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Nakamizo Lab
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A lab that studies how to define the earthquake shaking assumed in design in order to protect buildings from earthquakes.
AboutAbout the lab
Rethinking the seismic performance of buildings from the design stage
The Nakamizo Lab studies earthquake engineering and structural design of buildings.
The lab specializes in “design input ground motion,” which expresses how much shaking an earthquake is expected to exert on a building.
It also studies “performance-based design,” in which the performance required of a building is determined in advance, and dynamic interaction, in which the ground and a building affect each other.
Key terms
- Design input ground motion
- A value expressing how much shaking from an earthquake is assumed when designing a building.
- Performance-based design
- A design approach in which the performance a building should have (such as resistance to damage) is determined in advance.
- Dynamic soil-structure interaction
- The phenomenon in which the ground and a building influence each other and shake together during an earthquake.
NewsLab news
A paper by Associate Professor Nakamizo and colleagues was published in Structural Engineering International
A paper by Associate Professor Nakamizo and colleagues was published in the Journal of the Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering
Sekai de Ichiban Omoshiroi Kozo Dezain (The World's Most Fascinating Structural Design), to which Associate Professor Nakamizo contributed chapters, was published
Phenomena and Analysis of Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction of Buildings, published by the Architectural Institute of Japan and co-authored in part by Associate Professor Nakamizo, was released
ResearchResearch themes
The Nakamizo Lab studies earthquake engineering and structural design of buildings. The lab works on “design input ground motion,” which defines the earthquake shaking assumed in design, and “performance-based design,” in which a building's performance is determined before it is designed.
*Illustrative imageEarthquake Shaking Assumed in Design
When designing a building, engineers assume how much it will shake in future earthquakes. The lab studies the relationship between the magnitude of the design seismic force and building deformation, and how to set the shaking used to evaluate whether a building can continue to be used after an earthquake.
*Illustrative imageThe Ground Supporting Skyscrapers
For skyscrapers, safety depends on the underground structure and the behavior of the ground. Drawing on real-world cases, the lab examines how to treat the ground and foundations, including underground design on irregularly shaped sites and the prediction and measurement of settlement in top-down construction methods, in which excavation proceeds downward from the top.
MembersFaculty
The Nakamizo Lab consists of faculty members.
- Associate ProfessorDaiki Nakamizo
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Seismic isolator for buildings, based on Teflon, exhibited in Nara” Syced / CC0 (cropped)
- Earthquake Shaking Assumed in Design: “FPB testing-1” Shustov / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- The Ground Supporting Skyscrapers: “Elevated Building Foundation” Shustov / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Yoshinaka Lab): “101.portrait.altonthompson” Alton.arts / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- Related lab (Hayabe Lab): “LRBtest” Shustov / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ariga Lab): “Old Merchant District of Little Edo IMG 0323” Dandy1022 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nakatani Lab): “Takasaki Monomizuka ancient tomb” スーパーソーダ / CC0 (cropped)
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