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05/15/13 - NGA-West2 Flatfiles and GMPE Reports Now Available!
05/13/13 - NGA-East 2013 First Quarter Technical Update Now Available!
05/09/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2013/02 “Hybrid Simulation of the Seismic Response of Squat Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls”
05/06/13 - EERI/FEMA Graduate Fellowship Application Deadline May 13
04/24/13 - Help Select the Winning Team for the 7NSC Undergraduate Bridge Seismic Design Competition
04/10/13 - 10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering
03/28/13 - Seismic Performance of Steel Column Splices tested at nees@berkeley – video now available!
03/26/13 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Modelling Structures Subject to Fire” on March 27
03/26/13 - NGA-East Special Session at SMiRT-22: One-Day Registration now open!
03/05/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2013/01 “Housing Recovery in Chile: A Qualitative Mid- program Review”
03/05/13 - Eleven PEER Reports published in 2012
03/05/13 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Conducting Hybrid Simulations with OpenSees/OpenFresco” on March 7
02/28/13 - O’Rourke speaks about earthquake effects: Watch Live on March 7 or Watch Video on YouTube
02/25/13 - Register Now for 2013 LATBSDC Annual Conference
02/11/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/103 “Performance-Based Seismic Demand Assessment of Concentrically Braced Steel Frame Buildings”
02/11/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/08 “Guidelines for Estimation of Shear Wave Velocity Profiles”
02/11/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/07 “Earthquake Engineering for Resilient Communities: 2012 PEER Internship Program Research Report Collection”
02/11/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/06 “Fragilities for Precarious Rocks at Yucca Mountain”
02/11/13 - FM Global Grad & Undergrad Internships in Loss Prevention Engineering and Research
02/11/13 - NEEShub Boot Camp at UC Berkeley on Feb 21
02/05/13 - Bridge Design Competition for Undergrads at 7NSC – REGISTER YOUR TEAM BEFORE MARCH 1!
02/04/13 - FM Global seeking Entry & Senior Level Research Scientists in Natural Hazards
02/04/13 - PEER’s Tall Buildings Initiative wins WSSPC Award of Excellence
01/31/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/05 “Development of Simplified Analysis Procedure for Piles in Laterally Spreading Layered Soils”
01/31/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/04 “Unbonded Pre-Tensioned Columns for Bridges in Seismic Regions”
01/23/13 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Modeling SCB Frames Using Beam-column Elements” on January 30 & 31
01/22/13 - PEER Internship Program for Undergraduates – Now Accepting Applications for Summer 2013
01/18/13 - Abstracts for GMPE Session at the IASPEI – IAHS – IAPSO Meeting Due Feb 4
01/15/13 - Register Now for 2013 EERI Annual Meeting
12/14/12 - PEER Summer Interns Conclude Their Research Experience at 2012 PEER Annual Meeting
12/12/12 - Graduate Student Showcase at the 2012 PEER Annual Meeting Poster Reception
12/12/12 - PEER Experts a prominent fixture at the 15WCEE
11/27/12 - Last chance to register: USGS National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project Workshop
11/20/12 - SSA 2013 Special Session: Implementation of Physics-Based Earthquake Source and Ground Motion Findings in Engineering Solution Models
11/13/12 - EERI Distinguished Lecture by Tom O’Rourke “The New Normal for Natural Disasters” on Dec 6
11/06/12 - Last Chance to Register! NGA-West2 Preliminary Results Workshop on Nov 15
11/06/12 - Bridge Design Competition for Undergrads at 7NSC – TEAM REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
11/05/12 - Tsunami Vulnerability Function Lecture at UC Berkeley
11/02/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/102 “Procedure to Restart an Interrupted Hybrid Simulation: Addendum to PEER Report 2010/103”
11/02/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/03 “Experimental and Analytical Studies on Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Seismically Vulnerable Beam-Column Joints”
10/23/12 - BridgePBEE Learning Session at the PEER Annual Meeting
10/22/12 - 2012 PEER Annual Meeting starts this Friday October 26 – program now posted
10/22/12 - OpenSees: New Release and More
10/11/12 - 10th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering Call for Abstracts – Abstracts due Oct 31
10/11/12 - Opportunity for grad students to attend 10CUEE conference as PEER Delegate
09/25/12 - EERI “LFE Lessons for Practice” Seminar Registration Open
09/25/12 - SMIP12 Seminar on October 2, 2012
09/18/12 - PEER research will be widely disseminated at the 15WCEE
09/11/12 - Registration now open for 2012 COSMOS Technical Session on November 16
09/07/12 - USGS National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project Workshop
09/07/12 - Book your PEER Annual Meeting Hotel Room ASAP – hotel nearly sold out!
