Accomplishment

• Held 39 annual Joint Panel Meetings,
• Conducted more than 60 Task Committee Workshops and 15 Task Committee Conferences,
• Published over 2000 papers in Joint Panel Proceedings, Workshop Proceedings, and in other technical journals,
• Published 22 year listing of publications List of Publications 1969-1991 　
• Exchanged over 200 guest researchers who performed short and long term joint cooperative research assignments that have enhanced host and supply laboratory's research mission and contributed to improved structural standards and building codes,
• Annually visit more than 10 major public works construction projects that are using innovative civil engineering techniques and research laboratories having unique test and measurement capabilities that enhance the Joint Panel's understanding of research, design, and construction procedures used by both countries,
• Performed joint post disaster surveys and made entrees for counterpart panel members to participate in post disaster surveys of wind, earthquake, and tidal wave damages; results are shared with the professional community which contribute to improved building quality control measures,
• Conducted specialty symposia, e.g.,
  • two-day symposium on Hurricane Hugo, Charleston, SC, 1990 (22nd Joint Meeting)
  • one-day international symposium on IDNDR in Gifu, Japan, 1991 (23rd Joint Meeting)
  • mini-symposia during technical site visits, Lehigh University Atlss Facility, New Orleans Corps of Engineers Facility, and LBL, 1992 (24th Joint Meeting)
  • conducted 25th Panel Anniversary Symposium, IDNDR focus on lessons learned in post disaster investigations, Tokyo, 1993. Each event has advanced technology transfer to participants and stimulated greater attention to promoting disaster mitigation programs;
  • mini-symposia during technical site visits Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MI, 1994 (26th Joint Meeting)
  • mini-symposia during site visits at University of Minnesota's Wind Tunnel facility and at the Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Portland, Oregon, 1996 (28th Joint Meeting)
• Translated into English two Ministry of Construction reports, Manual for Repair Methods of Civil Engineering Structures Damaged by Earthquakes and 2-volume Base Isolation Systems for Buildings; publications distributed to U.S. civil engineering community as improved practices,
• Shared technical information during Joint Panel Meetings, Task Committee Workshops, and during routine correspondence between U.S. and counterpart Japanese researchers that improved researchers abilities to perform mission research.
• Translated into English a Port and Harbour Research Institute handbook on Liquefied Remediation of Reclaimed Land, A. A. Balkema, The Netherlands, publisher that provided general guidance for the US design profession on remediation of liquefiable soils.
• In collaboration with Japan’s Geotechnical Society translated into English a report from the Port and Harbour Research Institute, Remedial Measures Against Soil Liquefaction: From Investigation and Design to Implementation, A. A. Balkema, The Netherlands, 1998, publisher that served as background and guidance for the Corps of Engineers in performing dam remediation at Clemson University.
• Developed a protocol for testing bridge columns subjected to earthquake loads that facilitated the exchange of experimental data between both countries. The protocol serves as a basis for FHWA’s development of new seismic design criteria for bridge columns.
• Facilitated an USACE Team to Kobe within days after the Kobe Earthquake that allowed access to data and information through performing post disaster investigations. This investigation would not have been possible without the Panel's endorsement.
• Performed joint post disaster investigations whose findings influenced revisions to and development of new seismic design and rehabilitation criteria in the US.
• Influenced the creation of a NIST base isolation research program using data from translated Japan reports into English on base isolation systems.
• Exchanged more than 200 guest researchers between Japan and the US that has resulted in advancing their respective organizations mission research, advanced the state-of-technology, and provided career growth opportunities for these guest researchers.
• Performed joint research in more than 10 collaborative research projects that resulted in new US seismic design criteria for buildings and bridges.