I love applying the Socratic method to my own learning—question everything! This often leads to fascinating conversations with ChatGPT...

The NEHRI SimCenter has developed a very useful set of tools. There is one problem: they do so much, it's impossible to put that into a...

I now wanted to learn how they are used, this may help me understand them better.... Awesome! Let's go through two real-world scenarios...

Awesome! Let’s go step by step through running a simulation in EE-UQ  to analyze how a 5-story reinforced concrete building  responds to...

Great! Let's go step by step through running an optimization and uncertainty quantification (UQ) analysis  in quoFEM . We'll optimize the...

The two example scenarios for EE-UQ and quoFEM were nice, and they showed their strength. However, they were for very different systems,...

Of course, I needed a summary of the two tools.... Great request! Here's a summary comparing EE-UQ and quoFEM  for analyzing a 5-story...

Below are two detailed examples of how you would use the two tools. This helps you finalize your understanding on when to use each tool:...

Absolutely! Let’s walk through a quoFEM optimization example  where you start with a preliminary 5-story RC building model  and optimize...

ChatGPT and I could go on forever, but I couldn't turn it down when it offered to step-up our game! Awesome! Let’s take the 5-story RC...

Here is an intersting scenario with a different type of objective. Great choice! Let’s explore a different optimization setup  for the...

Optimizing seismic retrofit is an important topic: you want to maximize performance and yet minimize impact and costs. And this is a...