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All data is as of November 03, 2025.

TAGAWA HIROSHI: Professor

Affiliation	Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering
Discipline	Architecture
Academic Degrees	Kyoto University　Doctor of Engineering
Research Fields	Engineering; Architecture and building engineering; Building structures / Materials
Research Keywords	building structure / steel structure / seismic design / connection / vibration control system
Comments	The main research area is the building structures, especially steel buildings. The research topics include the development of vibration control systems, beam-and-column connections, earthquake-resistant bracings, seismic response analysis, seismic design, seismic retrofit of structures, and so on.
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Topic	Architecture City Planning New Technologies
SDGs
	One of my research projects related to carbon neutrality is the development of earthquake and other disaster-resistant structural technologies that can elongatge the service life of buildings.
Educational Programs	[Bachelor Degree Program] School of Engineering : Cluster 4(Civil Engineering and Architecture) : Program of Architecture and Building Engineering [Master's Program] Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering : Division of Advanced Science and Engineering : Architecture Program [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering : Division of Advanced Science and Engineering : Architecture Program

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