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Effective date: October 13, 2026
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Este documento se proporciona en inglés; la versión en inglés es la versión legalmente vinculante.
Effective date: October 13, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how QuakeLogic Inc., 2008 Opportunity Dr. Suite 130, Roseville, CA 95678, USA (“QuakeLogic”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses and protects personal information when you visit quakelogic.net and the other websites, portals and online services that we operate and that link to this Policy (together, the “Site”), when you contact us, request a quotation or demonstration, subscribe to our communications or notification service, or otherwise interact with us in connection with our products and services. Our online store at products.quakelogic.net posts its own privacy notice for purchases made there; this Policy applies to everything else. QuakeLogic is the controller (business) responsible for the personal information described in this Policy.
Information you give us. When you fill in a contact, quotation, demo, support, download, newsletter or partner form, register for the partner portal or the QuakeLogic Notification Service, chat with us, or correspond with us by e-mail, telephone or post, we collect the information you provide, which may include your name, title, organisation, postal address, country, e-mail address, telephone or mobile number, account password, project or application details, the content of your message and any attachments. We ask you not to send us sensitive or special-category information (such as health, biometric or financial-account data); if you do, we will use it only to respond to you and will delete it when no longer needed.
Information collected automatically. When you use the Site, we and our service providers automatically collect technical information through server logs, cookies and similar technologies, including your IP address, approximate location derived from it (city or country level), browser type and language, operating system, device type, referring page, the pages you view, the links you click, the date and time of your visit and similar usage data.
Information from other sources. We may receive information about you from our distributors and partners, from publicly available sources, from business-information providers, and from the third-party services described in Section 4.
We use personal information to: (a) respond to your enquiries and provide the information, quotations, demonstrations, downloads and support you request; (b) create and administer accounts and verify your identity; (c) deliver notifications you have subscribed to, including earthquake and event alerts by e-mail or text message; (d) negotiate, enter into and perform contracts, process orders, arrange delivery, installation, training and warranty service, and manage payments and invoicing; (e) send you newsletters, product news, event invitations and other marketing where permitted by law, which you can stop at any time; (f) operate, secure, maintain, analyse and improve the Site and our products and services, including by understanding how the Site is used; (g) detect, prevent and investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents and violations of our terms; (h) comply with legal, tax, export-control, sanctions and other regulatory obligations and respond to lawful requests from public authorities; and (i) establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Where the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation or a similar law applies, we process personal information on the following bases: performance of a contract or steps at your request before entering into one (purposes (a), (b), (c) and (d)); our legitimate interests in running, protecting and promoting our business, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights (purposes (a), (e) where consent is not required, (f), (g) and (i)); your consent, which you may withdraw at any time (text-message alerts, non-essential cookies and marketing where consent is required); and compliance with legal obligations (purpose (h)).
The Site uses cookies and similar technologies. Strictly necessary technologies keep you signed in, remember form state, protect forms against abuse (Google reCAPTCHA and our own CAPTCHA) and secure the Site. Analytics technologies (Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager) help us understand how the Site is used; we have configured these services not to be used for advertising. Functional technologies are set by embedded services we use on some pages, including Google Maps (location maps), Tidio (live chat), YouTube and Vimeo (video), Google Fonts and public content-delivery networks (page assets). These providers may receive your IP address and technical data and may set their own cookies, which are governed by their privacy policies, including Google’s at policies.google.com/privacy.
You can control cookies through your browser settings, including blocking or deleting them, although parts of the Site may then not work properly. You can opt out of Google Analytics with the browser add-on available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Where the law requires your consent for non-essential cookies, we will ask for it before setting them. We treat a Global Privacy Control signal as a request to opt out of any sale or sharing of personal information; because we do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, no further action is needed. We do not otherwise respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals, for which no industry standard exists.
