Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering
Structural Mechanics and Materials Special Field
The development of new or compound materials, the analytical evaluation of
thermal and dynamic properties of those materials, the researches on the
kinetic behaviors of mechanical structures and the design of them for
strengthening and vibration control, the development of applied technology
of ultrasonics, the systematization of undulation analyses, the numerical
testings and plasticity analyses of materials using finite element
polycrystal models, and the development of the methods of strengthening and
toughening of ceramics, fracture and strength of metals, ceramics, polymers
and mechanicts and sensing for biological soft tissue structures.
・Bio-Mechanics and Bio-Medical Engineering group
・Computational Solid Mechanics
・Group of Engineering Materials and Plasticity
・Computational Materials Mechanics Group
・Solid mechanics group
Thermo-fluid Systems and Energy Engineering
Utilization of the groundwater stored artificially as heat sources for heavy
snowfall districts, and the development of the wind turbine generating
system, and the dynamic analyses and control of fluid power and fluid flow
control systems, and the combustion mechanism, and the visualization of the
flow pattern, and the measurements of thermal properties of new materials
and assessment in both thermal and hydrogeological environment on local
district.
・Numerical Heat Transfer group
・MEMS and Micro-fluidics group
・Bubble Dynamics Group
・Combustion Science group
・Fluid Dynamics and Combustion Group
・Thermophysical Properties and Heat Transfer group
・Heat and Mass Transfer group
・Natural and Environmental Energy group
Mechanical Design and Robotics
The development of accurate motion transmitting elements, and researches
on tribology, the optimum designs of planar and spatial mechanisms, the
motion analyses and control of mechanical systems, the design of nonlinear
control systems and control systems with dead times, systems engineering,
highly efficient robots, automatons, the system design of medical and
care appliances, precision processing, CAD, CAM, CAE etc.
・Design and Analysis of Mechanism group
・Gearing System group
・Strength of Materials
・Power Transmission and Machine Elements group
・Control Engineering and Robotics group
・Telerobotics group
・Humanoid Robotics group
・Mobile Robotics Group
・Biomedical Engineering group