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PEER Reports

New PEER Report 2025/09: "Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Natural Gas and Pipeline Systems"

March 19, 2026

PEER has published Report No. 2025/09, Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Natural Gas and Pipeline Systems. The report was authored by Chien-Chih Wang, Sumeet Kumar Sinha, Peter Hubbard, Yong Liang, and Kenichi Soga of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.

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New PEER Report 2025/08: "Efficient Risk Calculation and Epistemic Uncertainty Propagation for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Distributed Systems"

March 18, 2026

PEER has published Report No. 2025/08, Efficient Risk Calculation and Epistemic Uncertainty Propagation for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Distributed Systems. It was authored by Maxime Lacour and Norman A. Abrahamson, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley.

The project team includes researchers from LBNL, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, University of Nevada Reno, the NHERI SimCenter at UC Berkeley, and Slate Geotechnical Consultants and its subcontractors Lettis Consultants International (LCI) and Thomas O’Rourke.

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Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Natural Gas and Pipeline Systems, PEER Report 2025-09

Chien-Chih Wang
Sumeet Kimar Sinha
Peter Hubbard
Yong Liang
Kenichi Soga
2025

Report for the “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems” Project.

This report documents the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems,” henceforth referred to as the “OpenSRA Project.”
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Efficient Risk Calculation and Epistemic Uncertainty Propagation for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Distributed Systems, PEER Report 2025-08

Maxime Lacour
Norman A. Abrahamson
2025

A Report for the ”Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems” Project.

This report is one of a series of reports documenting the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems,” hereafter referred to...

New PEER Report 2025/07: "System Wide Natural Gas Infrastructure Response and Fragility Model Report"

March 4, 2026

PEER has published Report No. 2025/07, System Wide Natural Gas Infrastructure Response and Fragility Model Report. It was authored by Jennie Watson-Lamprey (CODA SEISMIC, Berkeley, California), and Micaela Largent and Barry Zheng (Slate Geotechnical Consultants, Oakland, California).

This subsection of the project focuses on the fragility of natural gas infrastructure. Three systems are considered (buried pipeline, underground storage facilities, and surficial storage and distribution systems). Each has undergone finite element modeling to estimate the response of the...

System Wide Natural Gas Infrastructure Response and Fragility Model Report, PEER Report 2025-07

Jennie Watson-Lamprey
Micaela Largent
Barry Zheng
2025

This report is one of a series of reports documenting the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems” henceforth referred to as the “OpenSRA Project.”

The overall goal of the OpenSRA project is to create an open-source research-based seismic risk...

OpenSRA Validation Report, PEER Report 2025-06

Christopher A. Bain
Thomas D. O'Rourke
Jonathan D. Bray
Scott Lindvall
Daniel Hutabarat
Norman Abrahamson
Barry Zheng
Tara Hutchinson
Elide Pantoli
Preston Jordan
Tsubasa Sasaki
Keurfon Luu
Yingqi Zhang
William Foxall
Jonny Rutqvist
2025

A Report for the “Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems” Project.

This report is one of a series of reports documenting the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems” henceforth referred to...

New PEER Report 2025/06: "OpenSRA Validation Report"

March 4, 2026

PEER has published Report No. 2025/06: "OpenSRA Validation Report." The report was authored by Christopher A. Bain, Jonathan D. Bray, Daniel Hutabarat, and Norman Abrahamson (University of California, Berkeley); Elide Pantoli and Tara Hutchinson (University of California, San Diego); Thomas D. O’Rourke (Cornell University); Preston Jordan, Tsubasa Sasaki, Keurfon Luu, Yingqi Zhang, William Foxall, and Jonny Rutqvist (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory); Scott Lindvall (Lettis Consultants International); and Barry Zheng (Slate Geotechnical Consultants). CHECK IF THESE...

Developing Software to Assess the Seismic Risk of Natural Gas Infrastructure: OpenSRA, PEER Report 2025-04

Micaela Largent
Jonathan Bray
Jennie Watson-Lamprey
Norman Abrahamson
Barry Zheng
2025

A Report for the “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems” Project.

This report summarizes the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems,” henceforth referred to as the “OpenSRA Project.”...

PEER Report 2025/05: "Open-source Seismic Risk Assessment (OpenSRA) Software Development"

February 19, 2026

PEER has published Report No. 2025/05: "Open-source Seismic Risk Assessment (OpenSRA) Software Development." The report was authored by Barry Zheng, Micaela Largent (Slate Geotechnical Consultants); Jennie Watson-Lamprey (CODA SEISMIC).

This report is one of a series of reports documenting the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “...