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Yuki Yamakawa, Professor
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The Mathematical Systems Design Lab uses mathematical methods to address a range of problems in the development of infrastructure. It develops methods to predict how much force materials and structures can withstand and how they deform. The lab also works on predicting the deformation and strength of the ground that supports structures, and on assessing the safety of power transmission towers after earthquakes. The theory and computer simulation techniques the lab has built up so far are its strengths.
Makoto Hisada, Professor
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The Infrastructure Materials Engineering Lab studies inorganic materials used in infrastructure facilities, especially concrete. Because concrete deteriorates at different rates depending on the environment in which it is placed, the lab considers it important to investigate the speed and mechanisms of deterioration and link them to maintenance and management. The lab holds that it is desirable to contribute, from a materials perspective, to efforts to reduce environmental impact toward a decarbonized society and a recycling-oriented society. In experiments, the lab takes a broad perspective from the nanoscale to the macroscale, and in computation, it tackles problems using data science such as Thermodynamic Modelling.
Shotaro Yamada, Professor
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The Geosphere and Geotechnical Engineering Lab studies the investigation, design, construction, and maintenance of social infrastructure structures related to the ground. It explores how the processes of the earth work and unravels how they connect to issues in geotechnical engineering. It clarifies how ground disasters occur and develops effective methods for disaster prevention and mitigation. Building on soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, the lab also actively adopts new digital and data-driven approaches.
Hideki Naito, Associate Professor
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The Structural Creation Lab studies technologies for using social infrastructure structures, including bridges, safely over a long period. It develops methods for evaluating how safe a structure is throughout its entire period of use, from the time it is built. It investigates how bridges behave during earthquakes and applies the findings to the design of earthquake-resistant structures. The lab also works on inspection and diagnostic technologies for finding damage in concrete structures.
Yu Otake, Professor
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The Advanced Social Infrastructure Lab develops new methodologies and theories for civil engineering that are not bound by disciplinary boundaries. Built on the traditional fields of structural mechanics, soil mechanics, hydraulics, and infrastructure planning, the lab uses them in combination across fields. On top of this, it brings in data science, probability theory, statistics, optimization, and computer science to solve practical problems. Its research starts from the situation in Japan: frequent disasters, aging infrastructure, and a declining birthrate and aging population.
Shuji Moriguchi, Professor
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The Computational Safety Engineering Lab develops a wide range of numerical simulation techniques for disaster prevention. To reduce the damage from disasters, it is essential to correctly understand their physical properties and mechanisms, predict the damage, and confirm the effect of countermeasures in advance. Drawing on knowledge of different subjects, namely structures, fluids, and ground, the lab develops analysis methods and data analysis techniques. Bringing together not only mechanics but also knowledge of probability, statistics, and disaster science, faculty and students carry out research as one team.
Keiko Udo, Professor
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The Water Environment Informatics Lab uses big data such as national land information and meteorological information to clarify how disasters cause damage. The lab quantifies the risks of storm waves, storm surges, tsunamis, and floods, with the goal of developing technologies that reduce damage efficiently. It treats the effects of climate-change-driven sea level rise and changing rainfall patterns on disasters, and adaptation measures against them, as especially important issues. The lab studies how water and sediment circulate over long periods across a wide area from mountains to the sea, and how this affects people's lives.
Li Yuyou, Professor
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The Environmental Conservation Engineering Lab researches technologies that use microorganisms to treat wastewater and waste. Using anaerobic treatment, which does not use oxygen, the lab removes nitrogen and phosphorus and also recovers methane and hydrogen as energy. The lab targets wastewater and waste actually produced in practice, such as urban sewage, wastewater from pig farms, and food waste. Beyond operating reactors, the lab also studies the microorganisms that work inside them.
Daisuke Sano, Professor
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The Environmental Water Quality Engineering Lab researches how to prevent infectious diseases spread through water. The lab investigates how gastroenteritis viruses such as norovirus move through human society and the water environment. Through both experiments and data analysis, it clarifies how water and sewage treatment and disinfection act on pathogens. The lab is also working to understand the actual state of water environment contamination by drug-resistant bacteria, which are not killed by antibiotics.
Takashi Sakamaki, Professor
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The Environmental Ecosystem Engineering Lab conducts research on the sustainable use of the functions that ecosystems provide. Its research targets include the cycling of materials in water, the capacity to purify water, and the capacity to nurture living organisms. Members go out to coastal seas and rice paddies to examine water quality and organisms firsthand. Using chemical analyses such as stable isotope ratios, as well as environmental DNA, they interpret what is happening in the field.
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