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Civil Engineering Construction Systems Lab
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A lab that supports social infrastructure by studying the behavior of rock masses, tunnels, and embankments.
AboutAbout the lab
Geotechnical engineering that supports social infrastructure.
The Civil Engineering Construction Systems Lab studies the behavior of the ground and rock masses that support social infrastructure.
Many roads, railways, airports, and river levees are geotechnical structures built from embankments and cuts.
The lab investigates the behavior of deep underground rock masses, tunnels, and embankment structures through model experiments and numerical analysis.
Its work ranges from basic research on characterizing and predicting the ground to applied research that evaluates stability during construction and resilience in disasters.
Key terms
- Discontinuity
- A crack or bedding boundary in a rock mass. Discontinuities strongly affect the strength of the rock mass and how easily water passes through it.
- Coupled THMC processes
- An approach that treats together phenomena in which four processes (thermal, hydraulic, mechanical, and chemical) affect one another.
- Centrifuge model test
- An experiment that spins a small model at high speed to apply a large gravitational force, reproducing the same stress conditions as in the full-scale structure.
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The lab studies the properties of the ground, rock masses, and groundwater from the surface to deep underground, with the aim of building underground space safely and keeping it in use. Its subjects include tunnel and cavern excavation, slope stability, and the construction of road networks that people can travel with confidence.
*Illustrative imageBehavior and Modeling of Discontinuous Rock Masses
The stability of tunnel excavation and rock foundations is determined by the behavior of discontinuities in the rock mass. The lab experimentally investigates the mechanical and hydraulic behavior of a single discontinuity.
*Illustrative imageStoring and Sequestering Byproducts Underground
To safely store and sequester high-level radioactive waste and carbon dioxide underground, the lab is building models that account for coupled THMC processes, along with numerical simulators based on them.
*Illustrative imageMaintenance of Tunnels, Underground Caverns, and Slopes
The lab uses numerical analysis and model experiments to examine the validity of auxiliary construction methods for tunnels with shallow overburden, and measures against groundwater inflow in deep tunnels.
*Illustrative imageSeismic Performance of Embankment Structures
Reinforced soil walls and precast culverts have come into wide use in road embankment structures. The lab clarifies their seismic behavior, which is still poorly understood, through centrifuge model tests and numerical analysis.
MembersFaculty
The Civil Engineering Construction Systems Lab consists of faculty members, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, research students, and secretaries.
- ProfessorKiyoshi Kishida
- Associate ProfessorYasuo Sawamura
- Associate ProfessorZHANG Yuxin
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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: “Kazan Tunnel Kyoto JPN 004” Ignis / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Behavior and Modeling of Discontinuous Rock Masses: “Columnar basalt in Bühren, district Göttingen 02” Nemracc / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Storing and Sequestering Byproducts Underground: “Dominican Amber housing an Insect” LucasFassari / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Maintenance of Tunnels, Underground Caverns, and Slopes: “Lighthouse Cave - main chamber (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) )” James St. John / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Seismic Performance of Embankment Structures: “Dry stone wall Froggett Edge” Martinvl / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (地盤力学): “Soil sample Château d’Yquem, Sauternes” Megan Mallen / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (地震ライフライン工学): “Water supply pipeline crossing the Canning River from Shelley to Wilson, June 2021 02” Calistemon / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (ジオフロントシステム工学): “Blue Spring Cavern Underground River Tour” Jim Vajda / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (地殻開発工学): “Hohlbohrkern” --Nightflyer 23:51, 27. Jun 2006 (CEST) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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