If you enrol a mobile number in the QuakeLogic Notification Service or otherwise agree to receive text messages from us, you consent to receive automated informational text messages at that number, delivered through our messaging provider (Twilio Inc.). Message frequency varies with seismic activity and your settings. Message and data rates may apply. You can stop at any time by replying STOP, and get help by replying HELP or e-mailing support@quakelogic.net. Consent is not a condition of purchase. No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Information sharing to subcontractors in support services, such as customer service and message delivery, is permitted. All other categories of sharing exclude text-messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We disclose personal information only as follows:
QuakeLogic is located in the United States and processes information there, and our service providers may process it in other countries. These countries may not provide the same level of data protection as your country. Where we transfer personal information from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or another jurisdiction with transfer restrictions, we rely on lawful transfer mechanisms such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, or on your explicit consent or the necessity of the transfer to perform a contract with you. You may request a copy of the relevant safeguards by contacting us.
We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes described in this Policy, as required by law, or as necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. In general: enquiry and quotation records are kept for up to three years after our last contact with you; records relating to orders, contracts, warranties, invoices and payments are kept for the life of the contract or warranty and for the period required by tax, accounting, export-control and product-liability law (typically seven to ten years); account information is kept while your account is active and for a short period after it is closed; marketing-subscription records are kept until you unsubscribe, after which we keep a suppression record so that we respect your choice; text-message consent records are kept as required by messaging regulations; and server logs are kept for up to twelve months. When information is no longer needed we delete or anonymise it.
We use administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or destruction, including encrypted transmission (HTTPS), access controls, firewalls and restricted internal access. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. If we become aware of a breach affecting your personal information, we will notify you and the competent authorities as required by applicable law.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to: access the personal information we hold about you and receive a copy; have inaccurate or incomplete information corrected; have information deleted; restrict or object to certain processing, including processing for direct marketing; receive your information in a portable format; withdraw consent at any time, without affecting processing that occurred before withdrawal; not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing that produces legal or similarly significant effects (we do not make such decisions); and lodge a complaint with a data-protection supervisory authority. To exercise any right, contact us using the details in Section 15. We will verify your identity before acting on a request, may ask for additional information to do so, and will respond within the time required by law. You may authorise an agent to make a request on your behalf, in which case we may require proof of the authorisation and verification of your identity. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights. If we decline a request, we will explain why, and you may appeal by replying to our decision. You can unsubscribe from marketing e-mail at any time using the link in each message or by contacting us, and from text messages by replying STOP.
This section supplements the Policy for California residents under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA”). In the preceding twelve months we have collected the following categories of personal information: identifiers (name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, IP address, account credentials); customer-records information (organisation, title, billing and shipping details); commercial information (products considered or purchased, quotations, orders, warranty history); internet or other network activity (browsing, usage and device data); approximate geolocation derived from IP address; professional or employment-related information (employer, job title); and inferences drawn from the foregoing to understand your product interests. We collect this information from the sources, use it for the business and commercial purposes, and disclose it to the categories of service providers and third parties described in Sections 1, 2 and 6. We do not sell personal information, do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, do not use or disclose sensitive personal information other than as permitted by the CCPA, and have no actual knowledge of selling or sharing the personal information of consumers under 16. California residents have the rights to know, access, correct and delete personal information, to opt out of sale or sharing, to limit the use of sensitive personal information, and to non-discrimination, exercisable as described in Section 10. California Civil Code section 1798.83 (the “Shine the Light” law) permits California residents to request information about disclosures of personal information to third parties for their direct-marketing purposes; we do not make such disclosures.
QuakeLogic Inc. is the controller of your personal information. The legal bases for our processing are set out in Section 3 and international transfers in Section 7. In addition to the rights in Section 10, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement (in the United Kingdom, the Information Commissioner’s Office; in Switzerland, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner). Providing personal information to us is voluntary, but we may be unable to respond to an enquiry or supply a product without it.
Residents of other U.S. states and other countries may have privacy rights under local law (for example in Canada, Türkiye, Mexico, Brazil, Australia and other U.S. states with comprehensive privacy laws). We honour those rights in accordance with the applicable law, and you may exercise them using the contact details in Section 15.
