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Seismic Data Generator

The Seismic Data Generator extracts and plots graphs of earthquake records, seismic response spectra, and design response spectra from its built-in earthquake database. It allows users to generate and view different types of seismic data, customize graph properties, and save or print outputs in various formats. Key features include generating earthquake acceleration records, design response spectra from codes like UBC and Eurocode, and converting graphs between the time and frequency domains.

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Seismic Data Generator

The Seismic Data Generator extracts and plots graphs of earthquake records, seismic response spectra, and design response spectra from its built-in earthquake database. It allows users to generate and view different types of seismic data, customize graph properties, and save or print outputs in various formats. Key features include generating earthquake acceleration records, design response spectra from codes like UBC and Eurocode, and converting graphs between the time and frequency domains.

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Seismic Data Generator

Function

SGS (Seismic data Generation System) extracts and plots graphs of earthquake history records, seismic response spectrums and design response spectrums using the MIDAS F Program's built-in earthquake database

Call

Analysis > Time History Analysis > Seismic Data Generator

Built-in earthquake history records - about 30 earthquake records in North America from 1940 until 1990

Design response spectrums - 8 types

- UBC 88, 94 Dynamic, Uniform Building Code - UBC 97 Dynamic, Uniform Building Code - ATC 3-06 Provision, Applied Technology Council - NBC(1995) - Newmark & Hall Design Spectrum - IBC 2000 - Eurocode-8, 1996 (Design) - Eurocode-8, 1996 (Elastic) - China (GB50011-2001) - China Shanghai(DGJ08-9-2003)

- China (JTJ004-89) - China (GBJ111-87) - Japan (AIJ, 2000) - KBC (2005) - Design response spectra per Structure Design Criteria of the Architectural Institute of Korea (1992, 2000) - Design response spectrum per Seismic Design Criteria of the Korean Highway Bridges Standards Specifications

File Print or save all types of data generated in SGS in various formats and open previously generated data. Open Open a previously created SGS file.

Close Close the current working window.

Save

Save the current data in a file. The type of the file to be saved can be selected in [File type]. Possible file extensions are SG extension for text formats and BMP, JPG and EMF extensions for graphic formats.

Print Hard-print the graph. The Page Setup dialog box appears as shown below. Printing formats can be controlled by Preview displayed to the right. Click OK to print.

Print Setup Setup the printer, printing form and direction.

Generate

Extract and plot graphs of earthquake history records, seismic response spectrums and design response spectrums using th earthquake database built-in SGS.

Earthquake Acceleration Record Open an earthquake history record and plot a graph.

Select Generate > Earthquake Record to display the Earthquake Record Generation dialog box shown below.

Select an earthquake component in the Earthquake field. Enter the scales for the amplitude and time step then click OK.

All the generated data are normalized accelerations in g (acceleration of gravity) and the initial time step is 0.02 sec. Data also be generated by changing the time step and amplitude of the original data using the amplitude and time scales. When other than the built-in earthquake history records are to be generated, click Import to open the data in [.dbs] (sgs dbase file extension files generated by the user.

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Design Response Spectra

Generate various design response spectra and plot them in graphs. The detailed menus are as follows:

- UBC 88-94 Design Spectrum: Design response spectrum specified in UBC 88~94 Dynamic, Uniform Building Code

- UBC 97 Design Spectrum: Design response spectrum specified in UBC 97 Dynamic, Uniform Building Code

- ATC 3-06 Design Spectrum: Design response spectrum specified in the ATC 3-06 Provision, Applied Technology Cou

- Newmark & Hall Design Spectrum: Newmark & Hall Design response spectrum

- KS-Code Design Spectrum: Design response spectrum specified in the Korean Architectural Structures Design Criteria (1986)

- KS-Code 2000 Design: Design response spectrum specified in the Korean Architectural Structures Design Criteria

- KS-Bridge Design Spectrum: Design response spectrum specified in the Seismic Design Criteria of the Korean Highwa Bridges Specifications

- IBC 2000 Design response spectrum

- Eurocode-8, 1996 Design response spectrum

- China (GB50011-2001) Design response spectrum

- Japan (AIJ, 2000) Design response spectrum

Select the detailed menu corresponding to the design response spectrum to be generated to display the following Design Response Spectrum Data Entry dialog box. Enter the data necessary to generate the spectrum and click OK to generate the and plot the graph.

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Option Each sub-menu becomes inactivated if it deems inapplicable for the current data type.

X Scale Log Display the X-axis of the graph in a Log scale.

Y Scale Log Display the Y-axis of the graph in a Log scale.

X Grid Display gridlines in the X-direction of the graph.

Y Grid Display gridlines in the Y-direction of the graph.

Diagonal Grid Display gridlines in the diagonal direction of the graph.

Line Width Adjust the thickness of graph lines. Convert between bold and thin lines.

Unit Change the units for the generated data.

Edit Graph Title Change the title for the graph.

View From the Main Menu select [View] to display the following detailed menus:

Note

Each sub-menu becomes deactivated when it deems inapplicable for the current data type.

Zoom Out All

When the graph is zoomed in, restore and display the original state. Select the desired part by left-clicking the mouse to zo window. Right-click the mouse in the graph to restore the magnified part to its original size.

Time Frequency

When viewing the earthquake history records in a graph, the graph can be converted between the time domain and frequen domain. The frequency domain plot is calculated by FFT (Fast Fourier Transform).

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