Webinar Schedule

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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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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Improving Operations and Dam Safety 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 provide an overview of the KMIDam platform through the lens of real-world scenarios, including multi-dam and extreme condition implementations.

During this informative webinar and Q&A session, Mr. El Idrissi will discuss how KMIDam enables improved operation and safety by enabling operators to assess the condition of each structure, understand the immediate impact of events, and track changes that happen to structures over time.

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Seismic and Structural Health Monitoring of Large Concrete Dams

Featuring Dr. André Alegre, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Large concrete dams are civil engineering structures of vital importance for the management of freshwater resources, including water supply and hydropower. They are generally associated with high potential risks, and it is critical to continuously evaluate their dynamic behavior in normal operating conditions, enabling the analysis of measured vibrations under ambient/operational excitations, for structural health monitoring, and to analyze the response during earthquakes. Studies on the dynamic behavior of large concrete dams should be conducted based on results from dynamic monitoring data and numerical results obtained using advanced finite element models.

In this session, special guest speaker Dr. André Alegre presents programs recently developed for improving the software component of Seismic and Structural Health Monitoring (SSHM) systems of large concrete dams and for dynamic behavior modelling.

In this informative webinar + Q&A, Dr. Alegre places particular focus upon the primary results from studies on the dynamic behavior of two large arch dams, which have been under continuous dynamic monitoring over the last 10 years.

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DAM SAFETY GROUP: One Stop Shop for Dam Safety

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.

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Expert Panel: The Kinemetrics Information Series On-Demand Library

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.

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iDAM: Comprehensive Seismic Monitoring Platform for Dams

Featuring Narek Abrahamian, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Join us to learn about the monitoring and management of dams during an earthquake!

In this session, Narek Abrahamian will discuss how the Kinemetrics iDam platform helps dam operators and engineers achieve dam safety and make better informed decisions during an earthquake.

Dam seismic monitoring is used to detect the exceedance of allowed performance criteria as well as identify and verify structural behavior.

This informative webinar + Q&A will help engineers, operators, and regulators understand the critical tools available to help protect their structures, reduce costs, and avoid disasters during an earthquake.

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