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.

ā€‰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