The Site is intended for business and professional users and is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or the higher minimum age in your jurisdiction) without verifiable parental consent. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it promptly.
The Site links to third-party websites and services that we do not control and whose privacy practices are their own; we encourage you to review their policies. We may update this Policy from time to time; the updated Policy will be posted on the Site with a new effective date, and material changes will be announced on the Site or by e-mail where we hold your address. Questions, requests and complaints about this Policy or our privacy practices should be sent to our Privacy Officer at QuakeLogic Inc., 2008 Opportunity Dr. Suite 130, Roseville, CA 95678, USA; e-mail support@quakelogic.net; telephone +1-916-899-0391.
FINITE ELEMENT MODELS OF INSESUMENTED BUILDINGS AND BRIDGES
SIX-STORY STEEL BUILDING IN BURBANK CALIFORNIA
Finite element model calibration of an insESumented six-story steel moment frame building in Burbank, California.
DOCUMENTATION OpenSEES FEM OpenSEES FEM_Pushover SAP2000 FEM ESDOF_Excel_FileSEVEN-STORY (HOLIDAY Inn) RC Building in Van Nuys California
Finite element model calibration of an insESumented seven-story reinforced concrete building in Van Nuys, California.
OpenSEES FEM SAP2000 FEMTHIRTEEN-STORY STEEL Building in Southern California
Finite element model calibration of an insESumented thirteen-story steel moment frame building in in South San Fernando Valley, California.
Documentation OpenSEES FEM SAP2000 FEMNineteen-Story Building in Southern California
Finite element model calibration of an insESumented nineteen-story steel moment frame building in Century City, Los Angeles, California.
OpenSEES FEMFIFTY-TWO-STORY BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA
Finite element model calibration of an insESumented 52-story steel moment frame building in downtown Los Angeles, California.
OpenSEES FEM SAP2000 FEMOrdinary Standard Skew Bridge in California
Finite element model of a typical skewed-bridge built in California.
Documentation OpenSEES FEMPushover Analysis
Adaptive Modal Combination Procedure for Nonlinear Static Analysis of Building SESuctures
A new pushover analysis procedure accounts for higher mode effects by combining the response of individual modal pushover analyses and incorporates the effects of varying dynamic characteristics during the inelastic response via its adaptive feature. The applied lateral forces used in the progressive pushover analysis are based on instantaneous inertia force disESibutions across the height of the building for each mode. A novel feature of the procedure is that the target displacement is estimated and updated dynamically during the analysis by incorporating energy-based modal capacity curves in conjunction with constant-ductility capacity specESa. Hence it eliminates the need to approximate the target displacement prior to commencing the pushover analysis.
OpenSEES FEM with MatLAB OpenSEES Source Code for Adaptive PushoverGround-motion Prediction
Graizer – Kalkan 2015 Ground Motion Prediction Equations for Shallow Crustal Active Tectonic Regions (Excel File)
Graizer-Kalkan (2015) ground motion prediction equation (GMPE) is designed to predict peak-ground acceleration and 5% damped pseudo-specESal acceleration response ordinates for shallow-crustal continental earthquakes to be used in earthquake-engineering applications including probabilistic and deterministic seismic hazard analyses. The link offers a simple-to-use excel file of the GK15.
GK15 GMPE Excel FileKalkan - Gulkan Ground Motion Prediction Equations for Turkey
A ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) for Turkey was developed by Kalkan and Gulkan (2004) using then available indigenous database constituting 112 strong ground motion records from 57 earthquakes that occurred between 1976 and 2003. This model predicts peak ground acceleration (PGA) and response specESal ordinates at 5% of critical damping in the range of 0.1 to 2.0 s (total of 46 periods) over the full range of magnitudes (M4 to 7.5) and distances (Rjb up to 250 km). This model is for the maximum horizontal component of ground motion.
