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Shinichi Matsushima, Professor
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The Earthquake Environmental Engineering Lab studies the characteristics of the ground and earthquake sources that produce shaking, in order to ensure the seismic safety of buildings. Shaking in an earthquake varies greatly with the source, the path along which the shaking travels, the ground near the surface, and the interaction among ground, foundation, and building. By analyzing records of earthquakes in Japan and around the world, as well as records of slight ground tremors, the lab aims to predict the strong shaking of future large earthquakes with high accuracy. It is a lab of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (Uji Campus), also known as the Matsushima-Nagashima Lab.
Norio Maki, Professor
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The Urban Disaster Management Planning Lab studies how to rebuild communities after disasters and how to prepare for them. Japan is expected to be hit in the near future by disasters larger than the Great East Japan Earthquake, such as a massive Nankai Trough earthquake or an earthquake directly beneath the Tokyo metropolitan area. The lab considers how to overcome catastrophic disasters not only from a technological perspective but also from historical and cultural ones. It explores urban disaster management planning that is highly safe while remaining in harmony with the environment, landscape, history, and culture.
Hirohide Kobayashi, Professor
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The Human Environment Design Lab pursues sustainable human environments grounded in regional culture and the local natural environment. From beautiful nature to nature that causes disasters, the lab studies the many aspects of the global environment and how human environments have been built in response, learning from actual cities and villages. It puts the knowledge gained into form as policy, planning, and design, and seeks to apply it to society through practice. The lab is part of the School of Global Environmental Studies, with undergraduate students from the School of Architecture and graduate students from the Department of Architecture and the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies.
Masahiro Shiomi, Professor
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The Mechanical Systems Creation Lab studies theory and technology for smoothing the many activities in which humans and machines are involved. Automation has advanced, as in aircraft autopilots and driver-assistance systems in cars, but human judgment remains essential in complex tasks. Rather than having humans adapt to the logic of machines, the lab believes the machine should adapt to diverse human behavior, and it explores design approaches that make this possible. The lab models what people and organizations perceive and how they make judgments, and builds mechanisms in which humans and machines compensate for each other's shortcomings.
Hiroyuki Hirakata, Professor
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The lab studies how materials deform and fail at the nano- and micrometer scale. At these dimensions, materials deform and fracture differently from the materials we see in everyday life. Because the mechanisms and the laws governing them are not yet understood, the lab develops its own experimental methods to investigate them. What distinguishes the lab is that it examines materials from both mechanics, which governs deformation and fracture, and physical properties, which give rise to functions.
Hiroshi Iwai, Professor
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The Thermal Systems Engineering Lab conducts research to improve technologies that convert, transport, and store energy. Its current work focuses on phenomena that occur inside electrochemical devices, such as high-temperature fuel cells and secondary batteries. The lab also studies catalytic reactions of fuels blended from hydrocarbons and ammonia, approaching them through the mechanical engineering perspective of heat, mass, and charge transport. By elucidating complex phenomena spanning the micro to the macro scale, the lab aims to lead to the creation of new energy systems.
Masahiro Hasuo, Professor
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The Optical Engineering Lab develops new spectroscopic measurement methods for investigating the interaction between matter and light. By examining the light that matter emits, the lab can get at its essential nature, and by acting on matter with light, it can also control its state. In particular, the lab develops new spectroscopic techniques for plasma, a state in which ions and electrons are separated from each other. By rethinking methods from first principles rather than improving conventional ones, the lab discovers phenomena that had not been found before.
Takahiro Shimada, Professor
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The Material Properties Lab investigates, from the atomic and electronic level, where the strength and properties of materials come from. The microscopic structure and mechanical state of matter are the key to the diverse functions of materials. By using "force" and "shape," the lab can draw out the advanced functions hidden in matter and reshape them at will. By combining theoretical analyses such as molecular dynamics and first-principles calculations, the lab designs the strength and properties of new materials.
Ryoichi Kurose, Professor
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The Thermophysical Engineering Lab studies how heat and mass are transported and how they react in turbulent flows. Its subjects range from combustion inside aircraft and rocket engines to heat exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean. Using numerical simulation as its main tool, the lab uncovers the mechanisms of complex phenomena and turns them into models that can be used in computation. The lab covers a wide range of subjects, including microscale thermofluid phenomena and how energy is transmitted inside solids.
Masaharu Komori, Professor
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The Mechanism and Motion Engineering Lab studies both the mechanisms of machines and the movements of the humans who use them. For a robot to achieve the motions required of it, it needs a suitable structure and joint mechanism. The lab proposes new mechanisms and deepens its understanding of how they work through theoretical analysis and mechanism synthesis. At the same time, it discovers unknown characteristics hidden in human motion and applies them to the design of machines that are easy to use.
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