■ICPE 2021 Best Paper Award

1. Best Research Papers：
The winners for the best research papers were selected based on the five viewpoints: (1) Reliability, (2) Practicality, (3) Novelty/Originality, (4) Impact on development and promotion of press-in technology, (5) Quality of text, perfection

  • L. T. Hoang, X. Xiong and T. Matsumoto：Performance of pressed-in piles in saturated clayey ground: experimental and numerical investigations
  • S. Moriyasu, M. Ikeda, T. Matsumoto, S. Kobayashi and S. Shimono：Influence of different pile installation methods on vertical and horizontal resistances
  • B. Cerfontaine, M. Brown, M. Ciantia, M. Huisman and M. Ottolini：Discrete Element Modelling of silent piling group installation for offshore wind turbine foundations

2. Best Project Papers：　
The winners for the best project papers were selected based on the five viewpoints: (1) Innovativeness of the project, (2) Difficulty of the project, (3) Economic advantage of the project, (4) Impact on development and promotion of press-in technology, (5) Quality of text, perfection and readability

  • M. Yamaguchi, Y. Kimura, T. Nozaki and M. Okada：Press-in piling applications: Permanent stabilization of an active-landslide-slope
  • T. Takuma, S. Kambe and M. Nagano：Upgrading earthen levees with press-in piling and the GRB System

Award trophies of Best Paper Award

Certificate of Merit

■ICPE 2021 Best Presentation Award

The Best Presentation Award was presented to students and young researchers who are under 40 years old as well as delivered the best presentation at each session of ICPE 2021. The marks given by the sessions chairs and all participants will be determine the recipients. There were 59 presentations in 2-days sessions and the following presenters were awarded.

・Session A-1: Pile Performance (Vertical Performance)

A06：Mr. Hiroyoshi Yamazaki　“The inner friction resistance and the resistance of an actual part of open-ended piles by the double-pipe model pile experiment”

・Session A-2: Pile Performance (Vertical Performance)

A11：Mr. Kazunori Toda　“An investigation into vertical capacity of steel sheet piles installed by the standard press-in method”

・Session A-3: Pile Performance (Horizontal Performance)

A16: Mr. Andrei Dobrisan　“Experimental evaluation of the lateral capacity of large jacked-in piles and comparison to existing design standards”

・Session A-4: Piling Process

A19: Dr. Shunsuke Moriyasu　“Influence of different pile installation methods on vertical and horizontal resistances”

・Session B-1: Infrastructure development (Pile Walls)

B04: Mr. S M Shafi　“Dynamic behavior of cantilever tubular steel pile retaining wall socketed in soft rock”

・Session B-2: Infrastructure development (Sheet Pile Walls)

B09: Mr. Hideharu Sugimoto　“Model test on double sheet-pile method for excavation works using X-ray CT”

・Session C-1: Disaster prevention and Mitigation

C03: Mr. Masafumi Oka　“Anticorrosive effect by inserting sheet piles on the sides of underground tunnel at shallow depth”

・Session D-1: Case histories-1

D05: Mr. Kazuki Takeda　“Case study of oval shaped foundation using the Gyropress Method under overhead restrictions”

・Session E-1: Other Topics

E05: Mr. Naoki Suzuki　“Summary of case histories of retaining wall installed by rotary cutting press-in method”