Kenichi Soga was one of the panelists at the recent Builtworlds’ 2025 Venture West conference. The panel’s theme was “Rebuilding Aging Infrastructure with Technology and Private Capital.” In light of the $1.2 trillion in public funding allocated for U.S. infrastructure… Read More »Kenichi Soga speaking at Builtworlds’ 2025 Venture West Conference
We are excited to share a recent two-part publication led by Professor Kenichi Soga that proposes and applies a novel framework to evaluate how emerging technologies (ETs) contribute to the resilience of civil infrastructure systems. In Part I: A Decision-Making… Read More »New Journal Articles: New Framework and Case Studies for Evaluating Emerging Technologies in Civil Infrastructure Resilience
A new journal article co-authored by Zhichao Zhang and Professor Kenichi Soga presents a micromechanics-inspired thermodynamic constitutive model for fluid-saturated granular materials subjected to complex loading. The study offers a novel approach to predicting material responses under multidirectional cyclic shearing… Read More »New Journal Article on Granular Thermodynamics for Complex Shearing Conditions
On May 21, 2025, the Smart and Connected Communities (SCC) Project team convened a successful community meeting at the Jonas Center on the Indian Valley Campus of the College of Marin. The event brought together around 30 participants—including local government… Read More »Community-Centered Wildfire Resilience: SCC Project Hosts Marin Community Meeting
UC Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies Meeting On April 18, GMS hosted a joint workshop on Disaster Preparedness and Recovery for California utilities, in partnership with the East Bay Municipal Utility District, the College of Engineering, and the College of Environmental… Read More »Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Workshop
The OpenSRA2 project, funded by the California Energy Commission, aims to enhance the seismic risk assessment of natural gas storage and pipeline infrastructure by employing a novel blend of remote and embedded sensing technology alongside advanced data management and analysis… Read More »OpenSRA2 Technical Advisory Committee visits CSI
Researchers at the Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI) testing lab conducted an assessment of a jointed pipe system, simulating the extreme conditions found in landslides or earthquake fault rupture zones. The test subject was a 42-foot long, 8-inch diameter earthquake-resistant… Read More »Earthquake-Resistant Ductile Iron Pipe System Tested for Fault Rupture Interaction
The UC Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI) hosted a visit by the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and EBMUD on April 17, 2025. David LaFrance, CEO of AWWA, interviewed CSI director Kenichi Soga about the role of research to… Read More »AWWA and EBMUD visit CSI Lab
A new paper introduces a comprehensive approach to evaluate the effects of earthquakes on transportation systems, focusing on bridge fragility, traffic disruptions, and economic losses. By integrating image-based bridge fragility models with regional-scale traffic simulations, the method provides a fine-grained… Read More »Granular framework for modeling the capacity loss and recovery of regional transportation networks under seismic hazards: A case study on the Port of Los Angeles
Researchers have conducted a comprehensive study to assess the performance of large-diameter segmented pipelines under transverse loading, focusing on vulnerabilities in connection joints during natural hazard events like earthquakes. Using a 4-point bending test on a 48-inch HDSS ductile iron… Read More »Assessment of Large-Diameter Ductile Iron Pipeline Joint to Transverse Loading using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing