Hitoshi Shiohara
Professor, Dr. of Engineering, FACI
Department of Architectural Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering
The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, JAPAN
Voice +81-3-5841-6159
Facsimile: +81-3-5841-6156
Email: shiohara @ arch.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION HISTORY
BS (1981), MS (1983), Ph.D. (1986)
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering
The University of Tokyo
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Tokyo, 2012-
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Tokyo, 1995-2012
Senior Research Engineer, Building Research Institute, Ministry of Construction, 1994-95
Visiting Scientist, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993-94
Senior Research Engineer, Building Research Institute, Ministry of Construction, 1991-93
Research Engineer, Building Research Institute, Ministry of Construction, 1988-91
Officer, Division of Building Administration, Bureau of Housing, Ministry of Construction, 1987-88
Research Engineer, Building Research Institute, 1986-87
OUTLINE OF RESEARCH
Broad area of research on reinforced concrete building structures and earthquake resistance of buildings; i.e., experimental study on the behavior of reinforced concrete members to failure; experimental and analytical study on the evaluation of ultimate strength, deformability, restoring force-deformation characteristics and hysteresis behavior of reinforced concrete members; nonlinear earthquake response analysis of reinforced concrete building structures; earthquake resistant design of reinforced concrete buildings; analytical study on the evaluation of dynamic characteristics of strong earthquake motion; and earthquake damage investigation. New structural design concepts based on performance based approach are investigated on several topics including, seismic retrofit and life-cycle repair cost assessment.
A paraticular area of my current interest is to development of a unified theory for R/C beam-column joint. As a chair of the committee of structural performance of precast concrete building construction in AIJ, Architectural Institute of Japan, Dr. Shiohara's research interests and responsibilities extend to include design guidelines of precast concrete joints.
AWARDS
- • 2011.5 - The Prize of AIJ 2011 - Research Theses Division Seismic Vulnerability of Reinforced Concrete Beam-column Joints (in Japanese)
- • 2011.3 - ACI Fellow
- • 2002 J. James Croes Medal of ASCE for the paper "New Model for Shear Failure of RC Interior Beam-Column Connections," Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, February 2001. (ASCE News)
- • 1987 JCI (Japan Concrete Institute) Award for outstanding research paper for "Plastic Analysis for Ultimate Strength of Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls," (in Japanese).
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
- • American Concrete Institute
- • American Society of Civil Engineers
- • Architectural Institute of Japan
- • Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
- • Japan Association of Earthquake Engineering
- • Japan Concrete Institute
- • Japan Society of Civil Engineering
- • New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering
- • Precast / Prestressed Concrete Institute
