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Change Log
Below is a log of changes and modification to QuakeManager between versions.
Version 3.00 Released - 01/23/2024
1. QuakeSite (new module) – Site Response Analysis: 1-D Linear and Nonlinear Site Response Analysis Module
•Simulates suites of records
•Multi-layer soil profile
• Time/frequency-domain analyses
•Multiple soil models (GQ/H, MKZ, Yee, Linear and Points)
•Visualization of results (Shear strain, shear stress ratio, PWP, hysteresis)
2. Code Design Spectra (ASCE 7 & 41) + Automatic Import from USGS Design Maps
•ASCE 7-22 Multi-Period + 2-period spectra for multiple codes including ASCE 7, ASCE 41, NEHRP, IBC, CBC and AASHTO
•Ability to import the target spectrum and hazard parameter from USGS webservices using the Lat/Long coordinates of the site
3. QuakeSelect – GM Suite Selection: Additional Records Filtering Options
•Ability to filter by records Mechanism (Strike-Slip, Normal, Reverse, etc.), Regime (Active Tectonic, Subduction, etc.) and Subduction Event Type (Interface and/or Intraslab)
•Ability to filter by Sampling frequency, Cumulative Absolute Velocity (CAV) and Arias Intensity (Io)
4. QuakeLibrary: Major improvements to ground motion database
•New faster & secure database engine
•Added full NGA-West2 database with ~ 20,000 records
•Added full NGA Subduction database with more than 71,000 records
•Added AFAD Türkiye Mw7.7 Records & aftershocks with more than 1,200 records
•Added support for DYNA (Turkish records) and Greece File Formats
5. QuakeSignal – Signal Processing Tools:
•New pulse identification tool! Identifies pulse wavelets in records and reports the pulse period, pulse velocity, pulse azimuth, etc.
•Improved baseline correction
6. Chart Improvements: New chart abilities
•Polar Plot: Visualize FN/FP and pulse directions/orientations in the polar plot
•Time-Histories: Visualize Fault normal and Fault Prallel (Fnormal, Fparallel) as well as pulse (Fpulse) histories & spectra for a Triplet directly without the need for rotation.
7. Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Version 2.21 Released - 07/06/2022
GM Record Rotation
•Allows the user to define the relative angle between the rotated H1 & H2 components.
Polar Chart
•Ability to show the azimuth lines of the H1 & H2 components on the chart.
•Ability to plot the polar plot consistent with the actual azimuth orientation of the record.
GM Suite Selection
•Specify a target range (min,max) for the average suite duration or frequency (average of all records in a suite).
Miscellaneous Features and Bug Fixes.
Version 2.20 Released - 05/26/2022
Baseline Correction Tool (New Feature!)
•Applies a baseline correction to remove the drifting trends in time histories (this feature is still in beta).
Spectral Matching Improvements
•Added adaptive matching (recalculates record targets after every step when performing mean spectral matching in order to improve match quality and convergence).
•Ability to keep records from intermediate steps, which can help in tracking matching progress between steps and debugging/optimizing step selection.
•Ability to specify the type and frequency of baseline correction while matching.
Export Library Records to csv (New Feature!)
•Allows the user to export the user records and their metadata to a csv ground motion library file. These libraries can be used as a backup for later import or for sharing with other users.
Ability to reload records from files
•Force re-read of records and their metadata from files, and re-compute Sa & IMs for the selected records. Helpful feature when the underlying file has changed and needs to be reloaded.
Version 2.10 Released - 09/27/2021
•Ground Motion Synthetic Simulation Module (New Feature!)
•Ability to show & modify properties for multiple selected records.
•Added Splash and About screens, and New/Recent Project dialog.
•Miscellaneous Features and Bug Fixes.
Version 2.00 Released - 07/10/2021
Spectral Matching (New Feature!)
•Match one-, two-, or three-component records simultaneously
•Suite Matching methods: Tight Matching or Mean Matching (preserves dispersion)
•Multiple matching options including: RotD100, RotD0, RotD50, Geomean, SRSS,
•Unprecedented user-interface experience: Easily compare matched time-histories and spectra to original records and target spectra.
GM Suite Selection (Improved)
•Ability to define up to three target spectra for each suite. For example the user is now able to select a suite matching SRSS, Fault-Normal, and vertical targets simultaneously.
