2017. 1. 5Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Center

IAC News No.51
New Year’s Greetings
I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year in 2017.
Looking back on the last year, we saw in July a horrific militant attack in Dhaka,Bangladesh. Many people were killed, including seven Japanese, and I would liketo express my deepest condolences for these victims.
Meanwhile, Japan also suffered a series of major natural disasters including theKumamoto earthquake and torrential rains in Iwate and Hokkaido. Japan Societyof Civil Engineers (JSCE) carried out damage surveys of such affected areas, andit plans to share the findings internationally.
Among a wide range of international activities that JSCE engages in, ITamiharu Tashiro, Ph.D.
participated last year in the 7th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian
104th JSCE President
Region (CECAR) in August, the International Round Table Meeting in
September, the Korean Society of Civil Engineers (KSCE) 2016 Convention in
October and the “Japanese Civil Engineers the Global Leader” Symposium in November, where I had thepleasure of interacting with people from diverse countries.
So let me talk a little bit about CECAR, an international conference held every three years. It was initiated in1998 by the collaboration of civil engineering societies in Japan, the U.S. and the Philippines, with anincreasing participation from the rest of the region. After the success of the first CECAR, a permanent organizer
was established in 1999: the Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC), with participating
societies from the original three countries plus Taiwan and South Korea. Thirteen countries are currently
members of ACECC.
Last year's CECAR was held in Hawaii, hosted by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Of thenearly 200 conference papers that were presented, I was pleasantly surprised that 40% was from Japan, anindication of our strong presence at this meeting.
Tokyo is to host the 8th CECAR in April 2019, for the second time in 18 years since 2001. Until then, the Japan
Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) will serve as the executive office of ACECC. Our International Activities
Center (IAC) has formed an organizing committee, taking a lead in preparing for the 8th CECAR.
The preparation activities will be in full swing from this year onwards, and I would encourage men and womenof all ages to be involved. It would be wonderful to see talents emerging from them to lead JSCE's internationalactivities.
I would like to thank you all in anticipation of your support and involvement in JSCE's international activities
taking place this year.

1Report on the Korean Society of Civil Engineers (KSCE) 2016 Convention
KSCE 2016 Convention was held at Jeju Island International Convention Center in South Korea from the 19th
to the 21st of October 2016.
Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) signed a cooperation agreement with KSCE in 1989, and both societies
have been actively interacting with each other ever since through activities including sending delegations toeach other's annual conference. This year too, JSCE received an invitation to KSCE's convention, and six
people: JSCE President Tashiro and his wife, JSCE Executive Director Tsukada, Assoc. Prof. Tokihiko Fujimotofrom Shizuoka University, Dr. Kazuya Egami (IAC ICC Korean Gr. Leader, ECOH Corporation) and I,
Imamura, attended the convention.
On the first day, October 19th, President Tashiro and hisgroup arrived at Jeju Island via Seoul and attended thewelcome reception in the evening. At the reception,President Tashiro gave a speech on behalf of JSCE,encouraging a closer relationship with the attendees from
KSCE including former KSCE presidents.
After the reception, the JSCE participants joined JSCE
Korea Section members including President Kim
Jaekwon, the former president Lee Dong-Uk, andothers, to exchange views and ideas. The Korea Section
has been contributing to interactions between Japaneseand Korean civil engineers for a long time since it wasset up in 2000.
On the second day, October 20th, first a ribbon was cutto open the KSCE 2016 Civil Expo. Along with theKSCE President Lee Sung Woo, KSCE executives anddomestic guests, President Tashiro took part in cutting
the ribbon as a foreign guest. As for the Expo, it was agreat success with approximately 60 exhibits from public
and private organizations.

President Tashiro giving a speech at the welcome reception

KSCE-JSCE Presidential Meeting

The ribbon cutting was followed by the opening ceremony where President Lee made a speech, awards werepresented and the introduction of foreign guests followed. Vice President Lars Hauge of COWI, an international
consulting group, gave a keynote speech.
In the afternoon of the same day, the International Roundtable Meeting was held, where the representatives offive countries: Japan, Taiwan, Pakistan, the UK and South Korea, gave talks in association with the theme New& Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Society, and Assoc. Prof. Fujimoto as a representative of JSCE, gave atalk with a title “Small Hydropower Technologies and Networks in Asia.”
Following the above meeting, the JSCE-KSCE Presidential Meeting was held with KSCE President Lee, thesucceeding president Park Young Suk and others. At the meeting, JSCE introduced the 8th Civil Engineering
Conference in the Asian Region (CECAR 8), which will be held in Tokyo in 2019, and the technical committee,in relation to disaster prevention, which was set up by the Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council(ACECC) upon the proposal made by JSCE. The “Infrastructure Health Report Road Sector Trial Version”,
which was publicized in May, was also introduced and views and opinions are exchanged. The meeting
confirmed the sound ties between JSCE and KSCE, which will be strengthened through various activities
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Lastly, the JSCE participants attended the banquet where everybody enjoyed the entertainments including thechoir performance by the Civil Harmony and traditional Korean folk music. On the morning of the 21st, theJSCE participants left Jeju Island to return to Japan.
【Reported by Takashi Imamura, JSCE Headquarters (Kajima Corporation)】

