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April 1, 2026

New PEER Report 2025/11: "Fragility Analysis of Buried Pipelines Derived from Finite-Element Soil-Pipeline Interaction Analysis"

PEER has published Report No. 2025/11, Fragility Analysis of Buried Pipelines Derived from Finite-Element Soil-Pipeline Interaction Analysis. The report was authored by Daniel Hutabarat(Keller North America Inc.), Chris Bain (GEI Consultants, Inc.), Jonathan D. Bray and Norman Abrahamson (University of California, Berkeley), Thomas D. O’Rourke (Cornell University), and Scott Lindvall (Lettis Consultants International).

New PEER Report 2025/10: "OpenSRA Ground Failure Hazard Demands"

PEER has published Report No. 2025/10, OpenSRA Ground Failure Hazard Demands. The report was authored by Daniel Hutabarat (Keller North America Inc.), Chris Bain (GEI Consultants, Inc.), Jonathan D. Bray and Norman Abrahamson (University of California, Berkeley), Thomas D. O’Rourke (Cornell University), and Scott Lindvall (Lettis Consultants International).

March 19, 2026

New PEER Report 2025/09: "Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Natural Gas and Pipeline Systems"

PEER has published Report No. 2025/09, Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Natural Gas and Pipeline Systems. The report was authored by Chien-Chih Wang, Sumeet Kumar Sinha, Peter Hubbard, Yong Liang, and Kenichi Soga of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.

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March 18, 2026

New PEER Report 2025/08: "Efficient Risk Calculation and Epistemic Uncertainty Propagation for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Distributed Systems"

PEER has published Report No. 2025/08, Efficient Risk Calculation and Epistemic Uncertainty Propagation for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Distributed Systems. It was authored by Maxime Lacour and Norman A. Abrahamson, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley.

The project team includes researchers from LBNL, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, University of Nevada Reno, the NHERI SimCenter at UC Berkeley, and Slate Geotechnical Consultants and its subcontractors Lettis Consultants International (LCI) and Thomas O’Rourke.

March 4, 2026

New PEER Report 2025/07: "System Wide Natural Gas Infrastructure Response and Fragility Model Report"

PEER has published Report No. 2025/07, System Wide Natural Gas Infrastructure Response and Fragility Model Report. It was authored by Jennie Watson-Lamprey (CODA SEISMIC, Berkeley, California), and Micaela Largent and Barry Zheng (Slate Geotechnical Consultants, Oakland, California).

New PEER Report 2025/06: "OpenSRA Validation Report"

PEER has published Report No. 2025/06: "OpenSRA Validation Report." The report was authored by Christopher A. Bain, Jonathan D. Bray, Daniel Hutabarat, and Norman Abrahamson (University of California, Berkeley); Elide Pantoli and Tara Hutchinson (University of California, San Diego); Thomas D.

February 19, 2026

PEER Report 2025/05: "Open-source Seismic Risk Assessment (OpenSRA) Software Development"

PEER has published Report No. 2025/05: "Open-source Seismic Risk Assessment (OpenSRA) Software Development." The report was authored by Barry Zheng, Micaela Largent (Slate Geotechnical Consultants); Jennie Watson-Lamprey (CODA SEISMIC).

PEER Report 2025/04: "Developing Software to Assess the Seismic Risk of Natural Gas Infrastructure: OpenSRA"

PEER has published Report No. 2025/04: "Developing Software to Assess the Seismic Risk of Natural Gas Infrastructure: OpenSRA." The report was authored by Micaela Largent, Barry Zheng (Slate Geotechnical Consultants); Jonathan Bray, Norm Abrahamson (University of California, Berkeley); and Jennie Watson-Lamprey (CODA SEISMIC).

January 14, 2026

PEER Report 2025/03: "Ground Improvement-Based Protection of Transportation Infrastructure: Validation of Performance Based Engineering via Centrifuge Shake Table Testing"

PEER has published Report No. 2025/03: "Ground Improvement-Based Protection of Transportation Infrastructure: Validation of Performance Based Engineering via Centrifuge Shake Table Testing." It was authored by Jeffrey T. Newgard, Tara C. Hutchinson, John S. McCartney, Department of Structural Engineering at the University of California San Diego.

