Graduate Courses : Department of Civil Engineering : Teaching Staff

KAWAI Tadashi

Professor
KIKUCHI Akira
Research :
1) Transportation Planning : Research on transportation policies including Travel Demand Management and traffic flow on road network.
2) Activity & Travel Behavior Analysis: Analysis and modeling on individuals' travel behaviors including travel mode choice and route choice under uncertainty.
3) Behavioral Decision Making: Research on personal decision making based on cognitive, social psychology, b ehav ioral economics and experimental economics, especially focuses on relationships between pro-environmental behavior and traffic information.

Professor
KOIDE Hideo
Research :The most important research for me is on the tensile properties of cement concrete. The tensile strength of cement concrete is low, so tensile properties have not been treated as a very important property. However, the occurrence and growth of “cracks”, which are very important in “durability of concrete structures”, are greatly related to tensile properties. Therefore, I am developing a special testing equipment and test method for direct tensile test, and studying the tensile properties of various types of cement concrete by using the equipment.

KONDO Yuichiro

Professor
KONDO Yuichiro
Research :Based on design studies and environment studies, we study a methodology of community development, practice and evaluation. Recent studies are follows.
1）Designing of environmental education programs with teaching materials.
2）Community development using rural resource.
3）Consciousness investigation by text mining.
Web site : http://www.yuichirokondo.com

Professor
SUTOH Atsushi
Research :Construction Management is becoming increasingly important civil engineering, so we researched and/or working on the following problem based on a Stochastic process.
（1）Development and application of a back analysis method for soil, rock, and concrete characteristics and construction Problems
（2）Study on a natural disaster risk in civil construction work
（3）Study on a maintenance and repair of infrastructure especially for tunnels and bridges, using Life Cycle Management theory

Professor
YAMADA Masaki
Research :The Strength of Structural Components
・Bonding strength between steel and concrete
・Exploitation of torque shear test for bonding strength
・Real loading capacity of non-composite steel plate girder bridges
・Maintenance and repair of steel bridges

Associate Professor
KWON Youngcheul
Research :My research focuses on the investigation of deformation characteristics of soils in the different mechanical conditions. I am particularly interested in the liquefaction and consolidation phenomenon of the sandy and clayey soils. To date, I worked in these two different research areas by hybrid simulation system to understand the fundamental aspects of the mechanical behavior of various soils.
Summary of Research interests :
1）Development of hybrid simulation system to apply in geotechnical engineering problems.
2）Long-term consolidation settlement of clayey soils under static loading condition.
3）Quantitative estimation of deformation by liquefaction phenomenon.

SUGAWARA Keiichi

Associate Professor
TOMARI Naoyuki
Research :My working areas are titled as “infrastructure planning and management”, “transport planning” or “transport policy” in the field of civil engineering. My research interests mainly consist of the following two parts: the first one is planning system including planning process and public involvement; the other is transport policy focusing on urban transport, especially taxi policy, airport planning and high-speed rail development. I have keen interests in international comparison on the research interests.

Associate Professor
HOJO Toshimasa
Research :By using the functions of microorganisms, energy such as methane gas can be created from wastewater and waste containing organic matter rich. The development of methane fermentation technology contributes to the achievement of low-carbon society and recycling society.