Yukio Tamura

Professor
- Director, Wind Engineering Research Center, Tokyo Polytechnic University
- Director, The 21st Century COE Program under Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japanese Government

Department of Architectural Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering,
Tokyo Polytechnic University

1583 Iiyama, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan, 243-0297

+81-46-242-9547

yukio@arch.t-kougei.ac.jp

June 2004

Jack E. Cermak Medal, Engineering Mechanics Division, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

May 1994

The Prize of Japan Association for Wind Engineering (The most significant paper in 1993), Japan Association for Wind Engineering (JAWE)

May 1993

The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan (The most significant paper in 1992), Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ)

March 1969

Tachu Naito Prize (The most excellent student in the structural engineering course), Waseda University

International

Chairman, Organizing Committee, The Fourth International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering, Japan (2006)

Member, Advisory Committee, The Fourth International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering, Japan (2006)

Member, Advisory Committee, Indian Society for Wind Engineering (Third National Conference on Wind Engineering-2006)

Member, Scientific Committee, International Operational Modal Analysis Conference, Copenhagen (2004-2005)

Member, International Editorial Board, Journal of Wind and Engineering (Indian Society of Wind Engineering) (2004- )

Member, Scientific Committee, International Summer School on Full-Scale and Model-Scale Studies of Dynamical Behavior of Large Structures (2004)

Member, SEI Technical Activities Division Wind Effects Committee, ASCE, USA (2004-2010 )

Member, Scientific Committee, International Summer School on Full-Scale and Model-Scale Studies of Dynamical Behavior of Large Structures, Poland (2004)

Member, International Advisory Committee, 4th Symposium, Environmental Effects on Buildings and People - Actions, Influences, Interactions, Discomfort, June 16-18, Poland (2004)

Member, Science Committee, The 4th International Conference on Building Envelope Systems & Technology (ICBEST), Australia (2004)

Member, Tall Buildings Committee, ASCE, USA (2003-2009)

Member, International Editorial Board, Advances in Structural Engineering, An International Journal (2003-  )

Member, International Scientific Committee, Fourth European & African Conference on Wind Engineering (4th EACWE), in Prague, Czech Republic, (2003- 2005)

Member, Advisory Committee, Area of Strategic Development in Mitigation of Urban Hazards, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (2002-2004 )

Member, Investigative Committee on Wind Damage to Seogwipo World Cup Soccer Stadium in Cheju, Architectural Institute of Korea, Korea (2002-2003)

Member, Aerodynamics Committee, ASCE, USA (2002-2008 )

Domestic

Member, Advisory Committee, Guideline for Wind Energy Utilization, Toyo Sekkei, (2005)

Member, JSPS Examination Committee for Research fellow (2005-2007)

Member, Wind Damage Research Committee (2004)

Member, Wind Damage Research Committee (2004)

Member, Chimney Structure Committee, Architectural Institute of Japan (2004-2006)

President, Japan Association for Wind Engineering (JAWE) (2004-    )

Chairman, The 1st International Symposium on Wind Effects on Buildings and Urban Environment, Tokyo (2004)

Director, The 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program entitled “Wind Effects on Buildings and Urban Environment”, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) (2003- 2008)

Organizer, Monitoring Techniques and Aerodynamic Problems, The 53rd National Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2003-2004)

Chairman, JAWE Forum on Wind-damage to Buildings and Structures (2003)

Member, Committee on Korea-Japan Joint Symposium on Wind Resistant Design (2003)

Member, Committee on Design Approval for Tall Buildings, House-Plus (2003-  ) 

... being appointed to more than 50 other academic and governmental committees in Japan, currently

Damping in buildings and estimation techniques

Sep.2005

The 6th Asia-Pacific Conference onWind Engineering, Korea

Wind resistant design of tall buildings in Japan

Mar.2004

North American SteelConstruction Conference, Long Beach, USA

Revision of AIJ Recommendations for Wind Loads on Buildings

Nov.2003

The International Wind Engineering Symposium (IWES2003), Taipei, Taiwan

Some recent topics in wind resistant design of buildings and structures

Oct.2003

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

Design issues for tall buildings from accelera- tion to damping ? tribute to Hatsuo Ishizaki and Vinod J. Modi

Jun.2003

The 11th International Conference on Wind Engineering (11ICWE),Lubbock, USA

System identification of structures by Frequency Domain Decomposition and Multi-DOF Random Decrement Technique

Apr.2003

The 22nd Forum on Modal Analysis, JSME, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

Revised Building Standard Law of Japan and wind resistant design

Feb.2003

Forum on Seismic Resistant Design, Architectural Institute of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

Activities of Committee on Wind Loads, AIJ

Jan.2003

Korea-Japan Seminar on Wind Hazard Mitigation, Seoul, Korea

Experimental evaluation of aerodynamic damping of square super high-rise buildings

2005

Yong Quan, M. Gu Y. Tamura

Wind and Structures, Vol.8, No.5 pp.309-324

Aspects of the dynamic wind-induced response of structures and codification

2005

Y. Tamura,A. Kareem,G. Solari,K.C.S. Kwok,J.D. Holmes

Wind and Structures, Vol.8, No.4 pp.251-268

Characteristics of wind forces acting on tall buildings

2005

N. Lin, C. Letchford, Y. Tamura B. Liang, O. Nakamura

JWEIA, Vol.93 pp.217-242

Nonlinear dynamic analysis for large-span single-layer reticulated shells subjected to wind loading

2005

Y.Q. Li, Y. Tamura

Wind and Structures, Vol.8, No.1 pp.35-48

Wind resistant analysis for large-span single- layer reticulated shells

2004

Y.Q. Li, Y. Tamura

International Journal of Space Structures, Vol.19, No.1 pp.47-59

Quasi-static wind load combinations for low- and middle-rise buildings

2003

Y. Tamura,H. Kikuchi,K. Hibi J.D. Holmes

JWEIA, Vol.91, pp.1613-1625

Measurement of wind-induced response of buildings using RTK-GPS and integrity monitoring

Sep.2003

A. Yoshida,Y. Tamura,S. Ishibashi

Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering, Transactions of AIJ, No.571 pp.39-44 (in Japanese)

Wind-tunnel experiment of a visco-elastically damped building frame

Jun.2003

K.P. Cho,J.E. Cermak, M. Lai, Y. Tamura

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Lubbock, USA

Report by working group WGE-dynamic response.

Jun.2003

Y. Tamura,A. Kareem,G. Solari,K.C.S. Kwok,J.D. Holmes

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Lubbock, USA

Effects of fluctuating wind loading on the stability of single-layer reticulated shells.

Jun.2003

Y.Q. Li, Y. Tamura,A. Katsumura,A. Yoshida

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Lubbock, USA

Damping evaluation using full-scale data of buildings in Japan.

Apr.2003

N. Satake,K. Suda,T. Arakawa,A. Sasaki,Y. Tamura

Journal of StructuralEngineering, ASCE, Vol.129, No.4 pp.470-477

First Grade Qualified Architect