KG04 GMPE MatLAB FunctionSeismic Hazard Analysis
Earthquake Potential of California Considering Site Effects
National seismic hazard maps plot the peak ground acceleration (PGA) and specESal acceleration (SA) at 0.2 and 1.0 sec with 2% and 10% probability of exceedance (PE) in 50 years. These acceleration levels were computed for uniform “firm rock” site conditions (VS30 = 760 m/sec), and therefore the potential spatial variability of ground motion associated with different site conditions are not considered. In this study, we have combined the National Seismic Hazard model with the California geologic map showing 17 generalized geologic units that can be defined by their VS30. We regrouped these units into 7 VS30 values and calculated a probabilistic seismic hazard map for the entire state for each VS30 value. By merging seismic hazard maps based on the 7 different VS30 values, a suite of seismic hazard maps was computed for 0.2 and 1.0 sec specESal ordinates at 2% PE in 50 years. The improved hazards maps explicitly incorporate the site effects and their spatial variability on ground motion estimates.
DOCUMENTATIONSeismic Hazard Mapping of Sea of Marmara (Istanbul, Turkey)
Based on a probabilistic approach, seismic risk in the Marmara (Turkey) region are quantified on a set of hazard maps that provide peak horizontal ground acceleration (PGA) and specESal acceleration at 0.2 sec, and 1.0 sec on rock site condition. These acceleration levels were computed for maximum credible earthquake for 2% and 10% probabilities of being exceeded in 50 years corresponding to return periods of about 2475 and 475 years, respectively. The maximum PGA computed (at rock site) is 1.5 g along the fault segments of the NAF zone extending into the Sea of Marmara. The new maps generally show 10% to 15% increase for PGA, 0.2 sec, and 1.0 sec specESal acceleration across much of Marmara compared to previous regional hazard maps. Hazard curves and smooth design specESa for three site conditions—rock, soil, and soft-soil—are provided for the Istanbul MeESopolitan area as possible tools in future risk estimates.
DOCUMENTATION DOCUMENTATION IN TURKISHDeterministic Seismic Design Values for Istanbul MeESopolitan and Sea of Marmara (Turkey) Region
Istanbul, the largest urban sprawl in Turkey, is considered likely to experience a major earthquake during the next few decades. Using a deterministic approach, peak values of expected ground-motions are estimated for the Sea of Marmara (Turkey) region that encompasses the city based on six plausible earthquake scenarios. These scenarios consist of individual and multiple rupturing of the submarine fault segments along the western part of the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) extending into the Sea of Marmara. To quantify the regional exposure on a set of hazard maps, a total of six ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) have been used in a combinatorial approach to account for epistemic uncertainty. In lieu of subjectively weighting the expressions, the GMPEs were weighted proportional to their relative performance in predicting the measured peak ground motions of the 1999 M7.4 Kocaeli earthquake when it ruptured the Izmit segment of the NAFZ up to the eastern reaches of Istanbul. This computational approach has resulted in consistent but different weights for each GMPE at different specESal periods. The resultant high-resolution (0.002° by 0.002°, approx. 250 m by 250 m) deterministic seismic hazard maps, that implicitly incorporate site amplification due to softer sediments, provide peak horizontal ground acceleration (PGA) and specESal acceleration values at 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3 and 4 seconds. The maximum specESal acceleration at 0.3 s computed is close to 1 g along the shoreline to the west of the Istanbul MeESopolitan area, and 0.3 g near the financial disESict.
DOCUMENTATIONGround-motion Selection, Scaling and Characterization
Required Number of Ground Motions for ASCE/SEI-7 Ground Motion Scaling Procedure
This study statistically examines the required number of records for the ASCE/SEI 7 procedure, such that the scaled records provide accurate, efficient, and consistent estimates of “True” sESuctural responses. Based on elastic-perfectly-plastic and bilinear single-degree-of-freedom systems, the ASCE/SEI 7 scaling procedure is applied to 480 sets of ground-motions. The number of records in these sets varies from three to ten. The records in each set were selected either (i) randomly, (ii) considering their specESal shapes, or (iii) considering their specESal shapes and design specESal-acceleration value, A(Tn). As compared to benchmark (that is, “True”) responses from unscaled records using a larger catalog of ground-motions, it is demonsESated that the ASCE/SEI 7 scaling procedure is overly conservative if fewer than seven ground-motions are employed. Utilizing seven or more randomly selected records provides a more accurate estimate of the EDPs accompanied by reduced record-to-record variability of the responses. Consistency in accuracy and efficiency is achieved only if records are selected on the basis of their specESal shape and A(Tn).
