PEER Research Highlight

PEER Proposed Research Summary: "Development of Bridge Rapid Assessment Center for Extreme Events (BRACE2)"

July 20, 2024

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Development of Bridge Rapid Assessment Center for Extreme Events (BRACE2)" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Khalid M. Mosalam, Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley. The Research Team includes Chrystal Chern, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley; Claudio M. Perez, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley; Guanren Zhou, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley; Kwok-Tai (Issac) Pang, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley; Amarnath Kasalanati, PEER Associate Director, UC...

PEER Proposed Research Summary: "Hazard-Based Risk and Cost-Benefit Assessment of Temporary Bridges in California"

July 16, 2024

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Hazard-Based Risk and Cost-Benefit Assessment of Temporary Bridges in California" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Floriana Petrone, University of Nevada Reno. The Research Team includes Sashi Kunnath, University of California Davis (Co-PI) and Seyyedmahdi Kashizadeh, University of Nevada, Reno (Graduate Research Assistant).

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PEER Proposed Research Summary: "New Near-Fault Adjustment Factors for Caltrans Seismic Design Criteria (SDC)"

July 16, 2024

The impact of a PEER funded research project "New Near-Fault Adjustment Factors for Caltrans Seismic Design Criteria (SDC)" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Yousef Bozorgnia, University of California, Los Angeles. The Research Team includes Silvia Mazzoni and Esra Zengin, UCLA; Mahdi Bahrampouri, PG&E.

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PEER Proposed Research Summary: "Prioritizing Regional Needs for Recovery Bridges through Post-earthquake Corridor Identification and System Fragility Assessment of the SF Region"

June 27, 2024

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Prioritizing Regional Needs for Recovery Bridges through Post-earthquake Corridor Identification and System Fragility Assessment of the SF Region" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Kenichi Soga, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. The Research Team includes Pengshun Li, PhD student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Tracy Becker, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,...

PEER Proposed Research Summary: "Influence of Fines and Alternative Intensity Measures on Liquefaction Triggering"

June 26, 2024

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Influence of Fines and Alternative Intensity Measures on Liquefaction Triggering" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Scott J. Brandenberg, University of California, Los Angeles. The Co-Principal Investigator is Jonathan P. Stewart, University of California, Los Angeles. The Research Team includes Varun Nigesh, Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA and Kenneth Hudson, Hudson Geotechnics, Inc.

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PEER Proposed Research Summary: "Development of Performance-Based Multi-hazard Engineering (PBME) Framework with Inclusion of Climate Change and Bridge Vulnerability"

June 20, 2024

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Development of Performance-Based Multi-hazard Engineering (PBME) Framework with Inclusion of Climate Change and Bridge Vulnerability" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Michele Barbato, Professor and Director of the CITRIS Climate Initiative, UC Davis. The Co-Principal Investigator is Alexander Forrest, Associate Professor, UC Davis. The Research Team includes Lei Zhou, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Davis.

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PEER Proposed Research Summary: "Remaining fatigue life assessment of bridge decks based upon a numerical-experimental SYSCOM SYStem-COmponent-Material-based approach"

June 5, 2024

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Remaining fatigue life assessment of bridge decks based upon a numerical-experimental SYSCOM SYStem-COmponent-Material-based approach" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Alessandro Palermo, University of California, San Diego. The Research Team includes Joel Conte, Machel Morrison, and Ernesto Hernández, University of California, San Diego.

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PEER Proposed Research Summary: "Uncertainty Quantification for Meeting Bridge Design Objectives"

May 24, 2024

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Uncertainty Quantification for Meeting Bridge Design Objectives" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Tracy Becker, UC Berkeley. The Research Team includes Maria Camila Lopez Ruiz, UC Berkeley; Debra Murphy, Slate Geotechnical Consultant; Tessa Williams, Slate Geotechnical Consultants.

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PEER Research Project Highlight: "Bayesian Inference for Mechanics-Based Digital Twinning of Bridges"

November 22, 2023

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Bayesian Inference for Mechanics-Based Digital Twinning of Bridges" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Hamed Ebrahimian, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno. The Research Team includes Abdelrahman Taha, Graduate Student Researcher, University of Nevada, Reno.

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PEER’s Performance-Based Engineering (PBE...

PEER Research Project Highlight: "Performance Monitoring of Centennial Bridge Using Fiber Optic Sensing"

November 22, 2023

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Performance Monitoring of Centennial Bridge Using Fiber Optic Sensing" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Matt DeJong, University of California, Berkeley. The Research Team includes Laura Lowes, University of Washington.

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Research Impact:

The proposed work could provide very practical guidance on how to install embedded fiber optic...