CSI participated in a full-scale field test of different base grouting technologies, using fiber optic sensing to measure strain and temperature development throughout the project. The project included the construction of 13 drilled shafts, base grouting of 12 of the… Read More »Caltrans – Base Grouted Pile Testing
USACE reconstructed some levee cutoff walls within the Sacramento River Area during the past two years. The levee cutoff wall is constructed by a mixture of cement, bentonite, and slag, which is a low permeability and high strength material. However,… Read More »USACE – Levee Monitoring – Sacramento, California
Long-term settlement monitoring for Mission Rock, a 28-acre project site at San Francisco’s southern waterfront, aimed at transforming an existing parking lot to a mixed-use development comprising housing, commercial and park spaces for public. To monitor the settlement during the… Read More »Tishman Speyer – Long-term Settlement Monitoring – downtown San Francisco, California
The majority of electricity utilized by UC Berkeley, along with its entire steam supply for heating, is generated from a co-generation plant situated on campus, which, however, contributes to 80 % of campus CO2 emissions. Moreover, the aged energy delivery… Read More »DOE – Geothermal based Optimized Energy Systems (GOES)
CSI researchers fully instrumented a fully operational onshore wind turbine at the Rocky Ridge Wind Farm in Oklahoma in the Fall 2022. Analyzers using different technologies, including an analyzer that implements Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), are currently collecting data daily… Read More »Enel – Wind Turbine Tower Monitoring with Distributed Strain Sensing
Caltrans – Geotechnical Resistance Capacity and Stress Distribution of Soil/Grout Interface of Ground Anchors in Various Soil/Rock Conditions using Continuous Fiber Optics Strain Technology and Strain Compatibility Methodology CSI is working with Caltrans to develop a cutting-edge distributed fiber optic… Read More »Caltrans – DFOS-embedded Ground Anchors
CSI has collaborated with Caltrans to deploy a distributed fiber optic sensing technology, specifically Distributed Strain Sensing (DSS) and Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) to quantify the effect of Cast-In-Steel Shell (CISS) pile soil plugging on pile capacity. The construction processes… Read More »Caltrans – Evaluation of Soil Plug Geotechnical Resistance in the Design of CISS Piles
CSI, in collaboration with Texas A&M University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is part of a research team dedicated to establishing a cutting-edge field laboratory in the hydrocarbon-rich Eagle Ford Shale formation. Supported by the Department of Energy (DOE), their… Read More »DOE / LBNL – Supported R&D on Optical Time Domain Reflectometer Dynamic Strain Sensing System Development and Application to Hydraulic Fracture
CSI aims to advance understanding of the impacts of the urban underground on the subsurface temperature increase at the city scale. In this research, high-performance computing (HPC) based city-scale underground climate change simulator is developed. To calibrate and validate the… Read More »NSF – CMMI-EPSRC Modeling and Monitoring of Urban Underground Climate Change (MUC2)
CSI has proposed to develop and field demonstrate an integrated suite of novel, autonomous, and real-time NGS wellbore integrity monitoring technologies based on distributed electromagnetic and fiber optic reflectometry methods. Wellbore integrity is of paramount importance to the safe storage… Read More »CEC / LBNL – NGS-SMART: Natural Gas Storage – Safety Monitoring with Autonomous Reflectometry Technologies