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Yoshihiro Kimura, Professor
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The Structural Safety Systems Lab studies the forces that wind exerts on structures and the design methods that resist them. It investigates the wind response of structures that differ in form and scale, from small structures such as houses and agricultural greenhouses to large-span structures such as stadiums. The lab also works on predicting strong-wind disasters caused by typhoons, downbursts, and other gusts, and on ways to reduce the damage. It also studies the tsunami loads on oil tanks and tsunami-resistant design.
Yoshihiro Kimura, Professor
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The Kimura Lab studies seismic design methods that prevent steel buildings from collapsing in giant earthquakes. Steel members have high stiffness and strength, but because they are thin and slender, they undergo an unstable phenomenon called buckling when subjected to compression or bending. The lab is uncovering the mechanisms by which large-space structures and high-rise buildings collapse in earthquakes. It aims to establish buckling design methods for long-span beams and design methods that limit damage in super high-rise buildings.
Susumu Ohno, Associate Professor
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The lab conducts research and education to reduce earthquake disasters. It records strong shaking with observation systems the lab has built itself, then combines analysis with computer simulation. Using machine learning as well, the lab studies how ground and buildings shake, and applies the findings to monitoring the structural health of buildings and to early damage estimation. The lab develops damage-reduction technologies that support everything from advance preparedness to the response immediately after an earthquake.
Takeshi Sato, Professor
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The lab conducts practical research aimed at building disaster-resilient communities and people. Drawing on foundational knowledge of urban and architectural studies, the lab works with a wide range of fields, including education, sociology, economics, science, and medicine. It aims to produce new results through interdisciplinary integration and to implement them in society to create a society with reduced disaster damage. In the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, the lab supports school disaster management and the rebuilding of disaster prevention education for children.
Akihiro Shibayama, Associate Professor
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The lab researches how to collect and share memories and records of disasters so that they can help reduce disaster damage. It runs "Michinoku Shinrokuden," an archive that collects memories, records, case studies, and knowledge related to the Great East Japan Earthquake. Based on materials ranging from historical disasters to the Great East Japan Earthquake, the lab carries out cross-disciplinary research. It combines lessons from the past, information from online society, and advanced sensing information to create information that supports disaster mitigation.
Satoshi Ito, Associate Professor
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The Ito-Ebara-Shishido Lab studies the technologies and systems of fusion reactors, which are being developed as the power plants of the future. The lab conducts research, development, and design on superconducting magnets, blankets that breed fuel, and cooling of divertors that receive intense heat. It also studies fundamental technologies for improving the reliability of nuclear power plants currently in use. Its research falls under "integrated energy engineering," which covers a wide range of fields including fluid engineering, heat transfer, electromagnetics, and mechanics of materials.
Yuji Hatano, Professor
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The Hatano-Oono Lab studies materials science to enable fusion energy to be put to use in society sooner. Fusion reactor materials are exposed to hydrogen isotope plasma and high-energy neutron irradiation. The lab develops plasma-facing materials that can withstand these conditions and investigates the effects of neutron irradiation. It also works on research to safely control tritium, which is both a fuel and a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.
Masayuki Watanabe, Professor
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The Watanabe Lab studies how nuclides move when radioactive waste is disposed of underground. The use of large-scale energy sources such as nuclear power and nuclear fusion involves the generation of radioactive materials. The lab investigates how nuclides migrate in environments with groundwater, from a perspective that treats energy and material flows as a whole. Building a repository requires large amounts of cement-based materials, so how those materials change after backfilling is also a subject of research.
Mitsuhiro Fujiwara, Assistant Professor
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The Energy Physics and Engineering Education Division (Fujiwara Lab) takes nuclear education and educational activities for coexistence with nuclear power as its research themes. In its materials research, the lab investigates the microstructure and mechanical properties of high-temperature-oxidized V-Ti-Cr alloys. In Tohoku University's researcher profile, the research keywords listed are nuclear education, energy materials, and beam applications, and the research field listed is materials for fusion reactors.
Yutaka Watanabe, Professor
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The Watanabe-Abe Lab conducts research that supports the safety of nuclear power generation. The lab believes that Japan, which has no energy resources of its own, cannot do without coexisting with nuclear power. Aiming for nuclear power that is safer and can be used for longer, the lab investigates the aging degradation of plant structural materials and countermeasures against it. In particular, it works to elucidate the mechanism of stress corrosion cracking, a form of degradation that determines the service life of structures.
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