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Building Structural Engineering Lab
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A lab that studies earthquake-resistant steel buildings through experiments and analysis.
AboutAbout the lab
Making steel buildings stronger against earthquakes.
The Building Structural Engineering Lab studies building structures, seismic design, steel structures, and earthquake engineering.
Targeting braced frames, which are steel frames with diagonal braces, and moment-resisting frames built from columns and beams, the lab conducts loading tests on large specimens and numerical analysis.
Its research themes also include steel structures that use structural adhesives and the reuse of steel members after their original use.
International students are also part of the lab, which carries out international joint research and joint research with companies.
Key terms
- Brace
- A diagonal member added to a rectangular frame of columns and beams, which resists the lateral shaking of an earthquake
- Moment-resisting frame
- A structure in which columns and beams are rigidly connected, so that the frame alone supports the building
- Loading test
- An experiment in which force is applied to a full-scale or reduced-scale specimen to examine how it deforms and fails
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Excellent Presentation Award for Young Researchers at the Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Meeting
A doctoral student received the Excellent Presentation Award for Young Researchers at the 2024 Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Meeting
A doctoral student received the Excellent Presentation Award for Young Researchers at the 2023 Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Meeting
ResearchResearch themes
To build earthquake-resistant steel buildings, the lab studies the performance of steel frames and structural members. It carries out loading tests and shaking table tests on braced frames and moment-resisting frames, together with numerical analysis that reproduces them.
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The members of the Building Structural Engineering Lab consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students and auditing students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTaichiro Okazaki
- Associate ProfessorRyota Matsui
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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: “Konstrukcja SCS siewierz” Michal Bacia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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