Research Article

Application of the Time Step Optimization Method in Seismic Liquefaction Analysis and Its Evaluation Method for Computational Efficiency Improvement

Table 1

Comparison of computation time.

 First computation time (s)Second computation time (s)Third computation time (s)Average computation time (s)

Node 5Before optimization14.37514.38814.36614.376
After optimization6.5926.5956.5796.587

Node 11Before optimization14.00313.99013.87613.956
After optimization3.8323.8733.8713.859

Node 17Before optimization14.16914.14914.18414.167
After optimization5.7695.7585.7665.764