2025 PEER Annual Meeting

SESSION 1: Major Projects
Moderator - Khalid Mosalam, PEER, UCB

• Opening Remarks by COE Dean, Tsu-Jae King Liu, UCB (video)
• Opening Remarks by PEER Director, Khalid Mosalam, PEER, UCB (video)
• PEER-LBNL Simulated Ground-Motion Database, David McCallen, LBNL (video)
• Next Generation Liquefaction Susceptibility Database and Modelling, Jonathan Stewart, UCLA (video)
• Next Generation PEER Structures Performance Database, Marc Eberhard, UW (video)
• Bridge Rapid Assessment Center for Extreme Events (BRACE2), Khalid Mosalam, UCB (video)

SESSION 2: PEER-Bridge Projects
Moderator - Chris Traina, Caltrans

• Overview of PEER-Bridge Program, Chris Traina, Caltrans (video)
• Hazard-Based Risk and Cost-Benefit Assessment of Temporary Bridges in California, Floriana Petrone, UNR (video)
• Remaining Fatigue Life Assessment of Bridge Decks Based upon a Numerical-experimental SYSCOM SYStem-COmponent-Material-based Approach, Alessandro Palermo, UCSD (video)
• Research Update: Caltrans Risk-Based Seismic Design (CT-RBSD) for Bridges, Farzin Zareian, UCI (video)
• New Near-Fault Adjustment Factors for Caltrans Seismic Design Criteria (SDC), Silvia Mazzoni, UCLA (video)

SESSION 3: Geo Hazards
Moderator - Jonathan Stewart, UCLA

• Normalized Shear Modulus and Material Damping Models for Transitional Silts with Application to the Pacific Northwest, Armin Stuedlein, OSU
• Influence of Fines and Alternative Intensity Measures on Liquefaction Triggering, Scott Brandenberg and Varun Nigesh S. R., UCLA (video)
• Mechanics-Informed Machine Learning for Geospatial Modeling of Soil Liquefaction: Global and National Surrogate Models for Simulation and Near-Real-Time Response,
  Brett Maurer, UW (video)
• Application of Liquefaction Susceptibility Criteria within a Logic Tree Framework, Jonathan Stewart and Arda Sahin, UCLA (video)

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SESSION 4: Regional-Scale Simulation
Moderator - Marc Eberhard, UW

• Regional Highway Bridge Damage Analysis Using Surrogate Models: A Case Study of the Bay Area, Greg Deierlein and Carmen Andrade, Stanford (video)
• Prediction of Key Bridge Characteristics Using Machine Learning, Marc Eberhard and Julia Lensing, UW (video)
• Functional Recovery of Bridge Networks: Framework Development and Implementation, Henry Burton, UCLA (video)
• Bridge Asset Management in Seismic Areas: Addressing Climate Uncertainty at System and Network Scales, Eyitayo Opabola, UCB (video)

• TSRP & PEER-Bridge Projects Overview, Amarnath Kasalanati, PEER (video)
• Experimental Evaluation of Springs and Yielding Steel Elements for 3D Isolation, Ian Aiken, SIE
  
• Evaluation of the Effects of Bidirectional Earthquake Shaking on Nonlinear Soil Response Using Large-Scale Laminar Soil Box Tests on Bi-axial Shake Table, Satish Manandhar and Ramin Motamed, UNR (video)
• Friction-based Force-limiting Connections for Buildings with Nonlinear Inelastic Flexural or Rocking Base Mechanism and Reduced Seismic Response Magnitude and Variability, Georgios Tsampras, UCSD (video)
• Blind Prediction Contests, Khalid Mosalam, UCB (video)

Session 6: Other Hazards
Moderator - Michele Barbato, UCD

• Isolating the Primary Drivers of Fire Risk to Structures in California, Michael Gollner, UCB (video)
• Development of a Performance-Based Multihazard Engineering (PBME) Framework Consistent with Existing Single-hazard PBE Frameworks, Michele Barbato, UCD (video)
• Regional Simulations of Three-Dimensional Rainfall-Induced Landslides: The example of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, Mirna Kassem, UCB (video)
• Precise Tsunami Profiling and Accurate Early Warning via a network of Self-Powered Sailboat Drones, Reza Alam, UCB (video)

Session 7: Sensors & SHM
Moderator - Hamed Ebrahimian, UNR

• System-wide Instrumentation of UC Campuses, Evan Reis, Safehub (video)
• Advancing Methods for Structural Identification and Monitoring: Bayesian Model Updating Framework for Simultaneous Parameter, Input, and Noise Estimation, Hamed Ebrahimian and Abdelrahman Taha, UNR (video)
• Monitoring Bridge Performance Under Vehicle Loading with Dynamic Fiber Optic Strain Sensing, Matthew DeJong and Rodrigo Tapia, UCB (video)
• Development of Autonomous Drone Inspection for Bridge Maintenance, Raja Sengupta, UCB (audio only)

Session 8: Simulation Tools
Moderator - Khalid Mosalam, PEER, UCB

• SCEC Community Earth Model and the CyberShake Simulation Platform, Yehuda Ben-Zion, SCEC (no video available)
• Stochastic Simulator-based Uncertainty Quantification for Seismic Responses of Bridges, Ziqi Wang and Jungho Kim, UCB (video)
• Engineering Analysis Toolbox, The Real-ESSI Simulator System, Boris Jeremic, UCD (video)
• Simulating Earthquake and Tsunami Impacts on Open-Type Wharf Structures, Andre Barbosa and Jorge Romero-Loyola, OSU (video)
• Open Discussion & Closing Remarks