Pacific Earthquake Engineering

Haukaas, T. Der Kiureghian, A. 2004. Finite element reliability and sensitivity methods for performance-based engineering. Report PEER 2003/14, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley. 

Lehman, D.E. Moehle, J.P. 1998. Seismic performance of well-confined concrete bridge columns. Technical report. Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center. 

PEER. (2005). Next generation attenuation relationships - Strong motion database. Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center. Retrieved from http //peer. berkeley.edu/nga. 

Bensi, M.T., Der Kiureghian, A., Straub, D. A Bayesian network methodology for infrastructure seismic risk assessment and decision support. Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (2011)... 

X = uncertain excitation, e.g., peak zero-period acceleration at the base of the asset in question. Here excitation is called demand parameter (DP), using the terminology of FEMA P-58 (Applied Technology Council 2012). FEMA P-58 builds upon work coordinated by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center and others. PEER researchers use the term engineering demand parameter (EDP) to mean the same thing. Usually Xe fR > 0 but it does not have to be. Note that X G 91 > 0 means that X is a real, noimegative number. 

Mazzoni S, McKenna F, Scott MH, Fenves GL (2006) Open system for earthquake engineering simulation user command language manual. University of California at Berkeley, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, Berkeley... 

Porter KA (2(X)5) A taxonomy of building components for performance-based earthquake engineering. Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, PEER 2005/03, Berkeley, p 58... 

Boore et al. (2012) examined the postprocessing adopted for two databases, ITACA (Italian Accelerometric Archive, Paolucci et al. 2011 Pacor et al. 2011) and PEER NGA (Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center-Next Generation Attenuation), and demonstrated that any biases and distortions are small for the vast majority of the records of the two databases, so data can be used with confidence. 

Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center database PEER http //peer.berkeley.edu/ peer ground motion database... 

Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), PEER-NGA database, http //ngawest2.berkeley.edu/... 

Taghavi S, Miranda E (2003) Response assessment of nonstructural building elements. Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, PEER 2003/05 Sept Villaverde R (1997) Seismic design of secondary structures state of the art. J Struct Eng 123(8) 1011-1019... 

This entry introduces the main sources of uncertainty in demand and capacity, as well as their treatments through alternative reliability methods. In this regard, three general families of methods are briefly summarized in this entry the second-moment reliability methods, the simulation-based reliability approaches, and finally the probabilistic performance-based methodology developed within the joint efforts of Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER). The closing section provides a brief discussion about future challenges in seismic reliability assessment. 

In 1996, the PEER Lifelines Program (http // peer.berkeley.edu/fifelines) was initiated, under the coordination of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, funded by the California Department of Transportation and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. The aim was to improve the seismic safety and reliability of fife-fine systems with particular focus on the characterization of ground motions, local soil and site response, and the performance of bridge structures and electric substation equipment. 

Mackie K, Stojadinovic B (2003) Seismic demands for performance-based design of bridges. PEER Report 2003/16. Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley Modaressi H, Desramaut N, Gehl P (2014) Specification of the vulnerability of physical systems. In Pitilakis K et al (eds) SYNER-G systemic seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of complex urban, utility,... 

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