Real-time Hybrid Simulation

リアルタイム・ハイブリッドシミュレーション/ Real-time hybrid simulation

Research for validated and sophisticated real-time hybrid simulation technology

A large amount of time and money is required to test a newly developed device to be incorporated into a civil structure, since the experimental setup becomes very large. The real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) is a technology that has been accepted and applied in wide range of engineering fields, which puts software and hardware simulations together to achieve substantial reduction in the experimental cost; a whole structure to be tested is divided into two substructures, physical and numerical ones and a test is conducted in real-time connecting the two substructures on-line. For example, a physical experiment is conducted on a newly developed device, and numerical simulation is conducted on a building structure whose behavior can be numerically well simulated.