PEER has published Report No. 2024/04: "Two-Dimensional Debris-Fluid-Structure Interaction with the Particle Finite Element Method." It was authored by Minjie Zhu and Michael H. Scott, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
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A new publication by PEER Director Khalid Mosalam, and Prof. Yuqing Gao, introduces and implements the state-of-the-art machine learning and deep learning technologies for vision-based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) applications.
The PEER-Bridge Research Program is a streamlined framework of the Caltrans bridge research program, supporting innovative work on a wide range of topics such as new materials, accelerated bridge construction, maintenance, sustainability, design and analysis. A single master contract is established between Caltrans and PEER, and different projects are executed as Task Orders under the master contract. The PEER-Bridge Program is open to researchers from all public core institutions.
PEER has published Report No. 2024/03: "An International Workshop on Large-Scale Shake Table Testing for the Assessment of Soil-Foundation-Structure System Response for Seismic Safety of DOE Nuclear Facilities, A Virtual Workshop – 17-18 May 2021." It was authored by Ramin Motamed, David McCallen and Swasti Saxena, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno.
PEER has published Report No. 2024/02: "Seismic Performance of Isolated Bridges Under Beyond Design Basis Shaking." It was authored by Claudio Sepulveda, Ricardo Bustamante and Gilberto Mosqueda, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California.
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PEER has published Report No. 2024/01: "Response Modification of Structures with Supplemental Rotational Inertia." It was authored by Gholamreza Moghimi and Nicos Makris, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
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Major advances in earthquake engineering have generally occurred because of significant earthquake events. Today marks the anniversary of two such events. At 4:31 am Pacific Time on January 17, 1994, the Northridge Earthquake, a magnitude 6.7 event, occurred in the San Fernando Valley with a duration of 10-20 seconds.
Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Converging Design project includes full-scale testing of a six-story mass timber building at the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Institute (NHERI) Large-High Performance Outdoor Shake Table. The project re-uses the bottom six stories of a 10-story mass timber building previously tested as part of the NSF Tallwood project.
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Bayesian Inference for Mechanics-Based Digital Twinning of Bridges" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Hamed Ebrahimian, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno. The Research Team includes Abdelrahman Taha, Graduate Student Researcher, University of Nevada, Reno.
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The impact of a PEER funded research project "Performance Monitoring of Centennial Bridge Using Fiber Optic Sensing" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Matt DeJong, University of California, Berkeley. The Research Team includes Laura Lowes, University of Washington.
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The impact of a PEER funded research project "Informing Predictions from Above with Community Data from Below: A Hierarchical AI Liquefaction Model for Rapid Response and Simulation" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Brett Maurer, University of Washington. The Research Team includes Morgan Sanger, University of Washington.
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The purpose of the Institutional Board is to provide policy-level guidance and oversight for PEER with a goal to help the Center fulfill its mission.
The PEER-Bridge Research Program is announcing a Request For Proposals, 23-02 with the objective of establishing guidelines for evaluating the remaining service life of existing bridge decks.
The 2023-24 PEER Student Committee (PSC) will hold the kickoff meeting on Monday, October 23rd from 5:00 - 6:15pm PST.
The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) are collaborating on the development of the first regional-scale, open-access simulated earthquake ground motion database for the San Francisco Bay Area.
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Regional Scale Simulation of Uncertain Response of Transportation Infrastructure Soil-Structure Systems" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Boris Jeremić, University of California, Davis.
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The impact of a PEER funded research project "Community Sentiment Analysis for Identifying Social Vulnerability Following Earthquakes" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Sifat Muin, University of Southern California. The Research Team includes Kristina Lerman, Information Science Institute, University of Southern California.
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The impact of a PEER funded research project "Next Generation Liquefaction Susceptibility Database and Modelling" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Jonathan P. Stewart, UCLA. The Research Team includes Armin Stuedlein, Oregon State University and Scott J. Brandenberg, UCLA.
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The impact of a PEER funded research project "Next Generation Liquefaction Susceptibility Database: Expansion of the Laboratory Component to Leverage Pacific Northwest Soils" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Armin Stuedlein, Oregon State University. The Research Team includes Amalesh Jana, Oregon State University, Jonathan P. Stewart, UCLA and Scott J. Brandenberg, UCLA.
