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The PEER-Bridge Research Program is announcing a Request For Proposals, 25-01 and 25-02, for two topics: 

PEER has published Report No. 2024/10: The 21st Working Conference of the IFIP Working Group 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems (IFIP WG7.5 2024). It was authored by Ziqi Wang and Jungho Kim, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.

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The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) invite the engineering and science communities to use the Simulated Ground Motion Database (SGMD). The database includes a large set of simulated ground motions generated from physics-based, deterministic, broad-band earthquake simulations.

The ETH zürich, the NTU of Athens, and PEER invite the earthquake engineering community to participate in a blind prediction contest where the response o

Caltrans has awarded $5.075 Million contract to PEER for the continuation of the PEER-Bridge Research Program. Caltrans has had a well-established bridge research program, which was expanded greatly in response to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. This program continues to yield numerous advancements that make Caltrans a world leader in bridge engineering. The research program funds several new contracts each year, each with duration of 2 to 3 years.

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.

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.

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. In addition, sessions will be formatted for more detailed discussion and engagement to identify areas where research and development are needed.

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.

PEER has published Report No. 2024/08: "Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Ballistic Impact Response of Polymethylmetacrylate." It was authored by Youngjoon Jeon and Khalid M. Mosalam, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.

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PEER Request for Proposal: Solicitation PEER-TSRP 24-01

Deadline to submit: 11:59pm (PDT) Thursday, November 15, 2024

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The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) is pleased to formally announce the 19th World Conference on Seismic Isolation, Energy Dissipation and Active Vibration Control of Structures (19WCSI) at UC Berkeley, on 15-19 September 2025. This biennial conference is a key activity of the Anti-Seismic Systems International Society (ASSISi), the international organization committed to the advancement and promotion of seismic isolation and energy dissipation technologies.

PEER has published Report No. 2024/07: "Dynamic Modeling of the UC San Diego NHERI Six-Degree-of-Freedom Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake Table." It was authored by Chin-Ta Lai and Joel P. Conte, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California.

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The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) network in collaboration with the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) at Kyoto University has released a Preliminary Virtual Reconnaissance Report (PVRR) for the January 5, 2024, Noto Peninsula Earthquake:

The impact of a PEER funded research project "In-Service Structural Evaluation of Overhead Box Beam Sign Structures" is highlighted below.  The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Khalid M. Mosalam, Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley. The Research Team includes UC Berkeley Graduate Student Researchers Wenhao Ruan and Gaofeng Su; Selim Gǔnay, UC Berkeley Research and Development Engineer;  Jiawei Chen, UC Berkeley Postdoc Researcher, and Amarnath Kasalanati, PEER Associate Director, UC Berkeley.

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Development of Bridge Rapid Assessment Center for Extreme Events (BRACE²)" is highlighted below.  The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Khalid M. Mosalam, Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley. The Research Team includes UC Berkeley Graduate Student Researchers Chrystal Chern, Claudio M. Perez, Guanren Zhou, Kwok-Tai (Issac) Pang, and Amarnath Kasalanati, PEER Associate Director, UC Berkeley.

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Hazard-Based Risk and Cost-Benefit Assessment of Temporary Bridges in California" is highlighted below.  The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Floriana Petrone, University of Nevada Reno. The Research Team includes Sashi Kunnath, University of California Davis (Co-PI) and Seyyedmahdi Kashizadeh, University of Nevada, Reno (Graduate Research Assistant).

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