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- 07/19/18 - Gao Wins Awards at Annual Tsinghua Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI) Retreat
- 07/19/18 - PEER PHI Challenge Registration is Open!
- 07/18/18 - SimCenter Releases 4 NEW Educational and Research Tools
- 07/12/18 - New PEER Report 2018/02: “Update of the BC Hydro Subduction Ground-Motion Model using the NGA-Subduction Dataset”
- 07/06/18 - New PEER Report 2018/01: “PEER Annual Report 2017 – 2018”
- 06/25/18 - New PEER Report 2017/11: “Preliminary Studies on the Dynamic Response of a Seismically Isolated Prototype Gen-IV Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor (PGSFR)”
- 06/20/18 - PEER Participation at 11NCEE
- 06/19/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Tsunami Debris: Simulating Hazard and Loads”
- 06/19/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Influence of Vertical Ground Shaking on Design of Bridges Isolated with Friction Pendulum Bearings”
- 06/19/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Fluid–Structure Interaction and Python Scripting Capabilities in OpenSees”
- 06/05/18 - SEAONC Honorary Membership to Comerio
- 05/29/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Accounting for Earthquake Duration in Performance-Based Evaluation and Design of Bridges (UNR-Stanford Collaboration)”
- 05/29/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Development of a Database and a Toolbox for Regional Seismic Risk Assessment of California’s Highway Bridges”
- 05/21/18 - Caltrans Division of Engineering Services is Hiring Bridge Design and Bridge Construction Engineers
- 05/16/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Liquefaction Triggering and Effects at Silty Soil Sites”
- 05/16/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Dissipative Base Connections for Moment Frame Structures in Airports and other Transportation Systems”
- 05/07/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Aftershock Seismic Vulnerability and Time-Dependent Risk Assessment of Bridges”
- 05/07/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Modeling Bay Area Transportation Network Resilience”
- 05/07/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Post-earthquake Fire Performance of Industrial Facilities”
- 05/07/18 - Mead on EMPOWER Team Wins Two Seed Grants
- 04/26/18 - HayWired Scenario Rollout: April 18, 2018
- 04/23/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Implementation and Validation of PM4Sand in OpenSees”
- 04/23/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “High-Performance Computing Based Distributed Multi-Layered City-Scale Transportation Network Tool”
- 04/23/18 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Towards Multi-Tier Modeling of Liquefaction Impacts on Transportation Infrastructure”
- 04/10/18 - PEER Hub ImageNet (PHI) Challenge Pre-Announcement
- 04/04/18 - French Delegation Visits PEER
- 04/04/18 - USGS-EHP RFP – due May 22
- 03/26/18 - Hybrid Simulation Workshop Hosted by PEER and MTS
- 03/23/18 - NISEE-PEER Library
- 03/23/18 - GADRI Meeting, March 2018 – PEER participation
- 03/13/18 - ASCE Journal Article Draws Upon PEER Funded Work
- 03/13/18 - “It’s not if, it’s when”– KPFA Radio Interview with PEER Director
- 03/13/18 - An Updated Overview of BridgePBEE
- 02/23/18 - New PEER Report 2017/10: “Development of Time Histories for IEEE693 Testing and Analysis (Including Seismically Isolated Equipment)”
- 02/23/18 - New PEER Report 2017/09: “R” Package for Computation of Earthquake Ground-Motion Response Spectra
- 02/16/18 - 2018 Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship Applications Available
- 02/15/18 - Summer 2018 Internships with San Francisco’s Earthquake Safety Implementation Program
- 02/13/18 - Stephen A. Mahin – February 10, 2018
- 02/07/18 - Two PEER Colleagues Elected to National Academy of Engineering
- 02/06/18 - PEER Director Mosalam Presents Future Vision
at 2018 PEER Annual Meeting
- 02/05/18 - OSU Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program: Application Deadline February 16, 2018
- 01/31/18 - 2018 PEER Annual Meeting
- 01/30/18 - Winners of the 2017 PEER Blind Prediction Contest Announced
- 01/25/18 - Autodesk Internship Opportunity: Industrialized Construction & Fabrication Engineer
- 01/09/18 - 2018 NHERI REU Program: Summer Applications
- 01/03/18 - Gary C. Hart – October 21, 2017
- 12/15/17 - New PEER Report 2017/08: “Influence of Kinematic SSI on Foundation Input Motions for Bridges on Deep Foundations”
- 12/07/17 - PEER-USGS Workshop – HayWired and Building Codes
- 12/07/17 - PEER-TSRP Funds 11 Full Projects
- 12/05/17 - Message from PEER Director: Recent Events, New Projects Funded for over $1Million, and the 2018 PEER Annual Meeting
- 11/06/17 - NHERI@UCSD 3rd Annual User Workshop
- 11/03/17 - PEER-TSRP to Fund Six Seed Proposals
- 10/31/17 - New PEER Report 2017/07: “A Nonlinear Kinetic Model for Multi-Stage Friction Pendulum Systems”
- 10/18/17 - PEER Bridge Bent Blind Prediction Contest
- 10/10/17 - UNR Becomes a New PEER Core Institution
- 10/09/17 - Fire Prediction, Response, and Suppression in the 21st Century
- 09/21/17 - New PEER Report 2016/08: “Resilience of Critical Structures, Infrastructure, and Communities”
- 09/20/17 - Message from PEER Director:
Recent Natural Hazards, September 20, 2017
- 09/18/17 - PEER Seminars: TBI Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings Version 2
- 09/12/17 - Request for Proposals – PEER Transportation Systems Research Program
- 09/05/17 - Project Manager Position with GeoHazards International – Menlo Park, California
- 09/05/17 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Testing and Hybrid Simulation of Environmentally Damaged Bridge Columns”
- 08/23/17 - Steven B. Tipping – August 11, 2017
- 08/21/17 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Resolution of Non-Convergence Issues in Seismic Response Analysis of Bridges”
- 08/04/17 - Peer Reviewers – City of Long Beach
