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Mori Lab (Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Prevention Group)
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The lab reads how buildings shake in earthquakes from the relationship between the ground and structures.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading earthquake shaking through the relationship between ground and buildings
The Mori Lab studies earthquake-resistant structures, earthquake engineering, and earthquake disaster prevention.
Its specialties are building foundation structures and the dynamic interaction in which the ground and a building influence each other; the lab analyzes how buildings shake during earthquakes.
Together with the Tobita Lab and the Nagae Lab, it forms the Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Prevention Group, which trains students as a research division of architectural structural engineering.
Key terms
- Dynamic soil-structure interaction
- The mutual influence in an earthquake in which ground shaking is transmitted to a building and the building's shaking then returns to the ground
- Foundation structure
- The part at the base of a building that transmits its weight to the ground, including piles
- Embedded foundation
- A building foundation constructed by embedding it into the ground
ResearchResearch themes
As a member of the Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Prevention Group, the lab studies earthquake-resistant structures and earthquake engineering. It develops analysis methods that take into account dynamic soil-structure interaction, and works on predicting building shaking and damage in earthquakes.
*Illustrative imageDynamic Interaction between Ground and Buildings
Earthquake shaking enters a building through the ground, and the building's vibration in turn radiates away into the surrounding ground. The lab is developing simple methods to evaluate the input of torsional vibration and the input to embedded foundations, which have not been sufficiently studied until now.
*Illustrative imageAnalysis of Building Shaking and Damage Prediction
In preparation for the Tokai and Tonankai earthquakes, the lab is developing seismic response analysis methods that can predict building damage accurately. It hopes to use these methods to predict damage and to encourage preventive measures in advance.
*Illustrative imageSimple Analysis Methods for Dynamic Interaction
So that dynamic interaction can be evaluated easily even in the design of ordinary buildings, the lab proposed simple methods for estimating the impedance (resistance to shaking) of embedded foundations and the motion input to foundations, and examined their validity.
MembersFaculty
The Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Prevention Group, to which the Mori Lab belongs, consists of faculty members, technical staff, technical assistants, and students in the doctoral program, the master's program, and the undergraduate program.As of 2026
- ProfessorMasafumi Mori
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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: “Seismic isolation in Egekent IzBAN station, Izmir” Ayratayrat / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Dynamic Interaction between Ground and Buildings: “Foundation (engineering)” Wikideas1 / CC0 (cropped)
- Analysis of Building Shaking and Damage Prediction: “Fukui Earthquake 1948 - damaged building” Bert Cohen / Public domain (cropped)
- Simple Analysis Methods for Dynamic Interaction: “Architecture Characteristics Mario Kleff 08” Meow2021 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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