Bridging Approach for Networked Hybrid Simulation across ISEE and UI-SimCor

Bridging Approach for Networked Hybrid Simulation across ISEE and UI-SimCor

This paper briefly introduces a general approach for bridging networked earthquake engineering hybrid simulation environments and gives a demonstration of its implementation. This approach allows two different networked hybrid simulation environments to conduct a collaborative hybrid simulation test by translating communication messages between their software modules. The requirements analysis and the software design for realizing the bridging approach are proposed. An implementation was also realized for bridging the two networked hybrid simulation environments, the ISEE developed by National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering(NCREE) and the UI-SimCor developed by the Mid-America Earthquake(MAE) Center at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC). In addition, simulation examples are provided to validate and demonstrate the proposed bridging approach.