The impact of a PEER funded research project, "Inclusion of Modeling Uncertainty, Parameter Uncertainty and Parameter Estimation Uncertainty in PBSD of Ordinary Standard RC Bridges" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Joel P. Conte, Professor of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego. The research team includes Angshuman Deb, Graduate Student Researcher, UC San Diego and Jose I. Restrepo, Professor of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego.
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May 7, 2019
The impact of a PEER funded research project, "A Non-Ergodic Ground-Motion Model for California" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Norman Abrahamson, UC Berkeley. The research team includes Grigorios Lavrent, Graduate Student Researcher UC Berkeley and Tessa Williams, Graduate Student Researcher UC Berkeley.
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May 6, 2019
Greg Deierlein, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and Director of the J.A.
May 2, 2019
April 26, 2019
The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network would like to formally invite the PEER community to join StEER, an NSF-funded initiative to mobilize early reconnaissance missions immediately following major natural disasters.
April 8, 2019
The impact of a PEER funded research project, "City-scale Multi-infrastructure Network Resilience Simulation Tool" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Kenichi Soga, Professor, UC Berkeley. The research team includes Renjie Wu, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley, Zhenxiang Su, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley, Bingyu Zhao, Visiting Researcher, UC Berkeley, and Miki Komatsu, Visiting Researcher, UC Berkeley.
April 1, 2019
The impact of a PEER funded research project, "Analysis of Fine-Grained Soil Failure in Chiba During 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, and Development of Community Lab Test Database" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigators (PI) are Scott J. Brandenberg, Professor and Associate Dean, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA, and Jonathan P. Stewart, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA. The research team includes Claudia Rangel, Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA and Paolo Zimmaro, Project Scientist, UCLA.
March 13, 2019
A short video summarizing the overarching themes of the 2019 PEER Annual Meeting, “Seismic Resilience 25 Years after Northridge:
Accomplishments & Challenges” has been released.
In 2018, the NISEE-PEER Earthquake Engineering Library received a generous donation of several thousand earthquake images in slide format from two world-renowned pioneers in the field of earthquake engineering, UC Berkeley Emeritus Professors, Vitelmo Bertero and Stephen Mahin.
March 12, 2019
PEER has just published Report No. 2019/01: “Flow-Failure Case History of the Las Palmas, Chile, Tailings Dam." It was authored by R.E.S. Moss, T.R. Gebhart, D.J. Frost, and C. Ledezma.
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February 13, 2019
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January 25, 2019
PEER has just published Report No. 2018/08: "Central and Eastern North America Ground-Motion Characterization - NGA-East Final Report." It was authored by Christine Goulet, Yousef Bozorgnia, Norman Abrahamson, Nicolas Kuehn, Linda Al Atik, Robert Youngs, and Robert Graves
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January 15, 2019
PEER has just released a LaTex report template for use in creating PEER-formatted research reports. This template was developed in response to requests from researchers to include a LaTex template in addition to the current WORD template. This LaTex template approximates as closely as possible the current WORD template.
January 11, 2019
PEER has just published Report No. 2018/04: “Capturing Directivity Effects in the Mean and Aleatory Variability of the NGA-West2 Ground-Motion Prediction Equations.” It was authored by Jennie A. Watson-Lamprey, Slate Geotechnical Consultants.
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January 8, 2019
PEER has just published Report No. 2018/05: “Selection of Random Vibration Procedures for the NGA-East Project.” It was authored by Albert Kottke, Norman A. Abrahamson, David M. Boore, Yousef Bozorgnia, Christine Goulet, Justin Hollenback, Tadahiro Kishida, Armen Der Kiureghian, Olga-Joan Ktenidou, Nicolas Kuehn, Ellen M. Rathje, Walter J. Silva, Eric Thompson, and Xiaoyue Wang.
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PEER has just published Report No. 2018/07: “An Empirical Model for Fourier Amplitude Spectra using the NGA-West2 Database.” It was authored by Jeff Bayless and Norman A. Abrahamson.
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PEER has just published Report No. 2018/06: “Estimation of Shear Demands on Rock Socketed Drilled Shafts subjected to Lateral Loading.” It was authored by Pedro Arduino, Long Chen, Christopher R. McGann.
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