A Study on a bridge engineer Keikichi KOIKE and his works at City of Tokyo

Abstract

Keikichi KOIKE was a bridge engineer who worked on construction of bridges at City of Tokyo and Prefecture of Toyama before World War II. Now, he is known as the design engineer of Ochanomizu Bridge over Kandagawa River in Tokyo, or as the author of “Koike's Bridge Engineering”, one of the great books of civil engineering before World War II. But few people knows his career and his works.
The purpose of the study is to clarify his career and his works at City of Tokyo, and to state that KOIKE was a principal engineer on the reconstruction of bridges after the Great Kanto Earthquake.