Managing Director:
     Muneo Hori
    (University of Tokyo)

  Summary
 The primary objectives of structure and urban area simulation is to develop the following two analysis method:
1) a method of numerically computing the seismic structure responses of a structure, including local failures or global collapse; and
2) a method of numerically computing the seismic responses of an urban area, which includes damage of each building and evacuation of each resident.

 The structure simulation is aimed at computing shaking, damaging, and collapsing due to strong ground motion for a detailed model of a structure which is constructed in centimeter scale. Base soil effects are included. A highrise building and an RC pier are the current target.
 The urban area simulation provides a tool of constructing a next-generation hazard map for an urban area, using a model which includes every building and road in it and considering scenario of an earthquake.