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Mr. Jiantao Huang from Southwest Jiaotong University in China jointed our laboratory as a doctoral student.
Mr. Jiantao Huang from Southwest Jiaotong University in China jointed our laboratory as a doctoral student.
Associate Prof. Masahiro Kurata was appointed as the Editorial Board Member of the top journal in Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, as of July 2019. EESD Editorial Board: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10969845/homepage/editorialboard.html
Prof. Ikeuchi and her students visited our laboratory and she gave us a talk on safety hospital against disaster. We also had a short tour of our experimental laboratory.
The new research section named “Health Emergency and Regional Disaster Risk Management” was founded (http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/organization_en/iasdrrg_en/rddms/herdrm/) and the kickoff symposium was held at Kyoto University (http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_en/12506/) on June 29, 2019 . Prof. Kurata join the new section with double appointment. Prof. Kurata served for the symposium as a coordinator of the panel discussion. The keynote speech […]
Dr. Konstantinos A. Skalomenos, who spend four years in our laboratory as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow and a specially-appointed Assistant Professor, is appointed as an Assistant Professor in the University of Birmingham. All the staff of the Ikeda-Kurata laboratory wishes the further success of Dr. Skalomenos.
We held a welcome party for new members, Mr.Kobayashi and Mr.Fukuzawa.
Prof. Kurata gave a keynote presentation at the 15th International Symposium of IMCA. He explained the design, fabrication, and research on the Japanese Steel Building using HSS columns.
Mr. Giuseppe Marzano, the 3rd year doctoral student, of Ikeda-Kurata laboratory, received the best presentation award in the DPRI annual meeting. Congratulations on the successful presentation.
The bachelor thesis of Ms. Kako Onishi was selected as the best bachelor thesis in structural engineering among 28 theses and awarded the Hibi Tadahiko prize. Congratulations for the great achievement,
Ms. Kako Onishi, Mr. Keiichiro Kunitomo, and Ms. Mie Toki presented their Bachelor thesis in a poster presentation session held by the Department of Architecture and Architectural system. All of them received good evaluations by the professors in the department and DPRI. Congratulations for good presentations!!
Mrs. Yuga Sasaki and Takuya Wada successfully defended their Master thesis. Congratulations!!
Prof. Larry Fahnestock of UIUC, Prof. James Ricles of Lehigh University, Prof. Richard Sause of Lehigh University, Prof. Barbara Simpson of Oregon State University, Prof. Taichiro Okazaki of Hokkaido University, and Dr. Yosuke Kawamata of NEID visited our laboratory and Prof. Simpson gave us a talk on innovative spine brace design. We also had a social gathering to deepen […]
Dr. Kailai Deng, a JSPS postdoctral research fellow, is appointed as an Associate Professor of South-West Jiaotong University and left our laboratory. All the staff of the Ikeda-Kurata laboratory wishes the further success of Dr. Deng.
Prof. Kurata, Dr. Kailai, and Ms Onishi visisted South West Jiaotong University in Chengdu for structural testing of beam-column connections. Prof. Kurata gave a talk on seismic design of nonstructural components design and testing.。 The collaborative research is posted online in the SNS account of South West Jiaotong University tps://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/baSiJlEVfnhbkgGC6Nq5MQ
Mr. Takuya Wada of 2nd year Master stayed in Prof. Ji Xiaodong’s research group of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University for three weeks. He recieved research supervision of Prof. Ji and exchanged idea and culture with the students of the group.
We are grateful to announce that Yu Otsuki (D1), Yuga Sasaki (M2) and Hironari Shimada (Graduated in 2019. 3) received the Best Presenter Award in the Kinki Branch meeting of the Architectural Institute of Japan .
8 members of our laboratory presented at the 2018 Kinki branch research conference of the Architecture Institute of Japan (AIJ).
Ms. Hamashima graduated from our laboratory in 2017 received the 2018 outstanding master thesis award from the alumni association of the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering at Kyoto University.
We held a welcome party for new members, Mr.Hamauzu, Ms.Onishi, Mr.Kunitomo, and Ms.Touki.
We held a farewell party for Mr. Inada, Mr. Otsuki, Mr.Takeda, Mr. Shimada, and Ms. Hitomia. Congratulations on their graduation.
Mr. Ichikawa and Mr. Inada successfully finished the poster session for their bachelor thesis.
Mr. Otsuki, Mr. Shimada, Mr. Takeda, and Ms. Hitomi successfully finished their master defense.
A paper on long-term wireless monitoring of suspended bridges co-authored by Prof. Masahiro Kurata has been featured in the web site (Smart Brief) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). http://www2.smartbrief.com/servlet/encodeServlet?issueid=FFB9CE47-74ED-427F-9B37-F3CAEBAAD33B&sid=405a1b13-2685-4afc-a9b0-9fb00b4b6502 Zhang, Y., Kurata, M., Lynch, J.P. “Long-Term Modal Analysis of Wireless Structural Monitoring Data from a Suspension Bridge under Varying Environmental and Operational Conditions: System […]
”Japan-Greece International Workshop for Young Researchers on Advanced Materials and Technologies for Applications to Steel and Composite Steel / Concrete Structures“ was held at DPRI on December 7 and 8, 2017.
The program is ready for “Japan-Greece International Workshop for Young Researchers on Advanced Materials and Technologies for Applications to Steel and Composite Steel / Concrete Structures” on December 7th & 8th, 2017, at DPRI, Kyoto University. Please check the program next. Program We welcome any visitors.
Prof. Deng from Southwest Jiaotong University in China jointed our laboratory as a JSPS Foreign Researcher.
Mr. Shinno, Ms. Hitomi and Mr. Wada from our laboratory received the outstanding presenter award for young researcher from the 2017 AIJ conference “vibration-field of structural-section”. http://news-sv.aij.or.jp/kouzou/s46/FILES/youthaward2017.pdf
This is the announcement of “Japan-Greece International Workshop for Young Researchers on Advanced Materials and Technologies for Applications to Steel and Composite Steel / Concrete Structures” on December 7th & 8th, 2017, at DPRI, Kyoto University. Please check the brochure next. Brochure We welcome any visitors. The detail program will be uploaded later.
Mr. Chengliang Tu from Tsinghua University in China will stay in our laboratory for a month as an internship student.
Mr. Sasaki and Mr. Wada received the 2017 AIJ Excellent Thesis Award. http://www.aij.or.jp/jpn/sotsuron/pdf/sotu2017.pdf