TC21 held two meetings in Honolulu with great success.
As already reported in the IAC News No.46, TC21 “Transdisciplinary approach (TDA) for building societal
resilience to disasters” chaired by Dr. Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, ICHARM (International Center for Water Hazardand Risk Management), was established in October 2015. Transdisciplinary approach means the international,
national and/or local networks of all disciplines and of academia, public sectors, private sectors and civic
societies through which scientific knowledge can be effectively applied in decision making.
This article reports the kick off events of TC21, the first business meeting and the panel discussion held in
Hawaii on August 31 and September 1, 2016.
The main members of TC21 met for the first time in Hawaii and performed the kick-off meeting on August 31st(18:00 – 19:30) at Hilton Waikiki hotel, Honolulu. There were 30 attendances representing each country’s civilsociety: namely ASCE (USA), CICHE (China), HAKI (Indonesia), JSCE (Japan), KSCE (Korea), PICE(Philippines), and VFCEA (Vietnam). Fundamental objectives, concepts and organization structures presented
by the co-chairs Dr. Takeuchi, Dr. Momo and the secretary Prof. Tsukahara were accepted in principle by allattendants. In addition, it was discussed that responsibility and role of the National Team will be different fromstate to state, depending on the nature of the disasters, conditions of vulnerability, exposure to hazards, andsocioeconomic conditions etc.
TC21 has also organized andperformed the panel discussion on‘Transdisciplinary Approach to Build
Resilient Society’ on September 1st(9:00–10:30) 2016 at Hilton Waikiki
hotel, Honolulu Hawaii (Photo). Sixpresentations were performed by thecore members of the TC21. There
were more than 50 attendances
which were close-to-capacity of thevenue. This active attendance shows
The panel discussion of TC21 on September 1st at Hilton Waikiki hotel,
the expectation to the activity ofHonolulu Hawaii (Dr. Li Wei-Sen on-line from Taiwan: lower photo on theTC21. The discussion among theright)
presenters and the attendee wasactive. It was discussed how resilience should be defined and how to be evaluated in society. In addition, somecomments emphasized the importance of information sharing on TC21.
TC21 will organize workshop as the side event of committee meetings of ACECC (Asian Civil Engineering
Coordinating Council) in Nepal in 23rd – 25th March, 2017.

【Reported by Masashi Inoue, TC21 National team member (Eight-Japan Engineering Consultants Inc.) 】

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Activities of Applied Mechanics Committee, JSCE
Applied Mechanics Committee started in September 1994 to improve thecommon platform in the mechanical discipline in the civil engineering field,
where collaborative research is encouraged among relevant fields, thus,
contributing to the development of theoretical (analytical) mechanics,
experimental mechanics and computational mechanics. Since then, using“applied mechanics” as the keyword, the Committee has created a communityof researchers and engineers from all sectors, who have been engaged in
cutting-edge research activities in civil engineering, with the main focus onpure research.
In particular, Symposium on Applied Mechanics, which has been held everyyear since 1998, provides an opportunity for many researchers, engineers andProf. Norihiro Izumi
Chair of Applied Mechanics
Committee(Hokkaido University)

students both at home and overseas to present the achievements of theircutting-edge research in applied mechanics. Their research
papers are reviewed and subsequently published annuallyin the Journal of JSCE A2 (Applied Mechanics) Special
Edition (Journal of Applied Mechanics). At present, around
200 oral presentation applications and nearly 100 papers forreview are received every year by five editorial
departments (physics/mathematics/mechanics problems,computational mechanics, mechanics of materials/complex
phenomena, fluid mechanics and infrastructure/analysis).
The next Symposium will be held at the Yoshida campus,
Kyoto University on Saturday 20th May and Sunday 21st

Posters of the Symposium on Applied Mechanics on
display

May 2017.
Meanwhile, every year, the Applied Mechanics Committee
holds an Applied Mechanics Forum at JSCE's eightregional chapters in Japan so that many members canattend the Forum and the achievements of cutting-edge
research can be returned to the regional communities. The
Applied Mechanics Seminar and the JSCE Annual Meetingare also held annually, and at these events, the Committeeorganizes research discussions for the members on thelatest research topics in applied mechanics, including fluid
mechanics, inverse problems, disaster simulation and V&V(Verification and Validation), and actively promotes
applying

thelatest

achievements

inpracticeandcontributing them to education.

Research discussion in progress (2016)

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Lastly, for further information about what the Applied Mechanics Committee does, please visit the Committee's
website.

URL: http://www.jsce.or.jp/committee/amc/index.html.

＊The English translation of text, which originally is written in Japanese, is done by IAC.

Updates◆The summary of feature articles in the January 2017 issue of the JSCE Magazine is available on the JSCE
website.
http://www.jsce-int.org/pub/magazine◆Five projects introduced in the booklet “TRANSFER OF CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY INSERVICE” issued at the time of the 100th year anniversary of JSCE can be viewed on the JSCE Website.
http://www.jsce.or.jp/e/archive◆Civil Engineering Design Prize 2016, JSCE has been announced; Grand prize is presented to 4 projects asfollows:

Otagawa-Ohashi Bridge

Redevelopment of the around basin of
Shiraitonotaki-Waterfalls

Tenjingawa-Watergate

Stream restoration project inKamisaigo River

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