Our group focuses on geotechnical disaster mitigation including reinforcement of geotechnical structures against earthquake/flooding and seepage-induced instability of geotechnical structures.
If you're interested in studying at Science Tokyo (Formerly, Tokyo Tech), please check our graduate programs, especially the 'Postgraduate Program for Environmental Designers Contributing to Resilient Cities' in IGP(A).
A list of PhD theses in the past is available at the bottom of this page, and many of the previous works can be found at ResearchGate.
地震や豪雨・洪水に対する地盤構造物の耐災性評価などの地盤に関わる防災・減災の研究や，その基となる地盤構造物の性能／土の物性評価に関する研究を行っています．
過去３年間の学士特定課題研究（卒業論文研究），修士論文研究のテーマは以下の通り：
鋼矢板二重壁構造による河川堤防の耐越水補強に関する実験的研究（2025修）
漏水の原因となる自然堤防の特徴とそのパイピングリスクへの影響（2025修）
地震観測記録を用いたデータ同化による地盤の動的変形特性の逆解析（2025修）
基礎地盤構成に着目したパイピング初期の堤防に関する解析的研究（2025卒）
内部土および継手管短縮が鋼管矢板基礎の水平抵抗特性に及ぼす影響（2025卒）
自然堤防の浸食特性の把握のための基礎的研究（2024修）
河川堤防の鋼矢板二重壁を用いた越水に対する補強工法に関する解析的研究（2024修）
パイピング初期における噴砂丘形成過程に関する研究（2024修）
ニューマチックケーソンの初期沈設挙動に関する実験的研究（2024修）
降雨による盛土法面の表層崩壊メカニズムの解明（2024卒）
An experimental investigation of the effects of initial fines content and seepage conditions on post-erosion heterogeneity in gap-graded soil（2023修）
二重鋼矢板壁で補強された堤防の越水に対する安定性に関する実験的研究（2023修）
地下水位に着目した原位置透水試験の河川堤防基礎地盤への適用性に関する研究（2023修）
浸透流による内部侵食によって劣化した堤防の地震時挙動に関する解析的研究（2023修）
内部浸食された土の構成モデルに関する研究（2023卒）
A study on reinforcement of river levees with double steel sheet piles walls against overtopping (Yusuke Mochida, 2025, in Japanese)
A study on seismic retrofitting methods for masonry train platforms (Satoshi Takisawa, 2024, in Japanese)
A study on the hydraulic characteristics of alluvial sediments in river levee systems through field surveys and statistical analysis (Zhang Wenyue, 2024)
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, in Japanese)