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The impact of a PEER funded research project "Machine Learning for Analysis and Risk Management of Complex Infrastructure Systems" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Jack W. Baker, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. The Research Team includes Rodrigo Silva Lopez, PhD Student, Stanford University.

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PEER has just published Report No. 2021/05 "City-Scale Multi-Infrastructure Network Resilience Simulation Tool." It was authored by Kenichi Soga, Renjie Wu, Bingyu Zhao and Chaofeng Wang.

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The impact of a PEER funded research project "Liquefaction Evaluation of Gravelly Soils: An integrated Laboratory Testing and Numerical Modeling Approach" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley. The Research Team includes Jongchan Kim, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley; Bofei Xu, Ph.D. Student, UC Berkeley; Nathaniel Wagner, Ph.D., P.E., Slate Geotechnical Consultants; Misko Cubrinovski, Professor, University of Canterbury, NZ.

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 Francisco A. Galvis, a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.

PEER is pleased to announce that the 2021 Blind Prediction Competition is now open!

This special issue of Earthquake Spectra showcases new developments in earthquake hazard and risk assessments relevant to Central and Eastern North America (CENA). This unique collection of papers marks a significant advancement in the documentation and understanding of hazard and risk of this stable continental region with rare but significant seismicity.

PEER has just published Report No. 2021/04: "Towards Multi-Tier Modeling of Liquefaction Impacts on Transportation Infrastructure." It was authored by Brett W. Maurer, Mertcan Geyin and Alex J. Baird, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington.

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The journal "Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering" is planning a special issue on innovations in structural health monitoring and has released a call for papers. Since 2001 twelve special issues of "Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering" have been devoted to Health Monitoring of Structures, and another special issue of the journal will be devoted to this topic in early 2022.

The PEER Student Committee is pleased to present our first 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. Maha Kenawy, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The journal "Reliability Engineering & System Safety" is planning a special issue on safety and reliability of transportation systems. This special issue focuses on the new and challenging problems in safety and reliability of transportation systems.

The National Science Foundation has announced a three year renewal of the Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network (CMMI 2103550), building off the initial EAGER award (CMMI 1841667) that responded to over three dozen natural hazard events, involving over 150 different persons,

The PEER research project to develop bridge design guidelines for tsunami loads has recently concluded and released three reports summarizing the project methodology, investigations, and findings. The project was a multi-campus, multi-disciplinary research program that spanned five years, and it was funded through PEER by a Transportation Pooled-Fund that included Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon (lead state), Washington, and the Federal Highway Administration.

PEER has just published Report No. 2020/11: "Hybrid Simulations for the Seismic Evaluation of Resilient Highway Bridge Systems." It was authored by Yingjie Wu, Selim Günay and Khalid Mosalam.

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