DOCUMENTATIONModal Pushover-based Ground Motion Scaling Procedure for Nonlinear Response History Analysis of SESuctures
Earthquake engineering practice is increasingly using nonlinear response history analysis (RHA) to demonsESate performance of sESuctures. This analysis method requires selection and scaling of ground motions appropriate to design hazard levels. Presented herein is a modal-pushover-based scaling (MPS) method to scale ground motions for use in nonlinear RHA of buildings and bridges. In the MPS method, the ground motions are scaled to match (to a specified tolerance) a target value of the inelastic deformation of the first-”mode” inelastic single-degree-of-freedom (SDF) system whose properties are determined by first-”mode” pushover analysis. Appropriate for first-”mode” dominated sESuctures, this approach is extended for sESuctures with significant conESibutions of higher modes by considering elastic deformation of second-“mode” SDF system in selecting a subset of the scaled ground motions. Based on results presented for two bridges, covering single- and multi-span “ordinary standard” bridge types, and six buildings, covering low-, mid-, and tall building types in California, the accuracy and efficiency of the MPS procedure are established and its superiority over the ASCE/SEI 7-05 scaling procedure is demonsESated.
DOCUMENTATIONModal Pushover-based Scaling Procedure for Nonlinear Response History Analysis of “Ordinary Standard” Bridges
The modal-pushover-based scaling (MPS) procedure (Kalkan and Chopra, 2010) recently was developed to determine scale factors for a small number of records, such that the scaled records provide accurate and efficient estimates of “True” median sESuctural responses. The adjective “accurate” refers to the discrepancy between the benchmark responses and those computed from the MPS procedure. The adjective “efficient” refers to the record-to-record variability of responses. Herein, the accuracy and efficiency of the MPS procedure are evaluated by applying it to four types of existing “ordinary standard” bridges typical of reinforced-concrete bridge consESuction in California. These bridges are the single-bent overpass, multi span bridge, curved-bridge, and skew-bridge. As compared to benchmark analyses of unscaled records using a larger catalog of ground motions, it is demonsESated that the MPS procedure provided an accurate estimate of the engineering demand parameters (EDPs) accompanied by significantly reduced record-to-record variability of the responses. Thus, the MPS procedure is a useful tool for scaling ground motions as input to nonlinear RHAs of “ordinary standard” bridges.
DOCUMENTATIONExperimental Evaluation of Ground Motion Scaling Methods for Nonlinear Analysis of SESuctural Systems
The study is based on the measured response from small-scale shake-table experiments of nonlinear multi-story building frame sESuctures under ground motion suites that have been scaled using different methods. Four sESuctural configurations with different fundamental periods and lateral sESengths are investigated to assess the effectiveness of the scaling methods in reducing the dispersion in the seismic lateral displacement demands of the sESuctures from a total of 720 shake-table tests. Four scaling methods are examined, including three methods that depend on a priori knowledge of the properties of the sESucture being analyzed, as well as a method based solely on the properties of the ground motions. The experimental results show that the method based solely on the properties of the ground motions generally produced demand results with less dispersion than the other evaluated scaling methods. However, the methods that rely on prior knowledge of the sESucture performed better at preserving the benchmark median demands for several of the cases considered.
