Study Tour
Sunday, November 22, 20158:15
Meet up at the lobby of Hotel Bel Air Sendai
8:30
Visit to a telecomunication company building.
The NTT Aoba-street building is incorporated with a innovative passive control device.
(Sugimura et al., 2012)
9:45 - 11:00
Visit to the base-isolation story of the civil engineering and architecture
building and full-scale experimental base-isolated building in Aoba-yama
campus, Tohoku University.
11:00 - 11:25
Drive along the tsunami affected coastal areas by bus.
Around Higashi-Matsushima, removal of salt from the fields is underway.
11:25 - 12:10
Lunch at a restaurant in Matsushima
13:50 - 14:30
Hiyoriyama-park, Ishinomaki city. The park is on the top of a hill, which commands
panoramic view of tsunami affected Ishinomaki city.
15:45 - 16:10
Visit to a structural remain of the disaster managiment center building of Minami-Sanriku.
The rusted skeleton of the tsunami hit building is preserved until 2031.
19:00
Arrive back at Sendai station and adjourn Workshop
- Link to the map for the locations to visit
- Sugimura, Y., Goto, W., Tanizawa, H., Saito, K. (2012) Response Control Effect of Steel Building Structure using Tuned Viscous Mass Damper,Proceedings of the 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Paper ID 0138, Libon, Portugal, 2012.
- Izumi, M., Yamahara, H., Comparisons Between Earthquake Response Characteristics of Base-Isolated and Ordinary Buildings, Proceedings of the 9th World Conferense on Earthquake Engineering, Vol. V, pp.687-692, Tokyo-Kyoto, Japan, 1988.
- Link to an article of the Asahi Shimbun "Gutted structure to be preserved as reminder of tsunami devastation"
Tsunami surging to Ishinomaki city (taken from Hiyoriyama park)
The Japanese texts are followed by English translations.
Push [CC] button to activate English subtitle
Push [CC] button to activate English subtitle
