CEC visits CSI lab -

The UC Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI) hosted a visit by the California Energy Commission (CEC) on October 7, 2024. CSI co-directors Kenichi Soga and Matt DeJong provided a guided tour for Pooya.Khodaparast, CEC’s Commission Agreement Manager (CAM) on the OpenSRA 2 project. They viewed CSI’s large-scale testing facility that includes a full-scale soil pipeline fault-rupture, i.e., split-basin interaction testing apparatus, four-point bending test apparatus, bi-axial testing apparatus, and compression-tension testing apparatus.

Kenichi Soga (right) shows Pooya Khodaparast (left) sensors installed on a pipe specimen.

The OpenSRA 2 project scope includes embedded sensing technologies in the large-scale laboratory, where the split-basin testing device will be used to bring a buried pipeline to failure.

OpenSRA 2 project team (L-R) Micaela Largent, Pooya Khodaparast, Kenichi Soga, and Matt DeJong, with a diagram of the split-basin testing apparatus.

Media Contacts:

Professor Kenichi Soga, soga@berkeley.edu

Grace Kang, g.kang@berkeley.edu