Research on seismic simulations has focused mainly on methodologies specially tailored to civil engineering. However, we have detected a lack in the area of interactive cultural heritage applications, where speed and plausibility are the main requirements to satisfy. We designed a tool that allows setting up and recreating earthquakes in a simple way. We coupled our earthquake simulator with a structural simulator of physics, specifically tailored to masonry buildings, achieving a high degree of accuracy in the simulations. To validate our model, we performed a series of tests over a set of ancient masonry structures such as walls and churches. We show the feasibility of including earthquake simulations and structural vulnerability, a building property that limits the damage of this under seismic movements, into historical studies for helping professionals understand those events of the past where an earthquake took place.

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古砌体建筑的地震模拟

地震模拟的研究主要集中在专门为土木工程设计的方法上。然而，我们发现在交互式文化遗产应用领域存在不足，其中速度和合理性是要满足的主要要求。我们设计了一个工具，允许以简单的方式设置和重建地震。我们将地震模拟器与专为砖石建筑量身定制的物理结构模拟器相结合，在模拟中实现了高度的准确性。为了验证我们的模型，我们对一组古老的砖石结构（如墙壁和教堂）进行了一系列测试。我们展示了包括地震模拟和结构脆弱性的可行性，这是一种限制地震运动造成破坏的建筑特性，