Introducing New Technologies for Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing & Monitoring

1. Introduce the concepts of digital twins and the new observational method
2. Understand the principles of operation of each technology and its advantages and limitations
   
3. Review examples of applications of the technologies in actual geotechnical projects
   
4. Provide guidance on how one could implement these technologies in engineering practice. 

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Course Schedule

The course will be offered in real-time (synchronous) from 9:00 to 17:00 Pacific time and includes time for discussion with the instructors. Participants will also be able to listen to the lectures in different time zones, in recorded format (asynchronous). The recordings will be available to all participants for viewing for one week.

DAY 1: 9:00-17:00 PST

Part 1: Introduction and The Big Picture of Geotechnical Infrastructure Monitoring

9:00-9:15: Introduction – Welcome (15 min) (Zekkos, Kayen, Soga)

9:15-10:00: Review of Current and New Technologies and Hierarchy– consider talking about Digital Twins and data management frameworks – New Observational Method (45 min) (Zekkos)

10:00-10:30: Means for Sensing (30 min) (Zekkos)

• Satellites
• Aerial
• UAV
• In-situ

Part 2: New Technologies for geotechnical monitoring: Remote and non-contact Sensing

10:30-11:30: UAVs and Optical data collection (1 hr) (Zekkos)

11:30-12:30: Structure-from-Motion (1 hr) (Zekkos)

12:30-13:30 - 1 hr break – discussion - chat

13:30-14:00: RTK GPS (Kayen)

14:00-15:00: LiDAR (Kayen)

15:00-16:00: Data Analysis using 3D models (Zekkos)

16:00-17:00 Discussion - Chat (optional)

DAY 2: 9:00-17:00

Part 3: New Technologies for geotechnical monitoring: Remote and non-contact Sensing (Continued)

9:00-10:00: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) (Kayen)

10:00-11:00 UAV-based Infrared - Principles and Applications (1 hr) (Zekkos)

Part 3: New Technologies for geotechnical monitoring: Embedded Sensing

11:00-12:30Wireless Sensing applications – Principles and Applications (1.5 hr) (Soga)

12:30-13:30 break

13:30-14:30 The ShapeArray (Johnson)

14:30- 16:30 Fiber Optics (Soga)

Part 4: Conclusion

16:30-17:00 Putting it all together–how to optimize your design using monitoring data (1 hr) (Kayen, Soga, Zekkos)

17:00-18:00 Discussion - Chat (optional)

Deliverables

• 14 hrs of online lectures – Available for real-time and non-real-time viewing during the course delivery.
• Course slides
  
• Technical literature suggested for each specific technology
  
• Office hours (instructors available for discussion at the end of each day of course delivery)
  

The cost of this two-day course is $985.

A 10% reduction in cost is provided for 3-4 registrations and a 20% off for 5+ registrations (if paid at the same time during course registration).

Register to the two-day course!