Associate Prof. Masahiro Kurata was appointed as the associate editor 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 was held by Dr. Ryuma Kayano of WHO (World Health Organization) Kobe Center and the WHO KC website reported the activities of the symposium (https://extranet.who.int/kobe_centre/en/news/KyotoUniv_Symposium_2019).

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 our collaboration.

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 .

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.