2025 Researchers' Workshop, Thursday, August 14 — Blum Center, B100, UC Berkeley

The Researchers' Workshop featured presentations from all active PEER-funded projects. The goal of the workshop is to disseminate information about ongoing research at the Center and to foster interaction between projects across disciplines.

The Workshop was held in person at the Blum Center, Room B100, on the UC Berkeley campus.

Workshop Program

8:00 AM — Registration Opens

Time

Session

Project Title

PI

Institution

Presenter

9:00 - 10:30

SHM



Opening Remarks by PEER Director

PEER

Khalid Mosalam

Bridge Strain Monitoring Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing: Application and Validation under Service Loading

Matt DeJong

UCB

Rodrigo Tapia

Bayesian Inference for Mechanics-based Digital Twinning of Bridges

Hamid Ebrahimian

UNR

Abdelrahman Taha

Bridge Rapid Assessment Center for Extreme Events (BRACE2)

Khalid Mosalam

UCB

Khalid Mosalam

10:30 - 11:00

Break


11:00 - 12:30

PEER-Bridge Projects


Overview of PEER-Bridge Program

Caltrans

Sharon Yen

Remaining Fatigue life Assessment of Bridge Decks Based on a Numerical-experimental SYSCOM SYStem-COmponent-Material-based Approach

Alessandro Palermo

UCSD

Rupesh Shrestha

Stiffness Properties of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Column under Superimposed Deformations due to Secondary Load Effects

Michael Scott

OSU

Michael Scott

Caltrans Risk Based Seismic Design (CT-RBSD) for Bridges

Farzin Zareian

UCI

Farzin Zareian

In-service Structural Evaluation of Box Beam Overhead Sign Structures

Khalid Mosalam

UCB

Khalid Mosalam

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch


1:30 - 3:00

 GEO

Next Generation Liquefaction Susceptibility Database and Modeling

Armin Stuedlein

OSU

Armin Stuedlein

Visualization and Interpretation of Hysteresis Metrics from Cyclic Testing of Soils to Assess Material Susceptibility 

Jonathan Stewart

UCLA

Arda Sahin

Effect of Fines on Liquefaction Triggering Analyses

Scott Brandenberg

UCLA

Varun
Nigesh S R

PEER-LBNL Simulated Ground-Motion Database

David McCallen

LBNL

David McCallen

3:00 - 3:30

Break


3:30 - 5:00

Other

Effects of Reinforcement Characteristics on the Response and Stability of Elastomeric Isolation Systems

Dimitrios Konstantinidis

UCB

Eduardo Montalto

Risk-Based Model for Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery of Bridge Networks

Henry Burton

UCLA

Henry Burton

Performance of Open Type Wharves Subjected to Cascading Seismic and Tsunami Loading

Andre Barbosa

OSU

Andre Barbosa

Discussion

ALL