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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PEER has published Report No. 2024/06: "Ground Failure of Hydraulic Fills in Chiba, Japan and Data Archival in Community Database." It was authored by Scott J. Brandenberg, Jonathan P. Stewart, Kenneth S. Hudson, Dong Youp Kwak, Paolo Zimmaro and Quin Parker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California.
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Prioritizing Regional Needs for Recovery Bridges through Post-earthquake Corridor Identification and System Fragility Assessment of the SF Region" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Kenichi Soga, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Influence of Fines and Alternative Intensity Measures on Liquefaction Triggering" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Scott J. Brandenberg, University of California, Los Angeles. The Co-Principal Investigator is Jonathan P. Stewart, University of California, Los Angeles. The Research Team includes Varun Nigesh, Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA and Kenneth Hudson, Hudson Geotechnics, Inc.
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Development of Performance-Based Multi-hazard Engineering (PBME) Framework with Inclusion of Climate Change and Bridge Vulnerability" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Michele Barbato, Professor and Director of the CITRIS Climate Initiative, UC Davis. The Co-Principal Investigator is Alexander Forrest, Associate Professor, UC Davis. The Research Team includes Lei Zhou, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Davis.
PEER has published Report No. 2024/05: "A Granular Framework for Modeling the Capacity Loss and Recovery of Regional Transportation Networks under Seismic Hazards: A Case Study on the Port of Los Angeles." It was authored by Michael Benedict Virtucio, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Barbaros Cetiner, NHERI SimCenter; Bingyu Zhao, University of California, Berkeley; Kenichi Soga, TU Wien, Austria; Ertugrul Taciroglu, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Los Angeles.
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Remaining fatigue life assessment of bridge decks based upon a numerical-experimental SYSCOM SYStem-COmponent-Material-based approach" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Alessandro Palermo, University of California, San Diego. The Research Team includes Joel Conte, Machel Morrison, and Ernesto Hernández, University of California, San Diego.
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Uncertainty Quantification for Meeting Bridge Design Objectives" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Tracy Becker, UC Berkeley. The Research Team includes Maria Camila Lopez Ruiz, UC Berkeley; Debra Murphy, Slate Geotechnical Consultant; Tessa Williams, Slate Geotechnical Consultants.
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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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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. 2024/01: "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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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 "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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