SBIR Phase I: Rapid Calculation of Earthquake Damage and Repair Costs for High-Performance Building Design

SBIR 第一阶段：快速计算高性能建筑设计的地震损坏和修复成本

• 批准号: 1519719
• 负责人: Curt Haselton
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Haselton Baker Risk Group, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1519719&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Rapid; Calculation; Earthquake

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is that structural engineers will be enabled to design high-performance buildings that have minimal damage in earthquakes. Using the software tool created in this project would fundamentally change the way in which a structural engineer develops the initial design for a building. By enabling engineers to enhance their understanding of building performance, they will be able to design buildings for higher seismic performance and will thus improve the resilience of buildings in future earthquakes. There is a large potential new market for this software, as it can eventually be used by every one of the approximately 10,000 structural engineers designing buildings in the Western United States, and the tens of thousands of engineers working worldwide in regions with earthquake hazards.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop technology to rapidly estimate the structural behavior during an earthquake and also provide a rapid estimation of the inventory of components in a building. This rapid autopopulation will then enable efficient calculations that predict the damage, the repair costs, and the repair time for a building when it experiences an earthquake. The company's method for rapid estimation of structural responses will utilize principles of engineering mechanics, applied to estimating response of a structure whose properties are not fully specified. The method for rapid estimation of building contents will learn from users' updates to the company's initial predictions. The proposed statistical model will enable the company to study this question, and deploy a model that allows real-time and user-specific refinements in a scalable manner.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是，结构工程师将能够设计出地震损害最小的高性能建筑物。 使用本项目中创建的软件工具将从根本上改变结构工程师为建筑物开发初始设计的方式。通过使工程师能够增强对建筑绩效的理解，他们将能够为更高的地震性能设计建筑物，从而提高建筑物在未来地震中的韧性。该软件有一个巨大的新市场，因为在美国西部设计建筑物的大约10,000个结构工程师中的每一个最终都可以使用它，以及在具有地震危险地区的全球工作的成千上万的工程师。这些小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目将开发出在建筑物中快速估算一项构造的技术，并在构造构造方面进行了快速估算。然后，这种快速的自动吞噬将实现有效的计算，以预测建筑物经历地震时建筑物的损害，维修成本和维修时间。 该公司快速估算结构响应的方法将利用工程力学原则，应用于估算未完全指定属性的结构的响应。快速估算建筑物内容的方法将从用户对公司初始预测的更新中学习。拟议的统计模型将使公司能够研究此问题，并部署一个允许以可扩展方式实时和用户特定改进的模型。