February Post: Earthquake Time History Analysis

For my EQ answer #2, through performing different types of seismic analyses on buildings can contribute best designing a building for earthquake resistance, I had to research many different types of seismic analyses. I came across a seismic analysis called Time History Analysis. The importance of time history analysis is it can give a prediction on the performance level of a building during an earthquake. Time History analysis does this by measuring the accelerations at rock level and by studying the data of a structure in small periods of time in the structure's acceleration, force, and displacement. The video below, from MasterSeries: C&SCS Ltd, shows how to perform Time History Analysis is using a software program called Midas to test buildings with past earthquakes.