Mortar finishing external wall is one of typical external walls for wooden houses in Japan. It is constructed using sophisticated plasterers’ technics, which is able to [...]

Mud-plastered walls have been acting as earthquake resisting elements in Japanese timber houses from the old times. However, their earthquake resistant performance has be [...]

In this experimental study, it was clarified the structural performance of reinforced concrete (RC) and precast concrete (PCa) columns with ultra-high-strength materials. [...]

The damper device that is used high damping rubber to install in joints for wooden house (It is called the damper device at below) developed by us. The cost of manufactur [...]

In reliability-based limit state design, randomness and uncertainties existing in structural design are taken into account rationally by applying probability and statisti [...]