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Concrete Lab
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A lab that focuses on concrete structures and works to extend the service life of social infrastructure.
AboutAbout the lab
Supporting social infrastructure through concrete structures.
The Concrete Lab focuses on concrete structures and carries out research and education that contribute to making social infrastructure in Japan and abroad more resilient, more durable, and longer-lived.
Its work ranges widely, from research and technology development on materials and structures to reform of social systems, covering not only academic research but also practical research.
The lab actively collaborates with companies and operators, and also aims to put its research results into practice in society.
The lab's website introduces it under the name "Concrete Lab."
Key terms
- Strengthening resilience
- Making a structure stronger against external forces and less likely to break
- Extending service life
- Making it possible to keep using a structure for a long time
- Social implementation
- Making the results obtained from research usable in actual society
NewsLab news
Professor Akira Hosoda and colleagues won the Infrastructure Maintenance Challenge Award from the Japan Society of Civil Engineers
Associate Professor Satoshi Komatsu won the Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award
A doctoral student received a special commendation at an academic conference
An undergraduate student won the Best Research Award
Research and development results of the New Road Technology Conference of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism were selected for the Excellent Technology Research and Development Award
ResearchResearch themes
This lab runs research projects that consider social infrastructure as a whole, centered on concrete structures and spanning materials, structures, urban disaster prevention, and construction management. It collaborates with companies and operators, and also aims to put its research results into practice in society.
*Illustrative imageDurable Concrete Structures
The lab conducts practical research on social systems, inspection technologies, and material development to ensure the durability of concrete structures.
*Illustrative imageExploring the Ideal State of Social Infrastructure
From the perspective of urban disaster prevention, the lab views infrastructure as a network and conducts research aimed at making social systems more resilient. It also carries out research and development that contributes to extending the service life of concrete structures, which play a central role in infrastructure.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Concrete Lab consist of faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, secretaries, technical staff, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorAkira Hosoda
- ProfessorChikako Fujiyama
- Associate ProfessorSatoshi Komatsu
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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: “RM 1901 crossing a 1908 cast concrete bridge near Gayndah, one of the first such structure in Queensland” Ellis678 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Durable Concrete Structures: “Slanted concrete support structure for high road” C.M.B. / CC0 (cropped)
- Exploring the Ideal State of Social Infrastructure: “RENFE Class 730 Viaducto Martin Gil” Kabelleger / David Gubler (http://www.bahnbilder.ch) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Structural Engineering Lab (Division I)): “Cable-stayed bridge in Galați” SqueekRO / CC0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Geotechnical Engineering and Geoenvironment Lab): “Mixing soil samples for geotechnical testing” Nazekkama / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Coastal and Aquatic Environment Lab (Division II)): “Coastal Erosion-4230, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, Ireland” Maoileann / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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