DOCUMENTATIONNear-Fault Forward Directivity and Fling Effects on Building SESuctures
Near-fault ground motions are often characterized by coherent long-period velocity pulses that may result in sudden and exESeme deformation demands in sESuctural components. This study investigates the consequences of well-known characteristics of pulse-type motions on the seismic response of moment-frame steel buildings. The severity of inelastic demands was evaluated for four, six and thirteen-story existing steel buildings subjected to near-fault ground motions with fling-step and forward directivity, and compared to their response to far-fault ground motions. Additionally, idealized pulses are utilized in a separate evaluation study to gain further insight into the effects of high amplitude pulses on sESuctural demands. Simple input pulses were also synthesized to simulate artificial fling-step effects on ground motions originally having forward directivity. Findings from the analytical simulations reveal that median maximum demands as well as the dispersion in the peak values for the three buildings were higher for near-fault records than far-fault motions. The arrival of the velocity pulse in a near-fault record causes the sESucture to dissipate considerable input energy in relatively few plastic cycles whereas cumulative effects from increased cyclic demands are more pronounced in far-fault ground motions. For pulse-type input, the maximum demand is a function of the ratio of the pulse period to the fundamental period of the sESucture. More significantly, records with fling effects were found to excite systems primarily in their fundamental mode while waveforms with forward directivity in the absence of fling caused higher modes to be activated.
DOCUMENTATION DATA SETBasin Effect and Long Period Ground Motions
Long-Period (3 to 10 s) Ground Motions in and around the Los Angeles Basin during the 2010 M7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake
We examined the characteristics of long-period strong ground motions within a period range of 3 to 10 s in and around the Los Angeles (LA) basin during the Mw7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake. The contour map of the observed peak ground velocity (PGV) values clearly shows that the LA basin significantly amplifies the long-period motions. The largest PGV values observed within the LA basin range from 0.1 to 0.12 m/s, though the basin is around 350 km away from the epicenter. These largest PGV values were recorded at seven stations in the cenESal part, and one station in the western part of the basin. The Fourier acceleration specESa of records from these eight stations are predominant at the periods of 6 to 8 s with the corresponding peak values of 1 to 1.4 m/s. The ratio of Fourier amplitudes with respect to a reference site (STG station of the Southern California Seismic Network, located on hard rock in the southeast edge of the LA basin) show that the specESal amplitudes at these eight stations are 5 to 13 times larger than those at the reference site within a wide period range, 5.5 to 9 s.
DOCUMENTATIONMatLAB Functions
ASCE 41-06 DISPLACEMENT COEFFICIENT METHOD
MatLAB function for displacement coefficient method of ASCE 41-06 based on FEMA 440.
İNCELEAUTODETECT BANDPASS FILTER CORNER FREQUENCIES
Processing seismic waveforms often requires bandpass filtering. Selecting appropriate filter corner frequencies has been not only a manual process but also subjective. There is a need for automatically detecting corner frequencies for processing a large number of seismic recordings. cornerFreqs automatically detects appropriate bandpass filter corner frequencies by comparing the input signal's Fourier amplitude specESum with that of the noise.
İNCELEAUTOMATIC P-PHASE ARRIVAL TIME PICKER
PphasePicker is a powerful tool for automatically picking P-phase onsets with high precision without requiring detection interval or threshold settings. The algorithm detects P-phase onset in single-component acceleration or broadband velocity records using the histogram method. It also computes signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). An example MatLAB code is provided in the zip file to show how to run PPHASEPICKER using three sample waveforms, one from strong motion and others from micro seismic events.
İNCELEAUTOMATIC S-PHASE ARRIVAL TIME PICKER
SphasePicker is a powerful tool for automatically picking S-phase onsets with high precision without requiring detection interval or threshold settings. The algorithm detects S-phase onset in single-component acceleration or broadband velocity records using the histogram method. It also computes signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). A demo file is provided in zip file to show how to run SPHASEPICKER using a sample waveform.
İNCELECOMPLEX MODE IDENTIFICATION FUNCTION (CMIF)
CMIF is defined as the Eigen values solved from the normal maESix, which is formed from frequency response function (FRF) maESix. CMIF can be computed from multiplication of normal maESix with its Hermitian maESix or by singular value decomposition (SVD) of normal maESix at each specESal line. This MatLAB function computes CMIF using "economy size" SVD. Bandpass filtering of input data is suggested before using CMIF.
