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Berkeley ITS – Transit System Vulnerability and Resilience

As part of the California Resilient and Innovative Mobility Initiative (RIMI), this project aims to develop a regionwide multi-modal traffic simulation tool to help with planning and policymaking during the recovery stage of an earthquake, which is expected to help California’s transit systems under…

CE170A – Model bridge testing

Students of CE 170A (Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling, taught by Professor Soga, Professor Kayen, and Professor Zekkos) had a lot of fun on September 14th. Model bridge tests were conducted as part of the Infrastructure Sensing module of the course, led by Jaewon and Shih-Hung. Three different br…

ENGEO – Embankment Settlement Monitoring – Treasure Island, California

The UC Berkeley team performed strain monitoring of soil vertical displacements using distributed fiber optic sensing for a surcharge pre-load program on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay. Unlike previous installations performed by the UC Berkeley team, the fiber optic cable for this project …

Malcolm Drilling – Construction Equipment-Soil Interaction

Creating Subsurface Strain Cross-Sections using Distributed Strain Sensing: Application to Working Platform Design A team from the Soga Research Group led by Ph.D. candidate Peter Hubbard is working with a team from Malcolm Drilling led by Peter Faust to assess the performance of working p…

Millennium Tower – Pile Load Testing – San Francisco, California

CSI performed temperature and strain monitoring using point-based FBG and distributed fiber optic monitoring systems on a full-scale test pile for the Millennium Tower retrofit. The system involved two parallel monitoring systems – one consisting of multiple chains of FBG strain sensors and a second…

SCC-IRG Track 1 Designing Smart, Sustainable Risk Reduction in Hazard-Prone Communities: Modeling Risk Across Scales of Time and Space

In response to the NSF Smart & Connected Communities program, this project aims at initiating and expanding collective learning capacity through integrating digital twin simulations and social digital serious games. The goal of this project is to engage decision makers across sectors and scales …

Sixense / Enzan / Kajima – AI/ML for TBM Tunneling

CSI has collaborated with notable entities in the Tunneling & Underground Construction industry: Sizense, Enzan Koubou, and Kajima to implement AI/ML techniques to improve TBM tunneling. 1) Supervised geologic interpretation based on TBM data This research aims to develop a supervised system for…

Smart City Technology Adoption

This project examines technology adoption by the cities, counties, and other local government agencies that manage infrastructure. Which types of institutions are more likely to adopt new technologies and why? Which technologies are more likely to be adopted? How do those managing infras…

Tishman Speyer – Long-term Settlement Monitoring – downtown San Francisco, 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 construction of de…