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Bridge and Wind Engineering Lab
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The lab monitors bridges, studies the wind, and works to harness wind energy.
AboutAbout the lab
Rethinking infrastructure through bridges and wind
The Bridge and Wind Engineering Lab studies how infrastructure structures such as bridges interact with the wind.
The lab works on performance evaluation and monitoring of structures, developing technologies to assess the seismic performance of long-span bridges and to examine the condition of roads and railway tracks.
In wind engineering, the lab predicts wind over complex terrain and develops floating offshore wind power systems.
The lab also holds bridge tours of bridges in Tokyo, in which third-year students of the Department of Civil Engineering take part.
Key terms
- Monitoring
- Continuously measuring the condition and behavior of a structure with sensors or other devices in order to detect changes
- Computational fluid dynamics
- A method of reproducing the flow of air or water through computer calculations
- Floating offshore wind power
- A system in which wind turbines are mounted on platforms floating on the sea and generate electricity from the wind blowing over the ocean
NewsLab news
Project Assistant Professor Zhou received the 2025 Research Encouragement Award from the Japan Association for Wind Engineering
Professor Ishihara received the 2025 Paper Award and Publication Award from the Japan Wind Energy Association
A master's student received the 2025 Outstanding Master's Thesis Award from the Japan Association for Wind Engineering
Announcement: information session for prospective graduate students and lab visit period
The lab's students and third-year students of the Department of Civil Engineering held the 2nd bridge tour
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies technologies for evaluating and monitoring the performance of infrastructure structures such as bridges, as well as technologies for protecting structures from the wind and harnessing the wind as energy. Its work covers structural performance evaluation, monitoring, wind-resistant engineering, and wind energy.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating the performance of bridges and viaducts
The lab evaluates the limit performance that long-span bridges can withstand during earthquakes, using densely collected observation data. It also uses analysis to examine the seismic performance of catenary poles standing on Shinkansen viaducts.
*Illustrative imageMonitoring structures, roads, and railway tracks
The lab develops monitoring technologies using GPS, smartphones, lasers, radar, and other tools. It also works on systems that evaluate the condition of road surfaces over wide areas and of railway tracks.
*Illustrative imageBuilding structures that withstand the wind
Using computational fluid dynamics, the lab predicts wind over complex, mountainous terrain. It also works on predicting wind-induced vibration of long-span bridges and of power transmission lines with ice or snow accretion.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping floating offshore wind power
The lab develops floating offshore wind power systems with integrated analysis of the wind turbine, floating platform, and mooring lines. It also studies methods for predicting the meteorological and oceanographic conditions used in designing wind farms, as well as the wake behind wind turbines.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Bridge and Wind Engineering Lab include faculty, staff, researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and visiting students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakeshi IshiharaPublications ↗
- ProfessorTomonori NagayamaPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorSU Su
- Project Associate ProfessorAtsushi Yamaguchi
- LecturerYuka KikuchiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorHiromasa Otori
- Project Assistant ProfessorZHAO Zhao
- Project Assistant ProfessorXUE Xue
- Project Assistant ProfessorZHOU Tong
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Akashi Kaikyō Bridge” Alankang / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating the performance of bridges and viaducts: “Tokaido Shinkansen viaduct Youda Bℓ & Mekujiri river bridge” 電車(新幹線)で
ゴー！ / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Monitoring structures, roads, and railway tracks: “Structural Health Monitoring System Inside Bridge Deck Panel IA ( )” Federal Highway Administration / Public domain (cropped)
- Building structures that withstand the wind: “Tacoma-narrows-bridge-collapse” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Developing floating offshore wind power: “Agucadoura WindFloat Prototype” Untrakdrover / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Hori-Ichimura-Lalith-Fujita Lab): “Minato City, Tokyo, Japan” David Kernan / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Mizutani Lab): “Ouster OS1-64 lidar point cloud of intersection of Folsom and Dore St, San Francisco” Daniel L. Lu / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kishi Lab): “Detail of vertical crack in concrete retaining wall at Medway Park Sports Centre, Gillingham, Kent, England” Sunolafjagtenben-hur / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kuwano Lab): “Sinkhole in Harbor, Oregon” Oregon Department of Transportation / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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