PEER Research Highlight

PEER Research Project Highlight: "A Pacific Rim Forum on Regional-Scale Simulations of Earthquake Ground Motions and Infrastructure Response for PBEE of Transportation Systems"

April 9, 2020

The impact of a PEER funded research project "A Pacific Rim Forum on Regional-Scale Simulations of Earthquake Ground Motions and Infrastructure Response for PBEE of Transportation Systems" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is David McCallen, University of Nevada, Reno. The research team includes Norman Abrahamson, University of California, Berkeley, and Floriana Petrone, University of Nevada, Reno.

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PEER Research Project Highlight: "Fire Performance of Steel-Frame Buildings using OpenSees"

April 3, 2020

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Fire Performance of Steel-Frame Buildings using OpenSees" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Erica C. Fischer, PE, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University.

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The development of benchmarked finite element modeling capabilities for structural fire engineering to be performed by...

PEER Research Project Highlight: "Fracture of Deficient Steel Details in Pre-Northridge Transportation Infrastructure"

March 16, 2020

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Fracture of Deficient Steel Details in Pre-Northridge Transportation Infrastructure" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Amit Kanvinde, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis. The research team includes James Malley, Group Director and Senior Principal, Degenkolb, San Francisco and Robert Pekelnicky, Senior Principal, Degenkolb, San Francisco.

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PEER Research Project Highlight: "Identification of Transportation Network Corridors, for Enhancing Network Resilience"

March 13, 2020

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Identification of Transportation Network Corridors, for Enhancing Network Resilience" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Jack W. Baker, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. The research team includes Rodrigo Silva Lopez, PhD Student, Stanford University.

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PEER Research Project Highlight: "Establishing Bridge Column Capacity Limit States through Modeling and Simulation"

September 26, 2019

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Establishing Bridge Column Capacity Limit States through Modeling and Simulation" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Sashi K. Kunnath, Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Davis. The research team includes Jin Zhou, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Davis.

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PEER Research Project Highlight: "Bridge Functionality Instead of Component Damage as PBEE Metric"

September 23, 2019

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Bridge Functionality Instead of Component Damage as PBEE Metric" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigators (PIs) are Michael H. Scott, Professor of Structural Engineering, Oregon State University and Kevin R. Mackie, Professor of Structural Engineering, University of Central Florida.

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PEER Research Project Highlight: "New Seismically Resilient System for HSR, Ports and Vehicular Transportation Systems: Reducing Downtime, Construction Cost and Post-Earthquake Repair"

August 23, 2019

The impact of a PEER funded research project "New Seismically Resilient System for HSR, Ports and Vehicular Transportation Systems: Reducing Downtime, Construction Cost and Post-Earthquake Repair" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigators (PIs) are Dawn Lehman, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, and Charles Roeder, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington. The research team includes Zhao Muzi, Ph.D. Candidate.

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PEER Research Project Highlight: "DEM Modeling of the Influence of Depositional Fabric on the Mechanical Properties of Granular Sediments using XRT Data"

August 15, 2019

The impact of a PEER funded research project "DEM Modeling of the Influence of Depositional Fabric on the Mechanical Properties of Granular Sediments using XRT Data" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Nicholas Sitar, Edward G. Cahill and John R. Cahill Professor, UC Berkeley. The research team includes Fernando Estefan T. Garcia, Post-doctoral student, UC Berkeley.

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PEER Research Project Highlight: "Tsunami-borne Debris Loading on Bridges"

May 15, 2019

The impact of a PEER funded research project, "Tsunami-borne Debris Loading on Bridges" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Ian Buckle, Foundation Professor, University of Nevada, Reno. The research team includes Denis Istrati, Research Assistant Professor, UNR, Seddigheh (Anis) Hasanpour, Graduate Assistant, UNR, and Michael Scott, Oregon State University, Corvallis.

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PEER Research Project Highlight: "Inclusion of Modeling Uncertainty, Parameter Uncertainty and Parameter Estimation Uncertainty in PBSD of Ordinary Standard RC Bridges"

May 7, 2019

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.

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