The San Francisco Bay Area faces one of the highest seismic risks in the United States. Structural Health Monitoring offers a vital tool to protect lives, infrastructure, and economic resilience in the face of inevitable earthquakes.
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Power Spectral Density (PSD) is an essential technique for analyzing acceleration signals, helping to identify dominant frequencies and structural resonances. This guide explains the steps to compute PSD, different estimation methods, and its applications in engineering.
Understanding how high-performance computation (HPC) supports real-time structural health monitoring (SHM) by enhancing data acquisition, signal processing, damage detection, and decision-making.
Explore how GPUs achieve exceptional computational power through their hierarchical architecture and embarrassingly parallel workflows, with a focus on leveraging PyTorch for efficient processing on both Nvidia GPUs and Apple Silicon.
On December 5, 2013, a mysterious series of booms startled Tamsui residents in Taiwan. Using seismic and infrasound data, we uncovered the event’s origin—a meteor shockwave. This rare phenomenon allowed us to reconstruct the meteor’s trajectory and estimate its energy, highlighting the value of geophysical monitoring in studying atmospheric events.
Learn how RabbitMQ enables seamless and reliable communication between distributed systems. This article explores setting up RabbitMQ using Docker, simulating seismic waveform data, and creating efficient producers and consumers with both blocking and asynchronous connections. Gain practical insights into building scalable messaging systems for real-time data processing and beyond.
Earthquakes shake buildings in all three directions, but why is vertical motion often ignored in design? Thanks to gravity, high vertical stiffness, and built-in safety margins, structures are naturally robust in the vertical direction. However, certain components and seismic codes still require careful consideration. Learn when vertical effects matter and why horizontal motion is more critical.
