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Other departments in School of Environment and Society ›Faculties at Institute of Science Tokyo ›
Nobuhiro Chijiwa, Professor
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Chijiwa Lab focuses on concrete, the basic material of infrastructure. Building on concrete engineering, the lab actively pursues collaboration and integration with other areas of civil engineering and with other engineering fields. Its work includes investigating the causes of long-term deformation in structures, evaluating the performance of corroded reinforced concrete (RC) and prestressed concrete (PC) structures, and developing geopolymer, a new material. Using both experiments and numerical analysis, the lab uncovers how deterioration and damage occur.
Mai Sawada, Associate Professor
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The Sawada Lab studies the properties of unsaturated soil, which consists of soil particles, water, and air. In ground above the groundwater table, the proportions of these three components greatly change how water flows through the soil and how strong it is. Using laboratory tests and pore-scale fluid analysis, the lab investigates how the proportions of water and air change soil properties. Based on this mechanics, the lab also works on protecting the foundations of ancient burial mounds (kofun) and historic buildings damaged by natural disasters or aging.
Manabu Fujii, Associate Professor
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Fujii Lab explores what a sustainable society should look like, through the lens of water and the environment. The lab conducts research in environmental engineering, including watershed environmental conservation, biogeochemical cycling, and water use and treatment. It combines this with challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and sustainable development, and carries out research that crosses disciplinary boundaries. In addition to experiments, the lab uses theoretical calculations such as AI, data science, and quantum chemistry.
Chihiro Yoshimura, Professor
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The Yoshimura Lab studies how water environments such as lakes and rivers work, and applies the findings to water use and management. Its research has three themes: environmental photochemistry, modeling of material dynamics and ecosystems in the environment, and ecosystem services. The lab investigates through experiments how sunlight changes substances in water, and uses computers to reproduce the ecosystems of lakes and bays. In addition to Japan, it studies lakes in Indonesia and Cambodia, working with universities and research institutions overseas.
Shinya Hanaoka, Professor
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The Hanaoka Lab studies, from the standpoint of transport and logistics, the problems that hold back the growth of developing and emerging countries. The lab proposes “transport development studies” as the discipline for solving these problems. Specific themes include cross-border transport, transport for landlocked countries, humanitarian logistics, and port planning. The lab also studies aviation policy and airport planning in Asia.
Chiaki Oguchi, Professor
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The Oguchi Lab studies how rocks, soils, and minerals weather and deteriorate. It examines the properties of materials using a variety of analytical techniques and monitors the environments in which those materials are placed as thoroughly as possible. The research is applied to the weathering, conservation, and restoration of stone and concrete structures, and to estimating the causes of landform formation and natural disasters. Centered on rock weathering science, geomorphology, and physical geography, the lab aims for interdisciplinary research that takes advantage of its position between research fields.
Takashi Miyamoto, Associate Professor
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Miyamoto Lab studies technologies that use machine learning to detect disaster damage and hazards. The lab is building a system that analyzes satellite images taken immediately after a major earthquake with deep learning to assess damage to each individual house. To prepare for heavy rain, it is also developing methods that predict rainfall several tens of minutes ahead from observation data. The lab also works on how to determine the ground motions used in structural design, and on large-scale numerical analyses that examine how strongly the ground shakes.
Mitsuyasu Iwanami, Professor
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Iwanami Lab develops technologies to support society stably, with "maintenance and management" as its keyword. It aims for next-generation infrastructure management that unifies materials development, structural design, and maintenance and management, which have developed separately. Going beyond the academic boundaries of structures, materials, and planning, the lab proposes how future society should be, based on a new "design" from a multiscale perspective of time and space. It covers a wide range of fields, from materials such as concrete, steel, and new materials to civil engineering planning, sociology, and economics.
Hiroshi Matsuzaki, Associate Professor
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Matsuzaki Lab conducts research on building infrastructure that continues to function during disasters. In a disaster, roads serve as routes for evacuation and emergency response and as transport routes for equipment and materials, forming the social infrastructure that supports recovery and reconstruction. Taking multi-hazards such as earthquakes, floods, and aging deterioration into account, the lab works on improving the performance of structural members, damage control of structural systems, and ensuring the traffic function of road networks. The lab aims to link three levels organically: members and components, structures, and networks.
Junko Sanada, Professor
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Sanada Lab investigates how urban and rural landscapes have come about and considers how communities should be in the future. The lab traces mainly prewar urban planning and green space planning through history, looking for clues to review today's society objectively. It views rural landscapes as the sum of culture, livelihoods, and sustainable use of the environment, and studies how to build good relationships between agriculture and consumers. The lab also works on the present-day value of dry stone masonry, which supports terraced rice paddies and terraced fields, and on ways to pass the technique on.
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