Many coastal protection facilities were damaged by the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake and the subsequent tsunami, which spread inundation to the coastal [...]

Many breakwaters were damaged during past gigantic earthquakes and tsunamis. It was reported that breakwaters were failed mainly due to failure of their foundations. Moun [...]

Breakwaters are designed to protect coastal areas and seaports from destructive effects of sea waves, currents and tsunamis by absorbing their wave energies and reducing [...]

A lot of structures were damaged at Horinouchi area of Hakuba village, Nagano prefecture due to the 2014 earthquake in Northern Nagano (Mw=6.3), occurred on November 22th [...]

This paper reports an attempt to infer some vibration characteristics (especially, predominant frequency) of base isolated buildings using microtremor measurements. A com [...]

This paper outlines the geotechnical and structural hazards brought by the 2007 Niigataken Chuetsu-oki earthquake that occurred in the Niigata and Nagano prefecture, Japa [...]

In this paper, an innovative disaster mitigation technique is described in which scrap tire derived recycled wastes are utilized to reduce the earthquake related hazards [...]