- 08/03/17 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Stochastic Modeling and Simulation of Near-Fault Ground Motions for use in PBEE”
- 08/03/17 - Video Now Available – PEER Seminar Series: Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Petrochemical Plants under Seismic Loading
- 07/28/17 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Remediation of Liquefaction Effects on Embankments Using Soil-Cement Reinforcements”
- 07/18/17 - Video Now Available – PEER Seminar Series: Structural Health Monitoring with Application to Aeronautic Nacelles
- 07/12/17 - The NISEE-PEER Library Membership Renewal
- 07/06/17 - PEER Seminar Series, July 24, 2017: Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Petrochemical Plants under Seismic Loading
- 06/30/17 - New PEER Report 2017/01: “PEER Annual Report 2016”
- 06/22/17 - Earthquake Early Warning Software Engineer Positions with USGS
- 06/21/17 - 2017 SEAOC Convention: Grant Opportunities
- 06/20/17 - 2017 PEER Internship Program
- 06/07/17 - SEAONC Honor Award to Mahin
- 05/31/17 - New PEER Report 2016/10: “Performance-Based Robust Nonlinear Seismic Analysis with Application to Reinforced Concrete Highway Bridge Systems”
- 05/26/17 - National Science Foundation Headquarters Moving to Alexandria, Virginia
- 05/26/17 - EERI Employment Opportunities: Post-Graduate Internship, Graduate Fellowships & PNW Scenario Researcher
- 05/11/17 - New PEER Report 2017/06: “Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings” Version 2.03
- 05/05/17 - PEER Workshop, May 23, 2017: Structural Health Monitoring
- 05/05/17 - PEER Seminar Series, May 19, 2017: Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures: Application to Aeronautic Nacelles
- 05/03/17 - Job Announcement: Interdisciplinary Engineer, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration
- 05/01/17 - Assistant, Associate, or Full Research Scientist in Structural Engineering – UC San Diego
- 04/26/17 - PEER Shakes It Up at CalDay 2017
- 04/14/17 - 2017 Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship Applications Available
- 04/04/17 - New PEER Report 2017/05: “Recommendations for Ergodic Nonlinear Site Amplification in Central and Eastern North America”
- 04/04/17 - New PEER Report 2017/04: “Expert Panel Recommendations for Ergodic Site Amplification in Central and Eastern North America”
- 04/03/17 - New PEER Report 2017/03: “NGA-East Ground-Motion Models for the U.S. Geological Survey National Seismic Hazard Maps”
- 03/30/17 - New PEER Report 2017/02: “U.S.–New Zealand–Japan International Workshop, Liquefaction-Induced Ground Movement Effects, University of California, Berkeley, California 2–4 November 2016”
- 03/29/17 - New PEER Service to Industry Web Page
- 03/28/17 - GADRI Summit – PEER Engagement
- 03/27/17 - National Science Foundation Awards $11M to Create a Computational Modeling and Simulation Center for Natural Hazards Engineering
- 03/15/17 - The Need for Mitigation Preparedness
- 03/15/17 - Core Institutions Hold the Future of Earthquake Engineering
- 03/07/17 - PEER Appoints Amarnath Kasalanati, PhD, PE, as Associate Director
- 02/28/17 - PEER-UC Berkeley Lab Tour
- 02/16/17 - NHERI Summer 2017 REU Program – Applications Due March 1
- 02/09/17 - Four PEER Colleagues Elected to NAE
- 01/31/17 - 2017 UC Pacific Rim Forum:
Earthquake Resilience of Nuclear Facilities
- 01/06/17 - Message from PEER Director:
Major Activities & News from 2016
- 01/05/17 - PEER – 16WCEE Participation
- 12/20/16 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Probabilistic Performance-Based Optimal Seismic Design of Isolated Bridge Structures”
- 12/14/16 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Geometrically Exact Nonlinear Modeling of Multi-stage Friction Pendulum Systems”
- 12/14/16 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Next Generation Liquefaction: Japan Data Collection”
- 12/14/16 - Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) Regional Program Manager position with USGS
- 12/08/16 - Recent Earthquakes Raise Attention to Mitigation Planning
- 11/30/16 - Full GEER Report on the August 24, 2016 Central Italy Earthquake
- 11/28/16 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Performance Based Tsunami Engineering II”
- 11/28/16 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Performance Based Tsunami Engineering II – Data Set”
- 11/28/16 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Influence of Kinematic SSI on Foundation Input Motions for Bridges on Deep Foundations”
- 11/15/16 - Executive Director Position – EERI
- 11/15/16 - Regional Earthquake Program Manager, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Oakland, CA
- 11/15/16 - ACI “Excellence in Structural Engineering Research” Award for Bridge Column Capacity Research Paper
- 11/09/16 - Support PEER during the “Big Give”
- 11/09/16 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “System Level Performance Evaluation of Earthquake Resilient Bridges Using Hybrid Simulation”
- 11/07/16 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Towards Next Generation P-Y Curves – Part 1: Evaluation of the State of Art and Identification of Recent Research Developments and Potentials”
- 10/28/16 - Vitelmo V. Bertero – October 24, 2016
- 10/22/16 - PEER Seminar Series, November 14: Tail-Equivalent Linearization for Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamic Analysis
- 10/18/16 - Request for Proposals on Non-Convergence – PEER Lifelines Program
- 10/18/16 - 2016 Central Italy Earthquake – Lessons from the Field – Briefing, October 28, 2016
- 10/18/16 - Existing Tall Buildings Case Study Project Receives a “2016 Excellence in Structural Engineering” Award from the Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC)
- 10/09/16 - Ray W. Clough: October 8, 2016
- 10/04/16 - New PEER Report 2016/06: “California Earthquake Early Warning System Benefit Study”
- 09/30/16 - CEA Awards $3.4 Million to PEER to Quantify
Seismic Performance of Retrofitted Homes
- 09/27/16 - Assistant Professor Position in Structural Engineering – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.
