Minimal-Disturbance Arm Damper (MDAD) has been proposed within the seismic retrofitting scheme of minimaldisturbance to building users. The MDAD is a light-weight and han [...]

A new method for detecting tsunami-induced damage on a building side wall is proposed using X-band of post-event full polarimetric airborne synthetic aperture radar (Pi-S [...]

The hollow structural section (HSS) columns are commonly used to sustain the seismic loading from any direction in Japanese steel frames due to its uniform geometry along [...]

The paper investigates experimentally the behavior of a structure-footing-four piles system under the action of seismic shaking causing liquefaction of a critical soil la [...]

Geotechnical shaking table tests were conducted using the E-Defense facility to investigate the response and failure of a nearly full-scale pile-structure system in a liq [...]

Stone lantern (Ishi-toro) was imported into Japan concurrently with Buddhism and mostly made with construction of the temple. Moreover, the fall and destruction of the st [...]