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With the aid of recent progress of computer sciences, we can run extremely large-scale computation of an earthquake, i.e., the generation and propagation of earthquake waves, the responses of all buildings and structures within an urban area, and the human and community action against the earthquake disasters. The data of constructing computer models are stored in latest geographical information system, and numerical simulation methods that are used in seismology, civil engineering and social sciences are used. This lecture explains the current state of this integrated earthquake simulation, with some examples of the application to some cities in Tokyo.
Brief Biography: Dr. Muneo HORI is a professor of Earthquake Research Institute of University of Tokyo. He got his Ph. D in Applied Mechanics in University of California, San Diego. He has received many honors and awards including, Yoshida Prize for Young Researchers of 1991, Japan Society of Civil Engineers Annual Incentive Prize of 1993, Japan Society of Civil Engineers Best Paper Prize of 2004, Journal for Society of Geotechnical Engineering. Dr. Hori’s research areas are: Crust Engineering and Earthquake Engineering, Computational Engineering and Science for Developing Simulation Tools, and Applied Mechanics and Mathematics for Deformation and Fracture Process, etc. |