PEER is leading an initiative to develop design criteria that will ensure safe and usable tall buildings following future earthquakes. The initiative is funding a range of short to intermediate-term projects over the next 24 months.
The greatest earthquake risk in the U.S. is from damage and collapse of older buildings designed with insufficient consideration of earthquake effects. This project identifies just how widespread the collapse hazard is in our existing building stock and develops engineering and policy tools to identify and reduce the risk of hazardous buildings. This project is part of the NEES Research Program.
The purpose of the PEER TRP is to reduce the impacts of earthquakes on California’s transportation systems, including highways and bridges, port facilities, high speed rail, and airports.
As non-linear response history analyses are becoming more prevalent in practice, there is a need to better understand how a certain suite of records affects the response results. This is why the Ground Motion Selection and Modification (GMSM) WorkGroup was created.