Welcome To My Home Page: Taiki Saito

Self Introduction Name: Taiki Saito Area of Special: Earthquake Engineering, Application of Reliability Theory, Earthquake Responce Analysis Post: Visiting Research Staff

Current Activities

• 1) Earthquake response analysis of 3D building structures,

  2) Probabilistic assessment of seismic performance of building structures,

  3) New retrofitting solutions for existing fragile buildings,

  4) International cooperation for seismic risk reduction.

Software

• 1) STERA_3D

  2) GESI Program
  
  3) Capacity Spectrum Method
  
  4) Japanese Seismic Screening Method

Major Publications

• T. Saito, M. Teshigawara, H. Fukuyama, H. Kato, K. Kusunoki, T. Mukai, and T. Kabeyasawa, “Simulation of Nonlinear Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Wall-Frame Structures under Earthquake Loads”, Proceedings of 13th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering, No.1561, 2004.81

• T. Saito, “Japan-Romania Technical Cooperation on Earthquake Engineering”, International Conference on Earthquake Loss Estimation and Risk Reduction, 2002.10

• Bucharest Seminar on Facilitation of Transfer of Know-How of the Construction Industry, Editor, 2002.3

• Earthquake Hazard and Countermeasures for Existing Fragile Buildings, Editor(s), Independent Film, 2001.3.

• T. Saito, “JICA Technical Cooperation in the Field of Earthquake Engineering”, JICA Seminar on Earthquake Hazard and Countermeasures for Existing Fragile Buildings, Bucharest, Romania, 2000.11. 

• S. Otani, H. Hiraishi, M. Midorikawa, M. Teshigawara, H. Fujitani, and T. Saito, “Development of Smart Systems for Building Structures” Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 3988, Smart Structures and Materials 2000: Smart Systems for Bridges, Structures, and Highways, Editor(s): Liu, S. C., 2000.4.

• T. Saito, “Target Seismic Performance Levels in Structural Design for Buildings”, Proceeding of the 12th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2000.1

• T. Saito, J. Kanda, and N. Kani, “Seismic Reliability Estimate of Building Structures Designed According to the Current Japanese Design Code”, Proceedings of the Structural Engineers World Congress, 1998.

• T. Saito, “Target Performance Levels in Seismic Design”, 2nd U.S.-Japan Workshop on Performance-Based Engineering, San Francisco, U.S., 1998.

• T. Saito, “Recent Techniques and Regulations on Seismic Retrofit and Diagnosis for Buildings in Japan”, the Second International Conference on Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction, Yerevan, Armenia, 1998.

• T. Saito, “Design Target Reliability of Reinforced Concrete Buildings under Earthquakes”, Proceedings of ICOSSAR'97, Kyoto, pp.1667-1670, 1997.

• T. Saito, S. Abe, and A. Shibata, “Seismic Damage Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Based on Statistics of Structural Lateral Resistance”, Structural Safety Vol.19, No.1, pp.141-151, 1997.

• T. Saito, S. Abe, and A. Shibata, “Reliability Based Seismic Design Criteria of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Japan”, Proceedings of the 11th WCEE, 1996.

• T. Saito and Y. K. Wen, “Seismic Safety of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Japan”, Computational Stochastic Mechanics, Spanos(ed.), Balkema, Rotterdam, 1995.

• T. Saito and Y. K. Wen, “Seismic Risk Evaluation of R.C. Buildings in Japan Design in Accordance with 1990 AIJ Guidelines”, Civil Engineering Studies, Structural Research Series No. 587, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994.1.

Last UPDATE : June 9, 2006