Architectural Overview of MAEviz – HAZTURK

Assessment of seismic damage to buildings in resilient Byblos City

“…The open-source Ergo software was well presented in [22] as "A Hazard (primarily Seismic) Risk Assessment tool, based on Consequence-based Risk Management (CRM) to help coordinate planning and event mitigation, response, and recovery". Ergo, previously known as m-HARP or MAEviz [18,19], benefits from the global initiative work of a developer community and has received one of the most positive reviews in [68]. First a local data repository is created, where were ingested and stored: Lebanon map, seismic hazard, building inventory, fragility, fragility mapping, default sets, etc.…”

“…Following the Consequence-based Risk Management CRM paradigm, retrofits can be applied to the identified critical structures suffering from extensive damage and the damage analysis re-run. These results can then be analyzed by the user to see if they meet their loss criteria and, the user can iterate the analysis as necessary, as noted by [18,19]. Fig.…”

An automated system for optimizing post-disaster temporary housing allocation

“…This model builds upon the temporary housing multi-objective optimization methodology developed by El-Anwar et al [3,31] and integrates it in MAEviz, which is an open-source software system for seismic risk assessment developed by the Mid-America Earthquake Center in cooperation with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications [18,19,21]. The automated model is capable of optimizing the tradeoffs among multiple objectives, including (1) minimizing negative socioeconomic impacts on displaced families; (2) maximizing housing safety; (3) minimizing negative environmental impacts of temporary housing on host communities; (4) minimizing total public expenditures; and (5) optimizing other user-defined objectives.…”

“…These systems, which include the Mid-America Earthquake Center system MAEviz and Hazards United States-Multihazard (HAZUS-MH), enable emergency planners to estimate housing damage and displacement of families in the aftermath of possible natural disasters [18][19][20][21]. Despite the significant capabilities of these systems, they lack the features necessary for optimizing temporary housing arrangements after natural disasters.…”

Plug-and-play macroscopes

“…Most relevant for users are the algorithm plug-ins that can be divided into algorithms for preprocessing (19), analysis (56), modeling (10), and visualization (19). Three standalone tools-Discrete Network Dynamics (DND), GUESS, and GnuPlot-are available via the NWB menu system.…”