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PEER Activities 2018—2020, PEER Report 2020/08

Khalid Mosalam
Amarnath Kasalanati
2020

The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) is a multi-institutional research and education center with headquarters at the University of California, Berkeley. PEER’s mission is to (1) develop, validate, and disseminate performance-based engineering (PBE) technologies for buildings and infrastructure networks subjected to earthquakes and other natural hazards, with the goal of achieving community resilience; and (2) equip the earthquake engineering and other extreme-event communities with new tools. This report presents the activities of the Center over the period of July 1,...

Moment Resisting Frames Coupled with Rocking Walls Subjected to Earthquakes, PEER Report 2022-03

Mehrdad Aghagholizadeh
Nicos Makris
2022

The high occupancy levels in urban multistory buildings, in association with current safety considerations inevitably leads to a reconsideration of performance objectives. In view of the appreciable seismic damage and several weak-story failures (some at mid-height) of multistory buildings that have been documented after major earthquakes, there has been a growing effort to develop an alternative hybrid structural system by coupling the response of moment resisting frames with rigid/stiff walls which are allowed to uplift and rock during ground shaking; therefore, enforcing a uniform drift...

Performance-Based Regulation and Regulatory Regimes, PEER Report 2004-06

Peter J. May
Chris Koski
2004

This research addresses the policy implications of performance-based approaches to regulation. Differences in the form of performance-based regulation arise in thinking about how to characterize performance outcomes, what constitutes desired achievements, and how to measure the level of performance that is obtained. Implementing performance-based regulation is as much about changes in regulatory regimes as it is about introduction of performance-based standards.

Four sets of experiences with performance-based regulatory regimes are examined: (1) the “leaky building crisis” in New...