- 09/19/16 - 2016 COSMOS Annual Meeting and Technical Session – November 18, 2016 – Registration Open
- 09/19/16 - New PEER Report 2016/07: “Hybrid Simulation Theory for a Classical Nonlinear Dynamical System”
- 09/06/16 - PEER Lab Highlight – Service to Industry & Seismic Qualification Testing
- 08/26/16 - PEER Response to M6.2 Norcia, Italy Earthquake
- 08/23/16 - CA Seismic Safety Commission Issues Priority Recommendations from the South Napa Earthquake
- 08/23/16 - New PEER Report 2016/04: “The Mw 6.0 South Napa Earthquake of August 24, 2014: A Wake-up Call for Renewed Investment in Seismic Resilience across California”
- 08/22/16 - USRC & Clark Pacific Webinar Series: The Case for Resilient Design
- 08/16/16 - SMIP16 Seminar on Utilization of Strong-Motion Data
- 08/16/16 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Next Generation Liquefaction (NGL) Project”
- 08/12/16 - PEER Job Announcement: Associate Director – Operations and Strategic Initiatives
- 08/08/16 - 2016 PEER Summer Internship Program
- 08/08/16 - PEER Supported Tsunami Research Published in Journal of Disaster Research
- 08/05/16 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Swarm-Enabled Infrastructure-Mapping for Rapid Damage Assessment Following Earthquakes”
- 08/01/16 - New PEER Report 2016/05: “Ground-Motion Prediction Equations for Arias Intensity Consistent with the NGA-West2 Ground-Motion Models”
- 07/27/16 - PEER Research Project Highlight: “Ground Motions and Selection Tools for PEER Research Program”
- 07/12/16 - Hanze University of Applied Sciences seeks expert in earthquake-resistant construction
- 07/12/16 - SEAONC Honor Awards to Deierlein and Kang
- 06/20/16 - New PEER Report 2015/14: “Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Tall Buildings in California: Case Study of a 35-Story Steel Moment-Resisting Frame Building in San Francisco”
- 06/17/16 - Structural Laboratory (SL) Engineer Position, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- 06/07/16 - PEER Seminar Series, June 16: Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Observations of the April 16 Ecuador Earthquake
- 06/07/16 - New PEER Report 2016/03: “Simulation Confidence in Tsunami-Driven Overland Flow”
- 06/07/16 - New PEER Report 2016/02: “Semi-Automated Procedure for Windowing Time Series and Computing Fourier Amplitude Spectra for the NGA-West2 Database”
- 06/06/16 - First International Resilience workshop (IRW2016) – Torino, Italy
- 06/02/16 - Job Announcement: GeoHazards International (GHI) Project Manager
- 06/02/16 - Job Announcement: Research Director, CEA
- 05/25/16 - IT Specialists positions with USGS (Menlo Park, Pasadena, and Seattle) for Earthquake Early Warning Project
- 05/25/16 - Post-Doctoral Research Position: Glenn Department of Civil Engineering Clemson University
- 05/24/16 - OpenSees Days Workshop 2016 Recap
- 05/12/16 - New PEER Report 2016/01: “A Methodology for the Estimation of Kappa (κ) from Large Datasets: Example Application to Rock sites in the NGA-East Database and Implications on Design Motions”
- 05/11/16 - System Administrator position at the USGS (Menlo Park)
- 05/11/16 - Federal Announcement: Efforts to Increase Community Resilience
- 04/25/16 - PEER Response to M7.8 Muisne, Ecuador Earthquake
- 04/25/16 - PEER Response to M7 Kumamoto Earthquake
- 04/22/16 - OpenSees Days 2016 – Registration Now Closed
- 04/15/16 - Director’s Message: Bozorgnia Stepping Down from PEER
- 04/12/16 - ASCE SEI Guests Visit the PEER Earthquake Simulator Lab
- 03/23/16 - PEER Seminar Series, April 18: Post-Earthquake Responses to Risk – 1906 to Now
- 03/15/16 - New PEER Report 2015/13: “Self-Centering Precast Concrete Dual-Steel-Shell Columns for Accelerated Bridge Construction: Seismic Performance, Analysis, and Design”
- 03/15/16 - PEER Earthquake Simulator Lab Tour with ASCE SEI
- 03/15/16 - PEER Seminar Series, April 5: Quantifying the Resilience of Civil Infrastructure Systems
- 03/11/16 - KQED Science Series Features PEER Labs Shaking Table
- 03/08/16 - PEER Seminar Series, March 14: Earthquake Resilience – A New Context
- 03/08/16 - PEER Seminar Series, March 30: TEMBLOR App
- 03/07/16 - PEER BIP Program – Join the Partnership
- 03/07/16 - Call for Papers: Pure and Applied Geophysics Special Edition
- 02/17/16 - New PEER Report 2015/12: “Shear-Flexure Interaction Modeling for Reinforced Concrete Structural Walls and Columns under Reversed Cyclic Loading”
- 02/11/16 - PEER Advising on NBC News Report: Impetus for Proposed Legislation for School Seismic Safety
- 02/09/16 - 2016 PEER Annual Meeting: Presentations on the Website
- 02/08/16 - PEER Response to M6.4 Pingtung (Taiwan) Earthquake
- 02/08/16 - Director’s Message:
PEER Annual Meeting, White House Earthquake Resilience Summit, and Executive Order on Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard
- 02/05/16 - Moehle Delivers CEE Spring Distinguished Lecture
- 02/05/16 - PEER Advising on Preparedness Site: QuakeCAFE – Attend the Public Forum on February 11, 2016
- 01/19/16 - Summer 2016 Internship: Heising-Simons UCB-GHI Program Applications Available
- 01/19/16 - Erasmus+ Masters in Earthquake Engineering and/or Engineering Seismology (MEEES) – Application Now Available
- 01/19/16 - 2016 Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship Applications Available
- 01/11/16 - Message from PEER Director Khalid Mosalam
- 12/22/15 - New PEER Report 2015/11: “Selection and Scaling of Ground Motions for Nonlinear Response History Analysis of Buildings in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering”
- 12/10/15 - PEER Receives ATC-SEI Award for TBI Guidelines
- 12/08/15 - New PEER Report 2015/10: “Structural Behavior of Column-Bent Cap Beam-Box Girder Systems in Reinforced Concrete Bridges Subjected to Gravity and Seismic Loads, Part II: Hybrid Simulation and Post-Test Analysis”
- 11/24/15 - Prof. Robert Olshansky: “Cities, Earthquakes, and Time” now on PEER’s YouTube Channel
- 11/17/15 - PEER Supported Tsunami Research Published in Computer Journal
- 11/17/15 - Support PEER during the “Big Give”
- 11/04/15 - 2016 PEER Annual Meeting, January 28 – 29, 2016. Registration Now Open!
- 11/03/15 - PEER Lab Highlight – Video Now Available!
- 10/23/15 - Two Postdoctoral Fellow Positions: University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- 10/20/15 - LA Seismic Safety Law of October 9, 2015 & PEER Research
- 10/15/15 - Tsunami Research in Coastal Engineering Publications
- 10/15/15 - USGS in Menlo Park Seeks Postdoctoral Scholar
- 10/12/15 - Khalid Mosalam Appointed as PEER Director
- 10/02/15 - PEER Labs Receive NSF Funding
- 10/01/15 - New PEER Report 2015/09: “Structural Behavior of Column-Bent Cap Beam-Box Girder Systems in Reinforced Concrete Bridges Subjected to Gravity and Seismic Loads, Part I: Pre-Test Analysis and Quasi-Static Experiments”
- 09/28/15 - 2015 COSMOS Technical Session – November 13, 2015 – Registration Open
- 09/28/15 - Engineering Seismology Faculty Position: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- 09/23/15 - Kang Inducted into SEAOC College of Fellows
- 09/16/15 - ATC Announces Request for Proposals from Southern California Engineering Firms – Deadline September 25, 2015
- 09/14/15 - PEER Organizes Meeting of American and Iranian Earthquake Engineers at AUA
- 09/08/15 - SAVE the DATE – January 28-29, 2016: PEER Annual Meeting
- 08/27/15 - FEMA-NEHRP Seeks Technical/Scientific Professional
- 08/26/15 - New PEER Report 2015/08: “NGA-East: Adjustments to Median Ground-Motion Models for Central and Eastern North America”
- 08/26/15 - 16th WCEE 2017: Call For Abstracts
- 08/26/15 - Nepal Reconnaissance Briefing Presentation Videos Online
- 08/20/15 - OpenSees Video Tutorial
- 08/17/15 - OpenSees on the Cloud: Faster & Cheaper
- 08/12/15 - Siebel Energy Institute Seed Grant to Cimellaro & Mahin
- 08/11/15 - NGA-WEST Project Receives a “2015 Excellence in Structural Engineering” Award from the Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC)
- 08/06/15 - PEER Partnership with Big Data Super-Freeway
- 08/05/15 - PEER-OSU Awarded NSF-RAPID Grant for Post-Disaster Data Collection following the 2015 Nepal Earthquake
- 07/29/15 - PEER at First Responders Appreciation Day, July 23 – CA State Fair — a great success!
