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Takafumi Sugiyama, Professor
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The Environmental Functional Materials Engineering Lab studies concrete, the main material used in construction. Looking ahead to innovations in concrete materials and construction technology, the lab seeks to define what concrete structures that last into the future should be. Currently, it is advancing research and development on evaluating the properties of construction materials, diagnostic technology for structures, and carbon neutrality. The lab's origins go back to the Concrete Engineering chair of 1928, and it has played a role in the construction and maintenance of civil structures under harsh climatic conditions.
Yasunori Miyamori, Professor
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The Structural Systems Lab studies structures that are subject to changes in various forces, temperatures, and environments, from the perspectives of structural mechanics and data science. In addition to devising new structural systems, the lab evaluates the performance of existing structures and explores ways to keep them in use for a long time. It aims to develop things that serve people's lives and keep them safe in harsh environments, as well as in new environments unlike any before. Recent undergraduate and master's theses have dealt with damage to bridges managed by local governments, bridge modeling using point cloud data, and observation of bridge vibration.
Kunihiro Kishi, Professor
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The Infrastructure Planning Lab conducts research mainly in transportation planning, urban planning, traffic engineering, and construction management. Centered on civil engineering, the research is interdisciplinary, drawing on ideas from economics, information engineering, sociology, psychology, geography, and history. It covers cities, regions, and transportation in general, from cars, trains, buses, aircraft, bicycles, and walking to roads, transportation facilities, cities, and community development. The lab analyzes people's travel behavior and attitudes, develops analytical methods, develops new urban and transportation systems, and proposes strategies and policies.
Toshio Yoshii, Professor
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The Advanced Mobility Engineering Lab studies road and traffic management based on AI and data science. It aims to realize safe and comfortable transportation, including autonomous vehicles. In snowy, cold regions such as Hokkaido, the lab tackles the problems that heavy snow, snowdrifts, and icy road surfaces cause on winter roads. Ahead of field tests with real vehicles on autonomous driving and on hazardous winter roads, the lab uses VR (virtual reality) to analyze how vehicle occupants and road users behave.
Toshiki Iwasaki, Associate Professor
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The Hydrosphere Disaster Prevention and Environment Lab studies river flow and the changes in landforms that it causes. Centered on rivers but also covering river mouths and the seafloor, the lab is interested in how land-surface topography changes through the movement of water and sediment. The lab builds numerical models ranging from one to three dimensions and uses computation to reproduce riverbed landforms such as sand bars, as well as the movement of driftwood. Its research fields include river engineering, hydraulic engineering, and sediment hydraulics, as well as hydrology such as flood prediction, and disaster prevention education.
Yasunori Watanabe, Professor
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The Coastal and Ocean Engineering Lab conducts research aimed at building hard and soft systems that achieve coexistence and harmony between human society and coastal areas and the ocean. Focusing on three themes, the environment, disaster prevention, and cold regions, the lab works to understand and apply knowledge of the physical and biological environments from land to sea. The faculty members' specialties include coastal engineering, turbulence engineering, computational fluid dynamics, meteorology over the sea, and ocean energy.
Tatsuya Ishikawa, Professor
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The Geoenvironmental Analysis Lab studies the properties of ground in cold regions and of the ground that supports roads, railways, and bridges. Through both laboratory experiments and numerical analysis, the lab investigates disasters caused when water in the ground freezes and expands in winter, then thaws and loosens in spring. The lab deals broadly with the ground beneath civil engineering structures, including railway track beds and road bases, compaction of embankments, pile foundations of bridge piers, and ground subsidence that continues after earthquakes. Students are divided into groups led by each faculty member: Professor Ishikawa, Associate Professor Isobe, and Assistant Professor Yokohama.
Kenetsu Uchida, Professor
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The Transportation Network Analysis Lab studies transportation and infrastructure planning, with a focus on the analysis of transportation networks. Its research fields include transportation network analysis, which covers autonomous driving, public transit, and transportation data analysis, as well as urban economics, infrastructure management, and disaster prevention planning. The lab also studies methods for evaluating and deciding transportation and infrastructure policies under unpredictable conditions.
Tsuyoshi Setoguchi, Professor
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The Urban and Regional Design Lab studies urban planning and community development for snowy, cold cities such as those in Hokkaido. Based on simulations and on-site surveys, the lab studies how to create streetscapes and plazas suited to winter winds and snow. The lab also conducts research on Hokkaido cities, such as compact city development in Yubari, whose population is declining, and planning for coastal cities to prepare for tsunamis. The lab's philosophy has three parts: research in the northern sphere, contributing to community development in Hokkaido, and joint research with universities around the world.
Taro Mori, Professor
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The Architectural Environment Lab studies indoor environments in buildings, building services such as air conditioning, and how energy is used. Student research topics include insulation retrofits and energy saving in homes in cold regions, indoor environments and energy poverty in low-income households, and the health of older people in relation to their housing. The lab also works on estimating solar radiation from point cloud data and on making building energy use visible on maps. Arctic region research is another of the lab's fields, and the lab has exchanges with partners overseas, including in Mongolia and Finland.
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