【Awards and Commendations】Kei Kanamoto (graduated in March 2020) and other authors received　Maritime Economics & Logistics Best Conference Paper Award at Annual Conference of International Association of Maritime Economists. 1. Kei Kanamoto(a), Liwen Murong(b), Minato Nakashima(b), and Ryuichi Shibasaki(c) 2. (a) Department of Systems Innovation (Graduated in March 2020), Graduate school of Engineering (b) M2 student, same as above (c) Associate Professor, Resilience Engineering Research Center, Department of Techonology Management for Innovation (TMI) 3. Name of award and short explanation about the award International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) is an association that not only researchers, but practitioners, consultants, and governmental officers on the maritime shipping and logistics field join. This year’s annual conference was held online on June 10 to 13, hosted by Hong Kong Polytechnic University, having more than 220 presentations. The paper “Can Maritime Big Data be Applied to Shipping Industry Analysis? – Focusing on Commodities and Vessel Size of Dry Bulk Carriers” submitted from Shibasaki Lab was awarded “Maritime Economics & Logistics Best Conference Paper Award” as one of the four best papers of the conference. 4. About awarded research The paper is based on the Master thesis that Mr. Kanamoto, the first author of this paper, submitted at the end of last fiscal year. First, the global cargo flows shipped by dry bulk carriers were estimated on a port-basis by commodity including iron ore, coal, grain, fertilizer, and iron and steel. Subsequently, the vessel type selection model was developed by commodity, considering the difference in the effect of each variable, such as trade volume, shipping distance, draught limitation of export and import ports, and size limitation to transit canals, then applied to forecast the future shipping demand by vessel type. 5. Your impression & future plan The Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, which records the movements of all kinds of vessels over a certain size, is a big data in the maritime shipping field; however, the cargo information are not included. This paper enabled to estimate the cargo flow by combining other available information. We consider that the novelty and innovativeness of our approach was proved by this award, which will encourage the advancement of our research further. (Ryuichi Shibasaki) The Japan Maritime Daily (24th/June/2020) https://www.jmd.co.jp/article.php?no=258236

【Awards and Commendations】Hiroki, Toda (D2) received 13^th GSC Student Travel Grant Award.

1. Hiroki Toda
2. School of Engineering, Department of Systems Innovation, D2
3. GSC Student Travel Grant Award: Award to graduate students for outstanding research.
4. Ruthenium-catalyzed oxidative conversion of ammonia into dinitrogen.

http://www.jaci.or.jp/english/gscn/awards/aw_stga_13th.html

5. I am very honored to receive this award. I will continue to do my best in research.
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【Awards and Commendations】A paper authored by Hiroaki Kosuge, 2nd grade of Master course, was published in Materials and Design and it was picked up as a Featured Paper in Advances in Engineer (Canadian research company).

1. Hiroaki Kosuge
2. Department of Systems Innovation, second year master’s student
3. A paper (which has been published in Materials and Design) authored by Hiroaki Kosuge was selected as a “Featured Paper” by Advances in Engineering, AIE features particularly outstanding research papers from leading international journals in all engineering disciplines and presents them on its website. The selection committee consists of vice-presidents and deans of the world’s top universities and the editorial boards of prominent journals, and 20 papers per week (less than 0.1% of the total number of publications) will be selected from all fields of engineering, and the AIE will disseminate the results of its research to private companies around the world and provide consulting and matching services, which is expected to lead to future international collaborations.

 

URL: Material and Design

Advances in Engineering, Featured papers

 

4. A new material damage estimation rule was devised for the damage of structures by earthquakes and waves. This paper investigates how materials are damaged in an earthquake by reproducing prestrain which simulates shaking by an earthquake and carrying out a fracture test. By carrying out the finite element method analysis of crystal plasticity based on the micro mechanism of brittle fracture, the material damage mechanism which has not been clarified until now was discovered. In addition, this paper investigates the effect of prestrain on the critical fracture condition of material which leads to brittle fracture, and proposes a new model on the arrangement of the critical stress which has not been unified until.
5. In Japan, which is an earthquake-prone country, it is necessary to conduct further research on the damage law in order to handle structures more safely. In the future, we would like to focus on the damage law under more complicated conditions and the fluctuation of the damage law due to microstructure, and develop the research on the soundness of structures