Using Open Sees for Structures in Fire

A. Usmani, J. Zhang, J. Jiang, Y. Jiang, P. Kotsovinos, J. Zhang, I. May

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Open Sees is an open source object oriented software framework developed at UC Berekeley and currently supported by PEER and Nees. Open Sees has so far been focussed on providing an advanced computational tool for analysing the non-linear response of structural frames subjected to seismic excitations. Given that Open Sees is open source (available for free download at opensees.berkeley.edu) and has been available for best part of this decade it has spawned a rapidly growing community of users as well as developers who have added to it's capabilities over this period. For instance it has significant geotechnical modelling capabilities developed by this community so that the seismic response analyses can include full soil structure interaction if required. It also has a structural reliability and sensitivity analysis capability offering many reliability calculation tools. Furthermore it has an HPC or parallel version for solving large problems on high-performance computing hardware. In addition to it's availability as an analysis tool Open Sees is also the software platform of choice for the US NEES network that enables earthquake engineers to organise and share data, participate in remote experiments, and perform hybrid simulations. It therefore represents the largest community of this kind in structural engineering and has the potential to bring together the best structural engineering computational modeling capabilities under one platform accessible to all facilitating new collaborations across geographical boundaries to solve ever more challenging problems.

The work being introduced in this paper is aimed at solving fire induced structural problems by developing new methods within the Open Sees framework. It is considered vital that the existing merits of this framework, such as flexibility and extensibility and computational efficiency, should be inherited during the development.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSTRUCTURES IN FIRE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
EditorsV Kodur, JM Franssen
Place of PublicationLANCASTER
PublisherDESTECH PUBLICATIONS, INC
Pages919-926
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)978-1-60595-027-3
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event6th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF 10) - East Lansing
Duration: 2 Jun 20104 Jun 2010

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF 10)
CityEast Lansing
Period2/06/104/06/10

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