Newsletter Volume 9, Issue 4 December 2024

The “Early Carrer Engineer Session” was a newly built session for the winners of the “Early Carrer Engineer Award” of IPA. This time, two engineers won the award based on their research. In the session, the two engineers outlined their research in a form of oral presentation.
 
The first presentation was made by Mr. Yusuke Mochida, an engineer at Steel Structure Research Laboratories of Nippon Steel Corporation. The title was “Effectiveness and Failure Mode of a Levee Reinforced with Steel Sheet Piles against Overtopping and Scouring”. He investigated the effectiveness of reinforcing the earthen river levee with sheet pile walls, by conducting the 1-g model experiments with a 1/15 scale, and confirmed that the structure was maintained to be stable by ensuring a sufficient embedment depth of the sheet pile wall.
 
The second speaker was Mr. Benjamin Bautista Buensuceso III, an engineer at BRB Solutions Inc. The title was “Case Studies of Ultimate Compressive Capacity Prediction for Precast Jacked Piles Installed in the Philippines”. He collected 135 databases of dynamic load tests on jacked, square, precast piles in the Philippines, and explored the relationship between the pile slenderness ratio, pile capacity and the final jacking force. A lower-bound formula to predict the ultimate pile capacity based on the pile slenderness ratio and the final jacking force was proposed.
 
After each presentation, lively questions and answers were made by the audience and the presenters, and the session came to a close within a planned time slot.
 

Photo1 Mr. Yusuke Mochida		Photo2 Mr. Benjamin Bautista Buensuceso III