Professor
Masaki MAEDA
Assistant Professor
Naoyuki MATSUMOTO

Performance evaluation and structural design of building structures with safety, high-quality and sustainability. Development of new material and innovative structural system. Earthquake disaster prevention and risk analysis for reinforced concrete buildings and cities. Development of middle to high-rise timber building structures.
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Associate Professor
Noriyuki TAKAHASHI

To evaluate the anti-disaster performances such as seismic safety, reparability, tsunami-proof performance of new/existing/historic buildings are studied in this laboratory. And new adaptive/acceptable/affordable technologies such as digital-image-based damage investigation system are developed for enhancing the anti-disaster performances.
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Professor
Yoshihiro KIMURA
Assistant Professor
Atsushi SUZUKI

This laboratory aims to create innovative seismic design and develop novel structural system of steel structures. Our featuring outcomes invented experimentally, numerically, and theoretically have been thereby adopted into prevailing seismic guidelines and practical structural design. The major research topics are as follows: 1) Invention of Evaluation Method of Lateral Buckling Strength of Large-span Beams, 2) Creation of Seismic Design of Braced Steel Structures, 3) Construction of Ultimate Design Method of Steel Piles and Elucidation of Dynamic Buckling Behavior of Steel Piles in Liquefied Soil, 4) Development of Mid-floor Leveled Column Base System Preventing Column Yield and Assessment of Ultimate Seismic Capacity of Steel Moment Resisting Frames with the System.
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Professor
Koju IKAGO

This laboratory pursues development of innovative seismic protective systems to effectively mitigate the damages in building structures caused by extreme seismic events such as long-period/long-duration and extremely large ground motions. Conventional velocity- and displacement-dependent devices such as fluid dampers and hysteretic dampers are not necessarily effective against extreme seismic events because their energy dissipation is considered to be compromised when subjected to low velocity and large displacement. Under the new concept of Displacement Control Design we advocate, we develop innovative response control devices that can achieve large energy dissipation particularly in a range of low frequency and large displacement.
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Associate Professor
Susumu OHNO

Researches on seismic hazard, ground motion based on regional strong-motion observation networks, and seismic response of soil-structure systems using longterm structural monitoring are conducted. By combining these researches with the latest real-time seismic observation, information transmission, and machine learning technologies, studies on damage estimation and disaster mitigation technologies such as earthquake early warning, shake-map and earthquake damage estimation, and building structural health monitoring are conducted.
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