PEER has published Report No. 2022/01: "Capacity Limit States for Nonductile Bridge Columns." It was authored by Jin Zhou and Sashi K Kunnath, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis. https://doi.org/10.55461/FUTW2909
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PEER has published Report No. 2021/11: "PEER Annual Report 2020-2021." It was authored by Khalid M. Mosalam and Amarnath Kasalanati, PEER. https://doi.org/10.55461/CGYK9154
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Executive Summary
Four PEER colleagues were recently honored with election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), which is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.
I would like to wish all PEER researchers, students, industry partners and sponsors a very happy new year, 2022! Despite the remote work during the pandemic, the Center was active on Research, Education and Outreach fronts. Some of the highlights of the past year are summarized here.
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 Angshuman Deb, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Structural Engineering Department at UC San Diego.
The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has issued an Event Briefing for the Mw 6.2 Petrolia Earthquake that occurred on 20 December, 2021. This Event Briefing is an abbreviated StEER response mechanism that briefly summarizes the event and any key lessons that can be learn
The American Society of Civil Engineers has awarded its 2022 H. Bolton Seed Medal to Jonathan D. Bray, Professor and Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the College of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. The H. Bolton Seed Medal recognizes outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and/or practice in geotechnical engineering.
Results of the 2021 Thick Foundation Element Blind Prediction Contest have been determined. This contest opened in September 2021 and the objective was to predict the strength of a reinforced concrete deep beam intended to represent a slice through a thick foundation mat.
PEER has two continuing funding sources: Transportation Systems Research Program (TSRP) from the State of California, and PEER-Bridge Research program from California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).
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 James Gordon, a graduate student at Oregon State University.
PEER has just published Report No. 2021/09 "Use of Corridors for Decision Making in Transportation Networks in Seismic Regions." It was authored by Rodrigo I. Silva-Lopez and Jack W. Baker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University.
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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 (