Last Ppdate: 9:12 2007/06/18 日本語はこちらです。

NAME: Masahiko KARUBE

E-Mail: @ffpri.affrc.go.jp
Birth: 13 June, 1965
Job Title:Team Leader, Evaluation Team of Connecting performance

Education: Dr. Eng. Shinshu University, March 1994


Research Interests:

Structural Engineering, Mechaninal Timber Joint, Japanese Traditional Buildings, Japanese Traditional Joints and Connection, Material Science ( Environment-COncious Material), Welding, Construction Robotics, Web Service.


Current Projects:


Address:

Department of Wood Engineering
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI)
Independent Administrarive Institutions(IAI)

Matsunosato 1, Tsukuba science city, Ibaraki, JAPAN 305-8687
Phone: Oversea+81-29-829-8309
Facsimile: Oversea+81-29-874-3720


Published Paper (in English) For further information in Japanese. CLICK HERE

Evaluation of Timber Joint
  • Automatic Software for Deciding Characteristics of Load-Displacement Curves :Masahiko KARUBE :8th World Conference on Timber Engineering, WCTE2004, Proceedings Vol. III, pp.565-568, Lahti, Finland, June 14-17, 2004, ISSN 0356-9403, ISBN 951-758-442-3, 2004/06/14

Wooden Structure(survay)
  • Outdoor exposure tests of structural laminated veneer lumber (II) evaluation of the strength properties after nine years :Tomoyuki HAYASHI, Atsushi MIYATAKE, Feng Fu, Hideo KATO, Masahiko KARUBE, Masaki HARADA :Japan Wood Research Society, Journal of Wood Science Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 486-491, 2005/10

Wooden Structure(Large Scale Building)
  • Dynamic Excitation and Static Loading Test of Glulam Lattice Floor :Masaki HARADA, Kohei KOMATSU, Tomoyuki HAYASHI, Masahiko KARUBE :Japan Wood Research Society, Journal of Wood Science Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 450-454, 2004/10
  • Static and Dynamic Loading Test of Glulam Lattice Floor :Masaki Harada, Kohei Komatsu and Masahiko Karube :Proceedings of the International Wood Engineering Conference, Vol. 3, pp. 241-248, New Orleans, USA, 1996/10
  • Strength and Ductility of Glulam Portal Frame Designed by Considering Yield of Fasteners in Part :Kohei Komatsu, Masahiko Karube, Masaki Harada, Ichiro Fukuda, Yasuyuki Hara and Hisao Kaihara :Proceedings of the International Wood Engineering Conference, Vol. 4, pp. 523-530, New Orleans, USA, 1996/10

Wooden Structure(Japanese Taditional Structure)
  • Mechanical property of Japanese traditional carpentry joints :Masahiko KARUBE, Tomoyuki HAYASHI and Masaki HARADA :5th World Conference on Timber Engineering, WCTE’98, Proceedings Vol. 1, pp.834-835, Montreux, Switzerland, August 17-20, 1998
  • Restoring properties of Japanese traditional wooden frame :Tomoyuki HAYASHI, Masahiko KARUBE and Masaki HARADA :5th World Conference on Timber Engineering, WCTE’98, Proceedings Vol. 1, pp.750-751, Montreux, Switzerland, August 17-20, 1998

