JSCE Newsletter No. 33, December 2010

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Committee

NewsletterNo. 33, December 2010
ContentsJune 2010- May 2011
President
SAKATA Kenji
Vice-Presidents
ISOBE Masaiko
KITOH Heizo
SHIRAKI Wataru
HIROTANI Akihiko
MIURA Seiichi
Executive Director
FURUKI Moriyasu

TCCE - JSCE/TR Section - JSCE Joint Symposium --- p.2
19th ACECC ECM & 5th CECAR ---------------- p.4

Photo Report ------------------------------ p.5

JSCE - A Hub ofInternational Civil Engineering Community

International Activities
Committee
Chair
FURUTA Hitoshi
Vice-Chair
HIROTANI Akihiko
Secretary General
KAGAMI Shuichi
Deputy-SecretaryGeneral
FUKUDA Atsushi
Members / Secretary
KOBAYAKAWA Satoru
SASAKI Kuniaki
TAKAHASHI Shu
TAKEDA Shinichi
NODA Masaru
MATSUSHIMA Kakuya
YAMAGUCHI Eiki

HIROTANI Akihiko
Fellow, Vice President, JSCE
President, ACK Group
President, Japan Civil Consultants Association
Member, Executive Committee, FIDIC

International Chapter
Taiwan Section
Der-Her Lee

JSCE has been a hub of international civil engineering community, since its
foundation in 1914. There are many kinds of hubs in the world for culture, industry,discipline, region, etc. The hub function of JSCE has definitely been one of those.
A new era of modernization in Japan begun with the emergence andestablishment of the Meiji Government in 1868. The utmost importance andurgency at that time was recognized to import advanced technology andengineering from overseas. Many engineers in every discipline were invited to stayin Japan and transfer technology and engineering to Japanese personnel. All sorts ofadvanced technology converged in this country by utilizing the hub function at thetime.
Engineers then soon recognized an acute need of information collecting,sorting and spreading among themselves as well as between foreign expatriates, inother words, a hub function. The Japan Federation of Engineering Societies (JFES)
was founded in 1879 as the first engineering organization in Japan, with a mission
to foster the advancement of engineering technology and industry throughcooperation of membership organizations. It is now the only incorporatedorganization consisting of over 100 engineering societies (including several
scientific societies). The hub function of the JFES for engineering community isvery apparently an inherent character and to be transmitted to all the memberassociations. The behavior which started as domestic activities soon became
international.
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Korea Section
Dong-Uk, LeeU.K. Section
SOGA Kenichi
Mongolia Section
Enkhtur Shoovdor
Turkey Section
Zeki HasgürIndonesia Section
Sutanto Soehodho
Thailand Section
Samart Ratchapolsitte
Philippines Section
Benito Morelos Pacheco
Vietnam Section
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Many of the personnel who contributed tofounding the JFES were civil engineers. They
remained at the JFES until witnessing the steadyestablishment of the organization while otherdisciplines founded separate organizations andleft JFES. The Japan Society of Civil Engineers
was the last among major starting up disciplines
to be founded in 1914. Since civil engineers werethe main stream of the JFES until then, theinherent character as the hub of international civilengineering community remained as one of very
important activities of JSCE.
In the globalizing world, it is fundamental tocollaborate and exchange information withinternational counterparts to better serve themembers and the civil engineering profession
and to contribute to building better infrastructure,a better quality of life for the present and futuresocieties. Hereinafter, some of activities of JSCE
are presented to show how it is behaving to fulfill
the duty of hub of international civil engineeringcommunity.
Seminar and Workshops
Many seminars and workshops with JSCE’s
involvement are held every year in Japan andoverseas.
When those events are held in Japan, many
Japanese as well as foreign guests attend and/oract as speakers, presenters, moderators, etc.
International sessions during JSCE Annual
Meeting are very unique opportunities toexchange civil engineering ideas and information
and also to discover some of the most importantinnovations in civil engineering technology,
research and development in the world. Leadersin civil engineering research and technology
from countries come to these sessions to learn
about and help shape the future of civilengineering design and construction and businesspractices.
The International Summer Symposium isheld every year since 1999, and is also a uniqueopportunity to exchange ideas and most recent
information in civil engineering in a friendlier
atmosphere.
Joint Seminars are held in a concept that
JSCE has an Agreement of Cooperation (AOC)with 26 counterpart societies/institutions aroundthe world. Based on the AOC, JSCE and thecounterparts organize joint projects, exchange
technical and scientific information and work
together to solve global issues with civilengineering perspectives.
The Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating
Council (ACECC) was created in 1999, lead by
successful similar conferences which started in1998 on a triennial basis. The purpose ofACECC is to schedule Asian forums whereworldwide members of the civil engineering
profession may jointly develop programs ofcoordination and mutual action in designated2matters affecting the interests of civil engineers
and related professions. Up to now, ACECC
consists of ten members including ASCE,CICHE, EA, HAKI, ICE(India), JSCE, KSCE,MACE, PICE and VIFCEA
Publications and films
Publications include civil engineering
specifications, JSCE guidelines and journals.
Newsletters are published approximately fourtimes a year and have now 33 volumes. CivilEngineering started yearly publication since
1960th and has now 45 volumes. There areapproximately 450 films and of which less than
20 are in English.
Other activities
The JSCE International Chapter wasestablished in June 2000 to contribute to theinternational community by conducting civilengineering related activities in countries andregions outside Japan. As one of the activities ofthe Chapter, the JSCE International Sections
have been set up in such countries as Taiwan,
Korea, U.K., Mongolia, Turkey, Indonesia,
Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam to strengthen
local ties by participating in local events, as wellas promoting the development of civilengineering technology and skills through closer
personal acquaintance and cooperation amongengineers of various nationalities.

