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PEER Reports

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 2025/07: "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...

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 “...

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

February 19, 2026

PEER has published Report No. 2025/04: "Developing Software to Assess the Seismic Risk of Natural Gas Infrastructure: OpenSRA." The report was authored by Micaela Largent, Barry Zheng (Slate Geotechnical Consultants); Jonathan Bray, Norm Abrahamson (University of California, Berkeley); and Jennie Watson-Lamprey (CODA SEISMIC).

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...

Open-source Seismic Risk Assessment (OpenSRA) Software Development, PEER Report 2025-05

Barry Zheng
Micaela Largent
Jennie Watson-Lamprey
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...

The 21st Working Conference of the IFIP Working Group 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems (IFIP WG7.5 2024) , PEER Report 2024-10

Ziqi Wang
Jungho Kim
2024

These are the proceedings of the twenty-first working conference of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, which took place at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, on August 19–21, 2024. This volume contains 15 selected papers from the 20 presentations delivered at the conference.

The purpose of the WG7.5 Working Group is to promote modern theories and methods of structural and system reliability and optimization, to stimulate research, development, and applications in these areas...

PEER Report 2025/03: "Ground Improvement-Based Protection of Transportation Infrastructure: Validation of Performance Based Engineering via Centrifuge Shake Table Testing"

January 14, 2026

PEER has published Report No. 2025/03: "Ground Improvement-Based Protection of Transportation Infrastructure: Validation of Performance Based Engineering via Centrifuge Shake Table Testing." It was authored by Jeffrey T. Newgard, Tara C. Hutchinson, John S. McCartney, Department of Structural Engineering at the University of California San Diego.

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