TOPICS Impact of Transfer of Structural Experiment෗┿Technology to the Research Institute for HumanSettlements, Ministry of Public Works in Indonesia
GOTO Tetsuro, Researcher
Housing Stock Division, Housing Department(Key words) Technology cooperation, technology transfer, building component structural testing method,
Research Institute for Human Settlement of the Ministry of Public works
1. Introduction
A lesson taught by the disaster caused by the Kanto
Earthquake of 1923 (Report by the Imperial
Earthquake Investigation Committee, No. 100, Part
3, Vols. 1 and 2, 1926) was that a public testing
institute must be established with the ability toverify not only the economic merits and efficiencyof building production, but also the safety andrationality of building structures, and to achieve thisgoal, to provide standards and verify theperformance of buildings. Immediately after WorldWar II, Japan established the National ResearchInstitutes, which performed structural testing atuniversities and private sector research institutes,and now plays a leading role in this field ininternational society. This report describes theresults of the transfer of structural experiment
technology to the Research Institute for Human
Settlements of the Ministry of Public Works㸦http://puskim.pu.go.id㸧of Indonesia and to thestructure division, which receives technicalassistance from Japan.

institution.
2) The functions of the experimental equipment
include the ability to apply axial force to perform
positive – negative cyclic horizontal loading ofmembers in order to verify their strength,
deformation, failure properties etc. (Photo 1).
3) The equipment places a light maintenance burden
on its users.
4) The test organization included researchers who
had completed study and training in earthquake
engineering(BuildingResearchInstitute,International Institute of Seismology andEarthquake Engineering (IISEE))

2. Background to the technology cooperation
Indonesia is located in an earthquake zone where
it is important to ensure structural safety, and theResearch Institue is, as the only national testingorganization in the housing construction field,responsible for this task. The Research Institue built
a building (site area: 96ha) with interest-free
investment support by Japan in 1990 under theBandung Science City Concept Plan, and has
moved to Cileunyi about 16km to the east ofBandung. Later, the Government of Indonesia
requested that Japan provide technical assistancewith the development of collective dwellings
suitable for low-income people (periods: 1993 to1998 and 2005 to 2007), and the Ministry of Land,Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (then theMinistry of Construction) provided this assistanceas an organization specializing in the field. The
author, then an expert in the charge of the structural
field of this technical assistance monitored theeffectiveness of the transfer of structural experiment
technology and its impact on the building
construction industry in Indonesia from thebeginning to the conclusion of the project.
3. Contents of the technological transfer of building
component structural experiment methods1) We built experimental equipment which could be
used to test columns, beams, walls and otherstructural members of medium to high buildings,
enabling the center to satisfy housing construction
policies and meet social needs as a public

Photo 1. View of an Element Structure Test (WhitePart: Specimen)
4. Impact of the transfer of the structural experiment
technology
1) The Research Institue center has systematized theverification and confirmation of structural
performance thanks to its ability to conduct
experiments adding compound forces to building
structure members, and has been carrying out
housing building production related development.
In 1999, it established the Prestressed - PrecastAssociation.
2) Building methods it has developed have been
applied by the Ministry of Housing and regional
governments to build collective dwellings anduniversity dormitories throughout the country. Thecenter has studied the reconstruction of schoolbuildings damaged by the Padang Earthquake ofSeptember 2009.
3) Researchers who studied at the IISEE in Japanare working in the structure division of the ResearchInstitute and in the private sector, contributing tothe improvement of safe building production
technology in Indonesia.