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November 7, 2018, John A. Blume & EERI Distinguished Lecture

Palo Alto, CA

The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network , whose mission is to deepen the structural natural hazards engineering (NHE) community’s capacity for reliable post-event reconnaissance, has released reports in response to recent natural hazards: Hurricane Michael (October 10, 201

PEER is pleased to announce that the 2018 Blind Prediction Competition on the numerical simulation of a recently completed large-scale liquefaction shaking table experiment is now open!

PEER is pleased to issue this pre-announcement for a blind prediction competition on the numerical simulation of a recently completed large-scale liquefaction shaking table experiment.

Introduction

The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) is a multi-campus center that 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, and airports.

Ian N. Robertson, Arthur N. L. Chiu Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, shared some preliminary observations (August 25, 2018) of Hurricane Lane on the the Hawaiian Islands, including its formation and development, trajectory, hurricane effects, and emergency response.

January 17-18, 2019

To participate in the PHI Challenge 2018, contestants should register in advance. A contestant can be either an individual or a team (with a maximum of 4 team members). There are two ways to register: