Report on damage to concrete structures

One of the hugest eqrthquake hit East and North region in Japan. JSCE concrete comittee dispatched the 1st survey teams to heavy disaster area, Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefecture. JSCE experts has placed the focus of their surveys on damage situation of concrete structures located far away from coastal line and mainly subjected to earthquake, not tsunami. First reports are released as downloadable PDF files.
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First survey report in Iwate Prefecture (March 25 and 26, 2011) Download
First survey report in Miyagi Prefecture (March 27 and 28, 2011) Download
First survey report in Fukushima Prefecture (March 29 and 30, 2011) Download

Location of Iwate prefecture
and earthquake center

Survey locations

Tohoku Shinkansen line (between Morioka and Ichinoseki Stations)
Tohoku Expressway (between Morioka IC and Ichinoseki IC)
Part of JR Tohoku line (between Morioka and Hanamaki Stations)
Part of National Road No. 4

Survey team members

Tomohiro MIKI (Kobe University)
Akihiko KAMIHARAKO (Hirosaki University)
Yasushi TANAKA (Nagaoka University of Technology)
Yoshinobu OSHIMA (Kyoto University)
Kouji MATSUMOTO (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Report Download(PDF 7.3MB)

Miyagi Prefecture

Location of Miyagi prefecture
and earthquake center

Survey locations

Tohoku Shinkansen line
Sendai City Subway line
National road No. 4
Sendai city-administered road
Sendai East Highway (Sendai Toubu Douro)

Survey team members

Hiroshi MINAGAWA (Tohoku University)
Ichiro IWAKI (Nihon University),
Minoru KUNIEDA (Nagoya University)
Hideki NAITO (Tohoku University)
Kohei NAGAI (Tokyo University)
Akira HOSODA (Yokohama National University)
Ken WATANABE (Railway Technical Research Institute)

Report Download(PDF 1.4MB)

Fukushima Prefecture

Location of Fukushima prefecture
earthquake center

Survey locations

Tohoku Shinkansen line
National Road No. 4
Fukushima Prefectural Road No. 288
Koriyama City Road
Fukushima City Road

Survey team members

Ichiro IWAKI (Nihon University)
Takumi SHIMOMURA (Nagaoka University of Technology)
Minoru KUNIEDA (Nagoya University)
Kenichiro NAKARAI (Gunma University)
Kouhei NAGAI (Tokyo University)
Satoshi TAKAYA (Kyoto University)

Report Download(PDF 1.9MB)