Benjamin Zand will present this 1-day live webinar titled, “Pipeline Geohazard Assessment,” on November 16, 2021.
Course Objective
This course will focus on various types of geohazard that can affect a pipeline and assessment of the effect of geohazard on pipeline integrity.
Course Outline
- Types of geohazard:
- landslide, ground subsidence,
- sinkhole,
- flood,
- frost heave,
- earthquake (includes liquefaction, tsunami, and fault crossing)
- expansive and collapsible soil,
- water and wind erosion, and
- shallow ground water level
- Fundamentals of Slope stability analysis
- Soil-pipe interaction analysis – describes the soil spring model for stress analysis of buried pipelines
- Acceptance criteria (stress-based vs strain-based acceptance criteria)
- Ground movement mitigation
- Ground movement monitoring
- Vortex-induced vibration
- Closing
Provided
7 PDHs available with Certificate of Completion
Learning materials sent electronically
Feedback
“The course was highly satisfactory to me. The instructor was very good and his presentation was amazing. I enjoyed it. Looking forward to more courses from him.”
“Very interesting!”
“He was obviously very knowledgeable and answered all my questions easily
“I was really happy with the quality of the presentation.”
“Very intelligent and cohesive. Easy to follow and we felt free to ask questions whenever possible.”
“Benjamin was well spoken and did a good job presenting the material.”
“The instructor was very knowledgeable on the subject matter.”
“Overall, a great presentation – very well presented by Dr. Zand.”
Instructor Bio
Dr Zand has 20 years of experience in geotechnical engineering, geohazard assessment, stress analysis, pipeline integrity assessment, mechanics of composite material, and mathematical modeling. His experience includes stress and vibration analysis and monitoring for oil and gas transport pipelines and facility piping. Dr Zand has assisted pipeline operators with geohazard problems such as longwall mining subsidence, ground movement, sinkhole, earthquake, and fault crossing. Dr Zand has developed mitigation and monitoring programs for pipelines subjected to various geohazard conditions. He has assessed numerous pipelines subjected to vibration and cyclic loading from blast and construction. He previously worked with Kiefner & Associates, Inc. (2012 to 2019) and has recently joined RSI Pipeline Solutions, LLC. He has served as an instructor for Rock Mechanics course at Ohio State University.