Webinar Schedule

Delivering Rapid Post-Earthquake Safety Assessment of Bridges
through Combining Informed Decision Making with Real-Time Systems

Featuring Marlon Aguero, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Bridges are a critical backbone of our transportation systems. As such, making the right decisions quickly and responsibly during emergency events is imperative. Automated access to real-time information can enable engineers, operators, and other decision makers to expedite post-earthquake safety assessments.

Traditionally, bridge inspections are conducted every two years to detect potential deterioration. However, these inspections are expensive and may need to be done more frequently following extreme events like earthquakes, fires, or bridge strikes.

In this session, Marlon Aguero will discuss how an advanced monitoring and reporting system can be combined with various kinds of sensors to form the foundation of a complete structural health monitoring solution that enhances public safety by providing reliable data about bridge conditions, both long-term and unexpected events.

This informative webinar and Q&A session will focus on two case studies which illustrate the value of these systems to enhance day-to-day operations, preparedness for disaster scenarios, and overall bridge safety.

The information provided is a must for government officials, engineers, operators, emergency response professionals, and anyone involved in managing bridges.

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Applied Technologies to Improve Efficiency and Flexibility in Earthquake Monitoring and Response

Featuring Brandon Parrott, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Earthquake monitoring and response requires complex multi-faceted systems that serve stakeholders with diverse needs.

These systems must be optimized through a combination of science and technology that ensures the needs and expectations of stakeholders are met in a timely and relevant manner. If a given system meets the needs of one stakeholder group, but ignores others, it’s value will quickly come into question. Solutions must also be flexible, responsive, and integrated into the everyday routines of stakeholders.

The criticality of earthquake monitoring and response systems, from early warning to post-event assessments, makes implementing the proper solution and approach imperative.

In this session, Brandon Parrott will discuss a technological, behavioral, and architectural approach to ensuring that earthquake monitoring and response systems meet these needs. Using concrete examples and real-world observations, he will detail the impact on various stakeholders of implementing an effective system. He will also identify the areas that receive the most benefit from such sound design and the resulting downstream effects on earthquake response activities and decision making.

This webinar and Q&A session is a must for engineers, seismologists, emergency response professionals, and anyone involved in managing buildings or other critical structures.

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Earthquake Engineering, Instrumentation, KMIDam

Featuring Dr. André Alegre, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Dams are high potential risk infrastructures, designed to operate safely for many decades and to withstand exceptional loads. However, during their long lifespan, the structural condition can be affected by progressive deterioration or by earthquakes, leading to a loss of serviceability or even compromising structural integrity. The implementation of comprehensive monitoring for these critical structures is indispensable to allow for reliable observation and assessment of dam behavior in the long term, under normal operating conditions, and during exceptional events, such as earthquakes.

KMIDam is a complete dam management platform that combines Kinemetrics’ world-class instrumentation, ensuring maximum data return and unmatched reliability, and a high-end data center powered by advanced software tools for real-time seismic monitoring and alerting, automated event reporting, long-term structural health monitoring, and digital twinning.

In this session, Dr. André Alegre will explain how continuous access to actionable information through the KMIDam Platform facilitates long-term structural health monitoring, routine operations, and dam performance assessments during earthquake events. This presentation will demonstrate how enabling data-driven, informed decision-making ensures safe and compliant day-to-day operations and efficient emergency response management.

This webinar and Q&A session is a must for dam operators, engineers, and anyone interested in a detailed conversation about how breakthroughs made during real-world dam monitoring projects have advanced technology and influenced the state-of-the-art KMIDam Platform.

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From Trusted Solutions to Complete Platforms: How Past Innovation
Drives Future Technology

Featuring: Dr. Mathias Franke, Dr. André Alegre, Marlon Agüero, and Dr. Khalid Saifullah, Kinemetrics, Inc.

The Kinemetrics Open System & Services Division is well known for delivering and operating world-class seismic, environmental monitoring, and structural health monitoring solutions. The combination of the unmatched technology of Kinemetrics instrumentation and software combined with the decades of real-world experience of the OSS team drive industry-leading results.

But how did OSS get to this level, and what does the future hold for state-of-the-art solutions?

In this informative panel discussion and Q&A session, members of the OSS team leading development of solutions for dams, bridges, LNG facilities, and more will discuss the benchmark projects that led to key technical and operational breakthroughs that advanced Kinemetrics solutions to their current state. In addition, the panel will provide expert insight into how the lineup of Kinemetrics industry-specific platforms are changing the way leading organizations manage critical infrastructure today and what this means for the future.

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Ensuring Accurate Displacement Measurements During Seismic Events
A Comparative Study of UCSD Shaking Tests of 10-Story TallWood Building

Featuring Dr. M. Khalid Saifullah, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Accurate displacement measurements are critical for the integrity of the buildings and underpin some of the key indicators, such as Interstory drift, of seismic performance of the buildings.

