JSCE Newsletter No. 34, October 2011

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activitie

NewsletterNo. 34, October 2011
Contents

June 2011 – May 2012
President
YAMAMOTO Takuro
Vice-Presidents
IEDA Hitoshi
IFUKU Makoto
SATOH Naoyoshi
TASHIRO Tamiharu
HAYASHI Yoshitsugu
Executive Director
OHNISHI Hirofumi
International Activities
Committee
Chair
UEDA Tamon
Vice-Chair
HIROTANI Akihiko
Secretary General
HORI Kenji
Deputy-Secretary
GeneralNAGAI Kohei
Members / Secretary
KOBAYAKAWA Satoru
SASAKI Kuniaki
TAKAHASHI Shu
NODA Masaru
YAMAGUCHI Eiki
International Chapter
Taiwan Section
Der-Her Lee
Korea Section
Dong-Uk, Lee
U.K. Section
SOGA Kenichi
Mongolia Section
Enkhtur Shoovdor
Turkey Section
Zeki HasgürIndonesia Section
Sutanto Soehodho
Thailand Section
Samart Ratchapolsitte
Philippines Section
Ricardo G. Sigua
Vietnam Section
Doan Minh Khoi
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Special Committee on 2011 Great East Japan
Earthquake ----------------------------------- p.2

JSCE/Thailand Section – JCSE Joint Seminar---------------------------------------------------- p.3

JSCE, JGS and CPIJ Presidential Joint Statementon the Tohoku Pacific Offshore Earthquake: Gearup to face the challenge and move forward for abetter future.
Prof. Kenji SAKATA, Prof. Osamu KUSAKABE and Dr. Takayuki KISHII
It was one fine spring day on March 11. In the afternoon, violent tremors andtsunami hit the Tohoku region, where reminds every body of a good old Japan, andshook as far away as Kanto region. The earthquake destroyed many coastal cities
and villages, and the tsunami washed away the residents, their families and homes.
Thousands of people were killed and many more lost their loved ones. All of Japanand around the world shared their profound grief and sorrow, and prayed for themand for all the victims of this disaster.
On behalf of the JSCE, JGS and CPIJ members, we would like to offer oursincere prayers to those who have lost their lives and to extend our heartfelt
sympathies and condolences to those who have been affected by the earthquake andtsunami.
Also we send our utmost respect and support to those who are suffering but
firmly standing up and moving forward, to those who are making every effort tohelp the victims and survivors, and to those who are risking their lives and working
to fix the radiation leak inside the nuclear power plant. We, civil engineering andland planning professionals, will share the heavy burdens that are weighing on theirshoulders and work together with them to ride out this difficult time.
The unprecedented scale of the earthquake and tsunami struck the country
were far beyond our anticipations; they have brought widespread devastation to thecountry, wiped out many coastal villages and towns, and caused serious problems
in the Fukushima nuclear power plant which has triggered serial accidents. Whenthe country is in the critical situation, we have many things that we can do as aprofessionals group. First, we should review the investigations and assessments wehave ever done and re-evaluate the relevance of the disaster mitigation measures wehave developed so that we would establish more effective design codes andstandards for seismic hazard mitigation.
Second, we should draw and propose feasible and viable plans for therebuilding of the devastated areas which is the most urgent priority, for theconstruction of safe and sustainable communities, and for the establishment ofstronger social systems to effectively respond to natural disasters and mitigate theirimpact. These proposals we believe will be enable the country to prepare for future
large-scale earthquakes such us Tokai, Tonankai and Nankai. (Continue to nextpage)*JGS: Japanese Geotechnical Society, CPIJ: City Planning Institute of Japan

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The recent earthquake that caused ahuge tsunami is the largest earthquake that thecountry has ever experienced. Nobody has
imagined that the earthquake of such a great
magnitude could occur. We as the professionals
group however must never say that to excuse ourfailure to predict this disaster. We have to remindourselves that as our predecessors did, we should
regard the nature with aw and respect, and that it
is essential to design the combination of soft andhard measures for disaster risk management. At
the same time, we have to deal with anotherchallenge: we have to improve the managementsof electricity supply systems and transportationproduction- distribution systems. We mustrebuild the destroyed communities to strongly
withstand future natural hazards which thepeople want more than anything.
More than ten days have passed sincethen. There are some signs that recovery has
begun, and we know that there is a long, hard
way to the reconstruction of the destroyed areas.
There is no challenge we can’t overcome. We
will share with the affected people their grief andhardships and work with them to overcome thedifficulty in front of us. We, engineering andplanning professionals groups and societies,
brining our years of experience and expertise,
have geared up to tackle it. We will find a ray oflight which will brighten the future.
(as of March 23, 2011)

how to strengthen seismic preparedness, response
planning and disaster measures in order tominimize the risks of predicted future large-scale
earthquakes such as Shutoken-Chokka, Tokai,Tonankai and Nankai.
2. Organization
Refer to Fig-1: Organization chart forSpecial Committee on 2011 Great East Japan
Earthquake.
3. Missions
1) Perform comprehensive earthquake/tsunami
disaster assessments and analyze the results,and also review conventional earthquake andtsunami disaster mitigation plans andmeasures.
2) Make technical advice and suggestions on
disaster emergency responses, recovery andreconstruction plans, strategies, policies foraffected areas
3) Consider and develop future large-scaledisaster and tsunami disaster mitigation
measures4) Strengthen communication and collaboration
withacademicandprofessionalorganizations and others.
(as of June 27, 2011)

