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Infrastructure Creation Engineering Lab
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The lab detects hidden damage in bridges from their faint vibrations.
AboutAbout the lab
Smart management of infrastructure.
The Infrastructure Creation Engineering Lab conducts interdisciplinary research on the smart management of infrastructure such as bridges.
The lab develops technology that extracts information related to structural health from bridge vibrations and can rapidly evaluate the condition of structures.
It is also developing smart sensor systems in which the sensors themselves analyze the condition of the structure.
The lab also works on simulation of environmental vibration, in which bridge vibrations propagate to the surroundings, and on the seismic behavior of viaducts while vehicles are running on them.
Key terms
- Health monitoring
- Continuously measuring a structure's vibrations and other responses to keep watch on whether damage is present and how severe it is.
- Modal parameters
- Values that describe the vibration inherent to a structure, such as natural frequencies, damping, and mode shapes.
- Prestressed concrete
- Concrete in which compressive force is applied in advance with steel tendons so that it is less likely to crack.
NewsLab news
A doctoral student received a Student Award at ISRERM 2026
A doctoral student received the 2026 ISWIM Young Researcher Award
A student who completed the master's program received the Best Presentation Award at the Structural Engineering Symposium
Research results selected as a top 10% highly viewed paper in Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
Research results selected as a Featured Paper in Engineering Structures
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts interdisciplinary research related to the management of infrastructure such as bridges. It is developing technology that extracts information on the structural health of bridges from vibration measurements and can rapidly evaluate the condition of structures.
*Illustrative imageHealth monitoring of short- and medium-span bridges
More than 85% of bridges in Japan are short- or medium-span bridges. The lab develops new features that are sensitive to damage and studies damage detection methods based on statistical pattern recognition and Bayesian approaches.
*Illustrative imageDamage detection and performance evaluation of PC bridges
Prestressed concrete bridges account for 45% of bridges in Japan. The lab investigates the relationship between modal parameters and structural performance and proposes vibration-based damage detection and performance evaluation methods.
*Illustrative imageFinite element model updating and sensitivity analysis
Finite element models built from design drawings do not always reproduce the dynamic characteristics measured on site. Updating the model to reduce the gap between prediction and measurement helps with detecting damage.
*Illustrative imageOperational modal analysis of bridges
Operational modal analysis, which estimates the vibration characteristics of a bridge from ambient vibration data, is a practical method suited to civil structures where traffic restrictions are difficult. The lab is developing stochastic system identification methods.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Infrastructure Creation Engineering Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and non-degree research students.
- ProfessorChul-Woo Kim
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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: “General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge view from the lake to Cabimas side” Wilfredor / CC0 (cropped)
- Health monitoring of short- and medium-span bridges: “Highway bridge over Mura River” Asopotnik / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Damage detection and performance evaluation of PC bridges: “Prestressed concrete-beam-E” Yamaha5 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Finite element model updating and sensitivity analysis: “Canberra (AU), Commonwealth Avenue Bridge” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Operational modal analysis of bridges: “London Millennium Bridge Tate Modern Museum Saint Paul's Cathedral Tamise River Night Explore Image Picture Long pose ( )” Benjamin Gillet from Bordeaux, France / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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