Regenerative Preservation of Built Environment

Development of comprehensive methods and technologies to realize sustainable megacities and local communities against big earthquakes

In recent years, damage earthquakes have occurred frequently in many countries including Japan. It is also said that big earthquakes in the subduction zone around Japan and at the inland active faults under megacities will occur in the not-so-distant future in Japan. In order to realize sustainable society and local communities against such big earthquakes, we are working on the regenerative preservation of built environment and the improvement in the safety of living space by reducing the earthquake damage and the ripple effects not only from a view point of natural science but also social science.

Academic Staff

Mina SUGINO

Mina SUGINOAssociate Professor (Graduate School of Engineering)

Research Topics

  1. Seismic Performance Evaluation of Buildings against Large Amplitude Ground Motions
  2. Evaluation of Dynamic Behavior and Seismic Capacity of Traditional Wooden Buildings

Contacts

Room 307, Bldg. C2, Katsura Campus
TEL: +81-75-383-2901
FAX: +81-75-383-2901
E-mail: rp-sugino@archi.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Research Topics

Next-Generation Seismic Risk Assessment and Management for Buildings against Coming Big Earthquakes

  • Performance-based seismic design of buildings
  • Life-cycle risk assessment considering long-term occurrence
    probability of earthquakes and aged deterioration of buildings
  • Seismic risk assessment against inland shallow earthquakes 
    and subduction zone earthquakes in Japan
  • Development of early warning system

Super High-rise Buildings / Base-isolated Buildings /Wooden Structures / Historic Buildings

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Preservation of Buildings and Local Comunities Considering Historic, Cultural, Social Values and Environmental Effects / Seismic Performance Improvement of Buildings to Mitigate Earthquake Damage

  • Quantification of complete failure of traditional structures
  • Development of vulnerability functions of buildings from statistical damage data of recent earthquakes
  • Earthquake survey on function loss, economic loss, business interruption and recovery process
  • Structural safety diagnosis by health monitoring and nondestructive inspection
  • Comprehensive seismic performance evaluation and retrofit for existing buildings

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Evaluation of Nonlinear Soil-structure Interaction Effects

  • Analytical and experimental studies on nonlinear behavior of pile-soil system
  • Damage reduction effects due to foundation uplift of buildings
  • Development of seismic design method considering soil liquefaction
  • Development of new construction method to reuse of existing piles

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