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Daiki Sato Lab
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The lab creates super high-rise buildings that withstand massive earthquakes and typhoons.
AboutAbout the lab
Safe and secure buildings against massive earthquakes and typhoons
The Daiki Sato Lab specializes in structural engineering for buildings.
It deals with super high-rise buildings, vibration-control and seismic-isolation structures, and wind-resistant design.
It works on seismic safety evaluation and vibration-control retrofitting of super high-rise buildings against long-period ground motion.
It also investigates how buildings actually move, using records observed in real buildings.
Key terms
- Seismic isolation structure
- A structure that inserts a soft layer between a building and the ground so that earthquake shaking is less easily transmitted to the building
- Vibration control structure
- A structure that builds dampers and similar devices into a building to absorb the energy of shaking and reduce it
- Long-period ground motion
- Slow, long-lasting shaking. The taller a building is, the more strongly it tends to be shaken
NewsLab news
A student received the Young Researcher Excellent Research Report Award from the Kanto Chapter of the Architectural Institute of Japan
Several students were selected for the Excellent Research Report Collection of the Kanto Chapter of the Architectural Institute of Japan
Several students received the Young Researcher Excellent Presentation Award at the Annual Meeting of the Architectural Institute of Japan
Several students received the Young Researcher Excellent Presentation Award at the Annual Meeting of the Architectural Institute of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops response evaluation and design methods for buildings with vibration-control and seismic-isolation structures. Its main research includes seismic safety evaluation and vibration-control retrofitting of super high-rise buildings against long-period ground motion, wind-resistant design of super high-rise buildings with vibration control or seismic isolation, and clarifying the actual behavior of buildings using observation records.
*Illustrative imageSeismically isolated super high-rises in strong winds
Seismically isolated super high-rise buildings soften earthquake shaking, but they tend to sway more in strong winds. The lab predicts wind forces and how the buildings sway, and checks damage to bearings and dampers and even how the sway is felt, to lead to safe designs.
*Illustrative imageUnderstanding how dampers lose performance
Dampers that suppress the sway of super high-rise buildings gradually lose performance under long-lasting shaking and repeated vibration. The lab predicts how this degradation occurs, including the effects of temperature and shaking speed, and develops design methods that stay safe even when performance declines.
*Illustrative imageMeasuring building damage with gas meters
To quickly learn how much a building has been damaged after an earthquake, the lab studies a method to estimate damage to reinforced concrete buildings using the accelerometers inside gas meters installed in homes and other buildings.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Daiki Sato Lab are faculty, researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorDaiki SatoPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorYinli ChenPublications ↗
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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: “Shinjuku skyscrapers 2009 July” Kamemaru2000 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Seismically isolated super high-rises in strong winds: “Skyscrapers Shinjuku 2007 rev” Itoshin87 / Public domain (cropped)
- Understanding how dampers lose performance: “Behavior of the fluid-viscous dampers ( )” brewbooks from near Seattle, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Measuring building damage with gas meters: “Individual gas meters” Downtowngal / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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