Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) is a multi-institutional research and education center focused on performance-based earthquake engineering

Joined August 2014
New PEER Report! Structural Evaluation of Overhead Box Beam Highway Sign Structures, PEER Report 2025-02 👉 tinyurl.com/4r62ecjn
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Two New PEER Reports! ➡️Report 2025/16: "Experimental Study on the Cyclic Behavior of Welded Steel Tee Joints and Elbows" tinyurl.com/2u6v6828 ➡️ PEER Report 2025/17: "Shake Table Testing of a Representative Surface Natural Gas Piping Subsystem" tinyurl.com/2yp93fac
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Registration closes May 5th! 2026 PEER LBNL Workshop on the Regional Scale Simulated Ground Motion Database (SGMD) for the San Francisco Bay Area, May 7–8 Website: lnkd.in/gH2t-2xu Registration ends May 5th: lnkd.in/gMYNZ4UQ
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Two New PEER Reports! ➡️ "Fragility Curves for Gas Leakage Through Caprock of the Underground Gas Storage Reservoir in California" tinyurl.com/3r945k7h ➡️ "Numerical Modeling and Seismic Fragility Curve Development..." tinyurl.com/yhetk9su
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Two New PEER Reports! ➡️PEER Report 2025/12: "Fragility of Wells due to Fault Shearing" peer.berkeley.edu/publicatio… ➡️ PEER Report 2025/13: "Fragility of Wells due to Dynamic Shaking" peer.berkeley.edu/publicatio…
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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
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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
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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
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📢 Coming soon: PEER & @BerkeleyLab SGMD Workshop! Explore the open-access Simulated Ground Motion Database. Details coming soon! #EarthquakeEngineering #openscience
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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
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New PEER report 📘: Centrifuge tests show how ground improvement can protect bridge foundations by reducing seismic settlement and rotation. 🌎⚙️ 👉bit.ly/49TrW2C #SeismicResilience #EarthquakeEngineering
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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
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🚨 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
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🚨 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
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🚨 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
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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
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🚨 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
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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/new… #BerkeleyEngineering #PEER #SeismicInnovation #ShapeMemoryAlloy
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📢 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
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🚨 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.
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