Academic Staff and Fellows

KAWAI Katsuyuki
Professor Doctor of Enginnering
Department/Civil and Environmental Engineering  Graduate school/Environmental Engineering

Using a three-phase mixture comprising soil particles, water, and air, we faithfully model geo-materials that exhibit complex behaviors depending on their composition ratio, and search for clues to solve problems by simulating ground disasters such as landslides and soil contamination.

Research Area Geotechnical Engineering, Geoenvironmental Engineering, Disaster Prevention
Teaching (Undergraduate Course) Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering, Seismic Engineering
Research Interests Soil/water/air coupled analysis
Long-term stability of earth structures
Vegetation effects on the ground
Mass transportation within the ground
Geophysical prospecting
Selected Publications (1)Estimation of drain pipe effects using electrical prospecting and unsaturated soil/water coupled analysis, SEAGS-AGSSEA Journal, Vol.53, No.2, pp.43-50, 2022.
(2) Ground survey based on the distribution of surface wave velocity and electrical resistibility, Int. J. of GEOMATE, Vol.18, Issue 66, pp.9-15, 2020.
(3) Density distributions within ceramic materials saturated for use in suction measurement, Int. J. of GEOMATE, Vol.15, Issue 54, pp.103-108, 2019.
Research and Achievements
Education
(Undergraduate Course)
BE from Kobe University
Education
(Master's/Doctral Course)
ME and DE from Kobe University

Environmental Geotechnics Laboratory

E-mail kkawai(at)civileng.kindai.ac.jp
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Academic Staff and Fellows