PEER Research Highlight

PEER Research Project Highlight: "Seismic Evaluation of the California High Speed Rail System"

January 12, 2021

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Seismic Evaluation of the California High Speed Rail System" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is John Stanton, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Washington. The Research Team includes Marc Eberhard, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Washington and Michelle Chang, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Washington.

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PEER Research Project Highlight: "OpenSees Implementation of 3D Embedded Pile Element for Enhanced Soil-pile Interaction Analysis of Bridge Systems Subject to Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading"

August 14, 2020
The impact of a PEER funded research project "OpenSees Implementation of 3D Embedded Pile Element for Enhanced Soil-pile Interaction Analysis of Bridge Systems Subject to Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Pedro Arduino, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington.
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PEER Research Project Highlight: "A Comprehensive Database of RC Column Tests"

July 23, 2020

The impact of a PEER funded research project "A Comprehensive Database of RC Column Tests" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is John W. Wallace, Professor, UCLA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The research team includes Saman Abdullah, Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA.

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Reevaluate Caltrans Seismic Design Criteria to...

PEER Research Project Highlight: "Reduced-Order Models for Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction Analyses of Buried Structures"

June 19, 2020

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Reduced-Order Models for Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction Analyses of Buried Structures" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Domniki Asimaki, Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech. The Co-Principal Investigator is Elnaz Esmaeilzadeh Seylabi, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno. The research team includes Kien T. Nguyen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Caltech.

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PEER Research Project Highlight: "Meshfree Large-Strain Framework for Seismic Response of Ground-Structural Systems: Development and Open Source Tool"

June 15, 2020

The impact of a PEER funded research project "Meshfree Large-Strain Framework for Seismic Response of Ground-Structural Systems: Development and Open Source Tool" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigators (PIs) are Ahmed Elgamal, Professor, UC San Diego and Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen, Professor, UC San Diego. The research team includes Zhijian Qiu, Graduate Student Researcher, UC San Diego.

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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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