Overview of the Activities of the Research Committee on the Processing and Effective Use of Earthquake Debris (223rd Committee) of the Concrete Committee of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers

Abstract

The Japan Society of Civil Engineers launched “Research on the Processing and Effective Use of Earthquake Debris” as a key research topic in 2012. The committee in charge of this research topic was composed of concrete engineering and geotechnical engineering experts, who over a period of about one year, conducted flexible discussions across these two fields. Thereafter, to further pursue these activities, the Research Committee on the Processing and Effective Use of Earthquake Debris(223rd Committee)was established under the concrete Committee of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers. This paper presents an overview of the results achieved by this research committee over a period of about three years spent aggregating knowledge and findings on the processing and efficient use of the various disaster waste produced by the Great East Japan Earthquake.