PEER Reports

PEER Reports

New PEER Report Published: PEER 2013/18 “Identification of Site Parameters that Improve Predictions of Site Amplification”

PEER has just published Report No. 2013/18 titled “Identification of Site Parameters that Improve Predictions of Site Amplification” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Ellen M. Rathje and Sara Navidi of the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. The research and report were sponsored by PEER’s Program of Applied Earthquake Engineering Research of Lifelines Systems supported by the California Department of Transportation and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

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New PEER Report Published: 2013/19 “Toward Resilient Communities: A Performance-Based Engineering Framework for Design and Evaluation of the Built Environment”

PEER has just published Report No. 2013/19 titled “Toward Resilient Communities: A Performance-Based Engineering Framework for Design and Evaluation of the Built Environment” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Michael William Mieler of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Berkeley; Bozidar Stojadinovic of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich; Robert J. Budnitz of the Earth Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National...

New PEER Report Published: 2013/20 “Experimental and Analytical Studies on the Seismic Behavior of Conventional and Hybrid Braced Frames”

PEER has just published Report No. 2013/20 titled “Experimental and Analytical Studies on the Seismic Behavior of Conventional and Hybrid Braced Frames” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Jiun-Wei Lai and Stephen A. Mahin of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.

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This report summarizes both experimental and analytical studies on the...

New PEER Report Published: 2013/21 “Seismic Design and Performance of Bridges with Columns on Rocking Foundations”

PEER has just published Report No. 2013/21 titled “Seismic Design and Performance of Bridges with Columns on Rocking Foundations” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Grigorios Antonellis and Marios Panagiotou of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.

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Traditional seismic design of bridges includes ductile details that allow bridges to...

New PEER Report Published: 2013/14 “Hanging-Wall Scaling using Finite-Fault Simulations”

PEER has just published Report No. 2013/14 titled “Hanging-Wall Scaling using Finite-Fault Simulations” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Jennifer L. Donahue of Geosyntec Consultants and Norman A. Abrahamson of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. This report is part of the NGA-West2 research program sponsored by PEER and funded by the California Earthquake Authority, California Department of Transportation, and the Pacific Gas &...

New PEER Report Published: 2013/15 “A Probabilistic Framework to Include the Effects of Near-Fault Directivity in Seismic Hazard Assessment”

PEER has just published Report No. 2013/15 titled “A Probabilistic Framework to Include the Effects of Near-Fault Directivity in Seismic Hazard Assessment” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Shrey Kumar Shahi and Jack W. Baker of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. This report, supported in part by the Earthquake Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation, is part of the NGA-West2 research program sponsored by PEER and funded by the...

New PEER Report Published: 2013/22 “GEM-PEER Task 3 Project: Selection of a Global Set of Ground Motion Prediction Equations”

PEER has just published Report No. 2013/22 titled “GEM-PEER Task 3 Project: Selection of a Global Set of Ground Motion Prediction Equations” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Jonathan P. Stewart, John Douglas, Mohammad B. Javanbarg, Carola Di Alessandro, Yousef Bozorgnia, Norman A. Abrahamson, David M. Boore, Kenneth W. Campbell, Elise Delavaud, Mustafa Erdik, and Peter J. Stafford.

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New PEER Report Published: 2014/01 “Performance-Based Seismic Assessment of Skewed Bridges”

PEER has just published Report No. 2014/01 titled “Performance-Based Seismic Assessment of Skewed Bridges” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Peyman Kaviani, Farzin Zareian, and Ertugrul Tacifoglu.

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The objective of this study is to assess the seismic behavior of reinforced concrete bridges with skew-angled seat-type abutments through a performance-based methodology. Special attention is...

New PEER Report Published: 2013/24 “NGA-West2 Ground Motion Prediction Equations for Vertical Ground Motions”

PEER has just published Report No. 2013/24 titled “NGA-West2 Ground Motion Prediction Equations for Vertical Ground Motions” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series.

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This report documents the development of the NGA-West2 empirical ground-motion prediction equations (GMPEs) for ground-motion intensity measures derived from recordings of the vertical component of ground motion. The extensive and expanded PEER NGA-...

New PEER Report Published: PEER 2013/25 “Earthquake Engineering for Resilient Communities: 2013 PEER Internship Program Research Report Collection”

PEER coordinates a 10-week summer internship program for undergraduate students that is focused on the theme of earthquake resilient communities. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), twenty interns from a variety of backgrounds and universities participated in the 2013 program.

To show the importance of multidisciplinary cooperation and collaboration, PEER assigns participating undergraduate interns with a project in one of the following disciplines: structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, risk mitigation, urban planning, or public policy. The interns...