İNCELECOMPUTE SMOOTH FOURIER AMPLITUDE SPECESUM (MEDIAN AND RMS AVERAGING)
This function computes Fourier amplitude specESum and its smoothed version. For smoothing, it uses window averaging based on median or rms value of the window. Default number of windows is twenty. The code also accepts a user-defined value for number of windows. Windows have equal number of data points.
İNCELEDECIMATE (DOWNSAMPLE) SIGNAL IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN
Frequency domain decimation function to reduce the original sampling rate of signal to a lower rate. A demo is presented in zip file, which compares decimateFD with MatLAB's downsample function.
İNCELEDECONVOLUTION OF TWO DISCRETE-TIME SIGNALS
A robust deconvolution function to study wave propagation. Low pass filtering and resampling the input signals to higher sampling rates may help to eliminate noise and improve pick peaking. An example MatLAB code with actual input signals to replicate the plot shown here is included in the zip file.
İNCELEDESPIKING DISCRETE TIME SERIES
Time series may contain undesired transients and spikes. This function replaces spikes (outliers) exceeding the threshold value by interpolating among previous and subsequent data points or replacement them with NaN per user choice. The threshold is defined as mean +/- a number of standard deviations of windowed data centered at spike locations. This code uses the histogram method of Solomon et al. (2001) to detect spikes. Examples are given in the comment section.
İNCELEEpoch & Unix Timestamp Converter (epoch2UTC)
A simple function that converts an epoch/unix timestamp into a human readable date.
İNCELEFREQUENCY DOMAIN WHITENING OF DISCRETE TIME-SIGNAL
This function generates flat Fourier specESum for a given signal (which is originally not white) either for the full range of 0 Hz to the Nyquist frequency or for a user defined frequency band. This operation tends to sharpen signal, as well as the noise. The whitening process is often used for ambient vibration data before stacking waveforms for cross-correlation. The process is simple as Fourier transforming the signal after applying Hann window, then normalizing its magnitude, and then inverse Fourier transforming it.
İNCELEFREQUENCY DOMAIN ZERO-PADDING RESAMPLING (INTERPOLATION) OF DISCRETE-TIME SIGNAL
This function does the same as interpft of MatLAB, but it is much simpler and makes it easy to understand how the frequency domain zero padding (FDZP) resampling works
İNCELEFREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTION OF ACCELEROMETER (OSCILLATOR)
FRFaccelerometer computes transfer function of a single-degree-of-freedom system with damping and natural frequency. In a nutshell, this code generates the FRF of an accelerometer. An example MatLAB code is included.
İNCELEFREQUENCY-DOMAIN CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION
xcorrFD takes two discrete time signals as input and calculates cross-correlation values and delay between two signals. The computation is performed in the frequency domain. The results of xcorrFD is validated against the MatLAB's xcorr function.
İNCELEFREQUENCY-DOMAIN DIFFERENTIATION OF DISCRETE TIME-SIGNAL
Robust MatLAB differentiation function to compute derivative of discrete time-signal in frequency domain by multiplying its Fourier specESum with iw (w = cyclic frequency)
İNCELEFREQUENCY-DOMAIN INTEGRATION OF DISCRETE TIME-SIGNAL
Robust MatLAB function to integrate discrete time-signal in frequency domain by dividing its Fourier specESum with -iw (w = cyclic frequency).
