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Kammerer, A. M, Coppersmith, K, Chokshi, N, Budnitz, R. (INL Seismic Risk-Informed Methodology Independent Panel) (2015), “Proposed Risk-Informed Seismic Hazard Periodic Reevaluation Methodology for Complying with DOE Order 420.1C”, Idaho National Laboratory (INL)15-36510

Kammerer, A. M., Chokshi, N. C., Budnitz, R. J., and K. Coppersmith, (2015) “A Framework for Safety Decision Making given New Seismic Hazard Information,” Transactions SMiRT-23, Manchester, United Kingdom, August 2015

N. Tafazzoli, N. , Pisan, F., Abbel J. A. M., Kamrani, B., Jeong, C.-G., Aldridge, B., Roche, R., Kammerer, A., and B. Jeremic, (2013) “The NRC ESSI Simulator Program: Current Status,” Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT) Conference, August 2013, San Francisco, CA

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Interim Staff Guidance JLD-ISG-2012-04 (2012), “Guidance on Performing a Seismic Margin Assessment in Response to the March 2012 Request for Information Letter,” Editor and Contributing Author

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Research Information Letter 12-01 (2012), “Preliminary Deterministic Analysis of Seismic Hazard at Diablo Canyon NPP from Newly Identified ‘Shoreline fault’”, Analyst and Principal Author

Kammerer, A. M, and Ake, J.P. (2012), “Practical Implementation Guidelines for SSHAC Level 3 and 4 Hazard Studies”, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) NUREG 2117

Kammerer, A., Ake, J., Munson, C. (2011), “Advances in Seismic Hazard Assessment for Nuclear Facilities in the Central and Eastern United States”, Paper 700, Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT) Conference, November 2011, Delhi India

Kammerer, A, Coppersmith, K., Ake, J. Bommer, J. (2011), “Development of Implementation Guidance for SSHAC Level 3 and 4 Assessments Used in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analyses for Nuclear Facilities”, Paper 699, Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT) Conference, November 2011, Delhi India

Kammerer, A., Godoy, A., Ake, J., Stovall, S, Altinyollar, A. , Bekiri, N., Wald, D., and Lin, K-W. (2011), “Developing and Implementing a Real-Time Earthquake Notification System for Nuclear Power Plant Sites Using the USGS ShakeCast System”, Paper 701, Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT) Conference, November 2011, Delhi India

B. Jeremic, N. Tafazzoli, B. Kamrani A. Kammerer, R. Rivera-Lugo, R. Roche R. Budnitz B. Stojadinovic (2011), “The NRC ESSI (Earthquake Soil Structure Interaction) Simulator”, Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT) Conference, November 2011, Delhi India The presentation is available. [If interested in this work, you may also like this related SMiRT presentation by Boris Jeremic on modeling the interface between foundation and rock]

Martin et al. (2011), “Geotechnical Reconnaissance of the 2011 Central Virginia Earthquake: Report of the National Science Foundation-Sponsored Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Team”, GEER Association Report No. GEER-026 , Version 1: October 5, 2011 (http://www.geerassociation.org/Post_EQ_Reports.html)

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safety Standard Guide 18 (2011) “Meteorological and Hydrological and Hazards in Site Evaluation for Nuclear Installations,” Contributing Author

Kuo-Wan Lin, David J. Wald, Ayhan Altinyollar, Nebi Bekiri, Jon Ake, Annie Kammerer (2011), Developing and Implementing a Real-Time Earthquake Notification System for Nuclear Power Plant Sites using ShakeCast, Seismological Society of America National Meeting, March 2011.

Jeremic, B., Tafozzoli, N., Kamrani, B., Chao, Y.C., Jeong, C.G., Tasiopoulou, P., Sett, K., Kammerer, A., Orbovic, N., and Blahoianu, A. (2010) “On Seismic Soil Structure Interaction Simulations for Nuclear Power Plants,” OECD/NEA IAGE/IAEA ISSC Workshop on Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) Knowledge and Effect of the Seismic Assessment of NPPs Structures and Components, Ottawa Canada, October 2010 [see presentation by Prof. Boris Jeremic].

Coppersmith, K.J., Bommer, J.J, Kammerer, A.M., and Ake, J.P. (2010) “Implementation Guidance for SSHAC Level 3 and 4 Processes,” 10th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment & Management Conference, Seattle WA, June 2010

Bagchi, G., Ahn, H., Jones, H., Kammerer, A., Raione, R., and N. Chokshi (2010), “Tsunami Safety Criteria and Current Site Reviews in the United States”, IAEA International Workshop on External Flooding Hazards at Nuclear Power Plant Sites in Commemoration of the 5 Years of Indian Ocean Tsunami, Kalpakkam India, January, 2010

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.100 (2009), “Seismic Qualification of Electric and Mechanical Equipment for Nuclear Power Plants,” Contributing Author

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Research Information Letter 09-001 (2009), “Preliminary Deterministic Analysis of Seismic Hazard at Diablo Canyon NPP from Newly Identified ‘Shoreline fault’”, Analyst and Principal Author

Cetin, K.O., Bilge, T.H., Wu, J., Kammerer, A.M. Seed, R. B., (2008), “A Probabilistic Model for the Assessment of Cyclically-Induced Reconsolidation (Volumetric) Settlements”, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 135, 387(2009)

Cetin, K.O., Bilge, T.H., Wu, J., Kammerer, A.M. Seed, R. B., (2008), “Probabilistic Models for Cyclic Straining of Saturated Clean Sands”, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 135, 371(2009)

