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Matsuzaki Lab
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A lab that develops roads and bridges that keep working when disasters strike.
AboutAbout the lab
Infrastructure that keeps working when disasters strike.
Matsuzaki Lab conducts research on building infrastructure that continues to function during disasters.
In a disaster, roads serve as routes for evacuation and emergency response and as transport routes for equipment and materials, forming the social infrastructure that supports recovery and reconstruction.
Taking multi-hazards such as earthquakes, floods, and aging deterioration into account, the lab works on improving the performance of structural members, damage control of structural systems, and ensuring the traffic function of road networks.
The lab aims to link three levels organically: members and components, structures, and networks.
Key terms
- Damage control
- A design approach in which the places where failure will occur are decided in advance, so that damage is concentrated in members and components that are easy to restore
- Multi-hazard
- Considering together both sudden disasters such as earthquakes and floods and slowly progressing damage such as aging deterioration
- Infrastructure
- Facilities such as roads and bridges that support people's mobility and logistics and keep society running
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Roads support people's mobility and logistics, and in a disaster they become routes for evacuation and emergency response and the social infrastructure for recovery and reconstruction. At the same time, there are many cases where severe damage to bridges, which take a long time to restore, has caused large and long-lasting social and economic losses.
*Illustrative imageHigh-Performance Members and Components
Taking multi-hazards into account, such as sudden earthquakes and floods and the aging deterioration of structures, the lab studies how to improve the performance of the members and components themselves that may be damaged or deteriorate.
*Illustrative imageDamage Control of Structural Systems
The lab treats a structure as a structural system made up of multiple members and components, and studies damage control: guiding damage toward the members and components that are easiest to restore.
*Illustrative imageEnsuring the Function of Road Networks
The lab works on ensuring and improving traffic function in road networks made up of different types of structures, such as bridges. It considers the three levels of members, structures, and networks in an integrated way.
MembersFaculty
The members of Matsuzaki Lab consist of faculty and students in the doctoral program, the master's program, and the undergraduate program.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorHiroshi MatsuzakiPublications ↗
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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: “022srUSGSCyprusVia” H.G. Wilshire, U.S. Geological Survey / Public domain (cropped)
- High-Performance Members and Components: “20141130 Pier” Tyutyanya / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Damage Control of Structural Systems: “20200117 Kawaguchi Bridge (Niigata Prefectural Road Route 71) and Uonogawa Bridge (Iiyama Line)” Tyutyanya / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Ensuring the Function of Road Networks: “Aerial view of M6A38 Spaghetti Junction” Highways Agency / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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