Special Committee on 2011 Great
East Japan Earthquake
1. Objectives
M9.0 earthquake followed bytsunami hit the Tohoku area at 14:46,
March 11, 2011. This unprecedentedly
huge earthquake and tsunami caused
tremendous damages across the Tohoku
and Kanto areas. Shortly afterwards,
JSCE set up a committee to respond thisdisaster, with the aims of raising civilengineers’ awareness of future natural
disaster risks, collecting and sharing
their skills, knowledge, wisdom andexperiences,
andstrengthening
cooperation and collaboration withrelevant organizations and institutions.
This committee was formed as Special
Committee on 2011 Great East Japan
Earthquake under the leadership of theJSCE president. Also Taskforce under
the Special Committee was created forthe quick and easy start and smooth
operation of that committee.
Thelessons we have learned from theearthquake/ tsunami disaster will
provide us with valuable insights on
2Fig-1: Organization chart for Special Committee
on 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

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JSCE/Thailand Section – JCSE
Joint Seminar
The JSCE concrete committee has heldjoint seminars with several Civil Engineers'
Societies foreign countries, with which JSCE has
an agreement for collaboration. In the past, thejoint seminars with CICHE (Taiwan) and MACE(Mongolia) at 2005, VIFCEA (Vietnam) at 2006,
KSCE (Korea) at 2007, SVR(Sweden) at 2008,TCG(Greece) at 2009, and TCCE/ JSCE Turkey
Section(Turkey) at 2010 were held in Asia andEurope and the strong collaboration with partner
societies has established.
In this year, the JSCE/Thailand Sectoin JSCE Joint Seminar was held on 17th August
2011 at Tarathep hall of Chaophya Park Hotel,Bangkok,Thailand.
ThailandConcrete
Association(TCA) and ACI Thailand Chapter
supported the seminar.
This year changed the style. The joint
seminars in the past had exchanged each society's
information about recent research topics anddesign code. However, the seminar focused todeliver the Japanese information to Thailand
Engineers. On 11th March, Great East Japan
Earthquake hit and many concrete structures
were damage by earthquake ground motion andTsunami. The information is desired by many
civil engineers in the world. Therefore, JSCE
delivered information on the recent earthquakeand tsunami disasters in Tohoku to ThailandEngineers using this chance.
The symposium began with the opening
speech by Prof. Dr. Somnuk Tangtermsirikul
who is a professor of Thammasat University andPresident of Thailand Concrete Association.
Then, 5 topics were presented as follows fromJSCE. More than 70 participants attended theseminar and actively engaged in discussions.
The seminar was supported by theInternational Scientific Exchange Fund, JSCE.

The topics are followings:
1. Characteristics of Tsunami and Damages
caused by Tsunami
Norimi MIZUTANI(Professor of Nagoya University)
2. Experimental Study for Estimating Tsunami
Forces Acting on Bridge Girders
Kenji KOSA(Professor of Kyushu Institute of Technology)
3. Damage of Concrete Structures Due toEarthquake –from Hanshin-Awaji(1995) toEast Japan Earthquake(2011) Hiroshi MUTSUYOSHI(Professor of Saitama University)
4. Preventive and Repair Methods for RC
Structures Due to Resist Earthquake
Hikaru NAKAMURA(Professor of Nagoya University)
5. Current JSCE Design Standard for RC
Structures to Resist Seismic Load
Kyuichi MARUYAMA(Professor of Nagaoka University of Technology)

Question from floor and seminar room

Key members in the seminar

Opening Speech byProf. Somnuk
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By Hikaru NAKAMURA, Nagoya Univ.
Concrete Committee, JSCE3

JSCE Newsletter No. 34, October 2011Information

One Year after 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake- International Symposium on Engineering Lessons
Learned from the Giant Earthquake -1. General Information
Date: March 3-4, 2012
Venue: Kenchiku Kaikan (AIJ Building), Tamachi, Tokyo, Japan
2. Call for Paper
1) Paper Formats*Please download from official site or JSCE Website.
2) Important Dates
November 15, 2011: Deadline for submission of abstructs
November 30, 2011: Notification of acceptanceFebruary 1, 2012: Deadline of submission of full manuscript
3. Registration Fee
300 USD (Students: 120 USD)
4. Technical site visit
Date: March 1-2, 2011
Registration Fee: 600 USD
5. Contact
Abstracts as well as inquiries & questions should be directed toeqsymp@event.jaee.gr.jp*Information will be informed JSCE Website.
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Information Subcommittee,
International Activities Committee, JSCE
Editor-In-Chief: Dr. KOBAYAKAWA Satoru
Deputy Editor: Mr. FUJIKAWA Takashi

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