Education and Research Center for Science-Based Plastic Forming

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Center Director
Souichiro Nishino, Center Director

Plastic forming is an environmentally friendly process that causes no waste and does not require high temperature. It is highly valued as it requires basic knowledge on the characteristics of materials as well as on the processing itself. Therefore, to maintain our leading edge technology, we must conduct the research and development on plastic forming, staring ahead in a scientific manner, not depending merely on the intuition and experiences.

Compared to other universities, Ibaraki University, College of Engineering has a greater number of teaching/research staff in this field. We have been carrying out the activity of NULLForum on Science-Based Plastic FormingNULL since 2010. With the establishment of this center in January 2012, we have been giving priority to education as well as research, and promoting more actively the education and research activities on science-based plastic forming. Through the education of graduate students on joint research projects with industry, visiting lecturers, and the acceptance of working doctoral course students, we aim to develop this field with local people, towards a long-term vision.

Roles

Center Members

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Director,
Associate Professor
NISHINO Souichiro Mechanics of materials and materials, Manufacturing and production engineering, Material processing and microstructure control, Composite materials and interfaces, Quantum beam science Lab
Deputy Director,
Lecturer
KOBAYASHI Junya Engineering Materials, Heat Treatment  
Professor ITO Nobuhide Abrasive Machining  
Professor IWAMOTO Chihiro Transmission Electron Microscopy, Nanoanalysis, Welding, Interface Engineering Lab
Professor KURAMOTO Shigeru Design of engineering materials  
Professor SASAJIMA Yasushi Computer experiments on materials, Science and technology of thin solid films Lab
Professor SATO Shigeo Quantum-beam material science, metallography Lab
Professor SHIMIZU Jun Micro/Nano Tribology, Ultra-precision Machining Lab
Professor ZHOU Libo Precision Engineering, Nano-micro fabrication, Measurement and evaluation Lab
Professor NAKAMURA Masashi Environmental harmony design, Strength reliability of high polymer materials Lab
Associate Professor IWASE Kenji Structural/Functional Materials  
Associate Professor OJIMA Hirotaka Machine Mechanics/Control Lab
Associate Professor ONUKI Teppei Applied optics in manufacturing, Micro system engineering, Nano-materials Lab
Associate Professor KURUMADA Akira Engineering Materials, Structural and Functional materials  
Associate Professor TASHIRO Suguru 摩擦撹拌接合, 異種金属間接合, LSI用Cu配線, Alワイヤボンディング, たたら製鉄  
Associate Professor YAMASAKI Kazuhiko Material Processing/Treatment, Production Engineering/Processing Studies Lab
Lecturer NAGANO Takatoshi Plastic working Simulation using Particle Method, Ab initio Calculation  
Lecturer YOKOTA Hitoshi Surface Physics Lab
Assistant Professor KANEKO Kazuki   エンドミル加工, 切削力シミュレーション, センサレスモニタリング  

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