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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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, and airports.
The impact of a PEER funded research project, "How the Water/Binder Ratio and Voids Affect the Performances of Hardened Concrete Subjected to Fire" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Kamran M. Nemati, Associate Professor, University of Washington. The research team includes Alessandro P. Fantilli, Associate Professor, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy and Nicholas A Dembsey, Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts.
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 a Preliminary Virtual Assessment Team (P-VAT) Report for the November 30, 2018, Alaska Earthquake.
A M7.0 earthquake struck Anchorage, Alaska, on November 30, 2018, 8:29 AM local time. Whereas an initial tsunami warning has been lifted and initial reports of life loss and injury are few, the impact to buildings, infrastructure, and the economy is still being evaluated as numerous aftershocks have been recorded after the initial event.
The impact of a PEER funded research project, "A Systematic Computational Framework for Multi-span Bridge PBEE Applications" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Ahmed Elgamal, Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego. The research team includes Jinchi Lu, Associate Project Scientist, UC San Diego and Abdullah S. Almutairi, Graduate Student Researcher, UC San Diego.
November 7, 2018, John A. Blume & EERI Distinguished Lecture
Palo Alto, CA
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, invites tenure-track faculty applications in support of the Department’s broad initiative in Future Infrastructure Systems, encompassing, for example, Buildings & Climate Change, Earth Systems & Geotechnical Engineering, Future Mobility Systems, and Safety & Reliability. Hiring will be at the untenured Assistant Professor level.
“Multiple UAVs for Mapping: A Review of Basic Modeling, Simulation, and Applications,” written by Tarek I. Zohdi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, was published in Annual Review of Environment and Resources (Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 2018. 43:523-43).
The Computational Modeling and Simulation Center (SimCenter) is an NSF-sponsored center within the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI).
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!
