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newsletter contains the most up-to-date information on the English publications
and activities of the JSCE Concrete Committee. It also provides information on
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No. 16, January 2009
New
Year's Greeting from the Chair
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.
International Report
Some
Information on Concrete Research in
by Jian-Guo DAI, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Structural
Engineering, The
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
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.
Readers Voice
Third 'Readers Voice' is
posted by Dr. Michael N. Fardis, Professor of Concrete Structures,
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,
4th International Conference on Construction Materials :
Performance, Innovations and Structural Implications (ConMat '09),
http://www.jci-web.jp/conmat09/
6th International Conference on Concrete under Severe Conditions
Environment and Loading (Consec'10),
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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