2023 Full Program

PLENARY 1: Opening & Welcome, Major PEER Projects
Moderator - Khalid Mosalam, PEER, UCB

• Opening Remarks, Tsu-Jae King Liu, Dean, COE, UCB
  
• PEER Overview, Khalid Mosalam, PEER, UCB
  
• Development of Open Source Risk Analysis Software: OpenSRA, Jennie Watson-Lamprey, Slate Geotechnical Consultants
  
• Development of the PEER - LBNL Simulated Earthquake Ground Motion Database for the San Francisco Bay Area,
  David McCallen, UNR
  
• An Update on PEER-Related Next Generation Liquefaction (NGL) Activities, Armin Stuedlein, OSU
  

PLENARY 2: Recent Earthquakes & Implications for USA
Moderator - Eduardo Miranda, Stanford

• Turkey Earthquake Structural Aspects and Recovery, Ayse Hortacsu, ATC
  
• The Use of Drones Following the 2022 Ferndale Earthquake and the PEQIT TEAM REPORT,
  Richard Heninger, Caltrans
  
• Ferndale Earthquake and Implications for California, Eduardo Miranda, Stanford
  
• The Inherent Resilience of Large Cities to Natural Hazards: Records, Evidence and Predictions, Nico Makris, Southern Methodist University
• California Earthquake Early Warning System, Megan Sullivan & Derek Lambeth, Cal OES

PLENARY 3:  PEER Research to Practice
Moderator - Janiele Maffei, CEA

• Evaluations of Column Splices in Existing Pre-Northridge Steel Moment Frame Buildings, Nick Skok, Degenkolb
• 95 State Tower PBD Using TBI Guidelines, Peter Lee, SOM
  
• Challenges & Innovations for Bridges' Long-Term Resilience, Su Hao, ACII
  
• RC-FIAP: An Open Platform for High-Resolution Structural Design and Inelastic Modeling for Regional Seismic Risk Assessment,
  Carlos Arteta, Uninorte, Colombia
• Design in the Shared Space of Practice and Research, David Mar, Mar Structural Design
  

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PLENARY 4: PEER Student Committee (PSC)  Lightning Talks
Moderator - Michael Scott, OSU

• PEER Pitches - Lightning Talks by PSC
• PEER Blind Predictions and Announcement of the 2022 Competition Winner, Selim Günay, PEER
  
• Blind Prediction Contest for Wave Loading on a Steel Frame Structure, Michael Scott, OSU

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• NHERI @ UC San Diego Facility Description and Capabilities, Koorosh Lotfizadeh, UCSD
  
• Design, Fabrication and Commissioning of Large Laminar Soil Box and Shake Table at University Nevada Reno, Ian Buckle, UNR
  
• Hypergravity Experiments & Model Tests at the Center for Geotechnical Modeling, Katerina Ziotopoulou, UCD
  
• Physical Model Testing of Coastal Natural Hazards in the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory, Oregon State University,
  Pedro Lomonaco, OSU
  
• PEER-UCB Experimental Facility and Future Funding Opportunities, Amarnath Kasalanati, Khalid Mosalam & Arpit Nema, PEER

Session 6a: PEER Bridge Program
Moderator - Sharon Yen, Caltrans
Location: Pauley Ballroom West

• Overview of Caltrans PEER-Bridge Program, Chris Traina, Caltrans
  
• Refined Analysis and Design of Concrete Bridge Decks, Lijuan Dawn Cheng, UCD
  
• Advanced Guidelines for Stability Design of Slender Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns,
  Mark Denavit, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Caltrans Risk Based Seismic Design, Farzin Zareian, UCI
• Risk-informed Metric for Identifying Critical Post-Earthquake Corridors and Bridges, Ziqi Wang, UCB
  

Session 6b: Networks and Regional Simulations
Moderator - Marc Eberhard, UW
Location: Pauley Ballroom East

• Overview of the Transportation Systems Research Program (TSRP), Amarnath Kasalanati, PEER
  
• Performance Based Economic Loss Assessment due to a Hypothetical Large Southern California Earthquake based on the Disruption and Recovery of Port of Los Angeles Freight Traffic, Michael Virtucio, UCB
• Surrogate Models for Regional Simulation of Earthquake Damage to Highway Bridges, Greg Deierlein, Stanford
  
• Probabilistic Simulation-Based Evaluation of the Effect of Near-Field Spatially Varying Ground Motions on Distributed Infrastructure Systems, Floriana Petrone, UNR
• Identification of Critical Bridge Features for Performance Assessment of Regional Transportation Networks, Marc Eberhard, UW
  

Session 7a: Structures
Moderator - David McCallen, UNR
Location: Pauley Ballroom West

• Seismic Performance of Isolated Bridges Under Beyond Design Basis Shaking, Gilberto Mosqueda, UCSD
  
• Hazard-Based Risk and Cost-Benefit Assessment of Temporary Bridges in California, Floriana Petrone, UNR
• Damage-Based Capacity Limit States for Nonductile Bridge Columns, Sashi Kunnath, UCD
• Autonomy in Drone Technology for Digital Asset Management, Raja Sengupta, UCB
• Critical Evaluation of Strain Limits on the In-ground Hinge of Steel Pipe Piles for Piers and Wharves, Machel Morrison, UCSD
  

Session 7b: GeoHazards and GeoSystems
Moderator - Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, UCB
Location: Pauley Ballroom East

• Modeling Seismic Compression of Unsaturated Soils in the Funicular Regime, John McCartney, UCSD
• Correlation of Ground Motion Duration with Spectral Acceleration and Implications for Expected Bridge Performance, Tracy Becker, UCB
  
• Deep-Learning Based Surrogate Modeling for Uncertainty Quantification in Soil-Structure Interaction Problems, Elnaz Seylabi, UNR
  
• The Effect of Soil Gradation on the Dynamic Performance of an Earthen Embankment, Jason DeJong, UCD
• Liquefaction Evaluation of Gravelly Soils: An Integrated Laboratory Testing & Numerical Modeling Approach,
  Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, UCB
  

PLENARY 8: Panel Discussion on Use of AI in Earthquake Engineering and Open Mic
Moderator - Charlie Scawthorn, Visiting Scholar, PEER

• Deep-Learning-Based Seismic Risk Assessment and Retrofitting of Road Networks, Jack Baker, Stanford
  
• Assessing Building Damage in Turkey and Syria using AI and Satellite Imagery, Ritwik Gupta, UCB
• Bridge Rapid Assessment Center for Extreme Events, BRACE2, Khalid Mosalam & Claudio Perez, UCB
  
• Open Mic Discussion on Several Topics including "Role of AI in Future PEER Research"
• Closing Remarks, Tarek Zohdi, Associate Dean, COE, UCB