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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.
Seiji Tsuno, Associate Professor
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Tsuno Lab conducts research on observing and predicting earthquake shaking and applying it to earthquake disaster prevention. Its fields are engineering seismology (seismology for exploring subsurface structure) and earthquake engineering (strong ground motion for reducing earthquake damage). The lab carries out comprehensive research, including field observations, analysis of observation data, and prediction of ground motion through theory and simulation.
Hitomu Kotani, Associate Professor
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The Kotani Lab conducts research to build a disaster-resilient and sustainable society. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to relationships within communities and society, examining how we coexist with others and with hard and soft infrastructure. Its core interests are disaster risk reduction, social networks, and communities. Grounded in civil engineering planning, the lab's research spans disaster social science and sustainability science.
Nobuyuki Utsumi, Associate Professor
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The Utsumi Lab studies the global water cycle and climate change, with a focus on precipitation. It analyzes, from the perspective of weather systems, how climate change alters rainfall patterns and water resources. It develops methods to capture water in places that are hard to observe from the ground, using instruments such as microwave radiometers aboard satellites. The lab has also addressed how water and weather affect human society, such as forecasting crop pests and diseases and predicting the distribution of malaria in Africa.
Yuki Takayama, Professor
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The Takayama Lab studies, from the standpoint of economic theory, the phenomenon of economic activity agglomerating in space. It explores why people and firms concentrate in cities, and where and to what extent this occurs, through the regularities that cities follow. The lab builds policy evaluation methods that incorporate these mechanisms, making it possible to predict the long-term effects of infrastructure development and urban and regional policy. It also covers the links between transportation and cities, such as how measures against traffic congestion change a city's spatial structure.
Taizo Maruyama, Associate Professor
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The Maruyama Lab studies nondestructive evaluation techniques that use ultrasound to inspect structures and machines for flaws. Using numerical simulation, the lab investigates how waves propagate through solids and how they scatter at cracks and voids. The lab works on nonlinear ultrasonic methods for detecting closed cracks and on the use of guided waves that travel long distances along slender structures. Research draws on mathematics, physics, and programming, and centers on theory and numerical analysis.
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