- 07/29/15 - 2015 PEER Internship Program Summer Interns
- 07/22/15 - PEER-EERI-GEER Gorkha (Nepal) Earthquake Briefing – August 13, 2015
- 07/21/15 - PEER at First Responders Appreciation Day, July 23 – CA State Fair
- 07/15/15 - PEER Receives a Research Contract on Seismic Performance of Lifelines
- 07/09/15 - PEER-UC Berkeley Shaking Table Featured in STRUCTURE Magazine
- 07/02/15 - PEER Welcomes Erika Donald
- 06/23/15 - RenaissanceRe Funding Supports PEER in Nepal
- 06/23/15 - Nuclear Resilience: UC Pacific Rim Forum held at UC Berkeley
- 06/23/15 - Tsunami Program: Bridge Design Guidelines Kick-off Meeting held at USC
- 06/23/15 - Bozorgnia Appointed Professor in Residence at UC Berkeley
- 06/23/15 - New PEER-UC Berkeley Lab Manager
- 06/23/15 - Registration open for 2015 SEAOC Convention: SEAOC Rocks!
- 06/23/15 - Registration open for ATC-SEI Conference– special for PEER members
- 06/19/15 - New PEER Report 2015/07: “NGA-East: Ground-Motion Standard Deviation Models for Central and Eastern North America”
- 05/22/15 - Gorkha (Nepal) Earthquake: PEER Strong Motion Records, Server Room Video
- 05/20/15 - New PEER Report 2015/06: “Adjusting Ground-Motion Intensity Measures to a Reference Site for which V(S30) = 3000 m/sec”
- 05/19/15 - PEER Receives Research Contract to Develop Design Guidelines for Tsunami Loads
- 05/19/15 - New PEER Report 2015/05: “Hybrid Simulation of Seismic Isolation Systems Applied to an APR-1400 Nuclear Power Plant”
- 05/13/15 - PEER SERVER MAINTENANCE May 17, 8am-3pm
- 04/29/15 - Join the PEER Team – Communications
- 04/28/15 - New PEER Report 2015/02: “A Full-Scale, Single-Column Bridge Bent Tested by Shake-Table Excitation”
- 04/27/15 - PEER Response to M7.8 Nepal Earthquake
- 04/20/15 - Fenves Named President of UT at Austin
- 04/09/15 - New PEER Report 2015/04 “NGA-East: Median Ground-Motion Models for the Central and Eastern North America Region”
- 04/09/15 - New PEER Report: 2015/01 “Concrete Column Blind Prediction Contest 2010: Outcomes and Observations”
- 04/09/15 - PEER Research in ACI Structural Journal: Post-earthquake Axial Capacity of Circular Bridge Columns
- 04/09/15 - New PEER Report: 2015/03 “Single Series Solution for the Rectangular Fiber-Reinforced Elastomeric Isolator Compression Modulus”
- 03/30/15 - SSA Seeks New Executive Director
- 03/18/15 - PEER Lab at UC Berkeley Accredited for 3 More Tests: ASTM E2126 & ANSI / AISC 341
- 03/01/15 - Erasmus+ Masters in Earthquake Engineering and/or Engineering Seismology (MEEES) – Application Deadline Updated
- 03/01/15 - PEER Colleagues Elected to National Academy of Engineering
- 01/25/15 - New PEER Report: 2014/20 “Stochastic Modeling and Simulation of Near-Fault Ground Motions for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering”
- 01/25/15 - New PEER Report: 2014/18 “Three-Dimensional Beam-Truss Model for Reinforced-Concrete Walls and Slabs Subjected to Cyclic Static or Dynamic Loading”
- 01/25/15 - 2015 Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship Applications Available
- 01/19/15 - Summer 2015 Internship: Heising-Simons UCB-GHI Program Applications Available
- 01/13/15 - New PEER Report: 2014/19 “Seismic Response of a Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Bridge Column Detailed for Accelerated Bridge Construction”
- 01/13/15 - New PEER Report: 2014/16 “Guidelines for Performing Hazard-Consistent One-Dimensional Ground Response Analysis for Ground Motion Prediction”
- 01/13/15 - nees@berkeley: October 28 IEEE Workshop Presentations Posted
- 01/13/15 - PEER-UCB Lab: Wine Barrel Testing
- 01/13/15 - CA Earthquake Authority RFQP #08-14: Program Manager for Study to Quantify Performance Effects of Retrofits of Homeowner Dwellings
- 01/03/15 - Nigel Priestley: December 23, 2014
- 12/15/14 - Oregon State University Hosts PEER Tsunami Modeling Workshop
- 12/12/14 - Benchmarking predictive analysis tools and methods – Register now for 2015-2017 program
- 12/10/14 - Los Angeles Releases Earthquake Plan
- 12/04/14 - 2015 ATC-SEI Seismic Conference: Call for Abstracts and Sessions due January 22, 2015
- 12/01/14 - PEER Researchers in Bridge Design & Engineering Magazine
- 11/25/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/17 “PEER NGA-East Database”
- 11/20/14 - Support PEER educational and professional outreach as part of the “Big Give”
- 11/19/14 - Erasmus+ Masters in Earthquake Engineering and/or Engineering Seismology (MEEES) – Application Now Available
- 11/12/14 - NGA-East SSHAC 2C/3A Workshop Presentations and Videos Now Online
- 11/12/14 - Earthquake Seismology Research Position at USGS
- 11/06/14 - New Book: “Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings”
- 10/17/14 - SCEC Science Collaboration Plan Accepting Proposals
- 10/14/14 - Risk Specialist Position Available in New Zealand
- 10/10/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/15 “NGA-East Regionalization Report: Comparison of Four Crustal Regions within Central and Eastern North America using Waveform Modeling and 5%-Damped Pseudo-Spectral Acceleration Response”
- 10/09/14 - Research Position in Ground-Motion Characterization at the U.S. Geological Survey
- 10/09/14 - NGA-West2 Featured in Special Edition of Earthquake Spectra
- 10/03/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/14 “Scaling Relations between Seismic Moment and Rupture Area of Earthquakes in Stable Continental Regions”
- 09/18/14 - South Napa Earthquake Briefing Video Now Available
- 09/17/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/13 Preliminary Notes and Observations on the August 24, 2014, South Napa Earthquake
- 09/16/14 - PEER Welcomes New Web Developer/Database Administrator
- 09/15/14 - Faculty Position in Intelligent Infrastructure Available at UC Irvine
- 09/15/14 - Reconnaissance Technology Available from PEER
- 09/09/14 - South Napa Earthquake Reconnaissance Briefing and Live Webcast on September 15, 2014
- 09/08/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/12 “Reference-Rock Site Conditions for Central and Eastern North America: Part II – Attenuation (Kappa) Definition”
- 09/08/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/11 “Reference-Rock Site Conditions for Central and Eastern North America: Part I – Velocity Definition”
- 09/03/14 - OpenSees Days 2014 Registration Open
- 09/03/14 - Loma Prieta 25 Symposium on October 16, 2014
- 09/02/14 - Wine Storage in Earthquake Regions – Research from PEER
- 08/25/14 - Get the latest from PEER: Follow, Like, and Subscribe
- 08/24/14 - PEER Researchers Investigate American Canyon Earthquake
- 08/22/14 - Performance of Conventional and Innovative Special Structural Walls – Video Available!
