2025 PEER Annual Meeting

Registration is now open for the 2025 PEER Annual Meeting which will be held March 25-26, 2025, in the Banatao Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus. The meeting will feature PEER research in the fields of performance-based engineering and resilience, with focus on buildings and infrastructure subjected to various geohazards, tsunami and fire. In addition, sessions will be formatted for more detailed discussion and engagement to identify areas where research and development are needed. Decision-making stakeholders, practicing professionals, researchers, faculty, students and others interested in performance-based engineering are encouraged to attend.

REGISTER HERE FOR THE 2O25 PEER ANNUAL MEETING

Early Bird pricing ends to February 14, 2025:

Faculty / General / Community - Early Bird $300
Student (Core Institution and Educational Affiliates) - Early Bird $25 (no refunds)
Student (Non-Core and Non Educational Affiliates) - Early Bird $75

Regular pricing begins February 15, 2025:

Faculty / General / Community - Regular $400
Student (Core Institution and Educational Affiliates) - Regular $100
Student (Non-Core and Non Educational Affiliates) - Regular $150

2025 PEER Annual Meeting Schedule

Day 1: Tuesday, March 25

Time	Event
8:00 – 8:30 am	REGISTRATION / BREAKFAST
8:30 –10:00 am	SESSION 1: Major Projects Moderator - Khalid Mosalam, PEER, UCB Opening Remarks by PEER Director, Khalid Mosalam, PEER, UCB PEER-LBNL Simulated Ground-Motion Database, David McCallen, LBNL Next Generation Liquefaction Susceptibility Database and Modelling, Jonathan Stewart, UCLA Next Generation PEER Structures Performance Database, Marc Eberhard, UW Bridge Rapid Assessment Center for Extreme Events (BRACE2), Khalid Mosalam, UCB
10:00 -10:30 am	BREAK
10:30 – 12:00 pm	SESSION 2: PEER-Bridge Projects Overview of PEER-Bridge Program, Chris Traina, Caltrans Hazard-Based Risk and Cost-Benefit Assessment of Temporary Bridges in California, Floriana Petrone, UNR Remaining Fatigue Life Assessment of Bridge Decks Based upon a Numerical-experimental SYSCOM SYStem-COmponent-Material-based Approach, Alessandro Palermo, UCSD Research Update: Caltrans Risk-Based Seismic Design (CT-RBSD) for Bridges, Farzin Zaraian, UCI New Near-Fault Adjustment Factors for Caltrans Seismic Design Criteria (SDC), Yousef Bozorgnia/Silvia Mazzoni UCLA
12:00 – 1:30 pm	LUNCH
1:30 – 3:00 pm	SESSION 3: Geo Hazards Normalized Shear Modulus and Material Damping Models for Transitional Silts with Application to the Pacific Northwest, Armin Stuedlein, OSU Influence of Fines and Alternative Intensity Measures on Liquefaction Triggering, Scott Brandenberg, UCLA Mechanics-Informed Machine Learning for Geospatial Modeling of Soil Liquefaction: Global and National Surrogate Models for Simulation and Near-Real-Time Response, Brett Maurer, UW Application of Liquefaction Susceptibility Criteria within a Logic Tree Framework, Jonathan Stewart/Arda Sahin, UCLA
3:00 – 3:30 pm	BREAK
3:30 – 4:30 pm	SESSION 4: Regional-Scale Simulation Regional Highway Bridge Damage Analysis Using Surrogate Models: A Case Study of the Bay Area, Greg Deierlein/Carmen Andrade, Stanford Prediction of key Bridge Characteristics Using Machine Learning, Marc Eberhard/Julia Lensing, UW Functional Recovery of Bridge Networks: Framework Development and Implementation, Henry Burton, UCLA Bridge Asset Management in Seismic Areas: Addressing Climate Uncertainty at System and Network Scales, Eyitayo Opabola, UCB

Day 2: Wednesday, March 26

Time	Event
8:00 – 8:30 am	REGISTRATION / BREAKFAST
8:30 – 10:00 am	Session 5: Experimental Work Moderator - Amarnath Kasalanati, PEER TSRP & PEER-Bridge Projects Overview, Amarnath Kasalanati, PEER Experimental Evaluation of Springs and Yielding Steel Elements for 3D Isolation, Ian Aiken, SIE Dynamic Field Testing of a 15-Year-Old Base Isolated Building, Paolo Calvi, UW Evaluation of the Effects of Bidirectional Earthquake Shaking on Nonlinear Soil Response Using Large-Scale Laminar Soil Box Tests on Bi-axial Shake Table, Satish Manandhar, UNR Friction-based Force-limiting Connections for Buildings with Nonlinear Inelastic Flexural or Rocking Base Mechanism and Reduced Seismic Response Magnitude and Variability, Georgios Tsampras, UCSD
10:00 - 10:30 am	BREAK
10:30 – 12:00 pm	Session 6: Other Hazards Isolating the Primary Drivers of Fire Risk to Structures in California, Michael Gollner, UCB Development of a Performance-Based Multihazard Engineering (PBME) Framework Consistent with Existing Single-hazard PBE Frameworks, Michele Barbato, UCD Regional Simulations of Three-Dimensional Rainfall-Induced Landslides: The example of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, Mirna Kassem, UCB Precise Tsunami Profiling and Accurate Early Warning via a network of Self-Powered Sailboat Drones, Reza Alam, UCB
12:00 – 1:30 pm	LUNCH
1:30 – 3:00 pm	Session 7: Sensors & SHM UNR System-wide Instrumentation of UC Campuses, Evan Reis, Safehub Advancing Methods for Structural Identification and Monitoring: Bayesian Model Updating Framework for Simultaneous Parameter, Input, and Noise Estimation, Hamed Ebrahimian, Abdelrahman Taha, UNR Monitoring Bridge Performance Under Vehicle Loading with Dynamic Fiber Optic Strain Sensing, Matt DeJong/Rodrio Tapia, UCB Development of Autonomous Drone Inspection for Bridge Maintenance, Raja Sengupta, UCB
3:00 – 3:30 pm	BREAK
3:30 – 4:30 pm	Session 8: Simulation Tools SCEC Community Earth Model and the CyberShake Simulation Platform, Yehuda Ben-Zion, SCEC Stochastic Simulator-based Uncertainty Quantification for Seismic Responses of Bridges, Ziqi Wang/Jungho Kim, UCB Engineering Analysis Toolbox, The Real-ESSI Simulator System, Boris Jeremic, UCD Simulating Earthquake and Tsunami Impacts on Open-Type Wharf Structures, Andre Barbosa/Jorge Romero-Layola, OSU Open Discussion & Closing Remarks