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New PEER Report 2015/04 “NGA-East: Median Ground-Motion Models for the Central and Eastern North America Region”

PEER has just published Report No. 2015/04 titled “NGA-East: Median Ground-Motion Models for the Central and Eastern North America Region” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series.

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New PEER Report 2015/02: “A Full-Scale, Single-Column Bridge Bent Tested by Shake-Table Excitation”

PEER has just published Report No. 2015/02 titled “A Full-Scale, Single-Column Bridge Bent Tested by Shake-Table Excitation” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Matthew J. Schoettler, Jose I. Restrepo, Gabriele Guerrini, David E. Duck, and Francesco Carrea.

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A landmark test of a reinforced concrete bridge column was conducted on the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake...

New PEER Report 2015/05: “Hybrid Simulation of Seismic Isolation Systems Applied to an APR-1400 Nuclear Power Plant”

PEER has just published Report No. 2015/05 titled “Hybrid Simulation of Seismic Isolation Systems Applied to an APR-1400 Nuclear Power Plant” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Andreas H. Schellenberg, Alireza Sarebanha, Matthew J. Schoettler, Gilberto Mosqueda, Gianmario Benzoni, and Stephen A. Mahin.

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Since the dynamic response of an isolated structure depends on the combined...

New PEER Report 2015/06: “Adjusting Ground-Motion Intensity Measures to a Reference Site for which V(S30) = 3000 m/sec”

PEER has just published Report No. 2015/06 titled “Adjusting Ground-Motion Intensity Measures to a Reference Site for which V(S30) = 3000 m/sec” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by David M. Boore.

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Adjustment factors that can used to convert ground-motion intensity measures at sites with V(S30)=760 m/sec and V(S30)=2000 m/sec to a reference rock site,...

New PEER Report 2015/07: “NGA-East: Ground-Motion Standard Deviation Models for Central and Eastern North America”

PEER has just published Report No. 2015/07 titled “NGA-East: Ground-Motion Standard Deviation Models for Central and Eastern North America” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Linda Al Atik.

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Empirical ground-motion data from Central and Eastern North America (CENA) are used to analyze the components of ground-motion variability in CENA. Trends of ground-motion variability with...

New PEER Report 2015/08: “NGA-East: Adjustments to Median Ground-Motion Models for Central and Eastern North America”

PEER has just published Report No. 2015/08 titled “NGA-East: Adjustments to Median Ground-Motion Models for Central and Eastern North America” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series.

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This report documents a series of adjustments developed for the median ground-motion models (GMMs) developed as part of the Next Generation Attenuation for Central and Eastern North America (CENA) project (NGA-East). NGA-East is...

New PEER Report 2015/09: “Structural Behavior of Column-Bent Cap Beam-Box Girder Systems in Reinforced Concrete Bridges Subjected to Gravity and Seismic Loads, Part I: Pre-Test Analysis and Quasi-Static Experiments”

PEER has just published Report No. 2015/09 titled “Structural Behavior of Column-Bent Cap Beam-Box Girder Systems in Reinforced Concrete Bridges Subjected to Gravity and Seismic Loads: Part I: Pre-Test Analysis and Quasi-Static Experiments” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series.

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This report presents a study for investigating the behavior of a column-bent cap beam-box girder bridge subassembly with special...

New PEER Report 2015/10: “Structural Behavior of Column-Bent Cap Beam-Box Girder Systems in Reinforced Concrete Bridges Subjected to Gravity and Seismic Loads, Part II: Hybrid Simulation and Post-Test Analysis”

PEER has just published Report No. 2015/10 titled “Structural Behavior of Column-Bent Cap Beam-Box Girder Systems in Reinforced Concrete Bridges Subjected to Gravity and Seismic Loads, Part II: Hybrid Simulation and Post-Test Analysis”

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This report presents the second half of the discussion of a mixed experimental-computational study that aimed at investigating the structural and...

New PEER Report 2015/11: “Selection and Scaling of Ground Motions for Nonlinear Response History Analysis of Buildings in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering”

PEER has just published Report No. 2015/11 titled: “Selection and Scaling of Ground Motions for Nonlinear Response History Analysis of Buildings in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. Authored by N. Simon Kwong and Anil K. Chopra.

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This report investigates the issue of selecting and scaling ground motions as input excitations for...

New PEER Report 2015/12: “Shear-Flexure Interaction Modeling for Reinforced Concrete Structural Walls and Columns under Reversed Cyclic Loading”

PEER has just published Report No. 2015/12 titled “Shear-Flexure Interaction Modeling for Reinforced Concrete Structural Walls and Columns under Reversed Cyclic Loading”. It was authored by Kristijan Kolozvari, Kutay Orakcal and John Wallace.

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A novel analytical model that captures interaction between axial/flexural and shear responses in reinforced concrete (RC)...