The Flow of Time - In Retrospect of Education and Research on Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Mitigation of Built Environment

Abstract

This article presents a summary of my public life as a researcher, educator, and manager for the past forty years. I was engaged in research primarily for four topics, namely, (1) Extension of online test (hybrid simulation), (2) Damage to 1995 Kobe earthquake and re-evaluation of the ductility capacity of steel structures, (3) Performance evaluation of protective members and systems, and (4) Applications of new materials to building structures. I taught at Kobe and Kyoto Universities, supervised 93 students (for bachelor theses), 64 students (for master theses), 29 students (for doctoral theses), and 35 post-doc students, and worked with 31 guest scholars. I served as Inaugurating Director of E-Defense, NIED (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience), Director of DPRI, President of Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ), and President-Elect of International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE).