The transmission of internal force between concrete and reinforcement and their displacement gap are called as bond stress and slip, respectively. The bond constitutive laws are defined as the relationship between bond stress and slip. There are lots of proposed types of bond constitutive laws, so it is necessary that the laws should be selected carefully to adopt in finite element analysis. Japan Concrete Institute organized the Technical Committee for bond problems to clarify the information about bond constitutive laws and propose the appropriate applications of the laws. Some of committee activities such as meso-scale analysis, review works for previous papers and analysis results for tension-stiffening effect are introduced.
A long time has passed since the control measure of alkali-aggregate reaction (alkali-silica reaction : ASR) was prescribed by JIS. So it's contemplated that the control measure of ASR prescribed by JIS on aggregate of concrete has worked on the reduction of ASR. However, there are the damages by ASR in the concrete structures using the aggregate judged “Harmless” by JIS. Therefore, in JR East Japan, the new judgement method of aggregate was set. The number of classification of judgement on aggregate was changed from two into three without changing the current aggregate test method by JIS. Moreover, use of effective blended cement was set as the method for control of ASR.