TCCE - JSCE/TR Section - JSCE
Joint Symposium on ConcreteEngineering
The JSCE concrete committee has held joint
seminars with several Civil Engineers' Societies
foreign countries, with which JSCE has anagreement for collaboration. In the past, the joint
seminars with CICHE (Taiwan) and MACE(Mongolia) at 2005, VIFCEA (Vietnam) at 2006,
KSCE (Korea) at 2007, SVR (Sweden) at 2008,and TCG(Greece) at 2009 were held in Asia andEurope and the strong collaboration with partner
societies has established.

▲ Opening Speech by Prof. HASGÜRAlso available on web: http://www.jsce-int.org/

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In this year, the TCCE (Turkish Chamber ofCivil Engineers) - JSCE Turkey Section - JSCE
Joint Symposium was held on 9th June 2010 at
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
The symposium began with the opening
speech by Prof. Dr. Zeki Hasgür who is JSCE
Turkey section president and professor ofIstanbul Technical University. The importance ofcollaboration between JSCE and TCCE wastalked, because Japan and Turkey experienced
the loss of many human life and damage of many
concrete structures due to Kobe earthquake in1995 and Izumit earthquake in 1999, respectively.
The theme of this seminar was "Newdevelopments in Concrete Engineering". Basedon this theme, nine topics relating to recent
research and standards (four from JSCE and fivefrom TCCE) were presented. More than 80
participants attended the symposium and actively
engaged in discussions. We could share eachother's experiences and improve in our research
and application fields.
The topics presented in the symposium arethe followings.

High Performance Fiber-Reinforced Cement BasedComposites and their applications
Mehmet Ali TAŞDEMİR (Istanbul technical University)
JSCE Recommendations for Design and Construction ofUltra High Strength and Stain Hardening Fiber
Reinforced Cement Composites
Yuichi UCHIDA (Gifu University), Gregor FISCHER,
Yoshihiro HISHIKI, Junichiro NIWA and Keitetsu
ROKUGO
Durability Issues in existing RC buildings and new
infrastructure project
Yılmaz AKKAYA (Istanbul technical University) andNurettin DEMIR (Nurol JV)
Durability Design and Maintenance Planning of Concrete
Structures in Coastal Environment Specified in JSCE
Standard Specification
Koji TAKEWAKA (Kagoshima University)
Seismic Safety Evaluation of Existing Buildings(Principles of the Code and Training of Turkishengineers)
Zekai CELEP (Istanbul technical University)
Advancement of Seismic Performance Evaluation
Methods of Concrete Structures after Kobe Earthquake
Hikaru NAKAMURA (Nagoya University), Yoshihito
YAMAMOTO and Yasar Hanifi GEDIK
Effect of Concrete Quality for the Seismic Performanceof RC Buildings
Zeki HASGÜR (Istanbul technical University), Beyza
TASKIN and Ulgen MERT TUGSAL
Failure Mechanism of Old and New Type RC Columns
after Reinforcement Corrosion
Caglar GOKSU (Istanbul technical University), AlperİLKİ and Nahit KUMBASR
Impact-Elastic Wave Methods for Non-destructive
Evaluation of Grouting Condition in Tendon Ducts in PC
Structures
Toshiro KAMADA (Osaka University), Shinya UCHIDAand Toshiki IWASAKI▲ Symposium Room(Prof. NAKAMURA Hikaru, Member ofConcrete Committee, JSCE (Nagoya Univ.))▲ Key members in the symposium

