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Fundamentals of Seismic Resistance Lab
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The lab examines everything from the occurrence of an earthquake to the shaking of structures, and applies the findings to improving earthquake resistance.
AboutAbout the lab
Uncovering how earthquakes cause damage.
The Fundamentals of Earthquake Resistance Lab studies how structures are damaged by earthquakes and the earthquake resistance technologies that prevent such damage.
Its scope covers the whole process, from the occurrence of an earthquake, through the propagation of shaking underground, to the damage of structures.
The lab aims to analyze why damage occurred and to connect the findings to rational countermeasures.
The lab belongs to the Earthquake Disaster Prevention Division of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, and students are assigned to it as a lab of the Department of Urban Management, Graduate School of Engineering.
Key terms
- Liquefaction
- A phenomenon in which water-saturated sandy ground behaves like a liquid and deforms greatly due to earthquake shaking
- Embankment
- Ground that has been raised by piling up soil. It is used, for example, as the foundation of roads and railways
- Machine learning
- A technology in which computers learn rules and patterns from large amounts of data and use them for prediction and decision making
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The lab aims to rationally improve the seismic performance of infrastructure facilities and civil engineering structures. Centered on civil engineering earthquake engineering and combining seismology, geotechnical engineering, and applied mechanics, it works to clarify earthquake disaster phenomena and solve the related problems.
*Illustrative imageHow complex, strong ground motion is generated
The lab studies how the complex, strong shaking of damaging earthquakes is generated. It carefully examines the physical processes from the occurrence of an earthquake, through the propagation of waves underground, to the shaking of the ground beneath our feet.
*Illustrative imageHow civil engineering structures fail in earthquakes
The lab studies how structures made of ground materials, such as embankments, and structures buried underground fail in earthquakes. It focuses on the dynamic behavior of soil, such as liquefaction, in which the ground deforms greatly under shaking.
*Illustrative imageNext-generation seismic risk assessment
The lab carefully investigates the shaking characteristics of each area and the characteristics of the urban environment itself. Using finely collected data and technologies such as machine learning, it studies methods to assess regional seismic risk quickly and accurately.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Fundamentals of Earthquake Resistance Lab are faculty, secretaries, international collaborating researchers, and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorHiroyuki Goto
- Project ProfessorSumio Sawada
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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: “Post-and-Grant-Avenue-Look” Chadwick, H. D / Public domain (cropped)
- How complex, strong ground motion is generated: “Chelongpu Fault rupture as it crosses Dakeng” MiNe / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- How civil engineering structures fail in earthquakes: “Interstate bridge collapse, 1994 Northridge Earthquake” Robert A. Eplett / Public domain (cropped)
- Next-generation seismic risk assessment: “Earthquake risk zones New Zealand” New_Zealand_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В Lines by: Dushan Jugum / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Urban Water Resilience Lab): “Pole 3 building seismic base isolator” Marshelec / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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