Abstract
Lessons learned from destructive earthquakes are recorded in numerous documents, many of which are not readily available to practicing engineers and designers. In order to maximize the utility of the valuable knowledge which has been learned from destructive earthquakes, a new approach is proposed for presenting the performance evaluation and behaviour of buildings stressed or damaged during earthquakes using the expert system paradigm and computer graphics. A prototype knowledge-based expert system, called EXQUAKE2, has been developed for earthquake damage evaluation and knowledge of performance of a common class of buildings in California earthquakes. The knowledge base of EXQUAKE2 contains lessons learned from earthquakes. EXQUAKE2 has been developed on an IBM personal computer using the expert system shell EXSYS Professional. EXQUAKE2 has a graphics interface, developed in Turbo Pascal, for displaying various building configurations and structural details.
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