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19th Executive Committee Meeting ofACECC and 5th Civil Engineering
Conference in the Asian Region
19th Executive Committee Meeting (ECM)of Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council(ACECC) and 5th Civil Engineering Conferencein the Asian Region (CECAR) were held in
Sydney, Australia last August.
ACECC was founded in September 1999 topromote cooperation among Asian civilengineering organizations for constructing
sustainable infrastructure in the region. Currently
it has a membership of 10, which consists oforganizations from Japan, USA, Philippine,Taiwan, Korea, Australia, Vietnam, Mongolia,
India and Indonesia. ECM has the highest
legislative function in ACECC and is convoked
in a member country once or twice each year.
CECAR is one of the most important
activities of ACECC and held every three years.
The first CECAR was in Manila, and it went toTokyo, Seoul and Taipei before Sydney. The
presence of quite a few figures of high rank ingovernments, industries and universities in thecivil engineering field of the member countries
graces the conference. 6th CECAR has beenscheduled already to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia,
in August, 2013.
19th ACECC ECM
19th ECM was called on August 8, 2010,just before 5th CECAR. From JSCE, in addition
to ACECC Committee members, Professor Kenji
Sakata, President, Professor Hitoshi Furuta,
Chair of International Division, and Mr.
Moriyasu Furuki, Executive Director also
attended ECM, to name a few. The mostimportant item on the agenda this time was theACECC permanent secretariat. The ACECC
secretariat is located in the country that hosts thecoming CECAR: the ACECC secretariat thus had
moved every three years. The issue is now tokeep the secretariat in one place permanently.
Four members including JSCE stand as
candidates for host to the ACECC permanentsecretariat.
5th CECAR
5th CECAR was held jointly with
Australasian Structural Engineering Conference(ASEC) from August 9 to 11, 2010. The themeof the conference was “Innovative Community.”
The number of participants amounted to 603, andthe number of papers exceeded 300, out of which
58 were from Japan. Japanese contribution turned
out to be second only to Australia.
The opening ceremony was conducted withsolemnity. Since this was the first CECAR after
the 10th anniversary of the foundation ofACECC, Dr. Hiroshi Okada, the first ACECC
4President, had been invited to make a speech inthe opening ceremony. His message wasdelivered by Professor Osamu Kusakabe, the firstACECC Secretary General, which was followedby the speeches of Professor Marie Bashir, theGovernor of New South Wales and Mr. PaulMitchell, the ACECC President at the time of 5thCECAR.

▲ Opening Ceremony of 5th CECAR

Seven technical sessions ran at the sametime. In the session “Sustainable Infrastructure”,
the president of each member organization gave apresentation. JSCE President Sakata presented apaper entitled “Concrete Technology in the Eraof Global Warming.”
JSCE organized a special forum on“Harmonization of Design Codes in the AsianRegion.” This was a part of the activity of theACECC Technical Committee 8 (TC-8), forwhich JSCE was responsible: the committee
chair was Professor Yusuke Honjo of Gifu
University. In its three-year activity period, TC-8
organized three workshops and two forums. The
special forum in 5th CECAR had concluded theactivity of TC-8. Nevertheless, ACECC
Committee of JSCE continues to commit to theharmonization of design codes in the region
through the network constructed by the TC-8
activity.
ACECC Awards
On the occasion of CECAR, ACECC gives
awards to eminent individuals and projects. Theformer is “ACECC Civil EngineeringAchievement Award.” It was awarded to three
persons in 5th CECAR. One of the recipients wasProfessor Hideo Nakamura, President of Tokyo
City University, who had been nominated byJSCE. The latter award has two classes:“Outstanding Civil Engineering Project Award”
is to be given to the best project and the runnerups are to receive “Civil Engineering ProjectAward.” “Taiwan High Speed Rail Project” won“Outstanding Civil Engineering Project Award”
and three projects including “Bali BeachConservation Project” nominated by JSCE
received “Civil Engineering Project Award.”(Dr. HORIKOSHI Kenichi, Chair,Committee on ACECC, JSCE (Taisei Corp.) )Also available on web: http://www.jsce-int.org/

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Photo Report from JSCE Magazine-1

New Access to Narita Int. AirportNarita Sky ACCESS railway
construction was completed.