09/05/12 - OpenFresco used for intercontinental geographically distributed test between University of Kassel and UC Berkeley
09/05/12 - Reminder SMiRT-22 Conference Abstracts Due Sept 17
09/04/12 - Southern California Edison signs MOU for PEER’s Lifelines Program
08/28/12 - Seventh National Seismic Conference on Bridges & Highways (7NSC) – Abstract deadline extended to Aug 31
08/23/12 - Registration Now Open for 2012 PEER Annual Meeting on October 26 & 27
08/16/12 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Introduction to OpenFrescoExpress” on August 20
08/13/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/02 “Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Bridges Allowed to Uplift during Multi-Directional Excitation”
08/08/12 - Seventh National Seismic Conference on Bridges & Highways (7NSC) – Abstracts due Aug 15
08/07/12 - New NGA-East Quarterly Technical Update now available
07/26/12 - Save the date! NGA-West2 Preliminary Results Workshop on November 15, 2012
07/25/12 - New “EARTHQUAKE” Exhibit in San Francisco features PEER and nees@berkeley‏
07/23/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/01 “Spectral Damping Scaling Factors for Shallow Crustal Earthquakes in Active Tectonic Regions”
07/20/12 - PEER’s YouTube Channel highlights NGA-West2, OpenSees, nees@berkeley projects, and more!
06/29/12 - PEER Interns learn about resiliency, research ethics, and more during Orientation Program
06/29/12 - ENR highlights PEER’s BridgePBEE software
06/27/12 - PEER launches new research project: NGA-Sub
06/19/12 - OpenFrescoExpress now available for Hybrid Simulation Testing
06/13/12 - OpenSees Days 2012: Registration Open & Call for Speakers from Industry or Academia
06/11/12 - Update on PEER’s Global GMPEs Project from recent workshop in Turkey
06/06/12 - Upcoming NGA-East Working Meetings on Oct 16 and Dec 11, 2012
05/21/12 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Parallel & Grid Computing” on May 31 & June 1
05/21/12 - Twelve Undergraduate Students Selected to Participate in the 2012 PEER Internship Program
05/21/12 - Subsurface data for Taiwan Strong Motion Instrumentation Program (TSMIP) now available
05/17/12 - 2012 PEER Annual Meeting on Oct 26 & 27 – Save the Date!
05/14/12 - Register Now for nees@berkeley Hybrid Simulation Workshop on June 28 & 29
05/14/12 - Call for Papers: SMiRT-22 Conference on Aug 18-23, 2013
05/07/12 - Funding Opportunity: CTBUH Research Seed Grant Deadline is May 15
05/02/12 - PEER Students participate in Successful Young Researcher Activities at the 2012 CUEE Conference in Tokyo, Japan
04/20/12 - Request for Proposals on Site Response: PEER Lifelines Program
04/19/12 - In Memoriam: William G. Godden, UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus
04/17/12 - In Memoriam: Helmut Krawinkler, Stanford Professor Emeritus & PEER researcher
04/12/12 - NGA-East Technical Update: now available!
04/06/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/101 “Mechanics of Fiber Reinforced Bearings”
04/06/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/10 “Earthquake Engineering for Resilient Communities: 2011 PEER Internship Program Research Report Collection”
04/06/12 - NEHRP seeking qualified students for 10 week research project – Apply soon!
04/03/12 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Transient Integrators” on April 5 & 6
02/29/12 - OSU becomes a new PEER Core Institution
02/23/12 - PEER BridgePBEE Analysis Framework (Beta Version): Just released and ready for use!
