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
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
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
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