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December 12, 2025

PEER Funds Three New Projects for $1.6 Million

PEER has continuing funding from different sources with the goal of conducting research to lessen the impacts of earthquakes on the resiliency of the built environment, including highways and bridges, port facilities, high-speed rail, airports, and other related structures. 

October 30, 2025

New PEER RFP 2025-05
PEER is seeking proposals (PEER RFP 2025-05) to update and modernize the column performance database. Submissions are due Friday, November 28, 2025.

September 30, 2025

PEER-Bridge Research Program: Request For Proposal 25-04
PEER-Bridge Research Program is a streamlined framework of long-standing Caltrans bridge research program. A single master contract was established between Caltrans and PEER, and different projects are executed as Task Orders under the master contract.

September 26, 2025

In Memoriam – Professor James Marshall Kelly (1935–2025)
Professor James Marshall Kelly, world-renowned pioneer, expert, and leader in the field of seismic isolation and energy dissipation, died on 23 September 2025 at the age of 90.

July 22, 2025

2 Projects Funded for $1.4 Million
PEER, in collaboration with Caltrans(link is external), issued RFPs for two topics last month: PEER RFP 25-01: "Fatigue Evaluation and Design of Filled and Partially Filled Metal Grid Deck System" and PEER RFP 25-02: "Stiffness Properties of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Column under Superimposed Deformations due to Secondary Load Effects"

July 10, 2025

2025 PEER Blind Prediction Contest on Lateral Impact of Prestressed Concrete Girders

Missouri S&T(link is external) and the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center invite the structural engineering and bridge research community to participate in a blind prediction competition focused on evaluating the dynamic response of full-scale prestressed concrete bridge girders under lateral impact loading.

PEER Report 2024/11: "Evaluation and Calibration of an OpenSees Layered Shell Element Model for Simulating the Earthquake Response of Flexure-Controlled Reinforced Concrete Walls"

PEER has published Report No. 2024/11: "Evaluation and Calibration of an OpenSees Layered Shell Element Model for Simulating the Earthquake Response of Flexure-Controlled Reinforced Concrete Walls." It was authored by Joshua Stokley, Boeing Corporation and Laura Lowes, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

January 23, 2025

Two New Projects Funded from RFP 24-01; 8 Projects Receive Continued Funding

PEER has continuing funding from the State of California related to the seismic performance of transportation systems. This funding supports the Transportation Systems Research Program (TSRP), the purpose of which is to lessen the impacts of earthquakes on the transportation systems of California, including highways and bridges, port facilities, high-speed rail, airports, and other related structures.

January 21, 2025

Two Projects Awarded from PEER TSRP RFP 24-01

PEER has continuing funding from the State of California related to the seismic performance of transportation systems. This funding supports the Transportation Systems Research Program (TSRP), the purpose of which is to lessen the impacts of earthquakes on the transportation systems of California, including highways and bridges, port facilities, high-speed rail, airports, and other related structures.

December 30, 2024

2025 PEER Annual Meeting Registration Now Open!

Registration is now open for the 2025 PEER Annual Meeting which will be held March 25-26, 2025, in the Banatao Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus. The meeting will feature PEER research in the fields of performance-based engineering and resilience, with focus on buildings and infrastructure subjected to various geohazards, tsunami and fire.

October 24, 2024

PEER Report 2024/09: "Correlation of Ground Motion Duration with Spectral Acceleration and Implications for Expected Bridge Performance"

PEER has published Report No. 2024/09: "Correlation of Ground Motion Duration with Spectral Acceleration and Implications for Expected Bridge Performance." It was authored by Maria Camila Lopez Ruiz and Tracy Becker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Micaela Largent and Jennie Watson-Lamprey, Slate Geotechnical Consultants, Inc.