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Advanced Light Metallic Materials Laboratory
Industry-Academia Fusion Specially Appointed Lecture / NAKATA Taiki
- The lightest material : Magnesium
- Comprehensive research : from Manufacturing Technology to Analysis
- Take actions whenever you want to
Industry-Academia Fusion Specially Appointed Lecture / NAKATA Taiki
Has an uncompromising honesty to research development. Work with students for some experiments such as casting, wrought processing and microstructural characterization. Students sometimes get strict option against their data and consideration if they poorly understand the results.
Research Content
The main purpose is to develop high-performance magnesium alloys that can be used as structural components of transportation vehicles. We try to do collaborative works with industries. The ''industry-academia" relation helps us to tackle issues, which hinder the wide application of magnesium alloys. Recently, we are also conducting some works, which are related to biomedical application and surface coating. They motivate us to focus on challenging studies.
Cast ingot(left), Lab-scale extruded bar(middle), Bumper reinforcement(right)
A Day in the Lab
In our laboratory, students communicate with their supervisor on a regular basis and conduct experiments independently. Therefore, students can freely decide their own daily research schedule. Several equipments are kept by ourselves. Machines for casting, wrought processing (extrusion and rolling), and microstructure characterization (OM, XRD, SEM, and AFM) are available at any time. Each student is assigned one research theme, while students often discuss the experimental results such that they can solve their difficulties very smoothly.
A scene from daily experiments; extrusion
Thesis Subjects
- (M)Effects of solute elements and second phase particles on tensile properties and room-temperature stretch formability of magnesium alloy sheet.
- (M)Improvement of rollability, tensile properties and room-temperature stretch formability of dilute Mg-Al-Zn-Ca-Mn alloy by optimization of heat treatment process.
- (M)Effect of Al content and processing heat treatment conditions on mechanical properties of extruded Mg-Al-Mn alloys without homogenization treatment.
The number of
PhD Graduates
12
Major employers of Graduates
- Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd
- Terumo Corporation
- Yotsuba Milk Products Co., Ltd
- Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd
- Toshiba materials Co., Ltd
- Isuzu Motors Limited
- JFE Engineering Corporation
- DOWA HOLDINGS CO., LTD
- FANUC CORPORATION