Earlier, the owner had had several meetings
with the area’s residents until gaining theirunderstood and approval of that construction,
which helped the owner buy up properties near
the planned railway. Because of that, in just four
years, the planned railway was completed andwould be ready for service.
That construction was not easy, but has been
done beautifully in cooperation with thecommissioned contractor Japan Railway
Construction, Transport and Technology Agency.
(Photos by Narita Rapid Rail Access Co., Ltd., Essay by
Yoshio Kato, Narita Rapid Rail Access Co., Ltd.)

Photo Report from JSCE Magazine-2
New Narita SKY ACCESS service started
on July 17. This new train service operates
between Keisei Takasago and Narita Airportstations via Hokuso railway line, getting on a
newly laid railway at Inba-nihonidai Station tothe destination. It runs at a maximum speed of160 km/h, which enables passengers to travel
between downtown Tokyo and the airport for 36minutes. Its effects are expected to improve thenetwork and collaboration between the Naritaand Chiba New Town areas, inducing a big leap
forward in the development of Hokuso area.
The new train travels to the airport, passing
through the Inbanuma- swamp, mountains andwoods and allows passenger to enjoy thesebeautiful natural landscapes. The ownerconsidered a priority to preserve them, and had
discussions with academics and businessprofessionals to design a railway in harmony
with its peripheral environments. Then, therailway construction was carried out, in thedevelopment of airport surface access in which
North Chiba Road would be built to run parallelto the railway.

Seismic Performance Testing ofNext Generation Damage-FreeBridge Columns
National Research Institute for Earth
Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) conduct
shaking table tests in order to develop nextgeneration high seismic-resistant concrete
reinforced bridge columns which could maintaintheir services, withstanding mega earthquakes
which may exceed beyond the existing groundmotion predictions.

▲ A next generation damage-free RC bridge column
placed on top of the 20m x 15m shaking table▲ New Skyliner is making a trial running in a high speed

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The latest shaking table test models were thefull-scale bridge columns of short polypropylene
fiber-reinforced high strength mortar instead of
conventional concrete ones.
In this test, those test models were shaken
three times with the 100% scale of seismic
motion which had been recorded at JR Takatori
Station in Kobe City at the event of the Hyogo
Numbu Earthquake and then three times with
150% scale of that. In spite of heavy shaking,they withstood with only minor damages. The
test proved that the test models were muchstronger than the bridge columns designed inaccordance with the current design requirements.
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Information
Event Calendar
97th General Assembly
Date: May 27, 2011
Time: 13:15-17:00
Venue: Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, Tokyo

The 13th International Summer
Symposium, JSCE
▲ A bridge column designed in accordance with thedesign requirements in the 1970s.

Date:August 26, 2011
Venue: Disaster Prevention Research Institute,Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan

2011 JSCE Annual Meeting
Date: September 7-9, 2011
*International Program on Sept 7&9
Venue: Ehime University Johoku Campus*For more information: http://www.jsce-int.org/▲ A bridge column designed in accordance with thecurrent design requirements.

For the success of the test, we are muchobliged to Prof. Kazuhiko Kawashima of Tokyo
Institute of Technology and many others whohelped us plan, produce the test models whichwere very close to the ideal ones we wished forand carry out tests. This success has promisingprospects for next generation damage-free bridge
column.
We will continue our studies to make the EDefense technology available and affordable.

Send your comments and suggestions to: iad@jsce.or.jp
JSCE Website: http://www.jsce-int.org
Editorial Board:
Information Subcommittee,
International Activities Committee, JSCE
Editor-In-Chief: Dr. KOBAYAKAWA Satoru
Deputy Editor: Mr. YOSHIDA Yoichi(Photos& Essay by Manabu Nakayama, JSCE Fellow,
National Research Institute for Earth Science andDisaster Prevention)

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