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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-outline-level:1"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:#202020"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">SimCenter Relea</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ses New Research Tool: WE-UQ</span><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-outline-level:1"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><b><a href="https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/research-tools/we-uq">WE-UQ – Wind Engineering with Uncertainty
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#202020">The WE-UQ Tool is an application to determine the response,
including uncertainty quantification, of a structure to wind loading. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-">The application quantifies the uncertainties in
the predicted response, given that the properties of the building and the wind loads are not known exactly, and given that the simulation software and the user make simplifying assumptions in the numerical modeling of the structure. The community-driven software
capitalizes on various types of wind loading options to characterize the event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-">Wind loading options include: a) input from a database of wind tunnel testing, b) input from user-generated
stochastic values, c) results from a computational fluid dynamic model, or d) user-defined forces from the user’s own wind computations. Structural responses include interstory drifts, peak floor accelerations, and pressure on the building.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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the user has the option to execute simulations locally or perform computationally demanding problems on high-performance computers at the NHERI cyber-infrastructure provider, DesignSafe.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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