PEER has just published Report No. 2021/10: "Seismic Performance of Column-to-Drilled-Shaft Connections in Reinforced Concrete Bridges." It was authored by Michelle Chang, John Stanton and Marc Eberhard, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington.
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Results of the 2021 Reinforced Concrete Column Blind Prediction Contest have been determined. This contest opened in July 2021 and the objective was to predict the response of a reinforced concrete column subjected to lateral deformation.
Claire M. Johnson, PEER Reports editor, will be retiring on December 31, 2021. She has been with UC Berkeley for over thirty years. As a UC Berkeley undergraduate, she typed for Mrs. Ruth Burdy when the Civil Engineering department was chaired by Professor Carl Monismith. She worked for Professor Brady Williamson in the Fire Lab.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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Research Impact
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.
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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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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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Research Impact
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.