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The earthquake engineering simulation group, led by Prof. Swaminathan Krishnan, pursues fundamental research in earthquake engineering with applications to end-to-end simulation of earthquakes and structural response using high-performance computing. End-to-end simulations consist of holistically simulating the earthquake process, starting with fault rupture, generation and propagation of seismic waves to a site(s) of interest, and shaking of the top-soil layer, simulating the structural response including soil-structure interaction, and estimating the losses due to damage, and the opportunity cost due to interruption of structure usage.
Visit the RESEARCH section for an example of such a simulation.
Swaminathan Krishnan is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Geophysics at Caltech and a structural engineer specializing in earthquake
engineering.
Visit Dr. Krishnan's PERSONAL PAGE for more information: http://krishnan.caltech.edu/krishnan.
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