Evaluation of the seismic performance isolated electrical transformers under pulse-like excitations

Abstract Past earthquakes have highlighted the impact of prolonged downtime on community recovery. The introduction performance objectives expressed in terms recovery time has been identified as a key goal for next generation building codes. Recent development estimation frameworks now allows discussion how to use estimates (1) establish recovery‐targeted and (2) assess functional buildings des...

In this paper, earthquake-resistance behaviors of existing masonry structures are evaluated based on a certain masonry building. The existing masonry structure is evaluated in its defects of primary design and construction measurements, seismic bearing capacity and durability. Based on results of evaluation, the seismic reinforcement design is introduced for improving earthquake-resistance beha...

Accurate modeling of seismic wave propagation in complex media is the key to many high end seismic processing algorithms. The performance is achieved by parallel implementation of algorithms on large compute clusters. This article describes the implementation of 3D acoustic and elastic wave propagation algorithms on a high performance computing system. A MPI (Massage Passing Interface) implemen...