Mitigation of urban compound/secondary disasters

associated with flood, earthquake and tsunami

Mission

With the background of advanced and multi-layered urban areas that have developed in basal zones along the coastal regions and river basins, the research of the lab focuses on safety evaluation against various disaster events such as floods, earthquakes and tsunamis, complex urban disasters, and secondary disasters specific to the urban environment, and on development of engineering countermeasure technologies to minimize such damage and provide people with a safe and secure life and environment. Ongoing research includes the evaluation of seismic and tsunami actions and responses associated with urban facilities, characterization and assessment of the mechanisms of complex and secondary disasters, disaster protection and reduction, development of experimental and numerical evaluation methods for the dynamic behavior of fluid-structure coupled mechanical systems, and problems related to design, performance evaluation, and maintenance for infrastructures against extreme events during disasters.

History