Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)

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Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
(PEER)

• Overall Status Report
• Jack P. Moehle
• Director
• University of California, Berkeley

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Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center

• Core University Partners
• UC Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San
  Diego Caltech Stanford USC Univ. of
  Washington
• Education Affiliates
• Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo CSU LA CSU
  Northridge Oregon State University San Jose
  State University University of Hawaii
• Sponsors
• US National Science Foundation
• States of California
• Pacific Gas Electric Company
• California Energy Commission
• California Department of Transportation
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• California Earthquake Authority
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• California Geological Survey
• Pankow Foundation
• Business and industry partners

WASHINGTON
OREGON
HAWAII
CALIFORNIA
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PEER Mission

• Advance performance-based earthquake engineering
  to meet the needs of various stakeholders.

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Program Timeline
today
Oct 97
Oct 98
Oct 99
Oct 00
Oct 01
Oct 02
Oct 03
Oct 04
Oct 05
Oct 06
Oct 07
Year 10
Year 1
Year 5
Award One - Five Years
Award Two - Five Years, Starting in Year Four
Award Three - Three Years plus NCE, Starting in
Year Seven
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Ten Years
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Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Concepts
O P E N
O P E N
O P E N
Damage Threshold
Base Shear
Collapse Onset
Drift
PBEE ten years ago
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http//opensees.berkeley.edu
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Industry Participation

• Earthquake professionals and government agency
  representatives are involved in
• Strategic planning
• Decision making
• Funding research
• Technology transfer

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Ten-year funding
NSF base award 20.6M
State Matching 15.0M
UC Matching 2.7M
Leveraged 16.8M
BIP 0.3M
Cost share 3.1M
TOTAL 58.5M
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PEER Shake-Table Competitions Students engineer
model buildings, meet other students, interact
with graduate students and practicing engineers
after T. Hutchinson
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• Tara Hutchinson
• SLC member
• Ph.D, 2001
• Asst. Professor, UC Davis
• Assoc. Professor, UCSD
• NSF Career Award
• Chancellors Award for Excellence in Fostering
  Undergraduate Research

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• Scott Ashford
• Asst. Professor, UCSD (1996)
• PEER Education Director (2002)
• Department Chair, OSU (2007)

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Greg Deierlein