- 08/15/14 - PEER Welcomes Grace Kang, SE, as Director of Communications
- 08/14/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/10 “Evaluation of Collapse and Non-Collapse of Parallel Bridges Affected by Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading”
- 08/11/14 - Scholarships Available for Urban Land Institute Resilience Conference in September
- 08/05/14 - Postdoctoral fellowship for nonlinear site response analysis of the Canterbury earthquakes
- 08/05/14 - NGA-East SSHAC Workshop Presentations and Video Now Online
- 08/04/14 - GHI/PEER Interns Gain Real-World Experience in India
- 07/17/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/09 “PEER Arizona Strong-Motion Database and GMPEs Evaluation”
- 06/24/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/08 “Unbonded Pretensioned Bridge Columns with Rocking Detail”
- 06/06/14 - PEER NGA-West2 Online Ground Motion Database Updated and Expanded
- 05/27/14 - Northridge 20 Symposium Summary Report Released
- 05/23/14 - OpenSees Workshop in Bristol, England, June 25-26
- 05/23/14 - NGA-East 2014 First Quarter Technical Update Now Available!
- 05/15/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/05 “Seismic Velocity Site Characterization of Thirty-One Chilean Seismometer Stations by Spectral Analysis of Surface Wave Dispersion”
- 05/13/14 - OpenSees Days in Portugal July 3-4, 2014
- 05/08/14 - PEER Seeks Database Administrator
- 04/28/14 - 32nd GeoEngineering Distinguished Lecture Series on May 9
- 04/25/14 - Ten Successful Years of Research within nees@berkeley workshop on May 27-28, 2014
- 04/22/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/04 “Effect of Vertical Acceleration on Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Columns”
- 04/14/14 - Project Seismologist/Engineer Opportunity at URS Los Angeles Office
- 04/10/14 - Caltrans Director Speaks on the Future of Transportation in California on April 15
- 03/24/14 - SEAONC Dinner Meeting on Older Concrete Building Seismic Risk on April 8, 2014
- 03/18/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2013/26 “Urban Earthquake Engineering, Proceedings of the U.S.-Iran Seismic Workshop”
- 03/18/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/03 “Retest of Thirty-Year-Old Neoprene Isolation Bearings”
- 03/13/14 - Post-Doctoral fellowship opportunity at University of Canterbury, NZ
- 03/13/14 - Three years of NSF funding for PEER Internship Program inspires 43 undergrads to pursue earthquake engineering and mitigation research
- 03/10/14 - Structural Analysis Internship at Validus Research
- 03/06/14 - Ashford Appointed Dean of OSU College of Engineering
- 03/06/14 - Remembering Mark Ketchum
- 03/03/14 - Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship 2014 – for Masters’ and PhD Students
- 03/03/14 - NIST Graduate Student Research Opportunity
- 02/27/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/02 “Theoretical Development of Hybrid Simulation Applied to Plate Structures”
- 02/27/14 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2013/25 “Earthquake Engineering for Resilient Communities: 2013 PEER Internship Program Research Report Collection”
- 02/26/14 - Discovering OpenSees Learning Seminars on Feb 28 and Mar 27, 2014
- 02/21/14 - 10th Annual NEES/E-Defense Planning Meeting Report Released
- 02/20/14 - NGA-West2 Earthquake Spectra Pre-print Papers now available
- 02/19/14 - Stanford School of Earth Sciences Distinguished Lecture on February 24
- 02/13/14 - ABAG seeking Regional Earthquake and Hazards Specialist for limited-duration position
- 02/12/14 - PEER Summer Interns Conclude Their Research Experience at Northridge 20 Symposium
- 02/07/14 - PEER NGA-West2 research program releases Excel file of five horizontal Ground Motion Prediction Equations
- 02/06/14 - Moehle and Fenves Elected to National Academy of Engineering
- 02/06/14 - nees@berkeley Quasistatic Test Scheduled for Feb 10
- 01/29/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2013/24 “NGA-West2 Ground Motion Prediction Equations for Vertical Ground Motions”
- 01/28/14 - New PEER Report Published: 2014/01 “Performance-Based Seismic Assessment of Skewed Bridges”
- 01/27/14 - ASCE Seeks Committee Members for New Shake-Table Testing Standard for Nonstructural Components
- 01/24/14 - NGA Panel Discussion at US Society of Dams Meeting, April 10
- 12/23/13 - Videos showing nees@berkeley experiments on nonstructural building cladding systems and residential seismic isolation are now available!
- 12/20/13 - Join former California Governor Pete Wilson and Seismic Safety Leaders at Northridge 20
- 12/18/13 - Validus Sponsors PEER Lifelines Program
- 12/02/13 - New PEER Report Published: 2013/22 “GEM-PEER Task 3 Project: Selection of a Global Set of Ground Motion Prediction Equations”
- 12/02/13 - Early Registration Discount for Northridge 20 Ends Friday
- 11/21/13 - New PEER Report Published: 2013/23 “Coordinated Planning and Preparedness for Fire Following Major Earthquakes”
- 11/19/13 - OpenSees: An Update, Webinar, and Back on the Road
- 11/18/13 - NEES/EERI Research-to-Practice Webinar November 20
- 11/13/13 - NGA-East 2013 Third Quarter Technical Update Now Available!
- 11/12/13 - NGA-West2 research spurs updates to Ground Motion Site Amplification Factors in Building Code
- 11/04/13 - Register Now for Northridge 20 Symposium on January 16-17, 2014
- 11/01/13 - Faculty Position at USC Civil Engineering
- 11/01/13 - Registration Open for 2013 COSMOS Technical Session on November 22
- 10/25/13 - New PEER Report Published: 2013/15 “A Probabilistic Framework to Include the Effects of Near-Fault Directivity in Seismic Hazard Assessment”
- 10/24/13 - Mary Comerio Distinguished Lecture Now Online
- 10/17/13 - Nineteen PEER Reports Published to Date in 2013
- 10/17/13 - New PEER Report Published: 2013/14 “Hanging-Wall Scaling using Finite-Fault Simulations”
- 10/09/13 - Hybrid Simulation of Multi Story Structural Systems Through Collapse tested at nees@berkeley – video now available!
