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Environmental and Disaster Prevention Laboratory
Professor / OHTSUKA Satoru
Associate Professor / FUKUMOTO Yutaka
- Understanding the process of natural disaster occurrence
- Computational geomechanics
- Particle-based methods
Associate Professor / FUKUMOTO Yutaka
The professor is very friendly and welcoming. He always enlighten the students based on academic principles and engineering best practices. Further, he helps and encourages students to develop a sound engineering understanding of natural phenomena. Moreover, our professor strongly believes in freedom of expression and therefore gives due importance to the students' opinions on research matters, which leads to healthy technical discussions.
Research Content
The environment disaster prevention laboratory is aimed at conducting research to solve the latest engineering challenges to prevent the catastrophic outcome of natural disasters such as earthquakes and rainstorms. Model tests and field studies are conducted to investigate the effective countermeasures. we also develop particle-based numerical simulation models to reproduce the complex soil behaviors such as the deformation of sand, the internal erosion of soil and weathering of mudstone.
Particle-based simulation model of soil
A Day in the Lab
Everyday in this lab is full of energy and opportunities. Students carry out their designated research activities and report its progress to the professors. Weekly group and individual seminars are conducted to keep pace with the annual research targets. All students put their best efforts into achieving their intended research goals. Preparing for the seminars is quite demanding; however, as you come to the laboratory, you feel motivated as there are colleagues who work hard along with you. Besides, Nagaoka is a peaceful city and there are activities round the year to make you feel lively such as Nagaoka fireworks.
Nagaoka fireworks
Thesis Subjects
- (M)Eccentric Vertical Loading Bearing Capacity of Direct Foundation in Sandy Ground
- (M)Numerical Analysis of Regional Subsidence Due to Repeated Consolidation Tests and Winter Pumping of Groundwater
- (M)Application of a Machine Learning-based Slope Failure Hazard Assessment Model to Other Regions
The number of
PhD Graduates
5
Major employers of Graduates
- Fujita Corporation
- Obayashi Corporation
- Japan Railways
- Penta-Ocean Construction
- Sakami Tetsudo
- Shimizu Corporation
- Taisei Corporation
- Sumitomo Mitsui Construction
- Fukken Engineering
- Fudo Tetra Corporation
