Ph.D. Student Office: 545 Davis Hall Email: rodrigo.tapia ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Rodrigo Tapia Corvalán earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the University of Santiago, Chile. During his Master’s research, he studied the response of metal connections in mass… Read More »Rodrigo Tapia Corvalán
Ph.D. Office: 508 Davis Hall Email: james.xu ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu James is a third-year Ph.D. candidate interested in the intersections of infrastructure health monitoring, numerical modeling, and machine learning. He is minoring in Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer… Read More »James Xu
Ph.D. Office: 508 Davis Hall Email: han_liu ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Han Liu is a Ph.D. specializing in Structural Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Han possesses a robust academic background, having earned a Bachelor’s degree at Wuhan University,… Read More »Han Liu
The plume of steam from UC Berkeley’s natural gas-fired power plant is a familiar sight on the skyline of San Francisco’s East Bay. But the facility’s days are numbered: The campus is on track to switch to an electrical heating… Read More »How three UC campuses are phasing out fossil fuels
In a recent milestone event, National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Smart and Connected Communities (SCC) Project team invited community members in Alameda County to the 2nd Alameda Community Meeting on January 12, 2024. The workshop, graciously hosted by the Head-Royce School in Oakland,… Read More »SCC Project’s Recent Workshop and Ongoing Initiatives in Alameda County
Seismic events, such as earthquakes, have the potential to induce ground movements that can adversely affect the structural integrity of gas well casings, thereby leading to the occurrence of gas leakage. An experimental investigation conducted in November 2023 aimed to… Read More »Gas well shearing experiment using fiber optic sensing
The Soga Research Group and collaborators have published a new paper in the journal Computers and Geotechnics: “Modeling large-deformation features of the Lower San Fernando Dam failure with the Material Point Method”, authored by Lauren Talbot, Joel Given, former SRG member Dr. Ezra Tjung, Dr. Yong… Read More »Paper: Modeling large-deformation features of the Lower San Fernando Dam failure with the Material Point Method
The Soga Research group, together with collaborators from UCLA, published a paper in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction last December 2023 entitled “A granular framework for modeling the capacity loss and recovery of regional transportation networks under seismic… Read More »A new article in IJDRR on post-earthquake resilience assessment of regional transportation networks
The Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI) recently hosted a visit by State Assembly Members Buffy Wicks, Pilar Schiavo, and Juan Alanis. During the visit, CSI provided an overview of its ongoing initiatives related to water infrastructure, natural disasters, and wildfire… Read More »Visit by state assembly members Buffy Wicks, Pilar Schiavo, and Juan Alanis
As part of their coursework for the CE170 Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling class, taught by Professor Kenichi Soga, students performed traffic simulations of wildfire evacuations from Berkeley Hills. Recently, the class had the privilege of welcoming Berkeley Fire Chief David… Read More »Berkeley Fire Chief Gives Lecture in CE170 class on Wildfire Preparedness