Safety Assessment Group
From the viewpoints of energy security and environmental conservation, administrative needs for the strengthening of energy transportation and storage systems are increasing. At energy-utilizing facilities, far better safety systems and qualitative improvements are called for with respect to the strengthening of disaster countermeasures, securing stable supplies and environmental conservation, etc.
Accordingly, research into energy transportation and storage is being carried out in the following areas:
- assessment of structural safety and monitoring of long-term stability in underground storage and transportation facilities
- gas monitoring, flame acceleration and fire prevention measures to prevent disasters in energy facilities
- disaster recovery databases to assess risk.
Specifically speaking, work continues on, 1) the development of practical technology to monitor surfaces of discontinuity in underground faults, and 2) research into a stability assessment approach that takes into account the destructive dynamics and hydraulic changes of underground structural materials.
Group Leader: Masayuki KOSUGI
Members: Manabu UTAGAWA, Atsumi Oomori, Yuichi NAKAGAWA
Image of "3D Fault Deformeter" installation
3Dfault deformeter (AIST Innovations scheme, 2002)
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AIST Tsukuba West, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8569 Japan
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