Prof. Fumio KUSUHARA


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
e-mail
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

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