any changes are made to the structure. This real-time update feature sets PocketStatics apart from other typical structural analysis software.
RSPMatch09 is a downloadable tool that performs time-domain spectral matching of an earthquake acceleration-time history. The program adds adjustment wavelets to an initial acceleration time series to generate a modified time series whose response spectrum is compatible with a specified target response spectrum. The latest version of the program includes a new wavelet adjustment function that provides a stable and time-efficient solution without causing drift in the resulting velocity and displacement time series.
RT-Frame2D is a newly developed computational tool for performing real-time hybrid simulation of seismically excited nonlinear steel frame structures. RT-Frame2D is proposed as one of the main components of a small-scale real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) platform recently developed in the Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Laboratory (IISL) at Purdue University.
Data Transformer is a downloadable tool used to assist engineers and researchers in transforming experiment data files in various ways (e.g. formats, units, decimation). Some transformations can easily be applied using a tool such as Matlab or Microsoft Excel. Other transformations are more complex and cannot be performed by standard tools due to time constraints or missing functionality. This tool will fill allow engineers and researchers to perform more advanced transformations on data files using custom rules. Also, this tool is optimized to run efficiently over large data sets and batch operations.
Spector 2008 is Microsoft-Windows based application that computes linear earthquake response spectra from ground motion records. This application provides students and professionals in earthquake engineering a convenient way of studying earthquake response spectra.
The DataAnalyzer is a web-based application developed to help researchers from the Pathways project in visualizing, interpreting, and analyzing their experimental data via simple sketches and fittings. Users can create multiple two-dimensional graphs by manually entering tables of data points or having the software read data from existing input files. Users can modify the data of the graphs interactively by using the mouse to move data points on the graphs and save desired graph data. Users can request that the software tool generate polynomial fitting curves with different orders to visualize the discrepancies between experimental data points and theoretical curves. The tool helps researchers visualize data sets of their experiments and manipulate the existing data based on desired algorithms and/or on other experimental data. To run DataAnalyzer, click on DataAnalyzer tool page. Log in or register an account to get started.
N3DV is a software tool designed for visualizing and understanding experimental earthquake data. It provides a 3D view with 3D objects representing the various structures and instruments within the experiment. It also allows users to access VCR-like controls to play back the experiment events and to see how the structures or instruments react to various forces acted upon them. N3DV is an existing NEEShub tool that was recently upgraded. The focus of the upgrade was to provide the main window with modified dimensions and to make minor user interface adjustments.
DEEPSOIL is a one-dimensional site response analysis program that can perform both a) 1-D nonlinear and b) 1-D equivalent linear analyses and features an intuitive graphical user interface. DEEPSOIL was a downloadable tool on NEEShub and was recently upgraded to be launch-able through NEEShub.
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