Kammerer A., Ten Brink, U., Titov, V. (2008) “Overview of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Collaborative Research Program to Assess Tsunami Hazard for Nuclear Power Plants on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.” Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing China, October 2008

Kammerer A., ten Brink, U., Twichell, D., Geist, E., Chaytor, J., Locat, J., Lee, H., Buczkowski, B., and Sansoucy, M. (2008) “Preliminary Results of the U.S. N.R.C. Collaborative Research Program to Assess Tsunami Hazard for Nuclear Power Plants on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.” Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing China, October 2008

Murphy et al (2008) “Recent PSHA Activities at the USNRC, Including Continuing Research”, Working Group on Integrity of Components and Structures (IAGE); Recent Findings and Developments in Probabilistic Seismic Hazards Analysis (PSHA) Methodologies and Applications, Lyon, France [see related presentation]

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) (2008), “US NRC Seismic Research Program Plan 2008-2011”, Project Manager and Principal Author

Graves et al (2007), “US NRC Research And Regulatory Guidance For Soil-Structure Interaction”, Proceedings, 4th U.S.-Japan Workshop On Soil-Structure-Interaction, Tsukuba, Japan

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.208 (2007), “A Performance-Based Approach to Define the Site-Specific Earthquake Ground Motion”, Project Manager, Editor and Contributing Author

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (2007), “NRC Staff Responses to Public Comments on Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1146, A Performance-Based Approach to Define the Site-Specific Earthquake Ground Motion”, Project Manager, Contributing Author and Editor

Seed et al (2006), “Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005”, CITRIS Center, University of California, Berkeley, July 2006, Report No. UCB/CITRIS-06/01

Kammerer et al (2004), “Shear Strain Development In Liquefiable Soil Under Bi-Directional Loading Conditions”, Proceedings, 13th World Conf. on Earthquake Engineering, Paper 2081, Vancouver, Canada

Kammerer et al (2004), “A New Multi-Directional Direct Simple Shear Testing Database”, Proceedings, 13th World Conf. on Earthquake Engr., Paper 2083, Vancouver, Canada

Lubkowski et al (2004), “Providing Value to Clients through Non-Linear Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction”, Proceedings, 13th World Conf. on Earthquake Engr., Paper 1415, Vancouver, Canada

Kammerer et al (2004) “Pore Pressure Development of Liquefiable Materials Under Multi-Directional Loading”, Proceedings, 11th Int. Conf. on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering and 3rd Intl. Conf. On Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Vol.2 P.697

Kammerer et al, (2003) " Behavior of Monterey 0/30 Sand under Multidirectional Loading Conditions," Proceedings, 1st Japan-U.S. Workshop on Testing, Modeling and Simulation in Geomechanics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, June 2003.

Seed R. B., Cetin K. O., Moss R. E. S., Kammerer A. M., Wu J., Pestana J. M., Riemer M. F., Sancio R. B., Bray J. D., Kayen R. E., Faris, A. (2003) “Recent Advances in Soil Liquefaction Engineering: A Unified and Consistent Framework”, EERC Report No.2003-06, UC Berkeley

Kammerer et al (2002) "Undrained Response of Monterey 0/30 Sand Under Multidirectional Cyclic Simple Shear Loading Conditions", Geotechnical Eng. Research Rpt. UCB/GT/02-01, UC Berkeley. (Electronic Data Files (CD), available as Geotechnical Research Report No. UCB/GE/02-02)

Kammerer (2002) "Undrained Response of Monterey 0/30 Sand Under Multidirectional Cyclic Simple Shear Loading Conditions", PhD Dissertation. My dissertation was published as the UCB report above

Kammerer. et al (2001) “Use Of Cyclic Simple Shear Testing In Evaluation Of The Deformation Potential Of Liquefiable Soils”, Fourth International Conference and Symposium On Recent Advances In Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering And Soil Dynamics, Paper 1.20, San Diego, CA

Bray et al (2001) “Some Observations of Geotechnical Aspects of the February 28, 2001, Nisqually Earthquake in Olympia, South Seattle, and Tacoma, Washington”, Web-based GEER Reconnaissance Report. Sponsored by NSF through PEER.

Seed R. B., Cetin K. O., Moss R. E. S., Kammerer A. M., Wu J., Pestana J. M., Riemer M. F., (2001) "Recent Advances in Soil Liquefaction Engineering and Seismic Site Response Evaluation", 4th Int. Conf. on Recent Advances In Geotechnical Earthquake Eng. And Soil Dynamics, Keynote Paper SPL-2, San Diego, CA USA. Republished as an EERC Report.

Kammerer et al (2001) “Deformations of Dense Sand Under Cyclic Loading”, Tenth International Conference and Symposium on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, October, San Diego, CA

Kammerer et al (2000) "Cyclic Simple Shear Testing of Nevada Sand for PEER Center Project 2051999”, Geotechnical Engineering Research Report No. UCB/GT/00-01, University of California, Berkeley, January 2000 (Electronic Data Files (CD), available as Geotechnical Research Report No. UCB/GE/00-02)

Kammerer et al (1999) "UC Berkeley Geotechnical Testing for the East Bay Crossing of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge,” Geotechnical Engineering Research Report No. UCB/GT/99-18, University of California, Berkeley, October 1999 (Electronic Data Files (CD), available as Geotechnical Research Report No. UCB/GE/99-20)

Pestana et al (1998) “Effect of Storage Capacity in the Performance of Vertical Drains in Liquefiable San Deposits,” 2nd International Conference on Ground Improvement Techniques, Singapore, pp. 373-380.

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