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Kyoji Sassa

Kyoji Sassa

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Earth Science

D-Index
53
Citations
9860
World Ranking
2877
National Ranking
63

Overview

Kyoji Sassa is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in the field of landslide science and disaster risk reduction. Their work spans several interdisciplinary areas within environmental science, engineering, and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on landslides and related hazards.

The main research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Dam Engineering and Safety
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies

Their work is published predominantly in the journal Landslides, with 26 publications, as well as in the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. They have co-authored work with several frequent collaborators including Doan Huy Loi, Khang Dang, Kaoru Takara, Kazuo Konagai, and Peter Bobrowsky.

In terms of research subfields, their scholarship is concentrated in:

  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geophysics

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research interests and collaborations:

  • The Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020: launched, 2021, Landslides
  • Landslide risk management: from hazard to disaster risk reduction, 2023, Landslides
  • A coupled hydrological-geotechnical framework for forecasting shallow landslide hazard-a case study in Halong City, Vietnam, 2020, Landslides
  • Understanding and reducing the disaster risk of landslide-induced tsunamis: a short summary of the panel discussion in the World Tsunami Awareness Day Special Event of the Fifth World Landslide Forum, 2022, Landslides
  • Contribution of the International Consortium on Landslides to the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: engraining to the Science and Technology Roadmap, 2020, Landslides

Kyoji Sassa has also contributed to the publication of academic books, primarily through Springer International Publishing, with six titles all titled Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk published in 2020 with varying citation counts between 8 and 20. Additionally, three volumes were published under the Progress in Landslide Research and Technology series between 2022 and 2023, reflecting ongoing developments and advances in landslide research.

The body of work reflects an emphasis on integrating scientific research with disaster risk management policies and technologies, positioning the scientist within both academic and practical applications concerning landslide hazard assessment and mitigation.

Best Publications

  • Pore-pressure generation and movement of rainfall-induced landslides: effects of grain size and fine-particle content

    Gonghui Wang;Kyoji Sassa

  • Undrained dynamic-loading ring-shear apparatus and its application to landslide dynamics

    Kyoji Sassa;Hiroshi Fukuoka;Gonghui Wang;Naohide Ishikawa

  • An integrated model simulating the initiation and motion of earthquake and rain induced rapid landslides and its application to the 2006 Leyte landslide

    Kyoji Sassa;Osamu Nagai;Renato Solidum;Yoichi Yamazaki

  • Factors affecting rainfall-induced flowslides in laboratory flume tests

    G. Wang;K. Sassa

  • Failure processes in a full-scale landslide experiment using a rainfall simulator

    H. Moriwaki;T. Inokuchi;T. Hattanji;K. Sassa

  • Earthquake-induced-landslides : Distribution, motion and mechanisms

    Kyoji Sassa;Hiroshi Fukuoka;Gabrielle Scarascia-Mugnozza;Stephen Evans

  • Geotechnical model for the motion of landslides

    K Sassa

  • A fluidized landslide on a natural slope by artificial rainfall

    Hirotaka Ochiai;Yasuhiko Okada;Gen Furuya;Yoichi Okura

  • Analysis of a spatial distribution of landslides triggered by the 2004 Chuetsu earthquakes of Niigata Prefecture, Japan

    H. B. Wang;H. B. Wang;K. Sassa;W. Y. Xu

  • The influence of intense rainfall on the activity of large-scale crystalline schist landslides in Shikoku Island, Japan

    Yong Hong;Hiromasa Hiura;Kazuo Shino;Kyoji Sassa

  • Prototyping an experimental early warning system for rainfall-induced landslides in Indonesia using satellite remote sensing and geospatial datasets

    Zonghu Liao;Yang Hong;Jun Wang;Jun Wang;Hiroshi Fukuoka

  • Mechanism of a long-runout landslide triggered by the August 1998 heavy rainfall in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

    F.W Wang;Kyoji Sassa;Gonghui Wang

  • Failure process and hydrologic response of a two layer physical model: Implications for rainfall-induced landslides

    Sérgio D.N. Lourenço;Kyoji Sassa;Hiroshi Fukuoka

  • The liquefaction of clayey soils under cyclic loading

    Ivan B. Gratchev;Kyoji Sassa;Victor I. Osipov;Viatcheslav N. Sokolov

  • PERFORMING UNDRAINED SHEAR TESTS ON SATURATED SANDS IN A NEW INTELLIGENT TYPE OF RING SHEAR APPARATUS

    Kyoji Sassa;Gonghui Wang;Hiroshi Fukuoka

  • Downslope volume enlargement of a debris slide–debris flow in the 1999 Hiroshima, Japan, rainstorm

    Gonghui Wang;Kyoji Sassa;Hiroshi Fukuoka

  • Excess pore pressure and grain crushing of sands by means of undrained and naturally drained ring-shear tests

    Yasuhiko Okada;Kyoji Sassa;Hiroshi Fukuoka

  • Post-failure mobility of saturated sands in undrained load-controlled ring shear tests

    Gonghui Wang;Kyoji Sassa

  • Landslide risk evaluation and hazard zoning for rapid and long-travel landslides in urban development areas

    Kyoji Sassa;Gonghui Wang;Hiroshi Fukuoka;Fawu Wang

  • A distributed hydrological–geotechnical model using satellite-derived rainfall estimates for shallow landslide prediction system at a catchment scale

    Apip;Kaoru Takara;Yosuke Yamashiki;Kyoji Sassa

  • Mechanism Of Flows In Granular Soils

    Kyoji Sassa

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Fukuoka
Hiroshi Fukuoka Niigata University
Gonghui Wang
Gonghui Wang Kyoto University
Kaoru Takara
Kaoru Takara Kyoto University
Fawu Wang
Fawu Wang Tongji University
Matjaž Mikoš
Matjaž Mikoš University of Ljubljana
Yueping Yin
Yueping Yin China Geological Survey
Nicola Casagli
Nicola Casagli University of Florence
Mauri McSaveney
Mauri McSaveney GNS Science
Fausto Guzzetti
Fausto Guzzetti Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR
Yang Hong
Yang Hong University of Oklahoma

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