Wooden STructure(Joints)
  • Shear tests of double shear plate connector joints in sugi-Japanese larch composite glulam beams :Yasushi NAKASHIMA, Masaki HARADA, Tomoyuki HAYASHI, Masahiko KARUBE, Tadashi HIGASHINO :Japan Wood Research Society, Journal of Wood Science Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 44-50, 2006/02
  • Effect of moisture content of members on mechanical properties of timber joints :Masaki HARADA, Youko HAYASHI, Tomoyuki HAYASHI, Masahiko KARUBE, Toshimasa OHGAMA :Japan Wood Research Society, Journal of Wood Science Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 282-285, 2005/06
  • Shear tests of timber joints composed of sugi composite glulam beams using newly developed steel connecters :Tomoyuki HAYASHI, Masahiko KARUBE, Kouji HARADA, Toshihiro MORI, Tomonori OHNO, Kohei KOMATSU, Yasuo IIJIMA :Japan Wood Research Society, Journal of Wood Science Vol. 48, No. 6, pp. 484-490, 2002/12
  • Strength Properties of Sugi Timber-Joints with Metal Plate Connectors :Tomoyuki Hayashi, Masahiko Karube, Masaki Harada, Hirofumi Ido :Proceedings of the International RILEM Symposium, ISBN 2-912143-28-4, pp. 203-212, 2001/09
  • Static Loading Tests of Glued Laminated Timber Joints with Drift pins :Masaki Harada, Tomoyuki Hayashi, Masahiko Karube, Akimitsu Iida, Kohei Komatsu :Proceedings of the International RILEM Symposium, ISBN 2-912143-28-4, pp. 153-161, 2001/09
  • Effect of Moisture Content of Members on Mechanical Properties of Timber Joints :Masaki Harada, Yoko Hayashi, Tomoyuki Hayashi, Masahiko Karube, Toshimasa Ogama :Proceedings of 7th International IUFRO Wood Drying Conference, pp. 440-443, 2001/07
  • Dowel-bearing properties of glued laminated timber with a drift pin :Masaki Harada, Tomoyuki Hayashi, Masahiko Karube, Kohei Komatsu :World Conference on Timber Engineering, WCTE2000, Abstracts of Presentation Papers P5 (and CD-ROM), Whistler, BC, Canada, July 31-August 3, 2000

Material Reuse/Recycle
  • Present State of Wood Waste Recycling and a New Process for Converting Wood Waste into Reusable Wood Materials :Yasushi HIRAMATSU, Yuko TSUNETSUGU, Masahiko KARUBE, Mario TONOSAKI and Tsuyoshi FUJII :The Japan Institute of Metals, Materials Transactions Vol. 43 No. 3 pp. 332-339, ISSN1345-9678, 2002/03
  • Ideal Utilization of Forest Resources for Sustainable Society :Yuko TSUNETSUGU, Mario TONOSAKI, Masahiko KARUBE, Masaki HARADA, Tomoyuki HAYASHI :Journal of Advanced Science Vol. 13 No.3 pp. 246-250, ISSN0915-5651, 2002/03
  • Ideal Utilization of Forest Resources for Sustainable Society :Yuko TSUNETSUGU, Mario TONOSAKI, Masahiko KARUBE, Masaki HARADA, Tomoyuki HAYASHI :The Fifth International Conference on ECOMATERIALS, Abstract B8-6, pp. 47, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., October 2-4, 2001

Steel Structure
  • Computer-Assisted Welding Robot for Steel Structures :Tadao NAKAGOMI, Masahiko KARUBE, Kiyoshi YAMAMOTO and Mamoru IWATA :ELSEVIER Science Publishers Inc. , Microcomputers in Civil Engineering 7 (1992), pp. 43-49, 1992
  • COMPUTER ASSISTED WELDING ROBOT FOR STEEL STRUCTURES :Tadao NAKAGOMI, Masahiko KARUBE, Kiyoshi YAMAMOTO and Mamoru IWATA :IV-International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, '91 Conference Extended Abstracts pp. 402, 1991/07
  • Design for Robot Welding of Steel Structure :Dr. Tadao NAKAGOMI, Dr. Kohsuke HORIKAWA, Dr. Shigetomo MATSUI, Kazuo TANAKA, Takashi MAKISHI, Yoshiomi MARUOKA, Naoki TAKEUCHI, Yoshitaka KAWAKAMI and Masahiko KARUBE :International Institute of Welding, Document XV-742-90 for Annual Assembly 1990 in Montreal, Canada, 1990/07
  • Automatic Welding Robots and Their Ability Part II [Horizontal Position Welding] :Masahiko KARUBE, Tadao NAKAGOMI, Kiyoshi YAMAMOTO and Shigekazu YOKOYAMA :International Institute of Welding, Document XV-741-90 for Annual Assembly 1990 in Montreal, Canada, 1990/07

For further information in Japanese. CLICK HERE
Masahiko KARUBE, Ph.D.
Department of Wood Engineering, FFPRI
PO Box 16, Tsukuba Norin, 305-8687
phone: +81-29-829-8309
facsimile: +81-29-874-3720