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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MARS Insight SP: Overcoming Engineering Challenges

Featuring Ian Standley, Kinemetrics, Inc.

What happens when you decide to send a seismometer to Mars? There’s only one way to find out!

In this session, Ian Standley will take us through the exciting Mars Insight project from the standpoint of the engineering team from Imperial College, Oxford University, and Kinemetrics tasked with developing a new seismometer that could withstand the harsh conditions of space and the surface of Mars.

He will discuss some of the engineering challenges and opportunities associated with this incredible project, and share his experience of seeing the team’s work reach the surface of another planet! Ian will talk about the deployment of the seismometer onto the surface and its operation on the planet. Finally he’ll discuss future potential missions to put seismometers on our own moon and possibly the “Icy moons of Jupiter”.

This informative webinar + Q&A will provide an engaging and informative view into the engineering processes used to overcome challenging conditions, and give the audience an entertaining back-stage view into the Mars Insight SP project, and the story of the rock named, “The Ace of Spades”.

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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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Kinemetrics Digitizers: Operation Range and Applications

Featuring Dr. Lani Oncescu, Kinemetrics, Inc.

With so many digitizers available, how do you know which is best for your application?

In this session, Dr. Lani Oncescu will walk us through how the various kinds of Kinemetrics digitizers meet the different needs of different users.

This informative webinar + Q&A will define the landscape of available digitizers, and help you understand which is best for which application.

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USArray – Command and Control

Featuring Dr. Frank Vernon

Join us to learn about the USArray Transportable Array!

In this session, Dr. Frank Vernon will discuss the operations of the USArray Transportable Array from the perspective of the command and control of the field stations and sensors using automatic and manually initiated processes.

This informative webinar + Q&A will help engineers, operators, and regulators understand the approach associated with the success of this important system.

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