•Specify a target range for the average suite magnitude and distance (e.g. to satisfy hazard de-aggregation)
•Improved performance
Automatically calculate record Fault-normal and Fault-Parallel spectra without the need to first rotate the records.
New updated online and offline user manual.
Version 1.95 Released - 08/04/2020
Annotations
•Ability to show D5-75, D5-95 & Db5PctG durations graphically on history charts (Acc/Vel/Disp/Arias).
•Ability to show peak values (Abs Max, Max & Min) on all charts.
Original Records
•Added ability to compare modified records with their original (unmodified) versions (e.g. for Scaled and Rotated records).
Other Improvements
•Improvements in Ground Motion Import Tool.
•Miscellaneous Features and Bug Fixes.
Version 1.90 Released - 05/23/2020
GM Selection & Scaling Report Generator
•Automatic generation of a complete MS-Word report for GM Suite Selection & Scaling.
•Generates tables and figures of Suite Statistics, Record Spectra & Histories.
•Ability to save multiple report templates.
Ground Motion Import Tool
•Easy import of multiple GM records to a Suite or a Collection.
•Provides helpful debugging information for files that don't match the any of the file formats.
Other Improvements
•Record View Column Templates : Added the ability to save column order.
•Design Spectra: Added the ability to plot LogSigma and Spectra Statistics in the dialog.
•Miscellaneous Features and Bug Fixes.
Version 1.80 Released - 04/17/2020
•Ground Motion Selection
1.Unique Suites: Specify that multiple returned suites are "Unique".
2.Individual Records: Return Suite with Individually Selected Optimal Records.
3.Same Scale Factor: Force all records in a suite to have the same SF.
4.Target Limits: Ability to plot Target Limits (Mean, Peaks, Valleys).
5.Improve performance.
•Record Search
1.Search by record title.
2.Flag records to be excluded when searching (by setting the 'Exclude' field).
•Other Changes
1.Units are now copied when copying records' metadata to Clipboard.
2.UI Changes in some Dialogs.
Version 1.70 Released - 03/04/2020
•Support Multi-Column ground motion file format.
•Using Sd, Sv or PSv target spectrum when performing Ground Motion Selection now works correctly.
•Added ability to delete triplet's components when only triplet is selected.
•Charts now display helpful information when no data is plotted.
•Miscellaneous Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements.
Version 1.60 Released - 02/04/2020
•Now supporting Cosmos & NBCC Canadian Ground Motion file formats.
•The fitting error measure is now computed for individual records while performing Ground Motion Suite Selection, and it is also calculated for records added manually to a suite.
•Added ability to rescale individual records to the optimal Scale Factor.
•Improve Polar Chart.
•Bug Fixes.
Version 1.50 Released - 01/16/2020
•New "Polar" chart:
1. Show the 2D Bidirectional trace of Displacement, Velocity or Acceleration response at a given period
2. Show the Polar Bidirectional Envelope of the trace.
3. Show the Maximum- and Minimum-Response Directions.
4. Show Rot100, Rot50 and Rot0, SRSS, Geomean, and Max(H1,H2) Envelopes.
•When importing multi-channel records, automatically generate triplets from 3-components.
Version 1.40 Released - 12/30/2019
•New "Map" pane:
1. Show the location of stations and events.
2. Take screenshot of the map.
3. Export map to KML file (for viewing in Google Earth).
•Allow dragging ground motion record files into record suites.
•GM Selection improvement: User can now limit selection to records that can be rotated (to FN/FP).
•Fixed Searching by date and FN/FP.
•Other Bug Fixes.
Version 1.30 Released - 12/16/2019
Key Improvements in this version:
•New “Column Layout Template Manager” which allows the user to save multiple record views with different column layouts.
•The “Copy Metadata” feature now copies the header and footers of the data, which makes it easy to create tables in MS Excel or Word.
•Significantly faster Rotated Spectra Calculations (RotD100, RotD50 & RotD0). Calculations are up to 3x times faster!
•Better control over x- and y-axis chart limits using a new option to freeze axis limits.
•Improvement to GM Selection: It is now possible to filter by two different duration/frequency variables simultaneously (e.g. D5-95 and Least-Usable-Frequency).
Version 1.20 Released - 9/20/2019
This version includes a lot of new improvements. A summary of the key improvements is shown below, grouped by category.
Key new features are highlighted in blue.
