Kenji Ishihara
Kenji Ishihara ( Japanese 石 原 研 而 , Ishihara Kenji ; born April 16, 1934 in Okayama Prefecture ) is a Japanese civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ). He is an internationally recognized expert on earthquake geotechnical problems (such as Liquefaction ).
Ishihara graduated from Tokyo University as a civil engineer in 1957 and received his doctorate in 1963. From 1966 to 1967 he was visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Ralph Peck . He then went to Tokyo University, where he was professor of geotechnics from 1977 to 1995. From 1995 he was professor of civil engineering at the Tokyo University of Natural Sciences . He has also been teaching at Chūō University in Tokyo since 2001 .
From 1970 to 1976 he was Secretary of the Japanese National Section of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSMFE) and from 1989 to 1993 Vice President of the Asia Section. 1997 to 2001 he was President of (ISSMGE)
He was involved in the investigation of the geotechnical effects of earthquakes worldwide and worked for UNESCO and UNDP (United Nations Development Project), for example in Chile, India and Iran.
In 1993 he gave the Rankine Lecture (Liquefaction and flow failure during earthquakes). In 1998 he received the Harry Bolton Seed Medal of the ASCE and in 2000 the Prize of the Japan Academy. He gave the Terzaghi lecture at the 14th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Ground Engineering 1997 in Hamburg. In 2010 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering .
Fonts
- Soil Mechanics, 1988 (Japanese)
- Basics of Soil Dynamics, 1974 (Japanese)
- Soil Behavior in Earthquake Geotechnics, Oxford University Press 1996 (Russian translation 2006)
Web links
- biography
- Portrait on the occasion of the Buchanan Lecture Forensic Diagnosis of Site Specific Ground Condition in Deep Excavation of Subway Constructions , pdf
Individual evidence
- ↑ 石 原 研 而 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus /kotobank.jp. Kodansha, 2009, accessed May 21, 2011 (Japanese).
- ↑ Current name of the ISSMFE
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ishihara, Kenji |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 石 原 研 而 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese geotechnical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Okayama Prefecture |