To build safe and highly reliable social infrastructure or manufacture industrial products, the nature of fracturing must be understood. In the Ohata lab, our research elucidates the mechanisms responsible for various types of fractures such as those due to ductile, brittle, fatigue, and environmental stress. Our educational and research program emphasizes microscopic damage and fracture models of various types of fractures. We formulate simulation methods to comprehensively evaluate the properties of structures on different scales from micro- to macrostructures (microstructure of materials – properties of materials and joints – structural performance). Another goal is to formulate an innovative method to evaluate material-structure interactability, which will help design structures that fully utilize their material characteristics.
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Professor :
Mitsuru Ohata
Assistant Professor :
Hiroto Shoji
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