Overview and Applications of Maeviz-Hazturk 2007

Abstract

A new generation of tools is needed to allow researchers and practicing engineers the ability to leverage investments in new methodologies and software infrastructure while enabling customization to local conditions. MAEviz represents such a next generation of seismic risk assessment software, based on the Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center research in Consequence-based Risk Management (CRM) and is designed to be extended, customized, and evolved to meet the needs of specific organizations and regions. MAEviz helps bridge the gap between researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers by integrating the latest research findings and most accurate data, using state-of-the-art methodologies, in an extensible software platform.

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.…”

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.…”

Rapid Earthquake Loss Assessment After Damaging Earthquakes

“…It can perform earthquake risk assessment for buildings (structural and non-structural damage), bridges and gas networks with a built-in library of fragility relationships. In addition to applications in USA and important application of the software has been conducted for the Zeytinburnu District of Istanbul (Elnashai et al 2007). …”