Report for the “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems” Project.
This report documents the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems,” henceforth referred to as the “OpenSRA Project.”
The overall goal of the OpenSRA Project is to create an open-source research-based seismic risk assessment tool for natural gas infrastructure that utility stakeholders can use to understand state-wide risks better, prioritize mitigation, plan new gas infrastructure, and help focus post-earthquake repair work.
The project team includes researchers from LBNL, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, University of Nevada Reno, the NHERI SimCenter at UC Berkeley, and Slate Geotechnical Consultants and its subcontractors Lettis Consultants International (LCI) and T.D. O’Rourke of Cornell University. Task Groups conducted focused research to advance the seismic risk assessment tool, each addressing a particular area of study and expertise and collaborating with the other Task Groups.
This report is the product of Task Group E: Smart gas infrastructure sensing of wells and pipeline connections performance. The scope of this report is to provide a guide on the latest monitoring technologies, to natural gas infrastructure owners, in the context of the model variables needed in OpenSRA.
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