Naming conventions

Geometry naming

Soil Profiles

Positions in soil profiles

Buildings

Positions in buildings

Conflicts

How to resolve conflicts in positions

Sensor type names

• ACC = Acceleration
• DISP = Displacement
• PPT = pore pressure transducer
• STRS = Shear strain
• STRV = Volumetric strain
• TAU = Shear stress
• SIG = Normal stress
• MOM – Moment about an axis
• ROT – rotation about an axis
• HROT – hinge rotation
• SHF – Shear force

For directional sensors add the orientation (X, Y, Z) as a suffix (e.g. ACCX = in-plane horizontal acceleration)

Database file names

The file names are saved according to the following convention: <model>-<motion type>-<x code>-<y code>-<z code>-<analysis name>.&file type>

• Model name: Is the code given to a model, where different models have different physical properties (e.g. different soil density, more bays in the superstructure)
• Motion type <Parameter><Orientation> (e.g. ACCX = horizontal acceleration)
• X code: code corresponding to x coordinate
• Y code: code corresponding to y coordinate
• Z code: code corresponding to z coordinate
• Analysis name: Code given to analysis. Used to distinguish between different non-physical simulation parameters (e.g. changing model damping, linear vs nonlinear analysis)
• file type: file type suffix