Multiscale Method for Seismic Response of Near-Source Sites

Table 2

Comparison of the calculation efficiencies between two methods.

Example of large-scale site	Method of this paper			Source-site-structure overall calculation model
	Source-site model	Artificial boundary substructure model	Soil-structure interaction model
Number of elements	2.001E + 5	160	1274	2.01E + 9
Calculation time	38 min	1 min	3 min	1860 min