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Tomomi Yagi, Professor
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The Bridge Engineering Lab does research in wind engineering, studying how structures behave in strong winds. Focusing on bridge girder cross-sections and cables, it examines airflow and vibration using wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). It clarifies the mechanisms by which structures begin to vibrate on their own in wind, and develops countermeasures to suppress the vibration. It also covers disaster prevention and maintenance, including strong-wind disasters from typhoons and tornadoes, corrosion from airborne salt, and snow accretion on structures.
Yoshikazu Takahashi, Professor
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The Structural Dynamics Lab studies how infrastructure such as bridges shakes in earthquakes. The lab traces its origins to the first research chair named for earthquake engineering in a civil engineering department at a Japanese university. Through both experiments and analysis, it covers everything from response to seismic shaking, to control methods that reduce shaking, to implementation in seismic design. In recent years, performance evaluation that takes into account changes in material properties over long use has become important, and the lab is also advancing research on deteriorated members.
Sunmin Kim, Associate Professor
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The International Environmental Infrastructure Management Lab studies ways to manage infrastructure smartly. The lab combines two fields: a water field that examines how climate change affects hydraulic structures using long-term hydrological data, and a structural field that extracts information on structural health from bridge vibrations. In the water field, the lab combines machine learning with hydrological models to predict rainfall and river water levels and to project water resources under climate change. In the structural field, the lab analyzes bridge modes from the vibrations produced by everyday traffic to detect damage that cannot be seen.
Eiji Harada, Professor
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The Hydraulic Environmental Dynamics Lab studies how sand on river and sea beds is moved by flow. A river or sea bed where sand moves is called a movable bed, and there water and sand grains mix to form a complex, turbulent flow. Through both measurements of multiphase turbulence in hydraulic experiments and simulations of multiphase flow, the lab investigates what happens at the interface of the movable bed. Noting that the flow of grains resembles the movement of human crowds, the lab also works on predicting crowd flow using granular material models.
Yasuto Tachikawa, Professor
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The Hydrology and Water Resources Lab scientifically investigates the flow and circulation of water and the accompanying transfer of heat and materials. Our lives are deeply connected with water, from securing the safe water we need, to flood control during heavy rain, to developing comfortable waterfronts. The lab develops simulation models that reproduce and predict, on computers, phenomena occurring at scales from river basins to the globe. Using the models it has developed, the lab tackles the various problems that arise where the water cycle meets human society.
Yosuke Higo, Professor
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The Geomechanics Lab studies the mechanics of the ground that quietly supports civil infrastructure structures from below. Building safe infrastructure requires an accurate understanding of how geomaterials respond to external actions such as earthquakes and rainfall. It is also important to clarify the complex interaction between ground and structures and to reveal their mechanical behavior. Using both experiments and numerical analysis, the lab investigates everything from the mechanical properties of ground as a "material" to ground-structure interaction.
Chul-Woo Kim, Professor
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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.
Junichi Susaki, Professor
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The Geoinformatics Lab studies methods for observing, analyzing, and evaluating the current state and changes of land and the environment, for the purposes of environmental conservation and disaster prevention. It uses spatial information technologies such as satellite remote sensing, 3D photogrammetry, laser surveying, and geographic information systems. Geographic information from regional to global scales and physical information on the atmosphere and on land and sea surfaces are essential basic data for considering harmony between humans and the natural environment. The lab aims to clarify the principles and methods for collecting, processing, and providing this information.
Masashi Kawasaki, Professor
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The Landscape Design Lab studies the landscape design of public spaces such as streets, parks and plazas, and waterfronts, as well as urban infrastructure facilities. It interprets how landscapes come about and how people perceive them, using perspectives from geography, sociology, and folklore studies as well as image analysis. Building on this, the lab actually designs and proposes spaces and facilities that harmonize with people and the environment and encourage cultural activities. It covers a broad range of fields centered on landscape, from landscape planning and urban design to urban policy.
Kana Nakatani, Professor
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The Erosion and Sediment Control Engineering Lab investigates how sediment moves through the sediment transport system from mountains to the sea, aiming to prevent and mitigate sediment-related disasters. Erosion and sediment control engineering is a discipline spanning broad fields, including sediment hydraulics, hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and ecology. Built on the two pillars of "disaster prevention" and "the environment," the lab studies how to capture and control sediment erosion, deposition, and runoff. Combining observation, hydraulic experiments, and numerical analysis, the lab develops technologies to maintain a healthy sediment environment in river basins.
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