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Steel Structures Lab
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A lab that studies the safety and functionality of buildings made of steel.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about building safety through steel structures.
The Steel Structures Lab conducts research to ensure the safety and functionality of buildings made of steel.
Steel is a strong material that can deform without breaking (ductile), and it is well suited to making sturdy, lightweight structures.
Steel structures are widely used in prefabricated housing, commercial facilities, high-rise buildings, gymnasiums, and more.
The lab approaches its research from three angles: steel members and connections, entire frames, and surveys and monitoring of actual buildings.
Key terms
- Steel structures
- Building structures that use steel as the main material. Steel is well suited to making sturdy, lightweight structures.
- Connections
- The parts that join steel members to each other. The lab reproduces the forces that actually act on them to investigate their behavior.
- Frame
- The skeleton of a building formed by combining members. The lab analyzes how the whole frame shakes during earthquakes to consider design methods.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies mainly steel structures, with the aim of ensuring the safety and functionality of buildings. It works on experiments, computer simulations, and surveys of actual buildings.
*Illustrative imageBehavior of Steel Members and Connections
Targeting newly developed steel materials and structural technologies expected to find use in new fields, the lab investigates their behavior through experiments and simulations that reproduce the forces actually acting on them, and proposes design methods that expand the possibilities of steel structures.
*Illustrative imageSeismic Behavior of Entire Frames
For entire frames composed of members and connections, the lab investigates shaking during earthquakes by computer simulation and considers more rational structural design methods that ensure safety.
*Illustrative imageSurveys and Monitoring of Actual Buildings
The lab conducts surveys of the current condition and on-site measurements of existing buildings and structures, investigates damage caused by earthquakes and other events and identifies its causes, and examines countermeasures.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYuka Matsumoto
- Associate ProfessorTakanori Ishida
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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: “Steel braced frame added to an unreinforced masonry bearing-wall building as a seismic retrofit” Keithalanporter / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Behavior of Steel Members and Connections: “Steel Beam Deformation” Scu ba / CC0 (cropped)
- Seismic Behavior of Entire Frames: “UCSD-JacobsSchool-20221130-Shake Table-Tallwood-03012-8MP” Jacobs School of Engineering / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Surveys and Monitoring of Actual Buildings: “CTBTO On-Site Inspection Building Up Exercise ( )” The Official CTBTO Photostream / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Reinforced Concrete Structures Lab): “Fractured reinforced concrete column” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Large Space Structures Lab): “Tensile Membrane Structures” Ajmalbabums / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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