Akihiro Takahashi
Education
Department of Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (April 1994-December 1996)
Department of Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (April 1991-March 1994, Left without Bachelor’s degree for the postgraduate study)
Qualifications
Professional Engineer in Civil Engineering (April 2009)
Doctor of Engineering in Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (March 2002)
(Dissertation title: Soil-pile interaction in liquefaction-induced lateral spreading of soils)Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (March 1996)
Work experience and research areas
Professor (December 2014-), Associate Professor (January 2008-November 2014), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Geotechnical hazard assessment and mitigation, such as mechanical behaviour of soils subjected to internal erosion, liquefaction of non-homogeneous soil deposits, seismic performance of pile foundations, slope stabilisation.
Senior Researcher, (July 2004-December 2007), Earthquake Disaster Prevention Research Group, Public Works Research Institute
Seismic performance of geotechnical structures, such as pile foundations in liquefying soils, retaining walls.
Seismic retrofit techniques for levees and related facilities.
Post Doctoral Research Associate, (August 2002-May 2004), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London
Assessment of standard research sand for laboratory testing.
Laboratory tests on natural London clay and clean sand using hollow cylinder apparatuses.
Destructuration of London clay by swelling using direct shear box and oedometers.
Research Associate (December 1996-June 2004), Department of International Development Engineering/Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Physical model tests using geotechnical centrifuges on tunnelling-induced ground movement mechanisms, seismic deformation characteristics of reinforced soil structures, liquefaction remediation for structure damage mitigation, seismic performance of pile foundation in liquefying soil, dynamic soil-pile interaction in large soil movement, etc.
Numerical analyses on dynamic soil-structure interactions by soil/water coupled three-dimensional finite element method (The FE program was coded from scratch in C language.)
Advised PhDs
Assessing the influence of geotechnical uncertainty on slope stability and tunneling-induced settlement (Hu Lihang, 2023)
Development and practical application of lattice-frame-reinforced sheet method using mortar-filled-fabric hoses (Michitaka Okamoto, 2023, in Japanese)
Experimental investigation on internal erosion and its impact on mechanical responses of gap-graded and well-graded sandy soils (Jitrakon Prasomsri, 2021)
Study on monitoring method of old river bridge foundations by microtremor (Takenori Keyaki, 2021, in Japanese)
Constitutive modeling of granular materials subjected to internal erosion (Wang Gang, 2021)
Seismic retrofit for pile-supported bridge abutment subjected to liquefaction-induced lateral spreading (Partha Saha, 2020)
Centrifuge modeling and reliability assessment of liquefaction mitigation techniques for shallow foundations (Ritesh Kumar, 2020)
Performance of river levee reinforced with steel drainage pipes against flooding (Jenisha Singh, 2020)
A study on elevated water levels in road embankments due to precipitation toward a proposal of screening method of vulnerable embankments (Hirohiko Kusaka, 2019, in Japanese)
A study on evaluation of the coefficient of lateral subgrade reaction of piles and modeling of nonlinear characteristics at a wide range of displacement level (Taisuke Sanagawa, 2017, in Japanese)
Study on reinforcing effects of steel pipes with blades on embankment slope (Masamichi Sawaishi [Thesis], 2017, in Japanese)
Experimental investigation and microscopic observation on internal erosion of cohesionless soils (Mao Ouyang, 2016)
An experimental study of seepage-induced transport of fines in embankments (Kazuki Horikoshi, 2015)
A study on the flexibility of asphalt concrete facing based on the case of the Yashio dam during the 2011 Touhoku Earthquake (Tomoyuki Tsukada, 2015, in Japanese)
Liquefaction-induced deformation of embankments on non-homogeneous foundation (Manika Maharjan, 2015)
Investigation on internal erosion characteristics and its mechanical consequences for saturated non-cohesive soil (Lin Ke, 2014)
A study on the method of determining priorities for investment in mitigation of rainfall-induced slope instability (Osamu Nunokawa, 2013)
Publications
List of publications is here.
You can also check Researchmap or ResearchGate.
Contact
E-mail: takahashi.a.al(at)m.titech.ac.jp (Replace (at) with @ when you email me.)