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Koichi Maekawa

Koichi Maekawa

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
42
Citations
9370
World Ranking
6418
National Ranking
127

Overview

Koichi Maekawa is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes in research within the field of engineering, with a primary focus on civil and structural engineering. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including building and construction, materials chemistry, pollution, and mechanics of materials.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the understanding of concrete and cement materials, particularly concentrating on concrete corrosion and durability, as well as concrete properties and behavior. Structural behavior of reinforced concrete, innovative concrete reinforcement materials, fire effects on concrete materials, and corrosion behavior and inhibition are also significant topics within their research portfolio.

Koichi Maekawa has published research in multiple venues, often contributing to journals that focus on concrete technology and construction materials. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology
  • Construction and Building Materials
  • Cement and Concrete Composites
  • Structural Concrete
  • Engineering Structures

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Maekawa and their collaborators include:

  • Multi-Scale and Multi-Chemo-Physics Lifecycle Evaluation of Structural Concrete under Environmental and Mechanical Impacts (2023, Journal of Intelligent Construction)
  • Computational Modeling of Combined Frost Damage and Alkali-Silica Reaction on the Durability and Fatigue Life of RC Bridge Decks (2023, Journal of Intelligent Construction)
  • Mechanical properties of concrete with smeared cracking by alkali-silica reaction and freeze-thaw cycles (2020, Cement and Concrete Composites)
  • Time-dependent retardation effect of epoxy latexes on cement hydration: Experiments and multi-component hydration model (2022, Construction and Building Materials)
  • Thermo-Mechanistic Multi-Scale Modeling of Structural Concrete at High Temperature (2020, Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology)

Collaborative work is a significant aspect of Maekawa's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Fuyuan Gong
  • Zhao Wang
  • Keitai Iwama
  • Chikako Fujiyama
  • Kazuaki Higuchi

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear mechanics of reinforced concrete

    K. Maekawa;H. Okamura;A. Pimanmas

  • Multi-scale Modeling of Concrete Performance Integrated Material and Structural Mechanics

    Koichi Maekawa;Tetsuya Ishida;Toshiharu Kishi

  • Multi-scale modeling of structural concrete

    Koichi Maekawa;Tetsuya Ishida;Toshiharu Kishi

  • Modeling for Postyield Buckling of Reinforcement

    Rajesh Prasad Dhakal;Koichi Maekawa

  • Enhanced modeling of moisture equilibrium and transport in cementitious materials under arbitrary temperature and relative humidity history

    Tetsuya Ishida;Koichi Maekawa;Toshiharu Kishi

  • Reinforcement Stability and Fracture of Cover Concrete in Reinforced Concrete Members

    Rajesh Prasad Dhakal;Koichi Maekawa

  • Path-dependent cyclic stress-strain relationship of reinforcing bar including buckling

    Rajesh Prasad Dhakal;Koichi Maekawa

  • THE COLLAPSE MECHANISM OF A SUBWAY STATION DURING THE GREAT HANSHIN EARTHQUAKE

    Xuehui An;Ashraf A. Shawky;Koichi Maekawa

  • MODELING OF PH PROFILE IN PORE WATER BASED ON MASS TRANSPORT AND CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM THEORY

    Tetsuya Ishida;Koichi Maekawa

  • NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SIZE EFFECT IN SHEAR STRENGTH OF RC BEAMS

    Xuehui An;Koichi Maekawa;Hajime Okamura

  • Modeling of Calcium Leaching from Cement Hydrates Coupled with Micro-Pore Formation

    Kenichiro Nakarai;Tetsuya Ishida;Koichi Maekawa

  • Modelling of Concrete Performance: Hydration, Microstructure and Mass Transport

    Rajesh Chaube;Toshiharu Kishi;Koichi Maekawa

  • Direct Path-Integral Scheme for Fatigue Simulation of Reinforced Concrete in Shear

    Koichi Maekawa;Kukrit Toongoenthong;Esayas Gebreyouhannes;Toshiharu Kishi

  • Multi-scale simulation of freeze-thaw damage to RC column and its restoring force characteristics

    Fuyuan Gong;Koichi Maekawa

  • Three-Dimensional Fatigue Simulation of RC Slabs under Traveling Wheel-Type Loads

    Koichi Maekawa;Esayas Gebreyouhannes;Tetsuya Mishima;Xuehui An

  • Theoretically Identified Strong Coupling of Carbonation Rate and Thermodynamic Moisture States in Micropores of Concrete

    Tetsuya Ishida;Koichi Maekawa;Masoud Soltani

  • Simulation of Coupled Corrosive Product Formation, Migration into Crack and Propagation in Reinforced Concrete Sections

    Kukrit Toongoenthong;Koichi Maekawa

  • Pre- and Postyield Finite Element Method Simulation of Bond of Ribbed Reinforcing Bars

    Hamed M. Salem;Koichi Maekawa

  • Computational model for post cracking analysis of RC membrane elements based on local stress–strain characteristics

    Masoud Soltani;Xuehui An;Koichi Maekawa

  • Remaining fatigue life assessment of in-service road bridge decks based upon artificial neural networks

    Eissa Fathalla;Yasushi Tanaka;Koichi Maekawa

  • Modeling of structural performances under coupled environmental and weather actions

    K. Maekawa;T. Ishida

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajesh P. Dhakal
Rajesh P. Dhakal University of Canterbury

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