PEER Research Highlight

The impact of a PEER funded research project, "Inclusion of Modeling Uncertainty, Parameter Uncertainty and Parameter Estimation Uncertainty in PBSD of Ordinary Standard RC Bridges" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Joel P. Conte, Professor of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego. The research team includes Angshuman Deb, Graduate Student Researcher, UC San Diego and Jose I. Restrepo, Professor of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego.

The impact of a PEER funded research project, "Analysis of Fine-Grained Soil Failure in Chiba During 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, and Development of Community Lab Test Database" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigators (PI) are Scott J. Brandenberg, Professor and Associate Dean, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA, and Jonathan P. Stewart, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA. The research team includes Claudia Rangel, Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA and Paolo Zimmaro, Project Scientist, UCLA.

The impact of a PEER funded research project, "A Systematic Computational Framework for Multi-span Bridge PBEE Applications" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Ahmed Elgamal, Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego. The research team includes Jinchi Lu, Associate Project Scientist, UC San Diego and Abdullah S. Almutairi, Graduate Student Researcher, UC San Diego.

The impact of a PEER funded research project, “NGL: Next Generation Liquefaction Database Development and Implications for Engineering Models” is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Jonathan P. Stewart, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, and Steven L. Kramer, Professor, University of Washington. The research team includes Paolo Zimmaro, Project Scientist, University of California, Los Angeles; Scott J.