•Charts
•Added Arias Intensity Chart
•Allow normalizing any chart by x-axis or y-axis or both (useful for normalizing Arias plots)
•Can now plot frequency instead of period on x-axis of spectra charts (Sa, FFT, PSd, etc)
• Target spectrum +/- Std Dev now uses the "Log Mean" and "Log Sigma" Chart toolbar options.
•GM Library
•Fixed issue with dragging and dropping files into a collection (records were occasionally going to a different collection)
•QuakeManager now warns user when trying to delete or move a library record
•Ground Motion Selection
•Substantial improvement in speed and accuracy when selecting and scaling ground motion suites, especially with highly-constrained searches, for which a solution can be very difficult to find. Many cases where a rare solution could not be found (or needed a very large number of simulations) can now be found very quickly.
•Record Import/Export
•Add support for several new ground motion formats including:
•Japanese KiK-net and K-NET formats
•CSMIP (CGS) Format
•Chile Format
•New Zealand Format
•RSP-Match Formats
•A new generic file format that can read variations of existing formats such as NGA.
•Fully import all metadata from ground motion header files (SMC/USGS, CSMIP/CGS, KiK-net, K-NET, Chile, New Zealand, etc..)
•Substantially improved support for existing ground motion formats (SMC/USGS, PEER NGA, SAC-Steel)
•Fixed bug causing crash when importing record metadata from a CSV file.
•Records
•Added a "Rescale" tool that allows the user to easily rescale multiple records
•Added footer rows to the Report View that can show the Average, Minimum or Maximum data summaries of selected records.
•In the Property pane, Collapse/expand setting is now preserved when selecting new records
•Added ability to have negative scale factors for records. This is reflected in the sign of the time history, but not in the IM's or Spectra.
•Added icons to Report View identifying records as "Database" or "Project" records
•Added icons to Report View indicating whether a record file exists on disk
•Spectra and Intensity Measures (IM's)
•Corrected a scaling problem where in some cases, a new scale was not applied correctly for Spectra or IM's
•Improved accuracy of Arias duration calculation by interpolating start and end times of the Arias intensity.
•Project Tree
•Fixed some occasional crashing issues with opening projects from the recent menu or when closing projects
•Record Suites: Created a context-menu (right-click) and a Properties dialog for Record Suite objects.
•Design Spectra: Corrected an issue where a Design Spectrum chart appeared stretched on some users' screen
•Record Rotation
•Fixed a problem where the "Alternate H1/H2 orientation" was not being used when requested by the user.
•Fixed crash when the target folder did not exist while rotating a record.
•Improved the record rotation dialog to enable/disable features based on currently selected options.
•Improve rotation to Fn/Fp. Now Fp is aligned with the fault Azimuth FpAz by default (previously it could be rotated by 180-degrees).
•Miscellaneous bug fixes
Version 1.10 Released - 10/9/2016
•Added record rotation, scaling and export records
•Allow rotating to Fault Normal/Parallel (FN/FP) or any other rotation
•Ability to batch rotate/scale/export large number of records at once (can easily create FN/FP record database)
•Added ability to search/select triplets by FN/FP spectra
•Added ability plot FN/FP spectra for triplets
•Fixed problem with importing records into Ground Motion Library using drag and drop
•Miscellaneous bug fixes
Version 1.06 Released - 3/8/2016
•Introduced ability to rotate and export ground motion records (feature still in Beta)
•Corrected NGA-West2 collection path issue (requires a new Full install).
•Miscellaneous bug fixes
•Version 1.04 Released (AutoUpdate) - 7/31/2015
•Fixed chart bug (FFT & PSD were not displaying)
•Fixed minor bugs in User-Defined Spectrum
•Miscellaneous bug fixes
Version 1.03 Released - 7/20/2015
•Autoupdate capability: QuakeManager now supports automatic downloading and installation of patches and updates
•Record Suite now shows number of records it contains
•Record View tab now shows name of current collection or record suite
•Fixed bug in IBC Spectrum
•Miscellaneous bug fixes
Version 1.02 Released - 7/13/2015
•Added "Copy Chart Image" toolbar button
•Added option to search by RSN's in Search Panel
•Added context-menu option to copy RSN's to clipboard
•Miscellaneous bug fixes
Version 1.00 Released - 6/29/2015
•Major upgrade of database that reduced disk space requirements, and substantially improved speed of searching & loading records
•Added full "NGA-West2" database (metadata and spectra only) with about 20,000 records (60,000 components and 20,000 triplets). The trial version includes about 3400 records.