02/14/12 - FM Global Grad & Undergrad Internships in Loss Prevention Engineering and Research
02/09/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/107 “Nonlinear Site Response and Seismic Compression at Vertical Array Strongly Shaken by 2007 Niigata-ken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake”
02/08/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/09 “Calibration of Semi-Stochastic Procedure for Simulating High-Frequency Ground Motions”
02/07/12 - Save the dates! NGA-East SSHAC Workshop on October 16-18, 2012
02/06/12 - PEER Signs Contract with Caltrans to continue research on the Seismic Performance of Lifelines
01/30/12 - Stanford’s Shah Family Fund Lecture by Dr. Sergio M. Alcocer on Feb 1st
01/25/12 - Save the Date: SMiRT-22 Conference on Aug 18-23, 2013
01/25/12 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Adding your own code to OpenSees” on January 25 & 26
01/17/12 - EERI Earthquake Spectra Call for Papers: Special Issue on the Tohoku, Japan, Earthquake
01/13/12 - Help Improve NEEShub by joining an upcoming usability study
01/12/12 - Internship Opportunities for Undergrads and Grads at the PEER Website
01/02/12 - EERI Annual Meeting April 10-13, 2012 – Registration now Open
01/02/12 - Faculty Opportunity: Tenure Track Searches in Civil Engineering at California State University, Chico
12/21/11 - Faculty Opportunity: Tokyo Tech Sabbatical Program for Research Collaboration and Undergraduate Instruction
12/20/11 - PEER Internship Program for Undergraduates – Now Accepting Applications for Summer 2012
12/12/11 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Force-based Element vs. Displacement-based Element” on December 14 & 15
11/03/11 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “OpenSees & Output” on November 16 & 17
11/02/11 - 2011 PEER Summer Interns present their research at PEER Annual Meeting
10/21/11 - Joseph Penzien Memorial Fund – contributions welcome
10/21/11 - M4.0 & M3.8 Earthquakes in Berkeley, CA are a good reminder to prepare
10/20/11 - 2011 PEER Annual Meeting Presentations & Video – Now available for viewing!
10/20/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/05 “Case Studies of the Seismic Performance of Tall Buildings Designed by Alternative Means: Task 12 Report for the Tall Buildings Initiative″
10/19/11 - 15 World Conference on Earthquake Engineering – Abstract Submission Deadline extended to Nov 5
10/18/11 - COSMOS Technical Session on Nov 4th: Ground Motions from Subduction Earthquakes and Issues for Seismic Design
10/12/11 - Discovering OpenSees Seminar: “Modeling diaphragms in 2D models with linear & nonlinear elements” on October 19 & 20
10/08/11 - Abstracts due Nov 15 and Student Travel Grants Available for JAEE and CUEE conferences commemorating the Great East Japan Earthquake
10/06/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/07 “Seismic Risk Management in Urban Areas”
10/06/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/106 “Self Compacting Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Concrete Composites for Bridge Columns”
10/06/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/105 “Stochastic Dynamic Analysis of Bridges Subjected to Spatially Varying Ground Motions”
09/23/11 - Internship Positions for US PhD Students to Work with Japanese University Researchers on Structural Engineering Issues related to the Tohoku Earthquake
09/23/11 - Joseph Penzien, Earthquake Engineering Pioneer, passed away on September 19
09/22/11 - Discovering OpenSees Seminar: “Getting Started with OpenSees” on Sept 27 & 28
09/16/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/06 “The Use of Base Isolation Systems to Achieve Complex Seismic Performance Objectives”
09/12/11 - PEER & SEAOSC PBEE of Tall Buildings Seminar: Slides now posted & venue full with over 60 attendees
09/09/11 - Three 2011 PEER Interns visit Japan to view E-Defense Testing
08/26/11 - PEER programs will use data from Virginia Earthquake to determine Earthquake Hazard in Central and Eastern US
08/12/11 - “Discovering OpenSees: Surfing the waves of OpenSees,” A new Web-Learning Series launching on August 17
08/11/11 - NGA-East SSHAC Workshop is coming on Oct 11-13, 2011 – Save the Dates!
07/20/11 - Help identify regional ground motion databases and reports for PEER’s Global GMPE Project
07/18/11 - Registration Open for OpenSees Days 2011 on August 22-23
07/18/11 - Video now available from the PEER & SEAONC Seminar: Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering and its applications to Tall Building Design
07/14/11 - 2011 PEER Annual Meeting scheduled for Sept 30 & Oct 1 – registration now open!
