Engineers

EZ-FRISK™ gives geotechnical and structural engineers the ability to:

• perform seismic hazard analysis,
• conduct spectral matching of acceleration time histories, and
• study site response effects quickly using standard practices.

With EZ-FRISK™ it is practical to perform detailed seismic hazard analysis on nearly all construction projects, not just the big ones. The process of creating site-specific design events is simple and quick, making this an ideal task to add to your standard offering to your clients. Structural and soil engineers can use these site-specific design events to identify cases where building and soil-structure costs can be reduced by detailed analysis. Learn more...

Seismologists

EZ-FRISK™ comes with an extensive collection of attenuation equations which is frequently updated to include newly published work. The seismic hazard analysis module comes with seismic sources for one region. You can license additional regions at additional cost. The following seismic sources are available:

• USGS 1996 and 2003 Seismic Sources - we provide the sources used in the USGS mapping projects. These are also the sources used by the California Geological Survey. These sources span the entire US including Hawaii and Alaska.
• Canada - we provide the Geological survey of Canada seismic sources used to obtain results for the 2005 building code.
• Australia
• Caribbean
• Central America
• Europe I (Spain, Portugal, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg)
• Europe II (Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Sweden and Denmark)
• Europe III (Greece, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria and the Western Balkans)
• Mexico
• Eastern Mediterranean (Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Sinai)
• South America I (Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela)
• South America II (Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay)
• Eastern Asia

The attenuation equation database includes over 25 published equations with coefficients predefined for over 120 specific relationships. This database has world-wide applicability.

The EZ-FRISK™ gridded-site module helps you create a hazard map by performing seismic hazard calculations on a grid of points within a boundary. You can take the tabular results and bring them into your favorite GIS package. Contact us for further information.

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