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Yukihide Kajita, Professor
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The Earthquake Engineering Lab studies how to minimize earthquake damage to infrastructure. Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, and people there always live close to the danger of earthquake disasters. To keep damage to a minimum when a disaster strikes and to protect human life above all, the lab works to improve the seismic performance of structures and to develop new technologies and materials. Earthquake engineering deals with how seismic motion travels through the ground, how underground and aboveground structures move during an earthquake, and how existing structures can be strengthened. Focusing mainly on bridges, the lab investigates, through both theory and experiments, the seismic response analysis of entire bridges and the safety of abutments, taking into account girder pounding and the soil behind the abutment. The lab also works on assessing how much safety margin already-deteriorated bridges still have, as well as on reliability-based design and seismic risk analysis. Including the use of artificial intelligence, the lab advances research on disaster prevention and mitigation from both the hardware and software sides.
Hidenori Hamada, Professor
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The Construction Materials System Engineering Lab focuses mainly on concrete, the material of the infrastructure that supports daily life and economic activity. To build structures that are safe, durable, and in harmony with the natural environment, the lab investigates how to evaluate material durability and how to recycle materials. To extend the service life of existing structures, it also works on techniques for diagnosing their soundness and methods for expressing the effects of repairs in numerical terms. The corrosion and corrosion protection of reinforcing steel inside concrete, which progress in harsh environments such as near the sea, have long been a theme studied with electrochemical methods. The professor who leads the lab has a career dealing with structural deterioration at a port and harbor research institution, and life cycle management of concrete and steel structures placed in marine environments is one of the pillars of the research. The lab also studies how chemical reactions that occur after cement hardens, such as alkali-aggregate reaction and ettringite formation, cause expansion and cracking. It also advances research on using industrial by-products such as blast furnace slag and fly ash, and pyroclastic flow deposits (shirasu) that are widely deposited across Kyushu, as construction materials, which leads to making materials with a lower environmental impact. The technique of using seawater as mixing water for concrete has, with water-scarce regions in mind, expanded to technical guidance for overseas research institutions. The professor teaches Civil Engineering Materials and Maintenance Engineering at the undergraduate level and Advanced Concrete Engineering at the graduate level, so students can learn continuously from material properties to maintenance in the field.
Yasuhiro Mitani, Professor
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The Geosphere Environmental Systems Engineering Lab studies the environment of the geosphere, the space extending from the ground surface where people live down into the subsurface. People have developed society by exploiting and using the geosphere, but in the process problems such as land subsidence, changes in the groundwater environment, soil contamination, and sediment disasters have also arisen. Geosphere environmental problems are hard to detect in their early signs and often appear only after a long time, so appropriate evaluation and monitoring are needed at every stage from planning to maintenance. Building on geotechnical and rock engineering, the lab explores technologies for development and conservation in harmony with the environment, making use of information technologies such as satellite remote sensing, 3D data, and GIS.
Shinichiro Shinichiro, Professor
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The Environmental Fluid Dynamics Lab studies water environment problems that occur in natural water bodies such as seas, rivers, and lakes. Water is essential not only to humans but to all living things in nature, yet population growth and global warming are predicted to cause a shortage of good-quality water resources. At the same time, warming is said to intensify changes in rainfall and strengthen tropical cyclones, raising concern about increasing flood damage. Through developing technologies to conserve and restore the water environment, clarifying the mechanisms by which the water environment deteriorates, and investigating disasters such as floods, the lab searches for ways to achieve both disaster prevention and environmental conservation.
Takahiro Kuba, Professor
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The Urban Environmental Engineering Lab conducts research on what is generally called water environment engineering. The water environment consists of diverse elements such as water quality, water quantity, organisms, bottom sediment, waterfronts, and landscape, and all of these need to be conserved as a whole. To that end, the lab develops integrated watershed water management methods that take a bird's-eye view of the water environment and water cycle, and it also examines the role of local water facilities such as sewage treatment plants. Using a range of technologies and systems for environmental purification, ecosystem conservation, comprehensive water management, and wastewater treatment, the lab works on comprehensively conserving the water environment.
Shunsuke Managi, Professor
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The Urban and Transportation Engineering Lab studies environmental problems such as climate change, global issues such as energy and the link between development and poverty, and urban problems such as soaring housing prices and traffic congestion. Its subjects are the complex problems cities face, including aging and population decline, health and welfare, education, disasters, and the design of transportation systems. Using a multifaceted, interdisciplinary approach that draws on urban engineering, transportation engineering, and economics, the lab tackles these problems through both theory and empirical work, and also makes realistic, effective policy recommendations. The lab's mission is to improve citizens' lives through new infrastructure and technology and to make cities run better.
Ryohei Ishikura, Associate Professor
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The Geotechnical Engineering Lab conducts research to solve engineering problems related to the ground, which is where people live and which supports social infrastructure from the foundation up. In addition to fundamental research for building safe and reliable infrastructure, the lab also conducts applied research on disasters and environmental problems that are becoming more severe due to climate change. Research is carried out broadly, from both theoretical and experimental sides and from both fundamental and applied sides. As project research, the lab also works on desertification control technology that supports local self-reliance, through joint surveys with the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, and on ground disasters in Kyushu and Okinawa associated with climate change and measures to adapt to them.
Yoshimi Sonoda, Professor
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The Structural Analysis Lab studies how to calculate the behavior of structures using computer-based numerical analysis (simulation). The lab closely tracks and evaluates how structures behave, and how much load-bearing capacity they have, under natural disasters and external forces such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and impacts. It also works on developing maintenance technologies so that structures can be used safely over the long term.
Shigenobu Kainuma, Professor
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The Construction Design Engineering Lab studies the maintenance of steel and concrete structures against aging deterioration, as well as high-durability design. It is a lab that takes on new research spanning multiple academic fields, including chemistry, electrochemistry, materials science, spatial statistics, and mechanics. Through basic research, the lab clarifies the mechanisms of deterioration and proposes methods to predict the onset of these phenomena and of critical damage. Many of the research themes are carried out as joint research with research institutions and private companies in a variety of industrial fields.
Kiyonobu Kasama, Professor
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The Disaster Prevention Geotechnical Engineering Lab conducts research and education aimed at preventing natural disasters such as earthquakes and heavy rain before they occur and minimizing the damage they cause. Students learn theories for understanding disaster phenomena and predicting damage, and acquire knowledge of urban design that is resilient to disasters. The lab was established in April 1998 as one of the geotechnics chairs in the Social Infrastructure Division of the Faculty of Engineering, and since April 2021 it has continued its research and education in the Department of Civil Engineering. Lab visits are accepted at any time.
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