Artificial Earthquake Generator

 

 

Generate artificial earthquake data from the embedded design spectral data.

Applicable Modules:

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From the Main Menu, select Tools > Tools > Generate Earthquake Data

 

 

File

Save the data created using DGS in various forms, or import existing data.

 

Artificial Earthquake Generation

Envelope function enables to generate transient earthquake data.

Acceleration time will be almost same values from start to end time, if it doesn't have envelope function.

SoilWorks can support the envelope function with trapezoidal shape.

 

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where, ωn= Frequency, An = Amplitude, Фn = Phase Angle, and I(t) =  Envelope Function

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[Envelope Function]

 

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Generate Options

- Max Iterations : Maximum number of iterations to fit computed spectral data to target one.

- Max. Acceleration : Maximum acceleration of artificial earthquake data

- Damping Ratio : Damping ratio to calculate spectral data

Generate Acceleration : Convert from response spectrum to acceleration data

- Spectrum Graph : Check results based on spectral data

- Acceleration Graph : Check results based on acceleration data