Strategy
The basis of research activities in our concrete laboratory is to contribute to society and earth resources as concrete has been utilized as a fundamental construction material. In addition, our concrete laboratory is beginning to widen areas like microbe decomposition by applying acquired knowledge from the past researches.
Our research approach does not separate between material and structural aspects, but develop the integrated material& structural concrete engineering system. The application is applied to life cycle management & assessment, the verification& evaluation system for safety and durability of a structure including seismic performance.
Now, the application is extending to simulation of the pore structure within soil material and cementitious materials, prediction of thermodynamics states, material transport of cementitious materials and soil material, and the diffusion problem.
Furthermore, the technology accumulated by years of our research for concrete is also applied to the reaction decomposition system of a microbe. It is expected that an optimization in design of an organic waste disposal facility and improvement in the speed and the efficiency of processing will be achieved by the simulation of compost process.
You can find parts of recent reseach topic from here.