Recent developments have produced automation tools that dramatically reduce manual effort. A notable example is a viscoelastic boundary and seismic load automation plugin for Abaqus that provides fully graphical operation—eliminating the need for manual coding of boundary conditions and seismic input. In one dam seismic analysis project, this plugin compressed three days of manual operations into two hours while eliminating manual calculation errors.
: A computationally inexpensive method that provides the peak response of a structure based on a specified earthquake spectrum. Time History Analysis abaqus earthquake analysis
