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ABAQUS: Earthquake Ground Simulation

Thread starter JoSpencer
Start date Feb 4, 2016

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Feb 4, 2016

JoSpencer

Geotechnical

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone has any experience modelling ground motion from an earthquake in abaqus. I am not looking for analysis of a structure, just a small mesh where the applied wave can propagate.

My questions are:
1. Is it possible?
2. Are the results reliable?

I am going to be comparing my results with that of a discontinuous galerkin method in MatLab, and I want to compare with some commercial software.

Many thanks,

Jo