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- PEER Director Jack Moehle is Elected as a Member of EERI Board of Directors
- Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for Earthquake Risk Reduction
- Yousef Bozorgnia, PEER Associate Director, has joined the Board of the EERI Northern California Chapter as a new Director
- Experimental and Computational Assessment of In-Span Hinge Diaphragms in Concrete Box-Girder Bridges
- With NRC funding, PEER initiated a comprehensive multidisciplinary program: NGA-East
- PEER Testing Underway on Caltrans-Design Bridge Column
- Building Pakistan's Capacity in Earthquake Engineering (PDF file - 19.6 MB)
- Peer Director Testifies on Earthquake Damage Potential (PDF file - 1 MB); Read MediaNews story
- PEER NGA Models Are Subject of Sacramento Bee Article (PDF file - 965 KB)
- Call for Papers: 6th National Seismic Conference on Bridges & Highways (PDF file - 124 KB)
- PEER Celebrates 10 Years of Funding by the NSF
- Moehle and Elwood Receive ACI's Siess Award for Excellence in Structural Research
- 2007 Blind Analysis Contest By E-Defense Announced (PDF file - 100 KB)
- Call For Papers: Earthquake Spectra's Special Issue on NGA
- PEER Cited as "Primary Earthquake Engineering Arm of the State of California" by the CSSC
- Call For Papers: Earthquake Spectra's Special Issue on NGA
The journal Earthquake Spectra will be publishing a special issue on results obtained from the Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) project. Papers are invited on the ground motion prediction equations developed through the NGA project, the characteristics of the database developed during the project, the simulation exercises conducted to support the development of the prediction models, and other related subjects. All papers should be submitted through the Earthquake Spectra manuscript submission web page at http://eqs.peerx-press.org/cgi-bin/main.plex. When the manuscript is uploaded, authors must select "Special Issue on NGA" from the drop down list for special issues.
The cover letter accompanying your manuscript should clearly indicate that the paper is being submitted for review and possible publication in the NGA special issue of Earthquake Spectra. All papers to be reviewed for the special volume must be received by July 1, 2007. We expect to have preliminary review decisions by September 2007 and final decisions on revised papers by December 2007. The special volume should appear in print in March 2008. Papers without a clear link to the NGA project will not be reviewed for this special issue. Questions regarding paper content or submission procedures should be directed to the Guest Editors for the special volume, Jonathan Stewart (jstewart@seas.ucla.edu), Ralph Archuleta (ralph@crustal.ucsb.edu), or Maurice Power (mpower@geomatrix.com). Prospective authors are encouraged to send abstracts of their articles by email to the guest editors prior to formal manuscript submission so that the suitability of the paper topic to the special issue can be evaluated.
- PEER Cited as "Primary Earthquake Engineering Arm of the State of California" by the CSSC
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The California Seismic Safety Commission has completed its review of PEER and released its report (CSSC 07-04) on the web at http://www.seismic.ca.gov/pub/PEER_Review_Years_7-9.pdf. This is the fourth report issued since 1997. CSSC findings indicate that:
- - PEER's efforts have produced cost-effective products that benefit the State of California consistent with the goals and initiatives of the California Earthquake Loss Reduction Plan;
- - PEER continues to meet its goals, and has been instrumental in affecting State laws and regulations.
Specific PEER accomplishments cited in the report include:
- - Trained students and professionals to use state-of-the art technologies to reduce earthquake vulnerability of buildings and infrastructure;
- - Influenced important changes in national standards for the design of concrete structures that increase safety and reduce construction and retrofit costs;
- - Produced guidelines for assessing and mitigating the effects of liquefaction and earthquake induced landslides;
- - Improved retrofit techniques for bridges resulting in greater safety and lower construction costs;
- - Partnered with electric utility companies in California to guide PEER's development of applied research that enhances standards for substation, transmission and distribution systems;
- - Developed improved ground motion estimates for seismic conditions appropriate to large regions of California. These new estimates will soon be widely used in the design and safety evaluations of facilities of all types when they are incorporated into the next edition of the National Seismic Hazard Maps and future State regulations.