On April 4, 2024, our very own Clifford C. Chan was inducted by the Academy of Distinguished Alumni (ADA) at Berkeley CEE into its Class of 2023. This year’s banquet celebrated the 12th anniversary of the ADA’s founding and brought together… Read More »Clifford C. Chan inducted to UC Berkeley Academy of Distinguished Alumni
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 a 3 year period, the… Read More »CEC awards $3 million to integrate advanced technologies for enhanced risk assessment
Senior Civil Engineer East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) Email: dustin.lavallee ‘at’ ebmud ‘dot’ com Dustin is a Senior Civil Engineer with EBMUD in Oakland where he works on the design and project management of various water distribution pipeline and… Read More »Dustin La Vallee
On March 13, 2024, the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) announced that our very own Professor Kenichi Soga will be delivering the 63rd Rankine Lecture in March 2025 at Imperial College London. The Rankine Lecture is renowned as one of the… Read More »Professor Kenichi Soga announced as 63rd Rankine Lecturer
Digital Twinning methods can produce a reliable digital record of the built environment and enable owners to reliably protect, monitor and maintain the condition of their asset. The built environment is comprised of large assets that need significant resource investments… Read More »Digital Twinning the Built Environment – Ioannis Brilakis
Dayu Apoji was invited to talk at the Annual Congress of the Geotechnical Engineering Society Indonesia (HATTI), which was held in Jakarta on November 9, 2023. His presentation, titled “Applications of Machine Learning in Geo-Engineering, with an Emphasis on Tunneling… Read More »Invited talk at the Annual Congress of the Geotechnical Engineering Society Indonesia
Our group has recently published a paper titled “Shaping the Future of Tunneling with Data and Emerging Technologies,” authored by Dayu Apoji, Prof. Kenichi Soga, and Prof. Brian Sheil of The University of Cambridge, UK, in the Data-Centric Engineering Journal.… Read More »Envisioning a Transformation in the Future of Tunneling
Senior Project Engineer at Thornton Tomasetti Email: bberger ‘at’ thorntontomasetti ‘dot’ com
LEM is a numerical method that is used to investigate fracture development in rock materials. It is a novel approach that does not require fracture path to be predefined. Fully coupled 1D beam-element lattice networks are used to represent 3D… Read More »Lattice Element Method (LEM)
FEM is a numerical method that utilizes discretization to develop then solve a system of equations to numerically approximate the solution to differential equations of interest. Beyond geotechnical modeling, FEM is very frequently used for modeling structural analysis, heat transfer,… Read More »Finite Element Method (FEM)