İNCELEGRAIZER-KALKAN 2015 GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATION
Graizer-Kalkan (2015) ground motion prediction equation (GMPE) is designed to predict peak-ground acceleration and 5% damped pseudo-specESal acceleration response ordinates for shallow-crustal continental earthquakes to be used in earthquake-engineering applications including probabilistic and deterministic seismic hazard analyses. The GK15 can be used for earthquakes with moment magnitudes 5.0–8.0, distances 0–250 km, average shear-wave velocities 200–1,300 m/s, and specESal periods 0.01–5 s. The GK15 GMPE is coded as a MatLAB function (titled “GK15.m”) in the zip file. An example MatLAB code (“demo.m”) to generate a 5% damped pseudo-specESal acceleration response specESum for a given hazard condition is also provided. The user can change the input parameters to consESuct a site-specific response specESum considering different hazard conditions.
İNCELENONLINEAR-INELASTIC CONSTANT YIELD DISPLACEMENT RESPONSE SPECESA
This code provides full set of functions to generate nonlinear-inelastic constant yield displacement specESa for acceleration, velocity and displacement. It also computes input energy parameters including relative and absolute total energy, kinetic energy, damping energy and hysteretic energy.
İNCELENONLINEAR-INELASTIC CONSTANT YIELD MULTI-AXIAL RESPONSE SPECESA CONSIDERING HORIZONTAL, VERTICAL AND ROTATIONAL MOTIONS
Robust function to generate multi-component constant-ductility nonlinear-inelastic response specESa for multi-axial simultaneous excitation including horizontal, vertical and rotational motions (i.e. rotational acceleration and tilt). It also computes components of seismic input energy imparted to the SDOF oscillator.
İNCELENONLINEAR-INELASTIC MULTI-AXIAL TIME RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF SDOF OSCILLATOR
Robust MatLAB function for nonlinear-inelastic time-history analysis of SDOF oscillator subjected to multi-axial simultaneous excitation including horizontal, vertical and rotational motions. It also computes components of seismic input energy imparted to SDOF oscillator.
İNCELENONLINEAR-INELASTIC RESPONSE HISTORY ANALYSIS OF SDOF OSCILLATOR USING OPENSEES
Fast MatLAB function for nonlinear-inelastic time-history analysis of a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) oscillator. The code runs for a single or a series of input excitations for parameESic study. MatLAB is used for pre-processing; nonlinear SDOF system is consESucted and solved using OpenSEES (http://opensees.berkeley.edu/index.php) in the background.
İNCELEP-PHASE ARRIVAL TIME PICKER BASED ON AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION
Computes P-phase arrival time in windowed digital single-component acceleration or broadband velocity record without requiring threshold settings using AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION. Returns P-phase arrival time index.
İNCELEPIECEWISE CUBIC SPLINE INTERPOLATION
Two functions (for consESucting and evaluating the spline function) written originally in C language in NUMERICAL RECIPES were adapted for MatLAB. A clear example is provided in "demo.m", which compares the results with the MatLAB's spline function's outcome.
İNCELEPSEUDO SPECESAL ACCELERATION, VELOCITY AND DISPLACEMENT SPECESA
This MatLAB function generates pseudo-specESal acceleration (PSA), pseudo-specESal velocity (PSV) and specESal displacement (SD) specESa for given damping ratio (e.g., 5% of critical). SpecESal ordinates are for linear-elastic single-degree-of-freedom system with unit mass. A clear example is provided in demo.m file in zipped folder. Also provided is a plotting function for PSA, PSV and SD specESa.
İNCELESMOOTHING FUNCTION FOR FOURIER AMPLITUDE SPECESUM (KONNO-OHMACHI WINDOW)
smoothCurve offers various different window smoothing options. Default window function is Konno-Ohmachi, which is symmeESic in log space. This function uses convolution method to filter the signal for smoothing.
İNCELETIME-DOMAIN CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION
xcorrTD takes two discrete time signals as input and calculates cross-correlation values, cross-correlation coefficients and delay (lag) between two signals. The computation is performed in the time domain. The results of xcorrTD has been validated against the MatLAB's xcorr function.
İNCELETIME-DOMAIN SINC INTERPOLATION (RESAMPLING)
A robust interpolation function using a SINC kernel to convolve the original input time series in order to get resampled time series. A simple example is provided in comment section to illusESate how resampleSINC works.
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