Dr. Yi Zeng from Sichuan University (China) has joined our laboratory as an international collaborative researcher. His expertise lies in structural damage assessment using AI technologies and the development of surrogate models. He was selected through a highly competitive international fellowship program and has now arrived in Japan. Over the next three years, he will […]
From April to June 2025, Dr. Masahiro Kurata stays at Stanford University in the United States as a visiting associate professor. He will promote exchanges with Stanford faculty and students. https://profiles.stanford.edu/masahiro-kurata
Dr. CHEN Yongsheng, who stayed in our lab for a year, is going back to the National Earthquake Administration of China, and we thank him for his active interaction with fellow lab members during the year. We held a Hanami BBQ to welcome the new 4th year students to the lab.
Mr. Yoshihiro Tamori, senior student, has been assigned to our laboratory since April. We look forward to his active participation in our laboratory.
Mr. Wang Yuchen, a first-year doctoral student from Tianjin University who had been staying with us for a year on a research exchange program, has returned home. He was a very diligent and friendly person who actively interacted with Japanese students. We wish him all the best in his doctoral research.
Fourth-year students Kotaro Kitamura and Naoki Kitagawa presented their graduation thesis research. Mr. Kitamura successfully won the Student’s Choice Graduation Thesis Award. Congratulations to him!
JSPS Research Fellow Shen Shaodong to Teach at Southeast University in China We would like to commemorate his success in academia.
Mr. Yutaro Kawasaki, Mr. Rui Inoue, Mr. Naoki Uhara, and Mr. Yuto Kawamura successfully completed their master’s thesis hearings. Congratulations on your master’s degrees and good luck in April as working professionals.
Dr. Pedram Mortazavi from the University of Minnesota, USA, visited our laboratory and took this opportunity to give a seminar on seismic elements in steel structural buildings. Dr. Inamasu of the Graduate School of Engineering, Dr. Tomita of the Institute for Ars Vivendi, and graduate students also attended the seminar, and Dr. Mortazavi also had […]
Dr. Huang Jiantao, who has been a research associate since April 2024, has moved to the University of Tokyo as a postdoctoral researcher. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors.
Associate Professor Kurata, Mr. Kunsian Lin, Mr. Yutaro Kawasaki, and Mr. Naoki Uhara presented their research results on the following topics: experiments to evaluate the performance of column legs at demolition sites, seismic reinforcement method using bending members, basic properties of one mass Maxwell model based on pole placement method, and estimation of earthquake damage […]
Associate Prof. Kurata, Dr. Lin, Dr. Akazawa, and Ms. Inoue presented their research at the 18th World Congress of Earthquake Engineering held in Milan, Italy in July. Associate Professor Kurata chaired a mini-symposium: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY SIMULATIONS AND MONITORING FOR REGIONAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF DISASTERS. We also hosted a dinner for graduates of the Division of […]
Lin Kunsian, Naoki Uhara, and Sae Irie presented their research results on seismic retrofitting using bending members, basic properties of the one-mass Maxwell model based on the pole placement method, and estimation of earthquake damage to hospitals at the regional level, including nonstructural members and equipment.
Dr. Yongsheng CHEN fromChina Earthquake Administration of the Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Dr. Yuchen WANG, a doctoral student at Tianjin University, and Mr. Kotaro KITAMURA and Mr. Motoki KITAGAWA, fourth-year students in the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, have joined our laboratory.
Sae Irie and Lu Peng completed their graduation thesis presentations. This year was the first time in four years that they presented their research by poster, and they stood in front of their posters to explain their research to the faculty and students.
Mr. Masataka Yoshida and Mr. Taobu Kawamoto successfully completed their Master’s thesis hearing. Congratulations to them. They are both from athletic backgrounds, and we felt the momentum of athletes in their last spurt.
