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EBMUD – Water Network Resiliency Evaluation

CSI has collaborated with the EBMUD to deploy AI/ML techniques to improve water distribution network resiliency. This is a rapidly developing sector of CSI+EBMUD collaboration! 1) Investigating the Effects of Operational and Environmental Factors on Water Distribution Pipeline Failures using Surviva…

EBMUD – Robotic Tunnel Inspection with Boston Dynamics Spot

CSI is working with EBMUD to develop a cutting-edge autonomous robotic tunnel inspection platform. This framework involves deploying state-of-the-art sensing technologies (3D stereo camera, 360 camera, and multi-gas sensors) on board a quadruped terrestrial robot (Boston Dynamics Spot). The pl…

EBMUD – Claremont Ave Pipeline Monitoring – Oakland, California

The Soga Research Group/Center for Smart Infrastructure is working with EBMUD to develop a cutting-edge system for monitoring pipelines that cross active earthquake faults. Distributed fiber optic sensors were installed in 2022 along an approximately 200m alignment of two critical water transmission…

USACE – Levee Monitoring – Sacramento, California

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, it becomes brittle as well. Under an event of flo…

PPI – iPVC Pipe Testing

This study centers on experimental assessments of AWWA C900 DR14 iPVC pipes, subjecting them to bending forces. The primary objective was to determine the pipes’ capacity to maintain their full-service functionality following seismic events, thus bolstering seismic resilience. To explore this,…

U.S. Pipe – Ductile Iron Pipe Testing

This study involved a series of pipeline experiments, encompassing tension tests, bi-axial tension tests, and 4-point bending tests, to investigate the failure mechanisms of an 8-inch TR-XTREME ductile iron pipe manufactured by US Pipe. These experiments were equipped with distributed fiber optic se…

Kubota – Ductile Iron Pipe Testing

With a focus on large-scale testing capacity, this study delves into the challenges faced by buried pipelines, particularly segmented ones within water networks, when confronted with natural disasters such as earthquakes and landslides. The integrity of connections between pipe segments becomes a pa…

USACE – Levee Performance Monitoring – Black Hawk, Louisiana

CSI designed and installed an array of fiber optic monitoring points in an area of past and suspected future sand boil development along a section of levee on the Mississippi River. The project included the installation of four approximately 100’ deep vertical monitoring points to observe vertical d…