For this three weeks I put all my brain on writing a paper for 2009 JSCE annual meeting. This paper should be submitted to JSCE committee by April 10th 2009. Before submitting to the committee I have to submit it to my lab’s Assistant professor to get a comment for revision and finally to my lab’s professor for the last and concluding comment for revision. And then I can send the paper to JSCE committee. It is quite a hard work to write a conference paper especially for the first-time-writing-paper-person like me.
The paper is only consisted of pages. It is a short story and conclusion of my research; what I was working on, what the result was and what the outcome was. The paper should be written in a given standard from JSCE. Although it is only two pages, it is not easy. We can’t do it carelessly, every flow of thinking should be written clearly. Every procedure should be written briefly. Every figure and table should be presented correctly. I should write a good English language paper. That why I have through many times of paper revision.
As for my research, I did 10 time concrete casts and 10 time concrete test to get enough data for this paper. My research is about identifying the fracture properties of high strength concrete reinforced with various fibers. I did 10 times of experiment involving 5 types of fibers and 1 type of hybrid fiber. In this paper, I analyze 4 properties of FRC. There are one is compressive strength, tensile strength, fracture energy, and tension softening curve. Though from these properties could lead me to more advance discussion, I just wrote general discussion in this conference paper.
My lab considers this paper as the first step in entering “paper” world. Laboratory member in bachelor and new master 1 grade should write this paper. The materials were taken from final project research for bachelor fourth year (B4) student and new master first year (M1) student. After submitting this paper, we have to submit paper to Japan Concrete Institute for the next steps. In the end, for Master second year (M2) student, they have to write a final graduation thesis.
