The Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE) is a non-profit organization, established in 1988, devoted to the advancement of earthquake engineering research, education and implementation.

  • NEHRP Consultants Joint Venture - Request for Proposal - The Joint Venture is soliciting preliminary proposals to conduct a project that involves full-scale testing and limited computational analysis of structural steel wide flange members to study the inelastic behavior of plastic hinges in deep, slender wide-flange structural steel beam-columns undergoing cyclic loading. [read more]

  • Three CUREE members Inducted Into National Academy of Engineering - Congratulations to Professor Gregory G. Deierlein (Stanford University), Professor Edward Kavazanjian (Arizona State University), and Professor Sharon L. Wood (University of Texas at Austin) on their election to the National Academy of Engineering [read more]

  • CUREE Seed-funding Proposals Awarded - A seed-funding solicitation was sent out in late 2012 that offered funding to enable the development of the project ideas of CUREE members. From the proposals submitted, three were selected to receive development funds in the amount of $10,000 each.

    The awarded proposals are:
    Fire Following Earthquake: Exploring Potential Funding Opportunities
    - Team Lead: Maria Garlock, Princeton University and Tara Hutchinson, University of California, San Diego

    Development, Integration and Large-Scale Validation of Seismic Protection Systems for Increased Seismic Resilience
    - Team Lead: Michael Symans, Rennselear Polytechnic Institute

    A CUREE Workshop in 2013 on Development of Torsional SSI Provisions and Other Advances for Earthquake Engineering
    - Team lead: Ronald Y.S. Pak, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Project Updates - Quick reports for NEES Cityblock and the NEES Nonstructural Project now available - updated 02/07/13.

  • CUREE at the 15WCEE -
    Bob Reitherman, Executive Director of CUREE, presented the keynote address on the fifty year history of the Internation Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE).

    CUREE also hosted a special evening reception for friends and colleagues. [more]

  • CUREE Education and Outreach Services: [learn more]

BOOKS by CUREE MEMBERS
Elements of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics - 3rd edition
André Filiatrault, Robert Tremblay, Constantin Christopoulos
Bryan Folz, and Didier Pettinga, 2012
Ductile Design of Steel Structures, 2nd Edition
Michel Bruneau, Chia-Ming Uang, and Rafael Sabelli, S.E., 2011
The Life and Art of Sumbat
compilation, text and translations by Armen Der Kiureghian



Félix Candela - Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist
Maria Garlock and David P. Billington
Yale University Press, 2008.

Watch video - Felix Candela: An interview with Maria Garlock

Structure and Design
G. G. Schierle
University Readers (San Diego, CA), 2008.
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: An Earthquake Engineering Retrospective 100 Years Later
edited by William Holmes and Robert Reitherman
Earthquake Spectra Special Issue II, 2006.
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On this day in history, the June 19, 1986 Kermadec Islands Earthquake occurred.

CUREE Projects

NEES Nonstructural

Building Bridges Between Civil Engineers and Science Museums

NEES Cityblock Project

Earthquake Architecture

Earthquake Damage Assessment and Repair Project

CUREE-Kajima
Joint Research Program

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