- 10/02/13 - Toward Rapid Return to Occupancy in Unbraced Steel Frames tested at nees@berkeley – video now available!
- 09/26/13 - A Busy Summer of OpenSees: New Elements, New Tools, and Lots of Training!
- 09/24/13 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Workflows in the Clouds with NEEShub” on Sept 30 and Oct 1
- 09/23/13 - New PEER Report Published: 2013/21 “Seismic Design and Performance of Bridges with Columns on Rocking Foundations”
- 09/17/13 - New PEER Report Published: 2013/20 “Experimental and Analytical Studies on the Seismic Behavior of Conventional and Hybrid Braced Frames”
- 09/12/13 - Registration Open for EERI Seminar on PEER NGA-West2 Project
- 09/11/13 - SMIP13 Seminar on October 10, 2013
- 09/09/13 - New PEER Report Published: 2013/19 “Toward Resilient Communities: A Performance-Based Engineering Framework for Design and Evaluation of the Built Environment”
- 09/01/13 - Record Number of Undergraduates Participate in the 2013 PEER Internship Program
- 08/28/13 - PEER Interns learn about resiliency, research ethics, and more during Orientation Program
- 08/27/13 - 20th Anniversary Symposium on 1994 Northridge Earthquake on January 16-17, 2014
- 08/14/13 - NGA-East 2013 Second Quarter Technical Update Now Available!
- 07/30/13 - OpenSees Days 2013: Registration Open & Call for Speakers from Industry or Academia
- 07/25/13 - Yousef Bozorgnia Appointed EQS Associate Editor
- 07/25/13 - Planning meeting for NEES/E-Defense Collaborative Research Program scheduled for December 11-13, 2013
- 07/24/13 - NGA-East Special Session at SMiRT-22: Last Chance to Register at Special Price!
- 07/16/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2013/18 “Identification of Site Parameters that Improve Predictions of Site Amplification”
- 07/16/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2013/17 “Response Spectrum Analysis of Concrete Gravity Dams Including Dam-Water-Foundation Interaction”
- 07/10/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2013/16 “Effect of hoop reinforcement spacing on the cyclic response of large reinforced concrete special moment frame beams”
- 05/15/13 - NGA-West2 Flatfiles and GMPE Reports Now Available!
- 05/13/13 - NGA-East 2013 First Quarter Technical Update Now Available!
- 05/09/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2013/02 “Hybrid Simulation of the Seismic Response of Squat Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls”
- 05/06/13 - EERI/FEMA Graduate Fellowship Application Deadline May 13
- 04/24/13 - Help Select the Winning Team for the 7NSC Undergraduate Bridge Seismic Design Competition
- 04/10/13 - 10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering
- 03/28/13 - Seismic Performance of Steel Column Splices tested at nees@berkeley – video now available!
- 03/26/13 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Modelling Structures Subject to Fire” on March 27
- 03/26/13 - NGA-East Special Session at SMiRT-22: One-Day Registration now open!
- 03/05/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2013/01 “Housing Recovery in Chile: A Qualitative Mid- program Review”
- 03/05/13 - Eleven PEER Reports published in 2012
- 03/05/13 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Conducting Hybrid Simulations with OpenSees/OpenFresco” on March 7
- 02/28/13 - O’Rourke speaks about earthquake effects: Watch Live on March 7 or Watch Video on YouTube
- 02/25/13 - Register Now for 2013 LATBSDC Annual Conference
- 02/11/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/103 “Performance-Based Seismic Demand Assessment of Concentrically Braced Steel Frame Buildings”
- 02/11/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/08 “Guidelines for Estimation of Shear Wave Velocity Profiles”
- 02/11/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/07 “Earthquake Engineering for Resilient Communities: 2012 PEER Internship Program Research Report Collection”
- 02/11/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/06 “Fragilities for Precarious Rocks at Yucca Mountain”
- 02/11/13 - FM Global Grad & Undergrad Internships in Loss Prevention Engineering and Research
- 02/11/13 - NEEShub Boot Camp at UC Berkeley on Feb 21
- 02/05/13 - Bridge Design Competition for Undergrads at 7NSC – REGISTER YOUR TEAM BEFORE MARCH 1!
- 02/04/13 - FM Global seeking Entry & Senior Level Research Scientists in Natural Hazards
- 02/04/13 - PEER’s Tall Buildings Initiative wins WSSPC Award of Excellence
- 01/31/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/05 “Development of Simplified Analysis Procedure for Piles in Laterally Spreading Layered Soils”
- 01/31/13 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/04 “Unbonded Pre-Tensioned Columns for Bridges in Seismic Regions”
- 01/23/13 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Modeling SCB Frames Using Beam-column Elements” on January 30 & 31
- 01/22/13 - PEER Internship Program for Undergraduates – Now Accepting Applications for Summer 2013
- 01/18/13 - Abstracts for GMPE Session at the IASPEI – IAHS – IAPSO Meeting Due Feb 4
- 01/15/13 - Register Now for 2013 EERI Annual Meeting
- 12/14/12 - PEER Summer Interns Conclude Their Research Experience at 2012 PEER Annual Meeting
- 12/12/12 - Graduate Student Showcase at the 2012 PEER Annual Meeting Poster Reception
- 12/12/12 - PEER Experts a prominent fixture at the 15WCEE
- 11/27/12 - Last chance to register: USGS National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project Workshop
- 11/20/12 - SSA 2013 Special Session: Implementation of Physics-Based Earthquake Source and Ground Motion Findings in Engineering Solution Models
- 11/13/12 - EERI Distinguished Lecture by Tom O’Rourke “The New Normal for Natural Disasters” on Dec 6
- 11/06/12 - Last Chance to Register! NGA-West2 Preliminary Results Workshop on Nov 15
- 11/06/12 - Bridge Design Competition for Undergrads at 7NSC – TEAM REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
- 11/05/12 - Tsunami Vulnerability Function Lecture at UC Berkeley
- 11/02/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/102 “Procedure to Restart an Interrupted Hybrid Simulation: Addendum to PEER Report 2010/103”
- 11/02/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/03 “Experimental and Analytical Studies on Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Seismically Vulnerable Beam-Column Joints”
- 10/23/12 - BridgePBEE Learning Session at the PEER Annual Meeting
- 10/22/12 - 2012 PEER Annual Meeting starts this Friday October 26 – program now posted
- 10/22/12 - OpenSees: New Release and More
- 10/11/12 - 10th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering Call for Abstracts – Abstracts due Oct 31
- 10/11/12 - Opportunity for grad students to attend 10CUEE conference as PEER Delegate
- 09/25/12 - EERI “LFE Lessons for Practice” Seminar Registration Open
- 09/25/12 - SMIP12 Seminar on October 2, 2012
- 09/18/12 - PEER research will be widely disseminated at the 15WCEE
- 09/11/12 - Registration now open for 2012 COSMOS Technical Session on November 16
- 09/07/12 - USGS National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project Workshop
- 09/07/12 - Book your PEER Annual Meeting Hotel Room ASAP – hotel nearly sold out!