Mr. Huang Jiangtao, a member of our lab, has completed his doctoral thesis hearing and will receive his degree in March. His doctoral thesis is about the research on the seismic behavior of partition walls, one of vulnerable non-structural components in buildings. Dr. Thesis title Seismic Damage Evaluation of Cold-Formed Steel-Framed Gypsum Partition Walls Considering […]
Prof. Khalid Mosalam of the University of California, Berkeley, stayed in our lab for two months from November 2023 to January 2024. He held discussions and seminars with laboratory members and shared his knowledge of cutting-edge research on disaster science, including AI-based natural language processing. He stayed in Uji 19 years ago, and his son, […]
Associate Professor Kurata spoke at the 70th Structural Mechanics Colloquium on Dec. 16, held by the Structural Mechanics Division of the Kinki Branch of the Architectural Institute of Japan, “Thinking about What Young Structural Engineers Need in the Future. He spoke about his experiences and expectations regarding structural education under the title of “Use of Information […]
Assoc. Prof. Kurata gave a talk at the Webinar for Earthquake Engineering hosted by Dept. of Civil and Enviorn. Eng., Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC). https://es.linkedin.com/posts/giancarloflores_utec-civilengineering-kyotouniversity-activity-7138586554893078531-yAjk
Associate Professor Kurata spoke at the Disaster Prevention Symposium “Considering Disaster Prevention in Okinawa” held on November 16 at the 50th Anniversary Memorial Hall of Ryukyu University, where he discussed earthquake damage to medical facilities and business continuity. Afterwards, he discussed the topic with Professor Castro of the Island Disaster Prevention Research Center of Ryukyu […]
Organized by WHO Kobe Centre (WKC), “WKC Forum 2023 Research Strategy for Disaster and Health Risk Management (Health EDRM) 2024: At the invitation of WKC, Associate Professor Kurata participated in Part II: Special Panel Discussion: Minimizing Preventable Disaster Risks. From the morning core meeting held prior to the afternoon Forum https://extranet.who.int/kobe_centre/ja/news/hedrm-5th-core-group-meeting Japanese Brochure file:///C:/Users/masak/Downloads/000128_2_0_24.pdf English […]
Mr. Lin and Prof. Kurata participated the 10EWICS (http://ewics2023.unict.it/home) held at Catanita, Italy. In the occasion of 10EWICS (http://ewics2023.unict.it/home), a PhD course for “The importance of experimental research for mitigating of seismic risk” was held at the Universtiy of Catania. Assoc. Prof. Kurata and alumni of the research group gave lectures to PhD students.
Yuki Matsumoto, who completed his master’s degree in 2023, has received the 34th Annual Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) Best Master’s Thesis Award for 2023. https://www.aij.or.jp/jpn/sotsuron/pdf/sotu2023.pdf The award ceremony was held at the annual conference of the Architectural Institute of Japan in September.
The annual conference of the Architectural Institute of Japan was held at Kyoto University. Many students from our laboratory, including Professor Ikeda and Associate Professor Kurata, participated in the conference. Since the conference was held at Kyoto University, Professor Ikeda, who chaired the publicity committee, was very busy, and students also served as venue attendants […]
Dr Kurata is appointed as a Associate Editor of Japan Architectural Review（Structure Engineering), published by the Architercural Institute of Japan. （https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/24758876/homepage/editorialboard.html）
As part of a research exchange, we will host Francesco Esposito, a doctoral student at the University of Naples, from mid-May to the end of August. He will be involved in research on seismic retrofitting of existing RC buildings using seismic isolation and control.
On May 11, the Architectural and Architectural System Department related research groups of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute held a BBQ to welcome new students. The event took for the first time since the pandemic have started, while taking precautions against infection. It had been a long time since the BBQ was held last time, […]
We hold the Cafe event, a series of break time hosted by each group, for students and researchers to interact with each other.
On April 29, Associate Professor Kurata spoke at the “Turkey-Syria Earthquake Disaster Investigation Preliminary Report Meeting” hosted by the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) and reported the results of the survey conducted in early April on the damaged hospital and factory buildings. Preliminary report meeting https://www.aij.or.jp/jpn/symposium/2023/turkey2023.pdf Documents of the preliminary meeting https://www.aij.or.jp/jpn/databox/2023/Earthquake_t.pdf
