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NGA-East: Ground-Motion Standard Deviation Models for Central and Eastern North America, PEER Reports 2015-07

Linda Al Atik
2015

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 parameters such as magnitude, distance, and VS30 are analyzed and compared to trends of ground-motion variability in other regions, particularly the Western United States (WUS) using the NGA-West2 dataset.

The CENA dataset is limited in magnitude range to small-to-moderate magnitudes and in frequency content to frequencies between 1 and 10 Hz due to the bandwidth limitations of the recordings....

New PEER Report 2018/08: "Central and Eastern North America Ground-Motion Characterization - NGA-East Final Report"

January 25, 2019

PEER has just published Report No. 2018/08: "Central and Eastern North America Ground-Motion Characterization - NGA-East Final Report." It was authored by Christine Goulet, Yousef Bozorgnia, Norman Abrahamson, Nicolas Kuehn, Linda Al Atik, Robert Youngs, and Robert Graves

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Abstract

This document is the final project report of the Next Generation Attenuation for Central and Eastern North America (CENA)...

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New PEER Report 2021/08: "Seismic Design and Detailing of Bridge Columns to Account for Ground-Motion Duration"

October 8, 2021

PEER has just published Report No. 2021/08 "Seismic Design and Detailing of Bridge Columns to Account for Ground-Motion Duration." It was authored by S. Mojtaba Alian Amiri, Mohamed A. Moustafa and David H. Sanders, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno.

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Abstract:

Devastating,...

New PEER Report 2021/07: "Shake Table Tests on a Shallow Foundation on Liquefiable Soils Supported on Helical Piles"

September 29, 2021

PEER has just published Report No. 2021/07 "Shake Table Tests on a Shallow Foundation on Liquefiable Soils Supported on Helical Piles." It was authored by Milad Jahed Orang and Ramin Motamed, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno.

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Abstract:

Extensive damage to buildings and...

New PEER Report 2021/06: "F-Rec Framework: Novel Framework for Probabilistic Evaluation of Functional Recovery of Building Systems"

September 29, 2021

PEER has just published Report No. 2021/06 "F-Rec Framework: Novel Framework for Probabilistic Evaluation of Functional Recovery of Building Systems." It was authored by Vesna Terzic, Peny K. Villanueva, Daniel Saldana, Dong Y. Yoo, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering
Management, California State University Long Beach.

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Abstract:

Earthquakes are one of...

New PEER Report 2021/05: "City-Scale Multi-Infrastructure Network Resilience Simulation Tool"

August 30, 2021

PEER has just published Report No. 2021/05 "City-Scale Multi-Infrastructure Network Resilience Simulation Tool." It was authored by Kenichi Soga, Renjie Wu, Bingyu Zhao and Chaofeng Wang.

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The goal of this project is to deliver a coherent framework of simulation tools that can quantify the performance of the water distribution network (WDN) and the transportation network...

New PEER Report 2021/04: "Towards Multi-Tier Modeling of Liquefaction Impacts on Transportation Infrastructure"

July 14, 2021

PEER has just published Report No. 2021/04: "Towards Multi-Tier Modeling of Liquefaction Impacts on Transportation Infrastructure." It was authored by Brett W. Maurer, Mertcan Geyin and Alex J. Baird, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington.

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Abstract

Semi-empirical models based on in situ geotechnical tests have been the standard-of-practice for predicting soil...

New PEER Report 2021/03: "Effective Stress Analysis of Liquefaction Sites and Evaluation of Sediment Ejecta Potential"

June 7, 2021

PEER has just published Report No. 2021/03: "Effective Stress Analysis of Liquefaction Sites and Evaluation of Sediment Ejecta Potential." It was authored by Daniel Hutabarat and Jonathan D. Bray, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.

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Abstract

Sediment ejecta mechanism contributes significantly to the severity of liquefaction-induced ground failure (e.g.,...

New PEER Report 2020/11: "Hybrid Simulations for the Seismic Evaluation of Resilient Highway Bridge Systems"

April 15, 2021

PEER has just published Report No. 2020/11: "Hybrid Simulations for the Seismic Evaluation of Resilient Highway Bridge Systems." It was authored by Yingjie Wu, Selim Günay and Khalid Mosalam.

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Abstract

Bridges often serve as key links in local and national transportation networks. Bridge closures can result in severe costs, not only in the form of repair or replacement, but also in the form of economic...