Newsletter Volume 9, Issue 4 December 2024

The Best Presentation Award at ICPE 2024 was given to the top presenter in each session, based on evaluations by the session chairs. With 55 general and video presentations delivered over two days, the following presenters were recognized for their outstanding contributions.

ØSession A-1 Pile Performance/Piling Mechanism

Xi Xiong:
Experimental study on bearing behavior of a single model pile in unsaturated sandy ground with various groundwater levels

ØSession B Climate Change/Infrastructure Development

Abdulaleem Omar Abdulaleem Dawood:
Influence of sheet pile on stress distribution in non-invert tunnel: A centrifuge model study

ØSession C-1 Disaster Prevention and Mitigation/Case Histories

Yuki Yamakuri:
Bearing capacity analysis of a shallow foundation with sheet piles under inclined loads by rigid-plastic finite element method

ØSession D-1 Project Case Histories/Piling Mechanism

Akihito Nakazato:
Applicability on optical fiber sensors for stress evaluation of piles

ØSession E Infrastructure Development

Takefumi Takuma:
Protection of a tsunami refuge building with pressed-in sheet pile flood walls

ØSession A-3 Pile Performance/Piling Mechanism

Yukihiro Ishihara:
Use of Press-in Piling Data for Construction on the Moon: Estimating Subsurface Information and Pile Capacity

ØSession A-2 Pile Performance/Piling Mechanism

Lao Yilun:
Physical modeling on large diameter piles subjected to one-way cyclic loading in dense sand focusing on generalized scaling law

ØSession C-2 Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

Vu Anh Tuan:
Press-in technology to recover capacity of bridge pile foundation and application prospect in Vietnam

ØSession D-2 Project Case Histories/Quality Assurance

Woraphon Wiriyatharakij:
Design aspects of hat type steel sheet pile for Pa Sak River Improvement Project in Thailand