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PEER Reports

New PEER Report Published: 2014/01 “Performance-Based Seismic Assessment of Skewed Bridges”

PEER has just published Report No. 2014/01 titled “Performance-Based Seismic Assessment of Skewed Bridges” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Peyman Kaviani, Farzin Zareian, and Ertugrul Tacifoglu.

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Abstract:
The objective of this study is to assess the seismic behavior of reinforced concrete bridges with skew-angled seat-type abutments through a performance-based methodology. Special attention is...

New PEER Report Published: 2013/24 “NGA-West2 Ground Motion Prediction Equations for Vertical Ground Motions”

PEER has just published Report No. 2013/24 titled “NGA-West2 Ground Motion Prediction Equations for Vertical Ground Motions” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series.

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Abstract:
This report documents the development of the NGA-West2 empirical ground-motion prediction equations (GMPEs) for ground-motion intensity measures derived from recordings of the vertical component of ground motion. The extensive and expanded PEER NGA-...

New PEER Report Published: PEER 2013/25 “Earthquake Engineering for Resilient Communities: 2013 PEER Internship Program Research Report Collection”

PEER coordinates a 10-week summer internship program for undergraduate students that is focused on the theme of earthquake resilient communities. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), twenty interns from a variety of backgrounds and universities participated in the 2013 program.

To show the importance of multidisciplinary cooperation and collaboration, PEER assigns participating undergraduate interns with a project in one of the following disciplines: structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, risk mitigation, urban planning, or public policy. The interns...

New PEER Report Published: 2014/02 “Theoretical Development of Hybrid Simulation Applied to Plate Structures”

PEER has just published Report No. 2014/02 titled “Theoretical Development of Hybrid Simulation Applied to Plate Structures” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Ahmed A. Bakhaty, Khalid M. Mosalam, and Sanjay Govindjee

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Abstract:
Hybrid simulation is a popular testing method for the experimental assessment of structural systems. The primary notion is to test only part of the system physically while...

New PEER Report Published: 2014/03 “Retest of Thirty-Year-Old Neoprene Isolation Bearings”

PEER has just published Report No. 2014/03 titled “Retest of Thirty-Year-Old Neoprene Isolation
Bearings” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by James M. Kelly and Niel C. Van Engelen.

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Abstract:
A set of Neoprene isolation bearings remaining from a 1981 shake table test series conducted at the Earthquake Simulator Laboratory at the Earthquake Engineering Research Center (now the Pacific Earthquake...

New PEER Report Published: 2013/26 “Urban Earthquake Engineering, Proceedings of the U.S.-Iran Seismic Workshop”

PEER has just published Report No. 2013/26 titled “Urban Earthquake Engineering” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It is a collection of papers presented at the Proceedings of the 4th U.S.-Iran Seismic Workshop held on December 18-20, 2012 in Tehran, Iran.

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Abstract:
The 4th U.S.-Iran Seismic Workshop was held on December 18-20, 2012 in Tehran, Iran. The workshop was supported by the U.S. National Academy of...

New PEER Report Published: 2014/04 “Effect of Vertical Acceleration on Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Columns”

PEER has just published Report No. 2014/04 titled “Effect of Vertical Acceleration on Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Columns” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Hyerin Lee and Khalid M. Mosalam.

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Abstract:
The effect of vertical excitation on shear strength of reinforced concrete (RC) columns has been investigated by various researchers. Field evidence, analytical studies, and static or...

New PEER Report Published: 2014/05 “Seismic Velocity Site Characterization of Thirty-One Chilean Seismometer Stations by Spectral Analysis of Surface Wave Dispersion”

PEER has just published Report No. 2014/05 titled “Seismic Velocity Site Characterization of Thirty-One Chilean Seismometer Stations by Spectral Analysis of Surface Wave Dispersion” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Robert Kayen, Brad D. Carkin, Skye Corbet, Camilo Pinilla, Allan Ng, Edward Gorbis, and Christine Truong.

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Abstract:
We present one-dimensional shear-wave velocity (VS...

New PEER Report Published: 2014/08 “Unbonded Pretensioned Bridge Columns with Rocking Detail”

PEER has just published Report No. 2014/08 titled “Unbonded Pretensioned Bridge Columns with Rocking Detail” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Jeffrey A. Schaefer, Bryan Kennedy, Marc O. Eberhard, and John F. Stanton.

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Abstract:
The columns and cap-beams of most bridges are built of cast-in-place reinforced concrete (CIP). The construction of CIP bridges often causes traffic congestion, and...

New PEER Report Published: 2014/09 “PEER Arizona Strong-Motion Database and GMPEs Evaluation”

PEER has just published Report No. 2014/09 titled “PEER Arizona Strong-Motion Database and GMPEs Evaluation” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Tadahiro Kishida, Robert E. Kayen, Olga-Joan Ktenidou, Walter J. Silva, Robert B. Darragh, and Jennie Watson-Lamprey.

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Abstract:
This report summarizes the products and results of a study on the collection, processing, and analysis of earthquake ground-...