Building codes and design guidelines have identified limits on parameters based on historical data from instrumented buildings and experimental evaluation in laboratories. It is also used as the main engineering demand parameter to conduct fragility analysis as structural damage and nonstructural damage correlates with this parameter.

Engineers and other emergency decision makers can only make informed, responsible decisions when structural displacements are accurately measured.

In this informative webinar and Q&A session, Dr. Khalid Saifullah will describe the testing procedures and results from a comparative study of accelerometers in a controlled study using the world’s largest outdoor shake table, located at UCSD, during a larger test program led by the NHERI TallWood Team.

His presentation focuses on displacement responses of the building under different types of seismic loadings to gauge the effectiveness of accelerometers with respect to benchmark direct contact displacement techniques.

This session is a must for structural engineers, and anyone involved with the decision-making processes associated with post-earthquake assessments.

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Performance Assessment and Structural Health Monitoring of Large Dams

Featuring Dr. André Alegre, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Large concrete dams are infrastructures of vital importance for populations, contributing decisively to the management of freshwater resources, particularly for water supply, energy production, flood control and soil irrigation, especially nowadays due to the effects of climate change.

However, these dams are usually high potential risk structures, designed to operate for several decades, and often located in seismic zones. It is essential to conduct a continuous and reliable assessment of dam behavior, which can be affected by progressive deterioration or by damage caused due to extreme events (such as earthquakes or overtopping), in order to control structural health over time and ensure optimal operating conditions.

In this session, special guest speaker Dr. André Alegre will discuss how a continuous vibrations monitoring system represents an important asset for performance assessment and structural health monitoring of large dams.

Dr. Alegre will share the experience acquired over the past 15 years in two real-world case studies. His presentation will cover the development of the dams’ monitoring systems, present results from several applications, and describe how the KMIDam platform helps make dam monitoring reliable and effective.

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Ensuring Safe and Compliant Earthquake Response and LNG Facility Operational Continuity
using the KMI-LNG Platform

Featuring Dr. Khalid Saifullah, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Liquified Natural Gas has emerged as a primary secure energy source to meet global demands while keeping affordability and carbon emission goals in check. With the increasing demand for cleaner energy, the number of LNG facilities is expected to grow in the coming years, with North America leading the LNG export market.

Safe operations of these critical facilities is paramount, as uninformed decision-making can lead to catastrophic consequences. Earthquakes present a serious natural hazard that can have a substantial impact on the safety and continuous operation of these facilities.

The KMI-LNG Earthquake Response and Management Platform is designed to help facility operators immediately understand the impact of earthquake ground motion on their structures, thus eliminating any guesswork. This platform not only enables compliance with regulatory requirements, but also ensures informed decision-making by the facility manager for continuous operations after an event.

In this live webinar and Q&A session, Dr. Khalid Saifullah will discuss how to meet the operational and regulatory requirements of these critical facilities, while ensuring safe and responsible decision-making during emergency events to help protect the world’s supply of cleaner energy.

This webinar is a must for anyone interested in learning how to ensure safe and compliant operations of critical energy facilities.

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Dam Safety Case Studies with the KMIDam Platform

Featuring Mohamed El Idrissi, Kinemetrics, Inc.

KMIDam is a technology platform designed to manage your portfolio of dams with real-time information before, during and post-event. Leveraging a combination of smart sensing, modelling, digital twins, and real-time processing tools, KMIDam provides immediate feedback during events, and tracks changes to your structures that may lead to problems over time.

In this session, Mohamed El Idrissi will walk us through case studies on ensuring dam safety via this powerful tool. The lens of real-world scenarios eliminates hyperbole, and exposes the impact that systems actually have on critical facilities, teams, and communities. This is where KMIDam shines.

Join us for this informative webinar and Q&A session, and take advantage of the opportunity to leverage the expertise and experience of Mr. El Idrissi.

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KMI-LNG: Ensuring Operational Continuity and Safety for LNG Facilities

Featuring Mauricio Ciudad-Real, Kinemetrics Inc.

Protecting liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities is critical to maintaining access to cleaner energy for communities around the world. Catastrophic losses result from interrupted operations at LNG facilities during earthquakes. Accurate assessment of structural impact, and informative alerts are vital ingredients to safe and efficient operation of these facilities during an emergency.

Decisions during this kind of emergency are too important to make without reliable and actionable information. Targeting response to the correct actions can be difficult, especially when time and accuracy are essential. In these situations, real-time information on potentially damaging ground motion is required to initiate the proper emergency response procedures.

In this informative webinar + Q&A, Mauricio Ciudad-Real will introduce us to how leading LNG operators monitor their facilities, understand the status of their structures, and leverage data to manage emergency response decisions more confidently before, during, and after earthquake events.

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