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Fukuda Lab
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A lab that measures floor slipperiness and hardness to support the safety and comfort of buildings.
AboutAbout the lab
For the safety and comfort of the people who use buildings
The Fukuda Lab studies how to systematize the performance that building users require, element by element, and express it numerically.
It investigates what performance is needed, and how much, for building elements such as floors, walls, roofs, and ceilings.
The results serve as indicators for selecting materials and construction methods that meet users' requirements, and as a framework for setting construction conditions.
The lab puts particular emphasis on evaluating floor slipperiness, floor hardness, and vibration transmitted to buildings.
Key terms
- Construction method
- The approach to building a structure: what materials are used and how they are assembled
- Environmental vibration
- Everyday building vibration caused not by earthquakes or wind but by things like passing vehicles and people walking
- Slip resistance
- The property of a floor that makes it hard to slip on. It declines as the floor wears with long use, leading to fall accidents
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to systematize the performance that users require of each building element, such as floors, walls, roofs, and ceilings, and to express it numerically. It builds testing machines and test methods, and continues research to find performance values that correspond to human perception.
*Illustrative imageFloor slipperiness
Floors, which people come into contact with most in daily life, are required to have a variety of performance qualities. The lab evaluates slip resistance, which relates to safety and comfort, from multiple perspectives, using the slip tester (O·Y-PSM) developed by earlier researchers as a starting point.
*Illustrative imageFloor hardness
Building users spend much of their time in contact with the floor. The lab aims to establish methods for evaluating the appropriate floor hardness for different situations, such as long periods of standing work or falls.
*Illustrative imageLiving comfort and environmental vibration
Beyond earthquakes and wind, environmental vibration such as traffic vibration and footstep vibration also needs to be considered for living comfort. For such vibration, the lab explores performance values that correspond to how people perceive and evaluate it.
*Illustrative imagePredicting wear and deterioration of flooring materials
Flooring materials in public facilities wear down with long use, which lowers slip resistance and raises the risk of accidents. The lab is developing methods that quantitatively capture the factors behind performance decline and the magnitude of their effects, and that predict deterioration in advance.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Fukuda Lab consist of faculty and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.
- Associate ProfessorShintaro FukudaPublications ↗
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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: “University National Bank building - flooring of the former ballroom 01” Photo by Joe Mabel / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Floor slipperiness: “Wet floor caution sugn” Kurt Kaiser / CC0 (cropped)
- Floor hardness: “Tatami Alcove ( )” Benh LIEU SONG from Torcy, France / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Living comfort and environmental vibration: “City Hall, London, Spiral Staircase - 1” Colin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Predicting wear and deterioration of flooring materials: “Worn tile floor (Dimitrios Savva via Poly Haven)” Dimitrios Savva / CC0 (cropped)
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