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Adaptive Design Engineering Lab
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A lab that measures how much damage earthquakes and tsunamis cause to buildings and applies the findings to design.
AboutAbout the lab
How buildings respond to disaster scenarios
The Adaptive Design Engineering Lab studies the performance that buildings should deliver under disaster scenarios such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
By combining experiments, analysis, and field surveys, the lab builds the foundations for rationally designing that performance.
It evaluates not only the structural members of buildings but also the process by which non-structural elements, such as partition walls, become damaged.
After an earthquake, the lab goes to the affected site to investigate what kind of damage buildings have suffered.
Key terms
- Non-structural elements
- The parts of a building other than the frame that supports it, such as partition walls, ceilings, and exterior finishes
- Performance-based seismic design
- A design approach in which the level of damage a building should be limited to in an earthquake is set as a target, and design proceeds while verifying that the target is met
- Tsunami evacuation building
- A sturdy building designated so that people nearby can escape to its upper floors when a tsunami arrives
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The lab is developing methods to evaluate how damage progresses in building structures and non-structural elements under external forces such as earthquakes and tsunamis. Its goal is to make it possible to rationally design the performance that buildings should deliver under the various anticipated disaster scenarios.
*Illustrative imageNext-Generation Seismic Performance Evaluation
Performance-based seismic design has progressed from the first generation, which verifies whether the required performance is met, to the second generation, which evaluates performance quantitatively. The lab is examining what third-generation performance-based design and evaluation methods should look like, and is developing new technologies, including the introduction of AI, to advance them.
*Illustrative imageDesign Methods for Tsunami Resistance
Tsunami damage on land is a complex phenomenon in which the ground shaking from the preceding earthquake, the force of incoming and receding waves, and the impact of floating debris all combine. Building on the design guidelines for tsunami evacuation buildings that advanced after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the lab is exploring how to develop more advanced design methods.
*Illustrative imageMaintenance of Long-Lived Buildings
The lab studies scenarios of damage, deterioration, and maintenance that take a building's life cycle into account. It examines the evaluation of repair costs, maintenance based on surveys of the structural stability of historic buildings, and rational design methods for rare disasters.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Adaptive Design Engineering Lab consist of faculty and students at the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate levels.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorNoriyuki Takahashi
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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: “Aso house damaged by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake 2” hanonimas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Next-Generation Seismic Performance Evaluation: “Imperial County Services building damage 1979” U.S. Geological Survey / Public domain (cropped)
- Design Methods for Tsunami Resistance: “Tsunami Damage near Ishinomaki, Japan ( )” NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Maintenance of Long-Lived Buildings: “Smithsonian Arts and Industry building undergoing renovation” G. Edward Johnson / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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