CEC visits CSI lab
October 15, 2024: The UC Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI) hosted a visit by the California Energy Commission (CEC) on October 7, 2024. Kenichi Soga and Matt DeJong, co-directors of CSI and co-PIs on the OpenSRA 2 project, provided a guided tour for Pooya Khodaparast, CEC’s Commission Agreement Manager (CAM) on the OpenSRA 2 project. The OpenSRA 2 project scope includes embedded sensing technologies in the large-scale laboratory, where the split-basin testing device will be used to bring a buried pipeline to failure.
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2024 PEER Researchers' Workshop
The workshop goal was to disseminate information about research funded or supported by PEER, and to develop interaction between projects across disciplines. Progress on the OpenSRA 2 project was presented on August 16, 2024, to the audience of researchers from academic institutions located in the western US, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, California Department of Transportation (CalTrans), California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES), and the California Geological Survey (CGS).
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“OpenSRA - Phase 2: Performance Based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Gas Storage and Transmission Systems” - Kenichi Soga
CEC awards $3 million to integrate advanced technologies for enhanced risk assessment
April 2, 2024: A UC Berkeley engineering research team led by Professor Kenichi Soga was recently granted $3 million by the California Energy Commission to enhance the seismic risk assessment of natural gas storage and pipeline infrastructure. Over three years, the team will use remote and embedded sensing technology and advanced data management and analysis techniques to monitor gas infrastructure continuously. These methods will be integrated into OpenSRA, an open-source software tool for monitoring and risk assessment, enabling predictive modeling and data analytics even in uncertain conditions. Effective usage of this tool is expected to increase the safety and resilience of natural gas storage, piping, and infrastructure systems by enabling regulators and owners to focus seismic mitigation efforts on the most vulnerable components.
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