•Computation of spectra was made substantially faster (now uses parallel processing)
•Added CAV5 intensity measure (Cumulative Absolute Velocity measure that correlates well with liquefaction potential)
•Added new correlation intensity measures (XCorr12, XCorr13, XCorr23, XCorrMax) that measure cross-correlation between different components of a record.
•Added 4 new IM ratios PGV/PGA, PGD/PGV, PGD/PGA and PGA*PGD/PGV^2.
•Updated Search Panels to search for newly added intensity measures.
•Checked and improved FFT and PSD calculations and charts.
•Added database field for "OrigGMDB", which describes the database that the record originally comes from, e.g. NGAWest2, etc.
•Added database fields for "Exclude" and "ExcludeReason", that exclude a record from ground motion search (e.g. if not available)
•Added database field for "Channel" number which defines the channel number to use from a multichannel file
•Added field for "FullPathDisk" (read-only)
•Status bar now shows total and selected number of records in Record View.
•Improved Chart Ribbon commands and chart behavior
•Added ribbon toolbar buttons for copying chart data and record metadata to clipboard.
•Ribbon toolbars are improved, more interactive and context-sensitive
•Numerous Improvements to user-interface
•Numerous bug fixes
Version Beta 2e - 5/4/2015
•When creating a new project, show new project name in project tree.
•When creating or deleting collections, update the Collection selection dropdown box in the Search Panel.
•Added "Library" and "Project" ribbons. Renamed "Manage" ribbon to "Records".
•Implemented "Project" ribbon for creating and editing objects.
•Fixed problems with renaming, duplicating and deleting objects, including making sure new and duplicate objects have unique names.
•Added "Show Subcollection Records" to Library ribbon and updated ribbon icons.
•Made changes in Record View to sort a triplet's components by component #.
•Various minor changes to user interface
•Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Version Beta 2d
•Added Processing search section to the GM Search Panel allowing filtering record by filter frequency or lowest-usable frequency (FreqLF, FreqHF, FreqLU)
•Increased number of pulse constraints from 3 to 4, in the GM Suite Selection tool.
•Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Version Beta 2c
•Added support for the NRC file format, which is a modification of the PEER format.
•Added ability to filter by filtering-frequency (High-pass or Low-pass), and lowest-usable frequency (FreqLF, FreqHF, FreqLU) in the suite selection dialog.
Version Beta 2b
Add context-menu commands for record view pane (activated by right-clicking on one or more records)
Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Version Beta 2 Released - 3/2/2015
•Implemented "Pulse Selection" feature in GM Suite Selection
•Added "Collapse All", "Expand All" and "Select All" buttons to the Chart "Manage Records" Ribbons.
•Change default Design Spectrum LnSigma to 0.2.
•Change default limit on individual record dispersion to +/- 2-sigma.
•Change shading intensity to reflect matching weight. Create a new toolbar button for showing/hiding period range shading.
•Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Version Beta 1.5
•Add option to import Record Component metadata (one component per line including Spectra) using csv (in addition to prior ability to import Triplets).
•Relax PEER format to accept slight variations
•Improve creating triplets from components (automatically assign a title based on components' names, copy metadata from components, etc)
•Show component # for components in chart legend
•When a suite is selected (from GMSuiteSelDlg) while selecting triplets, change the shown resultant to the one that is being matched
•Improve copying Triplet and Components from a collection to a suite
•Added a number of new fields to database: FNFP, IsPulse, PulseScore, Tpulse, PulseAz, Mechanism, D5-75, D5-95 (renamed)
•Updated search functionality, added new search fields (FNFP, Pulse, Mechanism, etc)
•Finished implementing "Search by Triplet", including for scaling by SRSS, GM, RotD100.
•Implementing ability to search for certain direction components (H1, H2, V, etc)
•Improved display of spectra statistics
•Improved layout of GMSuiteSel dialog (remove error charts), other improvements, add filtering by Mw, distance, soil (still need duration)
•Improved layout of GMFittingCriteria
•Changed order of Spectra Chart panels
•Now when a suite is selected (from GMSuiteSelDlg), the correct spectra chart is automatically set in focus (based on variable searched on), and correct statistics are automatically turned on/off
•Show only one resultant component by default in the spectra charts (SRSS)
•When GMSuite Selection is done, select the top suite
•Implemented copy/paste for user defined spectra
•Other Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
VERSION BETA 1 Released - 11/9/2014
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