This newsletter contains the most up-to-date information on the English publications and activities of the JSCE Concrete Committee. It also provides information on technical documents that can be downloaded or purchased.


No. 16, January 2009


New Year's Greeting from the Chair

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Special Report


DISCUSSION: Past, present, and future of nonlinear analysis for concrete structures

Editors have invited three Japanese experts in nonlinear analysis for concrete structures who represent different generations: Tada-aki Tanabe, Koichi Maekawa and Hikaru Nakamura. We have heard from them about the past course of development of this field as well as its future prospects.

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International Report

 

Some Information on Concrete Research in Hong Kong

by Jian-Guo DAI, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

As a loyal reader of ”Newsletter of JSCE Concrete Committee” as well as a correspondence member of “Subcommittee on International Activities of JSCE Concrete Committee”, I am very pleased to take this opportunity to share some information related to current concrete engineering in Hong Kong with other readers. Hopefully my feedbacks would help to promote the information exchanges and international collaborations between Japan and Hong Kong concrete society.

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Research Committee

 

Subcommittee on Concrete Education (Subcommittee 201)

 

Subcommittee 201 was established in 1988 to provide methodologies in education related to concrete. The subcommittee held a series of lectures on the fundamental points of concrete applications and distributed a questionnaire about the JSCE Standard Specifications for Concrete Structures and the problems encountered in the participants’ daily work. The data will be applied to future activities of the concrete committee.

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Readers Voice

 

Third 'Readers Voice' is posted by Dr. Michael N. Fardis, Professor of Concrete Structures, University of Patras, President of fib

 

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International Conferences in 2009-2010

 

JSCE will support the following international conferences in 2009-10.

8th International Symposium on Utilization of High-strength and High-performance Concrete, Tokyo, Japan, 27-29 October 2008.

4th International Conference on Construction Materials : Performance, Innovations and Structural Implications (ConMat '09), Nagoya, Japan,24 - 26 August, 2009

http://www.jci-web.jp/conmat09/

6th International Conference on Concrete under Severe Conditions Environment and Loading (Consec'10), Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 7-9 June, 2010

http://www.consec10.com/

 


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Editor-in-Chief: Koji Sakai
Associate Editors: Hikaru Nakamura,
Phan Huu Duy Quoc,

Atsushi Hattori,

Kohei Nagai,
Eiji Owaki,

and Takumi Shimomura