Piston, pickaxe and article
Evaluate yourself!
Mohammad Reza Islami
Several of the Japanese professors I used to work with have published an article after a long time.
According to one of his friends who used to say jokingly: After eighty years they have given an article!
Take a look at the article and friends who work in the field of earthquakes or structures can judge for themselves whether five articles were produced at this level among all the universities in #America and among all the articles published in top journals last year. ?
To put it bluntly, how many articles at this level have been removed from among the top American research centers?
(Is it out at all?!)
What is the summary of this article?
– A three-story building has been tested (and destroyed) with a real scale (one by one) on an earthquake table.
– Then the computer model of that structure was produced, meshed, and analyzed with finite element software.
– By comparing the results of that test with this computer model, they produced and published the text of the article and the results. That’s it!
Tools and materials needed to produce such an article:
A few professors with a calm and carefree mind (that this work is the only work of their lives);
A large-scale earthquake table with about twenty times the facilities of the University of California-San Diego earthquake table;
A Mitsubishi company that manufactures and maintains huge hydraulic jacks under the table so that it can shake a seismic table (according to the acceleration spectrum of the Kobe earthquake);
The amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for building the building, lifting and placing it on the earthquake table, and demolishing it;
Again, some professors with a calm mind (and patient with the suffering of production) who have nothing to do in life except to analyze the results of the above test;
a supercomputer to run the finite element model for us;
A strong and stable industry sector to help those few professors with a calm mind in computer modeling;
(The article is a joint work of Kobe University and two industry companies)
Meetings in which the above-mentioned group does not fight regularly in the middle of the meeting;
Finally, the publication of the article.
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The PDF file of the article is placed here. Engineering friends can compare and evaluate the quality of data and topics with similar articles.
Unfortunately, the volume of science production in Japan is very high in this quality, but the presentation in English is very little.
(No exaggeration) Dozens of tests similar to this test have been carried out at the #Kobe E-Defense Center; But a very limited number of English articles have been published in #ISA journals.
In fact, the Japanese do not have much motivation to play the game in the way that is common in America and China.
(Note that even this work [at this level] was published in a domestic [Japanese] journal; and not a first-rate international journal)
AIJ
I don’t know about other fields of precision engineering, but in this field, the distance between Japan and America is very significant.
The reason for this difference?
This was discussed before. There are two reasons:
The first reason is that the subject of earthquakes and structural behavior is more important in Japan than in America. (geographic requirements)
But the second reason is more important. The structure of the university and the definition of the position of a university professor in Japan are different from the United States.
A university in Japan is not a copy of a university in America.
Two things happened in America that did not happen in Japan: essay writing and proposal writing.
(with mass production)
This does not mean that Japanese professors do not write essays or do not stress about writing proposals. no
The problem is that the quality of work in Japan has not been replaced by the quantity of work (at least in earthquake and structural engineering research).
Haste in producing articles and writing proposals is a scourge that the scientific community should not expect to produce such articles.
These things are like digging with a pickaxe.
Ayub needs patience.
@solseghalam
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