- 09/05/12 - OpenFresco used for intercontinental geographically distributed test between University of Kassel and UC Berkeley
- 09/05/12 - Reminder SMiRT-22 Conference Abstracts Due Sept 17
- 09/04/12 - Southern California Edison signs MOU for PEER’s Lifelines Program
- 08/28/12 - Seventh National Seismic Conference on Bridges & Highways (7NSC) – Abstract deadline extended to Aug 31
- 08/23/12 - Registration Now Open for 2012 PEER Annual Meeting on October 26 & 27
- 08/16/12 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Introduction to OpenFrescoExpress” on August 20
- 08/13/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/02 “Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Bridges Allowed to Uplift during Multi-Directional Excitation”
- 08/08/12 - Seventh National Seismic Conference on Bridges & Highways (7NSC) – Abstracts due Aug 15
- 08/07/12 - New NGA-East Quarterly Technical Update now available
- 07/26/12 - Save the date! NGA-West2 Preliminary Results Workshop on November 15, 2012
- 07/25/12 - New “EARTHQUAKE” Exhibit in San Francisco features PEER and nees@berkeley
- 07/23/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/01 “Spectral Damping Scaling Factors for Shallow Crustal Earthquakes in Active Tectonic Regions”
- 07/20/12 - PEER’s YouTube Channel highlights NGA-West2, OpenSees, nees@berkeley projects, and more!
- 06/29/12 - PEER Interns learn about resiliency, research ethics, and more during Orientation Program
- 06/29/12 - ENR highlights PEER’s BridgePBEE software
- 06/27/12 - PEER launches new research project: NGA-Sub
- 06/19/12 - OpenFrescoExpress now available for Hybrid Simulation Testing
- 06/13/12 - OpenSees Days 2012: Registration Open & Call for Speakers from Industry or Academia
- 06/11/12 - Update on PEER’s Global GMPEs Project from recent workshop in Turkey
- 06/06/12 - Upcoming NGA-East Working Meetings on Oct 16 and Dec 11, 2012
- 05/21/12 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Parallel & Grid Computing” on May 31 & June 1
- 05/21/12 - Twelve Undergraduate Students Selected to Participate in the 2012 PEER Internship Program
- 05/21/12 - Subsurface data for Taiwan Strong Motion Instrumentation Program (TSMIP) now available
- 05/17/12 - 2012 PEER Annual Meeting on Oct 26 & 27 – Save the Date!
- 05/14/12 - Register Now for nees@berkeley Hybrid Simulation Workshop on June 28 & 29
- 05/14/12 - Call for Papers: SMiRT-22 Conference on Aug 18-23, 2013
- 05/07/12 - Funding Opportunity: CTBUH Research Seed Grant Deadline is May 15
- 05/02/12 - PEER Students participate in Successful Young Researcher Activities at the 2012 CUEE Conference in Tokyo, Japan
- 04/20/12 - Request for Proposals on Site Response: PEER Lifelines Program
- 04/19/12 - In Memoriam: William G. Godden, UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus
- 04/17/12 - In Memoriam: Helmut Krawinkler, Stanford Professor Emeritus & PEER researcher
- 04/12/12 - NGA-East Technical Update: now available!
- 04/06/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2012/101 “Mechanics of Fiber Reinforced Bearings”
- 04/06/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/10 “Earthquake Engineering for Resilient Communities: 2011 PEER Internship Program Research Report Collection”
- 04/06/12 - NEHRP seeking qualified students for 10 week research project – Apply soon!
- 04/03/12 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Transient Integrators” on April 5 & 6
- 02/29/12 - OSU becomes a new PEER Core Institution
- 02/23/12 - PEER BridgePBEE Analysis Framework (Beta Version): Just released and ready for use!
- 02/14/12 - FM Global Grad & Undergrad Internships in Loss Prevention Engineering and Research
- 02/09/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/107 “Nonlinear Site Response and Seismic Compression at Vertical Array Strongly Shaken by 2007 Niigata-ken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake”
- 02/08/12 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/09 “Calibration of Semi-Stochastic Procedure for Simulating High-Frequency Ground Motions”
- 02/07/12 - Save the dates! NGA-East SSHAC Workshop on October 16-18, 2012
- 02/06/12 - PEER Signs Contract with Caltrans to continue research on the Seismic Performance of Lifelines
- 01/30/12 - Stanford’s Shah Family Fund Lecture by Dr. Sergio M. Alcocer on Feb 1st
- 01/25/12 - Save the Date: SMiRT-22 Conference on Aug 18-23, 2013
- 01/25/12 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Adding your own code to OpenSees” on January 25 & 26
- 01/17/12 - EERI Earthquake Spectra Call for Papers: Special Issue on the Tohoku, Japan, Earthquake
- 01/13/12 - Help Improve NEEShub by joining an upcoming usability study
- 01/12/12 - Internship Opportunities for Undergrads and Grads at the PEER Website
- 01/02/12 - EERI Annual Meeting April 10-13, 2012 – Registration now Open
- 01/02/12 - Faculty Opportunity: Tenure Track Searches in Civil Engineering at California State University, Chico
- 12/21/11 - Faculty Opportunity: Tokyo Tech Sabbatical Program for Research Collaboration and Undergraduate Instruction
- 12/20/11 - PEER Internship Program for Undergraduates – Now Accepting Applications for Summer 2012
- 12/12/11 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “Force-based Element vs. Displacement-based Element” on December 14 & 15
- 11/03/11 - Discovering OpenSees Series: “OpenSees & Output” on November 16 & 17
- 11/02/11 - 2011 PEER Summer Interns present their research at PEER Annual Meeting
- 10/21/11 - Joseph Penzien Memorial Fund – contributions welcome
- 10/21/11 - M4.0 & M3.8 Earthquakes in Berkeley, CA are a good reminder to prepare
- 10/20/11 - 2011 PEER Annual Meeting Presentations & Video – Now available for viewing!
