Sub
unit |
Project Name |
Project Objectives |
| 1 |
1. Research on cost-effective structural earthquake-resistant technologies |
(1) Evaluation methods for structural earthquake resistance levels for existing bridges and development of reinforcement measures. |
| (1)-1 Development of reliable design techniques for earthquake resistant bridges. |
| (1)-2 Development of cost-effective structural earthquake-resistant reinforcement measures for existing bridges. |
| (2) Development of design techniques for geotechnical upgrading of embankments based on predictions of areas particularly prone to subsidence during earthquakes. |
| (3) Development of economic earthquake resistant reinforcement technologies for road embankments and drainage facilities predicted as particularly prone during earthquakes. |
| 14. Research on cost reduction measures for structural materials used in major road construction projects |
(1) Development of earthquake resistance design measures for main towers and foundations of major bridges. |
| (2) Development of high-performance superstructures for major bridges able to withstand high winds. |
| (3) Development of technologies for finer thickness road surfaces and open grading road foundations. |
| (4) Development of design techniques for large-scale tunnels which require boring machines. |
| 2 |
10.Research on methods to enhance the durability and performance of structural materials |
(1) Proposal of design techniques to enhance life spans. |
| (1)-1 Proposals to enhance life spans of road surfaces. |
| (1)-2 Proposals to enhance life spans of tunnel lining properties. |
| (2) Proposals for enhanced performance evaluation measures. |
| (2)-1 Proposal of bridge performance verification measures by analyses and tests. |
| (2)-2 Development of safety evaluation measures for underground structures with differing strength levels caused by geological unevenness. |
| (2)-3 Proposals for clarification of dynamic response of bridges with large volumes of heavy vehicles and technologies to allow for easing of weight restrictions. |
| (3) Proposals for quality control measures for performance regulations. |
| (3)-1 Proposals for quality control measures for roadbeds. |
| 11. Research on soundness evaluation and maintenance and restoration technologies for infrastructure |
(1) Development of technologies for to examine strength levels of structural materials. |
| (1)-1 Development of nondestructive testing and surveillance technologies to evaluate soundness of structural materials used in civil engineering projects. |
| (1)-2 Development of damage evaluation technologies to ascertain necessity of restoration. |
| (2) Development of restoration technologies for structural materials. |
| (2)-1 Development of restoration techniques for concrete structures. |
| (2)-2 Development of technologies of restore low noise and low vibration performance of existing road surfaces. |
| (2)-3 Developments of restoration technologies for deteriorating structural materials. |
| (3) Development of maintenance management systems for structural materials. |
| (3)-1 Development of maintenance management systems for concrete structures. |
| (3)-2 Development of strategic maintenance management measures for bridges that will receive reduced future maintenance control. |
| (3)-3 Development of strategic maintenance management measures for road surfaces that will receive reduced future maintenance control. |
| 12. Research on maintenance of new materials, unutilized materials and recycled materials used in infrastructure |
(1) Development of technologies for use in high-strength iron/steel reinforced and FRP-reinforced (fiber reinforced plastics) structural materials. |
| (2) Development of technologies for use in such unutilized materials as non-standard aggregates and organic waste matter. |
| (3) Development of technologies for use in the recycling of other industrial waste materials and recycling materials. |
| 3 |
2. Research on upgrade of technologies for the reduction of manmade and natural slope collapse |
(1) Development of measures to predict hazardous areas (both micro and macro areas) and for the production of comprehensive hazard maps. |
| (2) Development of design and positioning techniques for manmade and natural slopes through numerical analyses. |
| (3) Development of monitoring, management and risk management measures for manmade and natural slopes. |
| 4. Research on geotechnical preservation technologies |
(1) Clarification of the environmental characteristics of construction materials and contaminated waste materials, and geological dynamic movement. |
| (2) Development of systematic measures to examine and monitor earth and underground water. |
| (3) Development of measures for the provisional safety and entrapment of contaminated materials. |
| 13. Research on environmentally-friendly dam construction and dam redevelopments |
(1) Development of design measures for added dams. |
| (2) Development of technologies to reinforce dam discharge facilities. |
| (3) Development of measures to evaluate the quality of non-standard aggregates and their effective use. |
| (4) Development of measures for the evaluation and mechanical design of bedrock with complex geological features, and sloping reservoirs. |
| (5) Development of measures for the evaluation bedrock water penetration, and water sealing design measures. |
| 4 |
3. Research on water quality risk evaluation |
(1) Development of comprehensive evaluation index for clarification of behavior patterns of endocrine disruptors (environmental hormones) and dioxins, and endocrine disruptor functions. |
| (2) Development of simple testing methods for endocrine disruptors (environmental hormones) and dioxins. |
| (3) Clarification of the effect of sewage bound endocrine disruptors (environmental hormones) on freshwater fish, and effective processing measures at water treatment plants. |
| (4) Development of risk evaluation measures for pathogenic microorganisms such as recycled sewage sludge. |
| 6. Research on technologies to restore the natural environments of rivers and wetlands |
(1) Clarification of influence that human impact and flow quantity fluctuations exert on natural river environments. |
| (2) Development of measures to create suitable living environments for river inhabitants. |
| (3) Development of methods to clarify water purification functions at vegetated lakeside areas, and preservation and restoration measures. |
| (4) Development of IT-related measures to clarify the migratory patterns of creatures. |
| (5) Establishment of measures to clarify the role of ecological networks in the lives of water bound creatures, and preservation and restoration measures for ecological networks. |
| 8. Research on countermeasures for closed water areas |
(1) Development of measures to estimate amounts of nutritive salts emanating from the mud at the bottom of waterways. |
| (2) Development of measures to stabilize the mud at the bottom of waterways to improve the aquatic environment. |
| (3) Development of measures to control sediment from feeder and tributary rivers. |
| 5 |
5. Research on Comprehensive Water Cycle Models for River Basins |
(1) Creation of a database to monitor hydrological cycles and aquatic environments with a particular view to clarifying hydrological cycles in river basins. |
| (2) Clarifying the influence of changes in the directional flows of river basins and rivers on hydrological cycles and aquatic environments. |
| (3) Development of hydrological cycle models that indicate hydrological cycle mechanisms in river basins. |
| (4) Proposals of construction methods for integrated hydrological cycle models. |
| 7. Research on water quality preservation methods in dams and downriver areas, and sedimentation control |
(1) Development of measures to predict amounts, quality and migratory patterns of sediment flowing into reservoirs. |
| (2) Development of design and operation measures for movement of downriver sedimentation, and measures to predict downriver sedimentation behavior patterns. |
| (3) Development of effective operations of facilities to preserve water quality, and measures to control water temperature and turbidity of discharged water from reservoirs. |
| (4) Proposals of measures that aim at enhancing the environment in which water is discharged from reservoirs by reproducing natural turbulence and recurring phenomena caused by directional flow changes. |
| 9. Research on evaluation methods for technologies to reduce the heat island effect in urban areas |
(1) Establish simulation measures to study the heat island phenomenon in urban areas. |
| (2) Proposals of countermeasure technologies and scenarios. |
| (2)-1 Proposals for high performance, temperature-reducing road surface materials. |
| (2)-2 Proposals of various countermeasure scenarios. |
| (3) Proposals of scenarios for cost and temperature reductions, and measures to evaluate reductions and efficiency of energies. |
| (3)-1 Clarification of effect of heat island reduction measures in social infrastructure (with particular emphasis on roads and buildings). |
| (3)-2 Evaluations and predictions of effect of increasing green and watered areas. |
| (3)-3 Evaluations and predictions of effect of heat-emitting countermeasures. |
