2025 Full Program

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

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

SESSION 2: PEER-Bridge Projects

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

SESSION 3: Geo Hazards

• 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, UCLA
  
• 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
  
• Application of Liquefaction Susceptibility Criteria within a Logic Tree Framework, Jonathan Stewart/Arda Sahin, UCLA

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SESSION 4: Regional-Scale Simulation

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

• TSRP & PEER-Bridge Projects Overview, Amarnath Kasalanati, PEER
  
• Experimental Evaluation of Springs and Yielding Steel Elements for 3D Isolation, Ian Aike, SIE
  
• Dynamic Field Testing of a 15-Year-Old Base Isolated Building, Paolo Calvi, UW
  
• 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, UNR
  
• 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
  

Session 6: Other Hazards

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

Session 7: Sensors & SHM UNR

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

Session 8: Simulation Tools

• SCEC Community Earth Model and the CyberShake Simulation Platform, Yehuda Ben-Zion, SCEC
• Stochastic Simulator-based Uncertainty Quantification for Seismic Responses of Bridges, Ziqi Wang/Jungho Kim, UCB
• Engineering Analysis Toolbox, The Real-ESSI Simulator System, Boris Jeremic, UCD
• Simulating Earthquake and Tsunami Impacts on Open-Type Wharf Structures,  Andre Barbosa/Jorge Romero-Layola, OSU
• Open Discussion & Closing Remarks