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)

Aug 2006 - present

Guest Professor, Shenzhen University, China

Sep 2004 - present

Guest Professor and Part Time Professor for PhD Students, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Apr 2004 - present

Advisory Professor, State Key Laboratories for Disaster-Resistance in Civil Engineering, Tonji University, China

Oct 2003 - present

Guest Professor, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Jan 2002 -
Mar 2002

Visiting Melchor Professor, Department of Civil Engineering & Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, USA

Dec 2000 -
Nov 2002

Guest Professor, College of Civil Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Sep 1998 - present

Guest Professor, Opole University of Technology, Poland

International

President, International Association for Wind Engineering (2007 - present)

Chairman, International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE2006), July 16 - 19, Yokohama, Japan (2006)

Assessor, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, (2005 - present)

Chairman, Workshop on Regional Harmonization of Wind Loading and Wind Environmental Specifications in Asia-Pacific Economies (APEC-WW) , November 19 - 20, Atsugi, Japan (2004)

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

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

Chairman, First International Symposium on Wind Effects on Buildings and Urban Environment (1ISWE) , March 8-9, Tokyo, Japan (2004)

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

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

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

Chairman, The 2nd Codification Workshop, International Association for Wind Engineering, Kyoto (2001)

Assessor, University Grants Committee, Hong Kong (1998 - present)

Member, International Editorial Board, Wind & Structures, Techno-Press, Korea(1998 - present)

Assessor, Australian Research Council, Australia (1998 - present)

Member, Advisory Board, Structural Dynamic Research Center, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (1997 - present)

Domestic

Associate Member,Science Council of Japan (2006 - present)

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

Chairman, Committee on Wind Loading, Architectural Institute of Japan (2002 - present)

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

2005

K.M. Parammasivam, Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai (India)

2003

E. Mayol, University of Technology, Sydney (Australia)

2001

A. Tanurdjaja, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

2000

R. Denoon, The University of Queensland (Australia)

1998

S.D. Xue, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)

1997

M. J. Glanville, The University of Sydney (Australia)

1996

Q. S. Li, Monash University (Australia)

Extreme wind events and assessment

Aug.,2006

Institute for Building Science and Technology, Vietnam

Wind resistant design of tall buildings in Japan

Aug.,2006

International Wind Loading Workshop, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Strong wind events: full-scale observations, wind tunnel simulation and damage assessment

July,2006

International Summer School on Full-Scale and Model-Scale Studies of Dynamical Structures, Poland

Damping in buildings and estimation techniques

Feb.,2006

Australasian Wind Engineering Society, Queenstown, New Zealand

Strong wind events: Full-scale observations, wind tunnel simulation and damage assessment

Dec.,2005

Croucher Advanced Study Institute,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Damping in buildings and estimation techniques

Sep.,2005

The 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering (APCWE-VI), Seoul, Korea

Wind resistant design of tall buildings

Oct.,2004

Architectural Institute of Korea, Seoul

Profiles of mean wind speeds and vertical turbulence intensities measured at seashore and twoinland sites using Doppler sodars

Jun. 2007

Y. Tamura, et al.

JWEIA, Vol.95, Issue 6, pp.411-427

Mean wind pressure coefficients on surfaces of gable-roofedlow- rise buildings

Jun. 2007

Y. Quan, Y. Tamura,
M. Matsui

Advances in Structural Engineering , Vol.10, No.3, pp.259-271

Wind speed profiles in tropical cyclones

Jan. 2007

L.T.Giang, Y. Tamura et al.

J. Wind and Engineering, Vol.4, No.10 pp.39-48

Vortex shedding and aerodynamic forces on a circular cylinder in linear shear flow at sub-critical Reynolds number

Jul. 2007

S. Cao, S. Ozono, H. Hirano, Y. Tamura

J. Fluids and Structures, Vol.23, Issue 5 pp.703-714

Evaluation perception ofwind-induced vibration in buildings

May, 2006

Y. Tamura,et al.

Structures and Buildings ,ICE Vol.159, Issue SB5pp.283-293.

Wind tunnel tests and wind-induced vibration analysis of spherical domes

May, 2006

Z. Zhang, Y. Tamura

Advances Steel Constructions, pp.71-86

Building Monitors, Thecomplementary characteristics ofGPS and accelerometers in monitoring structural deformation

Mar. 2006

X. Li, C. RizosL. Ge, E. Ambikairaiah, Y. Tamura, A. Yoshida

Inside GNSS, Engineering Solutions for the Global Navigation Satellite System Community,Vol.1, No.2 pp.40-47

First Grade Qualified Architect