Webinar Schedule

Big Data: A New Research Frontier in Earthquake Engineering

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.

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Kinemetrics Open Systems & Services Division: Who We Are – What We Do – Where We Operate

Featuring Dr. Mathias Franke, Kinemetrics, Inc.

What is OSS, and how does this group within Kinemetrics deliver critical systems and services worldwide?

In this session, Dr. Mathias Franke will answer this question and more. He will discuss the history, capabilities, and approach of this service-driven organization. He will provide a real-world a synopsis of OSS, focusing on past and current projects.

This informative webinar + Q&A will provide a detailed understanding of how OSS develops solutions, manages projects, and continually delivers value to clients.

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The Rockhound Platform: A View from 30,000 Feet

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 walk us through the configurable capabilities of this modular platform such as:

* Continuous recording

* Triggered event recording

* Telemetry reformatting and relaying

* Interfaces to post processing

This informative webinar + Q&A will help operators, researchers, and engineers understand the multitude of implementations possible with the Rockhound platform.

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Seismic Monitoring and Building Code Compliance with the iCOBI 3 System

Featuring Narek Abrahamian, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Seismic monitoring systems provide valuable data and information on the behavior of buildings leading to improved understanding and better design codes.

In this session, Narek Abrahamian will discuss the reasons many municipalities (e.g. City of Los Angeles, CA USA) require seismic instrumentation or offer benefits such as reduced inspection time as part of a building occupancy resumption program (e.g. BORP San Francisco, CA USA). He will share how the iCOBI 3 system fulfills these needs and more.

This informative webinar + Q&A will provide engineers, building managers, and emergency management professionals detailed information on how best to approach seismic building code compliance.

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A Deeper Look: SAFE Reports

Featuring Dr. Derek Skolnik, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Join us to learn more about AutoPro and SAFE Reports!

In this session, Dr. Derek Skolnik will provide a deeper look into these revolutionary tools. In direct response to your feedback, we will take a detailed tour of how AutoPro works and discuss the different types of automatically generated reports such as SMA, SAFE, CAMPUS, BOSI, and MAINT Reports. Time permitting, we will run a demo and send sample reports to attendees via email.

This important webinar + Q&A session will help engineers, disaster management professionals, and other operators better understand the tools that are available to deliver the information they need during an earthquake.

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The Abu Dhabi Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis (ADSHRA)

Featuring Dr. Mohamed El Idrissi, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Join us to for a walk-through of the Abu Dhabi Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis (ADSHRA)!

In this session, Mohamed El Idrissi, Director of Kinemetrics S.A. Switzerland will guide us through the details of this challenging and unique project.

The program was conceptualized to build an integrated system to assist regulators in formulating development policies and criteria to secure the population, present and future urban development, vital facilities and the infrastructure of the Abu Dhabi Emirate against potential adverse seismic impacts.

To achieve this strategic objective ADSHRA: (a) Developed specialized seismic monitoring systems; (b) Assessed the seismic risk of the Abu Dhabi Emirate and assured early disaster warning; (c) Established GIS shielded databases; and, (d) Ensured that all segments were interlinked in an integrated system.

This informative webinar + Q&A will help engineers, operators, and regulators understand the lessons learned from this important project.

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A Deeper Look: Etna2 Network-Centric Accelerograph

Featuring Dennis Pumphrey, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Join us as we take a deep dive into the Etna2 accelerograph.

In this session, Dennis Pumphrey will present a detailed evaluation of the significant features and capabilities of the Etna2 accelerograph. He will help us understand its use, and how its flexibility makes it easy to adapt for use in different applications.

This informative webinar + Q&A will provide engineers, facilities teams, and building owners with a complete view of what is possible with the Kinemetrics Etna2.

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Analysis of TVA’s Watts Bar NPP Strong-Motion Records: 12 December 2018 M4.4 Decatur, TN Quake

Featuring Dr. Vladimir Graizer, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

Join us for a review of the data and operational experience within the Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant during the Decatur, TN earthquake!

In this webinar, special guest speaker Dr. Vladimir Graizer with the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will discuss the Watts Bar NPP operational experience during the M4.4 Decatur, TN earthquake of 12-Dec-2018.

This informative webinar + Q&A session will explain why high-quality, digital strong motion records are so important in determining Operating Basis Earthquake (OBE) exceedance to support continuing plant operations after the earthquake.

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Deep Seismic Monitoring in Very Hard Rock Conditions for Swiss NPPs

Featuring Dr. Philippe Renault 

Join us to learn about how seismic monitoring can be utilized in support of nuclear power plants!

In this session, guest speaker Dr. Philippe Renault will discuss the motivation and background for a new seismic network at the Swiss NPP sites, including:

* Selection and criteria for employed equipment.

* Lessons learned from the building and installation process.

* Data collection experience and post-processing for scientific purposes.

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