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Structural Design Engineering Lab
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The lab studies bridges and other infrastructure structures, from design through maintenance.
AboutAbout the lab
Building and protecting bridges and infrastructure structures.
The Structural Design Engineering Lab studies infrastructure structures, including bridges.
With a long history dating back to the founding of the Faculty of Engineering at Hokkaido University, the lab has mainly worked on bridges and structures built with steel materials.
Its topics are broad: new bridge types, the use of new materials, design and erection methods, inspection and nondestructive measurement, maintenance, and landscape design.
Students work in three teams: the Matsumoto Team, the Furukawa Team, and the Sakura Team.
Key terms
- Nondestructive evaluation
- Examining and assessing internal flaws and deterioration of a structure without damaging it
- Finite element analysis
- A method that divides a structure into small elements and uses a computer to calculate deformation and other responses when forces are applied
- Nonlinear
- Behavior in which force and deformation are no longer proportional. It appears when a structure is subjected to large forces
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research on managing bridges and other infrastructure structures appropriately across their whole life cycle: planning, design, construction, service, maintenance, and disposal. Its research covers a wide range of topics related to bridges and infrastructure structures, including new bridge types, the application of new materials, disaster-prevention technology, inspection and nondestructive measurement, maintenance technology, and landscape design.
*Illustrative imageNondestructive evaluation of civil structures
Based on applied mechanics and computational mechanics, the lab studies nondestructive evaluation, which examines the condition of civil structures without damaging them.
*Illustrative imageMechanical behavior of steel structures
This research clarifies the nonlinear behavior of steel structures in order to rationalize structural design. The lab investigates mechanical behavior through both finite element analysis and loading experiments on full-scale and reduced-scale specimens.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Structural Design Engineering Lab consist of faculty, technical staff, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakashi Matsumoto
- Associate ProfessorAkira Furukawa
- Assistant ProfessorRyo Sakura
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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: “Horohira Bridge over the Toyohira RIver, Sapporo - Aug 18, 2024” MIKI Yoshihito / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Nondestructive evaluation of civil structures: “Underside of M-14 Bridge Over the Huron River, Ann Arbor Michigan” Dwight Burdette / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Mechanical behavior of steel structures: “Japan National Route 289 Kenkatsura-No.1 bridge” IRishikawa521 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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