Seismic Risk Evaluation of Water Supply Systems seminar

30 Apr 2021

EERI Rice

Ronald T. Eguchi, ImageCat President & CEO, delivered a seminar on April 23rd as part of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar Series hosted by the EERI Student Chapter at Rice University. Ron presented the results of a study performed as part of a long-term program administered by the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to quantify and ultimately enhance the seismic resilience of all city trunklines and distribution pipelines.

For more information about the study please contact us or refer to the following publication and the upcoming ASCE Lifelines Conference in February 2022: Lee, Y., Hu, Z, Eguchi, R., Hu, J., Harounian, A. (2020). Seismic risk assessments of water pipelines: a case study for the City of Los Angeles Water system pipeline network, ARIC ’20: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Advances in Resilient and Intelligent Cities November 2020 Pages 58–61, https://doi.org/10.1145/3423455.3430304