- 10/20/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/05 “Case Studies of the Seismic Performance of Tall Buildings Designed by Alternative Means: Task 12 Report for the Tall Buildings Initiative″
- 10/19/11 - 15 World Conference on Earthquake Engineering – Abstract Submission Deadline extended to Nov 5
- 10/18/11 - COSMOS Technical Session on Nov 4th: Ground Motions from Subduction Earthquakes and Issues for Seismic Design
- 10/12/11 - Discovering OpenSees Seminar: “Modeling diaphragms in 2D models with linear & nonlinear elements” on October 19 & 20
- 10/08/11 - Abstracts due Nov 15 and Student Travel Grants Available for JAEE and CUEE conferences commemorating the Great East Japan Earthquake
- 10/06/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/07 “Seismic Risk Management in Urban Areas”
- 10/06/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/106 “Self Compacting Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Concrete Composites for Bridge Columns”
- 10/06/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/105 “Stochastic Dynamic Analysis of Bridges Subjected to Spatially Varying Ground Motions”
- 09/23/11 - Internship Positions for US PhD Students to Work with Japanese University Researchers on Structural Engineering Issues related to the Tohoku Earthquake
- 09/23/11 - Joseph Penzien, Earthquake Engineering Pioneer, passed away on September 19
- 09/22/11 - Discovering OpenSees Seminar: “Getting Started with OpenSees” on Sept 27 & 28
- 09/16/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/06 “The Use of Base Isolation Systems to Achieve Complex Seismic Performance Objectives”
- 09/12/11 - PEER & SEAOSC PBEE of Tall Buildings Seminar: Slides now posted & venue full with over 60 attendees
- 09/09/11 - Three 2011 PEER Interns visit Japan to view E-Defense Testing
- 08/26/11 - PEER programs will use data from Virginia Earthquake to determine Earthquake Hazard in Central and Eastern US
- 08/12/11 - “Discovering OpenSees: Surfing the waves of OpenSees,” A new Web-Learning Series launching on August 17
- 08/11/11 - NGA-East SSHAC Workshop is coming on Oct 11-13, 2011 – Save the Dates!
- 07/20/11 - Help identify regional ground motion databases and reports for PEER’s Global GMPE Project
- 07/18/11 - Registration Open for OpenSees Days 2011 on August 22-23
- 07/18/11 - Video now available from the PEER & SEAONC Seminar: Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering and its applications to Tall Building Design
- 07/14/11 - 2011 PEER Annual Meeting scheduled for Sept 30 & Oct 1 – registration now open!
- 07/08/11 - NGA-East Project Plan now available
- 07/05/11 - Orientation Program teaches PEER Interns research skills for the future
- 07/01/11 - Middle School Students from da Vinci Camp visit the PEER & nees@berkeley Labs
- 07/01/11 - Students from local community college visit PEER & UC Berkeley labs
- 06/30/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/04 “Recommended Design Practice for Pile Foundations in Laterally Spreading Ground″
- 06/30/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/104 “Design and Instrumentation of the 2010 E-Defense Four-Story Reinforced Concrete and Post-Tensioned Concrete Buildings″
- 06/22/11 - Researchers invited to 9th Planning Meeting for the NEES/E-Defense Collaborative Research Program
- 06/14/11 - Over 70 researchers attend inaugural “OpenSees Days Shanghai”
- 06/13/11 - Stephen Mahin Inducted into ASCE’s OTC Hall of Fame
- 06/13/11 - NEES TIPS/E-Defense Announce Blind Analysis Contest for Seismic Isolation Test
- 06/13/11 - Apply to participate in a NEES TIPS Participant Workshop
- 06/10/11 - Eleven Undergraduate Students Selected to Participate in the PEER 2011 Summer Internship Program
- 05/23/11 - Videos Now Posted: Thursday April 28th Briefing about Japan’s Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
- 05/20/11 - Armen Der Kiureghian elected to the National Academy of Engineering
- 05/20/11 - Professor Mary Comerio receives Green Star Award
- 05/20/11 - DES Call for Submission (CFS2011)
- 05/20/11 - NRC RFP on Multidimensional Loading of Soil
- 05/12/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/103 “In-Situ Monitoring of the Force Output of Fluid Dampers: Experimental Investigation″
- 04/23/11 - Short Interim Report now available from PEER/EERI/GEER/Tsunami Field Investigation Team about the Tohoku Pacific Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
- 04/15/11 - Videos Now Posted: Briefing on Christchurch New Zealand Earthquake of Feb 22, 2011
- 04/08/11 - PEER coordinates researchers traveling to Japan to investigate March 11 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
- 04/07/11 - PEER’s Outreach Director, Heidi Faison, Named New Face of Civil Engineering by ASCE
- 04/06/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/102 “Ground-motion prediction equations 1964 – 2010”
- 04/05/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/03 “New Ground Motion Selection Procedures and Selected Motions for the PEER Transportation Research Program”
- 04/05/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/02 “A Bayesian Network Methodology for Infrastructure Seismic Risk Assessment and Decision Support”
- 04/05/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/01 “Demand Fragility Surfaces for Bridges in Liquefied and Laterally Spreading Ground”
- 03/31/11 - PEER & SEAONC Seminar coming to SF: Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering and its applications to Tall Building Design
- 03/24/11 - Video Now Posted: Early Field Survey of Damage from Japan’s March 11th Earthquake and Tsunami, presentation by Kit Miyamoto
- 03/14/11 - Ground Motions & Other Information from Japan’s March 11, 2011 Earthquake – UPDATED March 15
- 03/01/11 - FM Global 2011 Internship in Loss Prevention Engineering and Research for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- 02/23/11 - Ground Motions & Field Reports from New Zealand’s M6.3 Feb 22 Christchurch Earthquake
- 02/22/11 - Save the Date: Seismic Risk Mitigation Leadership Forum on May 2-3, 2011
- 02/21/11 - Asia-Pacific Summer School in Smart Sturctures Technology 2011 – now accepting applications
- 02/16/11 - Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship 2011 – for Masters’ and PhD Students
- 02/14/11 - PEER 2010 Intern Ray Hooft wins EERI Undergraduate Student Paper Competition
- 02/09/11 - PEER Summer Internship for Undergraduates – Now Accepting Applications
- 02/04/11 - New PEER Report Published: PEER 2011/101 – Report of the Eighth Planning Meeting of NEES/E-Defense Collaborative Research on Earthquake Engineering
- 02/01/11 - ENR calls the TBI Guidelines “A Big Step Forward”
- 01/13/11 - New Study Initiated about CA water supply reliability for fires following future earthquakes
- 01/12/11 - Job Openings: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
- 01/12/11 - Now available: PEER’s Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings
- 01/08/11 - Beam 2: Large Concrete SMRF Beam Test – THURSDAY Feb 3, 2011 at 1 PM
- 01/08/11 - Retirement Reception for Don Clyde January 21, 2011
- 01/07/11 - Changing Faces at the PEER Center
- 01/03/11 - PEER welcomes Charles Scawthorn as a Visiting Scholar at the PEER
- 01/02/11 - PEER leads Global Ground Motion Prediction Equations development for GEM
- 01/01/11 - Just Released: 2010 PEER Ground Motion Database – Beta Version