Academic Staff and Fellows

KAWAI Katsuyuki: Professor Doctor of Enginnering; Department/Civil and Environmental Engineering　 Graduate school/Environmental Engineering

Using a three-phase mixture comprising soil particles, water, and air, we faithfully model geo-materials that exhibit complex behaviors depending on their composition ratio, and search for clues to solve problems by simulating ground disasters such as landslides and soil contamination.

Research Area	Geotechnical Engineering, Geoenvironmental Engineering, Disaster Prevention
Teaching (Undergraduate Course)	Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering, Seismic Engineering
Research Interests	Soil/water/air coupled analysis Long-term stability of earth structures Vegetation effects on the ground Mass transportation within the ground Geophysical prospecting
Selected Publications	(1)Estimation of drain pipe effects using electrical prospecting and unsaturated soil/water coupled analysis, SEAGS-AGSSEA Journal, Vol.53, No.2, pp.43-50, 2022. (2) Ground survey based on the distribution of surface wave velocity and electrical resistibility, Int. J. of GEOMATE, Vol.18, Issue 66, pp.9-15, 2020. (3) Density distributions within ceramic materials saturated for use in suction measurement, Int. J. of GEOMATE, Vol.15, Issue 54, pp.103-108, 2019.
Research and Achievements	08_kawai_katsuyuki.pdf
Education (Undergraduate Course)	BE from Kobe University
Education (Master's/Doctral Course)	ME and DE from Kobe University

Environmental Geotechnics Laboratory

E-mail	kkawai（at）civileng.kindai.ac.jp Note that this e-mail address has replaced the "@" with "(at)" to prevent spam. When e-mailing, replace the "(at)" with "@".