Professor
Program of Architecture and Design
Graduate School of Engineering
Nagoya Institute of Technology
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Contact Info.
- room
- #423, Building #16
- address
- Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 466-8555 Japan
- tel&fax
- +81-52-735-5269
- kusuhara at nitech.ac.jp (replace ‘at’ with ‘@’)
Research Interest
- Seismic Engineering
- Reinfoced Concrete Buildings
- Prestressed Concrete Buildings
- Traditional Wooden Buildings
- Earthquake Resistant Building Design
- Nonlinear Earthquake Response Analysis
Biography
- 2020.4 – present
- Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology
- 2017.3 – 2020.3
- Associate Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology
- 2007.4 – 2017.2
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Architecture, School of Eng., The Univ. of Tokyo
- 2003.6 – 2007.3
- Research Associate, Dept. of Architecture, School of Eng., The Univ. of Tokyo
- 1999.4 – 2003.5
- Structural Engineer, Building Design Dept., Tokyo Main Office, TAKENAKA CO.
- 1998.4 – 1999.3
- Osaka Main Office, TAKENAKA CO.
- 1998.3
- graduated from Dept. of Architecture, Graduate School of Eng., The Univ. of Tokyo(the master’s course)
- 1996.3
- graduated from Dept. of Architecture, Faculty of Eng.. The Univ. of Tokyo
Qualifications & Licences
- Dr.Eng., The University of Tokyo, 2016
- M.Eng., The University of Tokyo, 1998
- Architects and Building Engineers (Kenchiku-shi), 1st-class, the Ministry of Construction, Japan
Awards
- Encouragement Prize of AIJ 2015
- Encouraging Prize of JCI Annual Convention in Niigata, Japan Concrete Institute, 2006
- Encouraging Prize of JCI Annual Convention in Kochi, Japan Concrete Institute, 2004
Affiliations
- Architectural Institute of Japan
- Japan Concrete Institute
- Japan Association of Earthquake Engineering
Publications
papers in japanese are here
- Fumio Kusuhara: Tests on Residual Seismic Capaciity of RC Beam-Column Joints Damaged with Joint-Hinging Failure, Proc. of 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Milan, Italy, 2024.7
- Suguru Suzuki, Yasushi Sanada, Toshikatsu Ichinose, Fumio Kusuhara, Susumu Takahashi: Experimental evaluation of the structural performance of foundation beams under RC shear walls with door openings, Japan Architectural Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 65–75, 2020.9
- Fumio Kusuhara, Hitoshi Shiohara: Tests on Joint-Hinging Mechanism in Prestressed Concrete Moment Resisting Frames, Proc. of Proc. of 11th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, p. Paper No. 591, 2018.6
- Mariko Miyake, Tatsunori Hoshi, Kazuya Morinaga, Toshikatsu Ichinose, Fumio Kusuhara: Seismic Behavior of Exterior Beam-Column Joint in RC Soft-First-Story Frame with Column Extended Outside Building, Proc. of 42nd Conference on Our World in concrete & Structures, Singapore, pp. 299–308, 2017.8
- Mariko Miyake, Tatsunori Hoshi, Kazuya Morinaga, Toshikatsu Ichinose, Fumio Kusuhara: Seismic Behavior of Exterior Beam-Column Joint in RC Soft-First-Story Frame with Column Extended Inside Building, Proc. of 42nd Conference on Our World in Concrete & Structures, Singapore, pp. 289–298, 2017.8
- Suhee Kim, Fumio Kusuhara, Hitoshi Shiohara: Analysis of RC slab–beam–column sub-assemblages subjected to bidirectional lateral cyclic loading using a new 3D macroelement, EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 2017.5
- Fumio Kusuhara, Hitoshi Shiohara: Experimental Study on Prestressed Concrete Beam-Column Joints which have Column-to-Beam Strength Ratios near 1, Proc. of 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Santiago, Chili, p. Paper No. 2115, 2017.1
- Hitoshi Shiohara, Fumio Kusuhara: The Next Generation Seismic Design for Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints, Proc. of 10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2014.7
- Fumio Kusuhara, Hitoshi Shiohara: Moment Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Interior Beam-Column Joints Based on a Theory of Flexural Resistance of Joints, Proc. of 10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2014.7
- Seitaro Tajiri, Hiroshi Fukuyama, Haruhiko Suwada, Fumio Kusuhara, Hitoshi Shiohara: Energy Dissipation of RC Interior Beam-column Connection Confined by Lateral Reinforcements , Axial Force , and Column Longitudinal Reinforcements, Proc. of 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon Portugal, 2012.9
- Hitoshi Shiohara, Fumio Kusuhara: Joint Shear? or Column-to-Beam Strength Ratio?Which is a key parameter for seismic design of RC Beam-column joints – Test Series on Interior Joints, Proc. of 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2012.9
- Fumio Kusuhara, Hitoshi Shiohara: Joint Shear? or Column-to-Beam Strength Ratio?Which is a key parameter for seismic design of RC Beam-column joints – Test Series on Exterior Joints, Proc. of 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2012.9
- Hitoshi Shiohara, Fumio Kusuhara: An Overlooked Failure Mechanism of Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints, Proc. of 9th U.S. National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2010.7
- Fumio Kusuhara, Hitoshi Shiohara: Test of Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints Retrofitted with Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Strands, Proc. of 9th U.S. National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2010.7
- Hitoshi Shiohara, Fumio Kusuhara: Seismic Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints with CFRP Composites, Proc. of ATC and SEI Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures, San Francisco, California, US, pp. 1449–1459, 2009.12
- Fumio Kusuhara, Hitoshi Shiohara: Tests of R/C Beam-Column Joint with Variant Boundary Conditions and Irregular Details on Anchorage of Beam Bars, Proc. of 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2008.10
- Hitoshi Shiohara, Kori Okubo, Zhou-yi Chen, Fumio Kusuhara: Seismic Performance of Isolated Nonstructural Concrete Partitions With Dowel-Bar Connectors Under Cyclic Lateral Load, Proc. of 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2008.10
- Seitaro Tajiri, Hitoshi Shiohara, Fumio Kusuhara: A New Macro Element of Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joint for Elasto-Plastic Plane Frame Analysis, Proc. of 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, California, USA, 2006
- Fumio Kusuhara, Hitoshi Shiohara: New Instrumentation for Damage and Stress in Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joint, Proc. of 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, California, USA, 2006
- Fumio Kusuhara, Keiko Azukawa, Hitoshi Shiohara, Shunsuke Otani: Tests of Reinforced Concrete Interior Beam-Column Joint Subassemblage with Eccentric Beams, Proc. of 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 2004