The PEER Student Committee is pleased to present our next spotlighted researcher in the "Meet the PEER Students'' Series. The series features students and postdoctoral researchers who conduct exciting research projects, engage in leadership activities, and perform exceptional work. This month, we met Dr. Danilo Kusanovic, a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology.
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November 8, 2021
November 2, 2021
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Calibration and Verification of OpenSees Models for Simulating the Response through Collapse of Nonplanar RC Walls" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Laura N. Lowes, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle. The Research Team includes Joshua Stokley, Graduate Student Researcher, University of Washington, Seattle.
October 25, 2021
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Correlation of Ground Motion Duration with Spectral Acceleration and Implications for Expected Bridge Performance" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Tracy Becker, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley. The Research Team includes Jennie Watson-Lamprey, CEO and Principal Engineering Seismologist, Slate Geotechnical Consultants and Camila Lopez Ruiz, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley.
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Autonomous Drone or Inspection-Driven Exploration of Structures" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Raja Sengupta, Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley. The Research Team includes Xin Peng, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley and Gaofeng Su, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley.
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October 19, 2021
The PEER-Bridge Research Program is announcing a Request For Proposals, 21-03 and 21-04, for two topics: RFP 21-03 is with the objective of evaluating hazard levels for temporary bridges, and RFP 21-04 is for developing design guidelines to determine whether a bridge should be designed to a recovery bridge standard.
October 11, 2021
PEER-affiliated researchers participated in the 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE), held in a hybrid format in person at Sendai, Japan, and online September 27 - October 2, 2021, and online during an extended conference period, September 20 - November 2, 2021.
October 8, 2021
PEER has just published Report No. 2021/08 "Seismic Design and Detailing of Bridge Columns to Account for Ground-Motion Duration." It was authored by S. Mojtaba Alian Amiri, Mohamed A. Moustafa and David H. Sanders, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno.
PDF available at: PEER Report 2021/08 or click here for full list: PEER Reports
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October 7, 2021
The PEER Student Committee is pleased to present our next spotlighted researcher in the "Meet the PEER Students'' Series. The series features students and postdoctoral researchers who conduct exciting research projects, engage in leadership activities, and perform exceptional work. This month, we met Dr. Jin Zhou, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis.
October 5, 2021
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Deep Learning-Based Surrogate Modeling for Uncertainty Quantification in Soil-Structure Interaction Problems" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Elnaz Seylabi, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno.
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The impact of a PEER funded research project "A Critical Examination of Material Strain Limits for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Modern Pier and Wharf Structures" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Machel L. Morrison, Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego. The Co-PI is Jose Restrepo, Professor of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego. The Research Team includes Sergio Suarez, Graduate Student Researcher, and Theresa Richards, Graduate Student Researcher, UC San Diego.
September 29, 2021
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Advancing the Practice of Cyclic Softening Assessments of Silts and Clays" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Armin W. Stuedlein, Oregon State University. The Research Team includes Ali Dadashiserej, Graduate Student.
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PEER has just published Report No. 2021/07 "Shake Table Tests on a Shallow Foundation on Liquefiable Soils Supported on Helical Piles." It was authored by Milad Jahed Orang and Ramin Motamed, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno.
PDF available at: PEER Report 2021/07 or click here for full list: PEER Reports
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PEER has just published Report No. 2021/06 "F-Rec Framework: Novel Framework for Probabilistic Evaluation of Functional Recovery of Building Systems." It was authored by Vesna Terzic, Peny K. Villanueva, Daniel Saldana, Dong Y. Yoo, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering
Management, California State University Long Beach.
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September 27, 2021
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Statistical Variation of Seismic Damage Index (DI) of California Bridges" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Farzin Zareian, Professor, University of California, Irvine.
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September 22, 2021
Request for Proposal: Solicitation PEER-TSRP 21-01 (Projects) and 21-02 (Workshops) - Now Open
Deadline to submit: 11:59pm (PT) Wednesday, November 1, 2021
September 15, 2021
The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has issued a Preliminary Virtual Reconnaissance Report (PVRR) for the M7.2 Nippes, Haiti Earthquake that occurred on August 14, 2021.
September 14, 2021
The American Institute of Steel Construction has awarded its 2022 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award to Amit Kanvinde, PhD, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the College of Engineering at University of California, Davis. The T.R.
The American Institute of Steel Construction has awarded the 2021 Terry Peshia Early Career Faculty Award to Erica Fischer, PE, PhD, Assistant Professor at Oregon State University. The Terry Peshia Early Career Faculty Award provides recognition to faculty who demonstrate promise in the areas of structural steel research, teaching, and other contributions to the structural steel industry.
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