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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 Research,” focused on various machine learning applications in tunneling. These applications, developed over recent years at UC Berkeley, include real-time geological interpretation, real-time geological anomaly… Read More »Invited talk at the Annual Congress of the Geotechnical Engineering Society Indonesia

Our group has recently published a paper titled “Shaping the Future of Tunneling with Data and Emerging Technologies,” authored by Dayu Apoji, Prof. Kenichi Soga, and Prof. Brian Sheil of The University of Cambridge, UK, in the Data-Centric Engineering Journal. This work envisions the potential integration of advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, and bio-inspired designs, as key enablers to revolutionize the… Read More »Paper: Envisioning a Transformation in the Future of Tunneling

On November 17th, 2023 at the 7th Annual UC Berkeley Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium, Jaewon presented as a Keynote Speaker on the “Monitoring Capabilities of Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing for Hydraulic Fracturing“. Opening with an overview of the distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) technology, Jaewon shared insights from a case study in Austin Chalk / Eagle Ford Shale, where DFOS was deployed to monitor temperature,… Read More »SRG at the 7th Annual GeoSymposium

PhD Candidate, Bodhinanda Chandra, Prof. Kenichi Soga, and collaborators from Kyoto University, Hiroshima University, and MIT recently published a paper in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, entitled “Stabilized mixed material point method for incompressible fluid flow analysis” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2023.116644). In the proposed work, a stabilized mixed material point method (MPM) formulation is developed to simulate a stable and accurate simulation of incompressible fluid flows. The developed formulation… Read More »A new article in CMAME on Mixed MPM

As part of their coursework for the CE170 Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling class, taught by Professor Kenichi Soga, students performed traffic simulations of wildfire evacuations from Berkeley Hills. Recently, the class had the privilege of welcoming Berkeley Fire Chief David Sprague and his colleagues, Duncan Allard, Dan Green, and Sarah Lana, to discuss the results of the assignment.  Chief Sprague shared valuable insights on Berkeley’s… Read More »Berkeley Fire Chief Gives Lecture in CE170 class on Wildfire Preparedness

On the vibrant day of October 17th, the Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI) labwelcomed members from Pacific, Nor-Cal, and Western TAG utilities, as well asenthusiastic students from CE112 – Water & Wastewater Systems Design andOperation on October 19th. During these visits, we performed tension tests on 8-inchiPVC pipes, incorporating fiber optic sensors. The pipes were subjected to testing until anotable failure and water leakage were… Read More »Utility Members and CE112 Students Visit CSI

The New Technology Project of the Year award was presented for the EBMUD Summit Pressure Zone South Pipeline Replacement, Phase 1 project (EBMUD – Claremont Ave Pipeline Monitoring – Oakland, California) by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), San Francisco section. This award recognizes projects which advance more efficient and sustainable civil infrastructure through innovation and advancement in technology such as implementation of new methods and… Read More »ASCE New Technology Project of the Year

The members of the Smart and Connected Communities Project hosted the Marin Community Workshop at the College of Marin, Kentfield Campus on October 26, 2023. In this workshop, we shared updates on the simulations related to wildfires and evacuations, findings from interviews, and initial directions for the games.

Pengshun, a Ph.D. student at the SRG, presented at the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting held on October 15-18, 2023, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix. His presentation was entitled “Spatial-queue Based Mesoscopic Traffic Model and its Applications in Wildfire Evacuation Simulations”. To capture highly dynamic traffic situations, efficient mesoscopic models can deliver comprehensive yet fast results. Therefore, in this work, Bingyu and Pengshun developed… Read More »Pengshun’s Presentation at the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting

Students of CE 170A (Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling, taught by Professor Soga, Professor Kayen, and Professor Zekkos) had a lot of fun on September 6th. Model bridge tests were conducted as part of the Infrastructure Sensing module of the course, led by Connor and Shih-Hung. Three different bridges (control, member defect, connection defect) were instrumented with distributed fiber optic sensors, linear variable differential transformers (LVDTs),… Read More »Model Bridge Tests for CE 170A: Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling (Fall 2023)