Faculty and Research Themes
Department of Civil, Environmental and Applied System Engineering

・ Impact assessment and adaptation to climate change
・ Urban stormwater management
・ Behavioral change related to environment and disaster prevention

Stormwater storage pipes protecting cities from flooding

・ Evaluation of parks and green spaces in cities
・ Ecosystem management and well-being
・ Overseas expansion of smart cities

Urban park green space (Japan World Exposition Memorial Park)

・ Impact assessment of global warming on coastal areas
・ Reduction of coastal disasters by storm surges and high waves
・ Probabilistic evaluation of tsunami hazards

Tsunami inundation experiment in coastal urban areas

・ Real-time flood inundation analysis
・ Analysis of actual evacuation during floods
・ Evaluation of the impact of river channel vegetation on flood risk

Flood inundation simulation of Yoshida River in Naruse River system

・ Research on ground response characteristics during earthquakes
・ Nonlinear dynamic interaction between ground and structures
・ Integration of numerical analysis methods and centrifuge model experiments

Elucidation of breakwater damage mechanism by tsunami (centrifuge model experiment)

・ Creation of new geotechnical structures
・ Visualization of water flow in soil through fusion of measurement and numerical models
・ Research on countermeasures against road disasters caused by heavy rain and earthquakes

Visualization of infiltration phenomena in sand

・ Patch plate bonding repair of damaged steel structures
・ Development of repair methods for fatigue cracks
・ Development of inspection methods for steel structures

Liberty Bridge (Budapest) that has been in use for a long time

・ CFRP adhesive repair for steel structures
・ Damage monitoring of adhesive joints
・ Repair of corrosion-damaged steel structures

Evaluation of mechanical behavior of steel pipes with CFRP bonding

・ Effective use of industrial waste as aggregate and admixture for concrete
・ Durability and deterioration suppression measures for concrete structures
・ Development of mortar substrates for coral reef regeneration promotion technology

Steel-concrete composite revetment under practical consideration

・ Deterioration prediction and performance evaluation of concrete structures
・ Development of rational repair and reinforcement methods for deteriorated structures
・ Development and structural use of new construction materials

Failure of RC beam with reinforcement corrosion (top: photo, bottom: crack visualization by image analysis)

・ Research on civil engineering and artificial intelligence
・ Slope disaster risk assessment method development
・ Geological risk assessment method development

Vulnerability assessment for groundwater salinization

・ Integrated land use, transportation, and environmental model
・ Social infrastructure planning under population decline, public-private partnerships
・ Regional revitalization methods, community co-creation hubs (living labs)

Regional revitalization hub utilizing old private houses

・ Analysis of smart mobility
・ Traffic safety
・ Research on traffic demand forecasting and traffic operations

Environmentally friendly ultra-compact mobility (small electric vehicle)

・ Civil engineering history and landscape formation history
・ Landscape management of public spaces
・ Disaster prevention community development utilizing history and tradition

River improvement example considering regional history (Kamo River, Kyoto City)

・ Application of artificial intelligence to various urban and social problems
・ Development of maintenance methods for social infrastructure systems
・ Mathematical methods in disaster prevention and mitigation systems

Sinkhole accident caused by pipeline facilities (Source: MLIT)

・ Wireless networks
・ Network dynamics
・ Internet of Things (IoT)

Example of wireless network topology reproduction by self-organization

・ Next-generation Internet technology
・ Network security
・ IoT

Performance evaluation using simulator

・ 3D modeling and simulation by photogrammetry
・ Fusion expression technology of live-action and CG
・ Intelligent information systems

Example of modeling actual objects by 3D measurement and performing flood disaster simulation

・ Information management systems for social infrastructure facilities
・ BIM/CIM model construction and utilization
・ Practical and applied research on geographic information systems

Infrastructure management and utilization using 3D geographic information systems

・ Efficient maintenance of infrastructure systems using asset management
・ Practical application of probability modeling and stochastic system theory
・ Development of high-speed simulation schemes and their application to risk analysis

Application example of stochastic system theory and risk engineering to tunnel maintenance problems