07/08/11 - NGA-East Project Plan now available
07/05/11 - Orientation Program teaches PEER Interns research skills for the future
07/01/11 - Middle School Students from da Vinci Camp visit the PEER & nees@berkeley Labs
07/01/11 - Students from local community college visit PEER & UC Berkeley labs
06/30/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/04 “Recommended Design Practice for Pile Foundations in Laterally Spreading Ground″
06/30/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/104 “Design and Instrumentation of the 2010 E-Defense Four-Story Reinforced Concrete and Post-Tensioned Concrete Buildings″
06/22/11 - Researchers invited to 9th Planning Meeting for the NEES/E-Defense Collaborative Research Program
06/14/11 - Over 70 researchers attend inaugural “OpenSees Days Shanghai”
06/13/11 - Stephen Mahin Inducted into ASCE’s OTC Hall of Fame
06/13/11 - NEES TIPS/E-Defense Announce Blind Analysis Contest for Seismic Isolation Test
06/13/11 - Apply to participate in a NEES TIPS Participant Workshop
06/10/11 - Eleven Undergraduate Students Selected to Participate in the PEER 2011 Summer Internship Program
05/23/11 - Videos Now Posted: Thursday April 28th Briefing about Japan’s Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
05/20/11 - Armen Der Kiureghian elected to the National Academy of Engineering
05/20/11 - Professor Mary Comerio receives Green Star Award
05/20/11 - DES Call for Submission (CFS2011)
05/20/11 - NRC RFP on Multidimensional Loading of Soil
05/12/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/103 “In-Situ Monitoring of the Force Output of Fluid Dampers: Experimental Investigation″
04/23/11 - Short Interim Report now available from PEER/EERI/GEER/Tsunami Field Investigation Team about the Tohoku Pacific Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
04/15/11 - Videos Now Posted: Briefing on Christchurch New Zealand Earthquake of Feb 22, 2011
04/08/11 - PEER coordinates researchers traveling to Japan to investigate March 11 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
04/07/11 - PEER’s Outreach Director, Heidi Faison, Named New Face of Civil Engineering by ASCE
04/06/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/102 “Ground-motion prediction equations 1964 – 2010″
04/05/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/03 “New Ground Motion Selection Procedures and Selected Motions for the PEER Transportation Research Program”
04/05/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/02 “A Bayesian Network Methodology for Infrastructure Seismic Risk Assessment and Decision Support”
04/05/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/01 “Demand Fragility Surfaces for Bridges in Liquefied and Laterally Spreading Ground”
03/31/11 - PEER & SEAONC Seminar coming to SF: Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering and its applications to Tall Building Design
03/24/11 - Video Now Posted: Early Field Survey of Damage from Japan’s March 11th Earthquake and Tsunami, presentation by Kit Miyamoto
03/14/11 - Ground Motions & Other Information from Japan’s March 11, 2011 Earthquake – UPDATED March 15
03/01/11 - FM Global 2011 Internship in Loss Prevention Engineering and Research for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
02/23/11 - Ground Motions & Field Reports from New Zealand’s M6.3 Feb 22 Christchurch Earthquake
02/22/11 - Save the Date: Seismic Risk Mitigation Leadership Forum on May 2-3, 2011
02/21/11 - Asia-Pacific Summer School in Smart Sturctures Technology 2011 – now accepting applications
02/16/11 - Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship 2011 – for Masters’ and PhD Students
02/14/11 - PEER 2010 Intern Ray Hooft wins EERI Undergraduate Student Paper Competition
02/09/11 - PEER Summer Internship for Undergraduates – Now Accepting Applications
02/04/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/101 – Report of the Eighth Planning Meeting of NEES/E-Defense Collaborative Research on Earthquake Engineering
02/01/11 - ENR calls the TBI Guidelines “A Big Step Forward”
01/13/11 - New Study Initiated about CA water supply reliability for fires following future earthquakes
01/12/11 - Job Openings: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
01/12/11 - Now available: PEER’s Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings
01/08/11 - Beam 2: Large Concrete SMRF Beam Test – THURSDAY Feb 3, 2011 at 1 PM
01/08/11 - Retirement Reception for Don Clyde January 21, 2011
01/07/11 - Changing Faces at the PEER Center
01/03/11 - PEER welcomes Charles Scawthorn as a Visiting Scholar at the PEER
01/02/11 - PEER leads Global Ground Motion Prediction Equations development for GEM
01/01/11 - Just Released: 2010 PEER Ground Motion Database – Beta Version