Depending on the numerical accuracy required, we can choose a simple mass spring system or a solid element model in carrying out structural seismic response analysis. The [...]

This paper reports characteristics of the strong ground motion records and the results for investigating building damage near the surface faulting of the 2016 Kumamoto ea [...]

In the Great East Japan Earthquake,130,000 houses were major damaged and 260,000 houses were moderate damaged. After Disaster,140,000 units of temporary housing have been [...]

The Nankai Trough earthquakes which are subduction earthquakes with magnitude greater than 8 have occurred at intervals of 90 to 150 years. The probability of earthquake [...]

This paper presents two examples of applying high performance computation (HPC) to earthquake engineering problems. One example is for the seismic structure response simu [...]

Two down-hole array strong-motion digital records on IC-memory cards at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company during the main shock [...]

This paper presents a method for inspecting the building damage, which can be carried out by the disaster victim themselves. It is well known that the building damage sur [...]

It is crucial for efficient individual household recovery support operation to manage those customer relations since considerable part of troubles in individual recovery [...]