Featuring Mr. Yuji Taresawa
The Dam Safety Group (DSG) provides the widest range of geophysical and seismic technologies to address non-invasive investigation, maintenance and monitoring of dams, embankments and levees.
In this session, special guest speaker Mr. Yuji Taresawa will walk us through who DSG is, what DSG offers, and how DSG matters, with special emphasis on how seismic monitoring and geophysical investigation improve dam safety.
Featuring Professor Heiner Igel
We all know that seismology is a science based on measuring ground motions using seismometers. This measures three components of translational motions. But is that all the ground does? No, there are other motion components.
In this session, special guest speaker Professor Heiner Igel will discuss new developments in seismic instrumentation – in particular rotation sensing – with applications ranging from earthquake physics, ocean bottom seismology, seismic tomography, volcanology, earthquake engineering to planetary seismology. The key to these new applications is optical technology making use of laser light and relativistic effects getting hold of the wavefield gradient related information.
This informative webinar + Q&A is a must see, focusing on concepts and results from innovative pilot projects.
Featuring Dr. Robert Nigbor
In this session, special guest speaker Dr. Robert Nigbor will discuss the use of seismometers and seismic data systems for short-term measurements of vibrations related to construction, transportation, sensitive equipment, and experimental modal analysis.
This informative webinar + Q&A will be full of real-life case studies of non-seismic applications.
Featuring Dr. Atilla Ansal, Kinemetrics, Inc.
Seismic microzonation is a methodology for estimating the response of soil layers under earthquake excitations and relative variations of earthquake ground motion characteristics on the ground surface for a selected area.
In this session, special guest speaker Dr. Atilla Ansal will walk us through the use of this methodology to provide input for urban planning for the assessment of the vulnerability of the building stock and earthquake preparedness. Microzonation requires realistic estimation of regional seismicity, local earthquake hazard, and detailed information of local soil conditions. It is probabilistic evaluation for all possible future earthquake in assessing the probability of building damage.
Featuring Dr. Derek Skolnik, Kinemetrics, Inc.
In this special session, our panel of experts will review the knowledge base of 28 on-demand webinars created in 2020 Kinemetrics Information Series.
Dr. Derek Skolnik will host Dr. Mathias Franke, Dr. Lani Oncescu, and Mauricio Ciudad-Real in a discussion of topics across four categories: Products, Seismology, Earthquake Engineering, and Business Continuity.
This informative webinar + Q&A will provide a synopsis for each category, discuss what we learned, and provide information on how best to utilize these resources in your own projects.
Featuring Dr. Filipe Magalhães
In this session, Dr. Filipe Magalhães will deliver a detailed overview of several dynamic monitoring programs developed with Kinemetrics equipment, including research oriented and consultancy applications on bridges and research projects on wind turbines.
This informative webinar + Q&A will describe the implemented monitoring layouts and the presentation of the developed monitoring software. Relevant results that enhance the value of structural health monitoring will also be revealed.
Featuring Professor Julian J. Bommer
In this session, Professor Julian J. Bommer will describe the development of a ground-motion model as an integral component of a seismic risk model for induced earthquakes in the Groningen gas field in the Netherlands.
This informative webinar + Q&A places particular focus on the installation, characterization and operation of ground-motion recording networks in the field, including some unexpected challenges encountered along the way.
Featuring Dennis Pumphrey, Kinemetrics, Inc.
Rockhound is a software platform designed to implement real time data acquisition from digitizers and perform vital functions based upon that data to meet the needs of the end user.
In this session, Dennis Pumphrey will cover two of our most-requested topics. He will provide a live demonstration outlining the installation of Rockhound, and the operation of RockMonitor!
First, he set up RockMonitor from scratch and configure multiple Rock units to demonstrate remote configuration, file retrieval, and status monitoring. Second, Dennis will set up a PC-based installation of Rockhound, demonstrating the simplicity of connecting to digitizers and the creation of a PC-based continuous recorder.
This informative webinar + Q&A is a Must-See for operators, researchers, and engineers interested in the world-class Rockhound platform.
Featuring Dr. Ertugrul Taciroglu
Recent advances in performance-based earthquake engineering and existing information technologies provide opportunities to develop extremely granular inventories of the built environment and assess its vulnerabilities to earthquakes as well as other hazards.
In this session, special guest speaker Dr. Ertugrul Taciroglu will focus the discussion on bridges — which are arguably the most critical elements of a transportation network — and delineate the ingredients needed to bring a regional seismic assessment tool to fruition.
These ingredients range from site-specific ground motion estimation to automated development of analysis models for bridges using data harvested from publicly available repositories, to damage and economic loss assessment. After identifying the ingredients, Dr. Taciroglu will articulate an overall framework for regional risk assessment of transportation networks.
Our guest speaker also provides an example to demonstrate the viability of the envisioned approach, and discusses its natural extensions to other areas including structural performance monitoring and rapid post-event assessment.
