The California Energy Commission has published “Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems, Knowledge Transfer Report.” It was written by Grace S. Kang - UC Berkeley; Jennie Watson-Lamprey, and Micaela Largent - Slate Geotechnical Consultants.
The publication is an interim project report for the OpenSRA project. OpenSRA is a new open-source seismic risk assessment software tool for gas utility regulators and owners that will enable them to strategically assess challenges posed by the risk from earthquakes. The knowledge transfer report presents the approaches used to disseminate the project's technical research and software development, and it describes the materials created and released that highlight the key project outcomes.