PROFILE of

Masahiro OUCHI

　

Date of Birth: 17th January, 1968

Sex: Male

Nationality: Japanese

　

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

B.Eng. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan, 1991

M.Eng. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan, 1993

D.Eng. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 1997

　

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

1993 to 1994: Kazunogawa Hydroelectric Power Project Construction Office, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

1997 to 1998: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1998 to 2001: Assistant Professor, Department of Infrastructure Systems Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan

2001 to 2013: Associate Professor, Department of Infrastructure Systems Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan

2013 to present: Professor, Department of Infrastructure Systems Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan

2016 to present: Outside director, Tekken Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

2020 to present: Head, Laboratory for Construction Materials in a Sustainable Society, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan

 

SOCIETY MEMBERS

Fellow, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)

Member, Japan Concrete Institute (JCI)

Member, Japan Railway Engineers’ Association (JREA)

Member, Japan Railway Civil Engineering Association (JRCEA)

Member, Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ)

 

 

FIELD OF RESEARCH

Concrete Engineering, especially Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC)

　

ACADEMIC AWARDS

1) Japan Concrete Institute (JCI) Award for the annual best paper, May 2000.

2) JCI Award for outstanding paper & presentation at the 21st annual meeting of Japan Concrete Institute, July 1999.

3) JCI Award for outstanding paper & presentation at the 19th annual meeting of Japan Concrete Institute, July 1997.

4) Furuichi Award for outstanding master thesis at the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, March 1993.

　

INVITED or KEYNOTE LECTURES (Excerpts)

 

1)    2019 CICHE (Chinese Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering) International Forum, Taipei, Taiwan, November, 2019

2)    The 8th RILEM International Symposium on Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC2016), Washington D. C., USA, May 2016.

3)    The 7th RILEM & the 5th North American Conference on the Design and Use of Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC2013), Chicago, USA, May 2013.

4)    The 6th International Conference on Materials Engineering for Resources (ICMR) Akita, Japan, October 2009.

5)    The 8th International Symposium on High-Performance and Self-Compacting Concrete, Tokyo, Japan, October 2008.

6)    The 5th RILEM International Symposium on Self-Compacting Concrete, Ghent, Belgium, September 2007.

7)    Institute of Mexican Cement and Concrete, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2007.

8)    China Tunnel Association (Taiwan), Taipei, Taiwan, March 2007.

9)    International Symposium on Self-Compacting Concrete, Changsha, China, May 2005.

10) The First International Conference on Construction IT, Beijing, China, August 2004.

11)  International Seminar on Infrastructure Maintenance, Tokyo, Japan, November 2003.

12)  German Chemical Society, Munich, Germany, October 2003

13)  Institute of Mexican Cement and Concrete, Mexico City, Mexico, September 2003

14)  The 8th Holcim Concrete Convention, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2002

15)  The 2nd International Symposium on Self-Compacting Concrete, Tokyo, Japan,  October 2001

16)  The 4th International Conference on Materials Engineering for Resources (ICMR), Akita, Japan, October 2001

17) The 1st All Russian Concrete Symposium, Moscow, Russia, September 2001

18) The 17th Nordic Concrete Research Symposium, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 1999.

19)  Workshop on Automation of Concrete Construction, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1998.

20)  International Workshop on Self-Compacting Concrete, Kochi, Japan, August 1998

　

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

 

1) Puthipad, N., Ouchi，M., Attachaiyawuth, A: Effects of fly ash, mixing procedure and type of air-entraining agent on coalescene of entrained air bubbles in mortar of self-compacting concrete at fresh state, Construction and Building Materials，Vol.80，pp.437-444  2018

2) Rath, S., Ouchi, M., Puthipad，N., Attachaiyawuth, A.: Improving the stability of entrained air in self-compacting concrete by optimizing the mix viscosity and air entraining agent dosage, Construction and Building Materials，Vol.148，pp.531-537  2017

3) Puthipad, N., Ouchi, M., Rath, S., Attachaiyawuth，A.: Enhanced entrainment of fine air bubbles in self-compacting concrete with high volume of fly ash using defoaming agent for improved entrained air stability and higher aggregate content, Construction and Building Materials，Vol.144，pp.1-12  2017

4) Rath, S., Puthipad, N., Attachaiyawuth，A., Ouchi, M.: Critical size of entrained air to stability of air volume in mortar of self-compacting concrete at fresh stage, Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology，Vol.15，pp.29-37  2017

5) Ouchi, M., Kameshima，K., Attachaiyawuth, A.:  Improvement in Self-compacting Properties of Fresh Concrete by Eliminating Large Air Bubbles using an Antifoaming Agent, Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology，Vol.15，pp.10-18  2017

6)  Puthipad，N., Ouchi, M., Rath, S., Attachaiyawuth, A: Enhancement in self-compactability and stability in volume of entrained air in self-compacting concrete with high volume fly ash Construction and Building Materials，Vol.128，pp.349-360  2016

7) Attachaiyawuth, A., Rath, S., Tanaka, K., Ouchi, M.: Improvement of Self-Comapctability of Air-Enhanced Self-Compacting Concrete with Finer Entrained Air Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology，Vol.14，pp.55-69  2016

8) Ouchi, M., Hibino, M., Sugamata,T., Okamura, H.: A quantitative evaluation method for the effect of superplasticizer in self-compacting concrete, Transactions of Japan Concrete Institute, Vol. 22, pp. 1-8，February, 2001.

9) Ouchi, M., Edamatsu, Y., Ozawa, K. and Okamura, H.: A simple evaluation method for interaction between coarse aggregate and mortar particles in self-compacting concrete, Transactions of the Japan Concrete Institute, pp.1-6, Vol.22, March 2000.

10) Ouchi, M., Hibino, M. and Okamura, H.: Effect of superplasticizer on self-compactability of fresh concrete, Transportation Research Record, No. 1574, pp.37-40, December 1997.

　　

PUBLICATIONS

1) Ouchi, M. and Nakajima, Y.: "A guide for manufacturing and construction of Self-Compacting Concrete -learning from real troubles," COMS Engineering, October 2001.

2) Okamura, H., Kunishima, M., Maekawa, K., Ozawa, K., Yamada, K., Tanaka, K., Matsuoka, Y. and Ouchi, M.: "Self-compacting high performance concrete: challenge for development and applications (in Japanese)," Social System Institute, March 1999.