Faculty & Laboratory Introduction

STEEL STRUCTURE Laboratory

Extending the lifespan of steel structures!

ANAMI, Kengo

• Bridge designs
• Maintenance management
• Fatigue fracture
• Bonding technologies
• Durability

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• safety

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Social Infrastructure Management Laboratory

Aiming to solve social infrastructure management issues both in Japan and abroad from an interdisciplinary perspective.

HENRY, Michael Ward

• Social infrastructure
• sustainability
• interdisciplinary research
• analytics
• maintenance management
• data science

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• society
• safety
• environment

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Hydrology

Designing the future of people, water and the earth.

HIRABAYASHI, Yukiko

• Global environment
• Numerical analysis
• Water cycle
• Water resources
• Flooding

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• environment

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Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory

Science the Ground for Sustainable Safety and Security!

INAZUMI, Shinya

• Ground
• Environment
• Recycling
• Safety
• peace of mind
• Maintenance management
• Environmental improvements
• Reconstruction from disasters
• Sustainable
• Urban environments

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• material
• safety
• environment

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Transportation Science Laboratory

Exploring effective transportation planning based on human behavior surveys

IWAKURA, Seiji

• Transportation plans
• Human behavior simulations
• Disaster mitigation

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• society

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Material Design Laboratory

Addressing the future of concrete, a pivotal factor in urban foundations.

IYODA, Takeshi

• Concrete
• Cement
• Urban regeneration
• Environmental burdens
• Sustainable
• Chemistry
• Composite materials
• Career education

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• safety

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Concrete Structure Laboratory

Checking the health of concrete structures.

KATSUKI, Futoshi

• Concrete
• Reinforced concrete structures
• Maintenance management
• Bridge design
• Measurement technologies
• Structural mechanics
• Cement
• Design
• New materials

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• safety

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Laboratory for Earthquake-disaster Mitigation

Mitigating the damages from earthquakes

KONNO, Katsuaki

• Earthquakes
• Disaster mitigation
• Seismic isolation
• Safety
• peace of mind
• Active faults
• Crisis management
• Seismic reduction
• Ground
• Earthquake resistant structures

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• safety

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Mobility and Infrastructure Laboratory

Design transport infrastructure and services for better mobility of people

LE, Yiping

• Mobility
• Transport infrastructure
• Behavioral change
• Information provision

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• communication
• environment
• society

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River and Environmental Engineering Laboratory

Supporting river environmental management considering the balance between people and nature based on science and technology

MIYAMOTO, Hitoshi

• Safety
• Security
• River Basin Environment
• River Channel Design
• Flooding
• Water Resources
• Ecosystems

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• ecology
• safety
• environment

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Economics Laboratory

Elucidating the mechanism of various economic phenomena.

NAGAHARA, Toru

• Finance
• Economic systems
• Statistics
• Econometrics

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• society

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Geoinformatics Laboratory

How can we photocopy the whole space?

NAKAGAWA, Masafumi

• Measurement technologies
• Geographic information systems
• Safety
• peace of mind
• Image processing
• BIM (Building information modeling)
• Disaster responses
• GPS (Global positioning system)
• Remote sensing
• Maintenance management

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• environment

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Geomechanics Laboratory

Developing technologies to protect people’s livelihood from ground-related disasters

NAMIKAWA, Tsutomu

• Ground
• Mechanics
• Disaster mitigation
• Numerical analyses

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• safety

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Social and Educational Psychology Laboratory

Scientific examinations into the human mind

OKADA, Yoshiko

• Teacher training courses
• Educational program development
• Career education

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• communication
• safety
• society

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Present-day English Grammar and Usage

To clarify the actual use of present-day English grammar and usage

TSUCHIYA, Tomohiro

• present-day English grammar and usage
• corpus
• descriptive approach
• improvement of the English-Japanese dictionary
• Improvement of English education
• teaching materials development
• improvement of TOEIC score

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• education
• communication

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Sociology of Education Laboratory

Thinking about education from broad social perspectives

YATAGAWA, Rumi

• Educational sociology
• Social surveys
• Teacher training
• ESD（Education for Sustainable Development）

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• society
• safety
• education

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