PEER CENTER

Two New PEER Reports: PEER Report 2025/10: "OpenSRA Ground Failure Hazard Demands" 🔗bit.ly/4dnCE3Q PEER Report 2025/11: "Fragility Analysis of Buried Pipelines Derived from Finite-Element Soil-Pipeline Interaction Analysis" 🔗 bit.ly/41FXoMZ

Two New PEER Reports PEER Report 2025/08:"Efficient Risk & Uncertainty Modeling for PBEE Distributed Systems" bit.ly/4droChp PEER Report 2025/09: "Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Natural Gas and Pipeline Systems" bit.ly/3NJbmuc

Two New PEER Reports 1️⃣PEER Report 2025/06: "OpenSRA Validation Report" bit.ly/4u5GYux 2️⃣ PEER Report 2025/07: "System Wide Natural Gas Infrastructure Response and Fragility Model Report" bit.ly/4aPSvq3 ➡️ View all PEER Reports: bit.ly/40bCmFv

📢 Coming soon: PEER & @BerkeleyLab SGMD Workshop! Explore the open-access Simulated Ground Motion Database. Details coming soon! #EarthquakeEngineering #openscience

Two new PEER reports: 1️⃣Developing Software to Assess the Seismic Risk of Natural Gas Infrastructure: OpenSRA: bit.ly/3MULFX8 2️⃣ Open-source Seismic Risk Assessment (OpenSRA) Software Development: bit.ly/4aL7VKP ➡️PEER Publications: bit.ly/40bCmFv

New PEER report 📘: Centrifuge tests show how ground improvement can protect bridge foundations by reducing seismic settlement and rotation. 🌎⚙️ 👉bit.ly/49TrW2C #SeismicResilience #EarthquakeEngineering

PEER has awarded $1.6M to 3 new multi-year research projects advancing earthquake resilience for critical infrastructure. Learn more about the funded projects: bit.ly/4oXDAxT

🚨 New RFP Alert! PEER is seeking proposals (RFP 2025-05) to modernize & integrate the Column Performance Database. 📅 Deadline: Nov 28, 2025 Learn more: shorturl.at/ekuQh #RFP #StructuralEngineering #ResearchData #PEERCenter

🚨 Deadline Extended! PEER-Bridge Research Program RFP 25-04 — Seismic Performance Assessment & Optimization of ABC Column Connections — now due October 31. Details: bit.ly/4nniTeI

🚨 New RFP Alert from the PEER-Bridge Research Program! RFP 25-04: Seismic Performance Assessment & Optimization of ABC Column Connections 🏗️🌉 📅 Submission Deadline: Oct 14, 2025 @ 11:59 PT 🔗 Details: bit.ly/4nniTeI #infrastructure #seismicdesign #ABC #engineering

Prof. James M. Kelly (1935–2025), pioneer of seismic isolation & energy dissipation, has passed at 90. A UC Berkeley leader & mentor, he shaped modern seismic protection. Read the full tribute: bit.ly/4myaP9F

🚨 RFP Announcement! 🚨 The PEER-Bridge Program invites proposals to improve capacity models in the Caltrans Risk-Based Seismic Design (CT-RBSD) procedure with new rebar cage data. 📅 Deadline: Oct 8, 2025 (11:59 PM PT) Details 👉bit.ly/46hcNGO #SeismicResearch #RFP

UC Berkeley’s new Grimes Engineering Center features PEER’s shape-memory-alloy seismic fuses—developed with research by Prof. Khalid Mosalam—advancing seismic innovation. Read more: engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2025/06/d… #BerkeleyEngineering #PEER #SeismicInnovation #ShapeMemoryAlloy

📢 Join us August, 14, 2025 for the PEER Researchers' Workshop at UC Berkeley! In-person only! 🔬 Presentations from all active PEER-funded projects Network with researchers, BIP members & sponsors 🗓️ Free — but registration required: bit.ly/3IY5afi @Cal_Engineer

🚨 The NEW 2025 Blind Prediction Contest on Lateral Impact of Prestressed Concrete Girders is LIVE! 🚨 Challenge your expertise in the lateral impact of prestressed concrete girders. 🏗️🔍 🔗bit.ly/45vXGsv Open today, August 1, 2025.

🚨 New from PEER: Report 2025/01 "Towards Deep Learning-Based Structural Response Prediction and Ground Motion Reconstruction" by Mosalam, Pang & Günay (UC Berkeley) presents a novel TCN-based approach to seismic response prediction. 🔗 doi.org/10.55461/IPOS1…

🚨 2 Projects Funded for $1.4 Million 🚨 PEER + Caltrans have funded 2 new bridge research projects for a total of $1.4M under the PEER-Bridge program! Link: peer.berkeley.edu/news/2-project… Topics: • RC Bridge Column Stiffness • Metal Grid Deck Fatigue

PEER 2024/11 by Joshua Stokley (Boeing) & Laura Lowes (UW) is now available: "Evaluation & Calibration of an OpenSees Layered Shell Element Model" 📊 Focus: Simulating earthquake response of RC walls using OpenSees 3.3.0 + cloud computing. 🔗 doi.org/10.55461/AMQF4…

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨 Submit your models for the 2025 Blind Prediction Contest: 📅 Phase 1: July 1, 2025 📅 Phase 2: August 1, 2025 Test your model’s predictive power on masonry dynamics! 🔗 Details: bit.ly/40mpPiI #Engineering #StructuralDynamics #ModelingContest

🚨 Funding Alert: $1.4M Available! 🚨 PEER-Bridge Research Program RFPs 25-01 & 25-02 📌 Deadline: June 30, 2025 @ 11:59 PM PT 🔹 RFP 25-01: Fatigue of Metal Grid Decks 🔹 RFP 25-02: RC Bridge Column Stiffness Details & docs: bit.ly/3ZQVbho #BridgeEngineering