Performing incremental dynamic analysis in parallel

  • Authors:
  • Dimitrios Vamvatsikos

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cyprus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 75 Kallipoleos Str., 1681 Nicosia, Cyprus

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Structures
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Incremental dynamic analysis has recently emerged to offer comprehensive evaluation of the seismic performance of structures using multiple nonlinear dynamic analyses under scaled ground-motion records. Being computer-intensive, it can benefit from parallel processing to accelerate its application on realistic structural models. While the task-farming master-slave paradigm seems ideal, severe load imbalances arise due to analysis non-convergence at structural instability, prompting the examination of task partitioning at the level of single records or single dynamic runs. Combined with a multi-tier master-slave processor hierarchy employing dynamic task generation and self-scheduling we achieve a flexible and efficient parallel algorithm with excellent scalability.