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.
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December 12, 2025
October 30, 2025
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 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
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
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
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.
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.
January 23, 2025
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
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 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.
October 16, 2024
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.
September 27, 2024
Deadline to submit: 11:59pm (PDT) Thursday, November 15, 2024
August 21, 2024
The University of California, San Diego Structural Engineering Department(link is external) and PEER invites the structural and geotechnical engineering community to participate in the prediction of the in-ground hinge performance of steel pipe pile embedded in soil.
August 15, 2024
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.
August 7, 2024
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.
Access the report and 2 page summary. Access the full listing of PEER reports.
August 1, 2024
The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER)(link is external) network in collaboration with the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), National Taiwan University (NTU) has released a PVRR for the April 3, 2024, Hualien City, Taiwan Earthquake.
July 31, 2024
The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER)(link is external) network in collaboration with the Disaster Prevention Research Institute(link is external) (DPRI) at Kyoto University has released a Preliminary Virtual Reconnaissance Report (PVRR) for the January 5, 2024, Noto Peninsula Earthquake.
July 24, 2024
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.
July 20, 2024
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.
July 16, 2024
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).
Download the Research Project Summary which includes the abstract (PDF)
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