The Structural Engineering Association of Northern California (SEAONC) honored three PEER research colleagues during the SEAONC June Awards dinner meeting:
SEAONC Honorary Member
Norm Abrahamson, Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley and UC Davis
The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has issued an Event Briefing for the June 17, M6.0 earthquake in Sichuan, China. Event Briefings are typically released within 48 hours of an event for which StEER will not deploy virtual or field assessment teams, but still warrants some commentary. This briefing summarizes the event characteristics and key lessons learned.
PEER has just published Report No. 2019/04: "Aftershock Seismic Vulnerability and Time-Dependent Risk Assessment of Bridges." It was authored by Sujith Mangalathu, Mehrdad Shokrabadi and Henry V. Burton.
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The NSF-funded Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has issued a Virtual Assessment Structural Team (VAST) Report for the May 26, 2019, M8.0 Lagunas Peru Earthquake.
The California Energy Commission awarded a $4.9 million grant to PEER on May 15 to improve the seismic risk assessment of natural gas storage and pipeline infrastructure.
PEER has just published Report No. 2019/03: "Ground-Motion Directivity Modeling for Seismic Hazard Applications." It was authored by Jennifer L. Donahue, Jonathan P. Stewart, Nicolas Gregor and Yousef Bozorgnia. Review Panel: Jonathan D. Bray, Stephen A. Mahin, I. M. Idriss, Robert W. Graves and Tom Shantz.
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Executive Summary:
The impact of a PEER funded research project, "Tsunami-borne Debris Loading on Bridges" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Ian Buckle, Foundation Professor, University of Nevada, Reno. The research team includes Denis Istrati, Research Assistant Professor, UNR, Seddigheh (Anis) Hasanpour, Graduate Assistant, UNR, and Michael Scott, Oregon State University, Corvallis.
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PEER has just published Report No. 2019/02: "Direct-Finite-Element Method for Nonlinear Earthquake Analysis of Concrete Dams Including Dam–Water–Foundation Rock Interaction." It was authored by Arnkjell Løkke and Anil Chopra.
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The impact of a PEER funded research project, "Inclusion of Modeling Uncertainty, Parameter Uncertainty and Parameter Estimation Uncertainty in PBSD of Ordinary Standard RC Bridges" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Joel P. Conte, Professor of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego. The research team includes Angshuman Deb, Graduate Student Researcher, UC San Diego and Jose I. Restrepo, Professor of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego.
The impact of a PEER funded research project, "A Non-Ergodic Ground-Motion Model for California" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Norman Abrahamson, UC Berkeley. The research team includes Grigorios Lavrent, Graduate Student Researcher UC Berkeley and Tessa Williams, Graduate Student Researcher UC Berkeley.
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Research Impact:
Greg Deierlein, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and Director of the J.A.
The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network would like to formally invite the PEER community to join StEER, an NSF-funded initiative to mobilize early reconnaissance missions immediately following major natural disasters.
The impact of a PEER funded research project, "City-scale Multi-infrastructure Network Resilience Simulation Tool" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Kenichi Soga, Professor, UC Berkeley. The research team includes Renjie Wu, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley, Zhenxiang Su, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley, Bingyu Zhao, Visiting Researcher, UC Berkeley, and Miki Komatsu, Visiting Researcher, UC Berkeley.
The impact of a PEER funded research project, "Analysis of Fine-Grained Soil Failure in Chiba During 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, and Development of Community Lab Test Database" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigators (PI) are Scott J. Brandenberg, Professor and Associate Dean, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA, and Jonathan P. Stewart, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA. The research team includes Claudia Rangel, Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA and Paolo Zimmaro, Project Scientist, UCLA.
In 2018, the NISEE-PEER Earthquake Engineering Library received a generous donation of several thousand earthquake images in slide format from two world-renowned pioneers in the field of earthquake engineering, UC Berkeley Emeritus Professors, Vitelmo Bertero and Stephen Mahin.
A short video summarizing the overarching themes of the 2019 PEER Annual Meeting, “Seismic Resilience 25 Years after Northridge:
Accomplishments & Challenges” has been released.
PEER has just published Report No. 2019/01: “Flow-Failure Case History of the Las Palmas, Chile, Tailings Dam." It was authored by R.E.S. Moss, T.R. Gebhart, D.J. Frost, and C. Ledezma.
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