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The impact of a PEER funded research project "Reduced-Order Models for Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction Analyses of Buried Structures" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Domniki Asimaki, Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech. The Co-Principal Investigator is Elnaz Esmaeilzadeh Seylabi, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno. The research team includes Kien T. Nguyen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Caltech.

The impact of a PEER funded research project  "Meshfree Large-Strain Framework for Seismic Response of Ground-Structural Systems: Development and Open Source Tool" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigators (PIs) are Ahmed Elgamal, Professor, UC San Diego and Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen, Professor, UC San Diego. The research team includes Zhijian Qiu, Graduate Student Researcher, UC San Diego.

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PEER has just published Report No. 2020/01: "Modeling Viscous Damping in Nonlinear Response History Analysis of Steel Moment-Frame Buildings: Design-Plus Ground Motions." It was authored by Xin Qian, John A. Martin and Associates; Anil K. Chopra and Frank McKenna, University of California, Berkeley.

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The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has issued an Event Briefing for the M6.5 Nevada (Monte Cristo Range) Earthquake that occurred on May 15, 2020. This Event Briefing is an abbreviated StEER response mechanism that briefly summarizes the event and any key lessons that can be learned

The impact of a PEER funded research project "A Pacific Rim Forum on Regional-Scale Simulations of Earthquake Ground Motions and Infrastructure Response for PBEE of Transportation Systems" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is David McCallen, University of Nevada, Reno. The research team includes Norman Abrahamson, University of California, Berkeley, and Floriana Petrone, University of Nevada, Reno.

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Probabilistic Simulation-Based Evaluation of the Effect of Near-Field Spatially Varying Ground Motions on Distributed Infrastructure Systems" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Floriana Petrone, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Nevada Reno. The research team includes Norman Abrahamson, Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley, and David McCallen, Professor, University of Nevada Reno.

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Leveraging Leading Indicators for Wildfire Risk Reduction" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Rune Storesund, Executive Director, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, UC Berkeley. The research team includes Karlene Roberts, Director, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, UC Berkeley, and Khalid Mosalam, Director, PEER.

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Fire Performance of Steel-Frame Buildings using OpenSees" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Erica C. Fischer, PE, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University.

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I am writing this message during the difficult time of the global COVID-19 crisis. I wish you and your loved ones safe and healthy days to come. I am optimistic this crisis will come to an end by all of us doing our civic duties including the very necessary “social distancing” and curtailment of all non-essential activities to take place from home as much as possible.

The PEER-Bridge Research Program is announcing a Request For Proposals with the objective of developing a new LRFD-based bridge deck design procedure that accounts for modern trucks, dynamic (rolling) loads, shear demands, and concrete fatigue.

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Identification of Transportation Network Corridors, for Enhancing Network Resilience" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Jack W. Baker, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. The research team includes Rodrigo Silva Lopez, PhD Student, Stanford University.

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The 2020 PEER Annual Meeting with the theme of “The Future of Performance-Based Natural Hazards Engineering” was held on January 16 & 17, 2020. Please see the summary of the first day's morning & afternoon sessions and the second day's morning sessions.

Bruce L. Kutter, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Davis, was awarded the ASCE H.

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.