Graduate School of Engineering

Mechanical Systems Engineering The department has three programs for doctor's and master's students: Mechanical Energy Engineering, Eco-design Engineering, and Eco-material Engineering Programs. 1 Mechanical Energy Engineering The objective of the Mechanical Energy Engineering Course is to enhance the theory and application of the effective energy conversion and utilization for envir-onmental harmony. Some current projects are as follows: Cooling of electronic equipment High-temperature gas dynamics Shock wave phenomena Heat and mass transfer Micro and bio fluidics Non intrusive flow measurement 2 Eco-design Engineering There are three major research fields in this course. They are Mechanical Design, Materials and Mechanics, and Design Methodologies. Current research topics are mainly as follows: (1) Mechanical Design Tribological properties of hard coatings Evaluation of mechanical properties of micro materials (2) Materials and Mechanics Structural Reliability, Structural Design, Experimental Mechanics, Large Scale Finite Element Method, Molecular Dynamics Method (3) Design Methodologies Shape modeling with free-form deformation and tensegric model Life Cycle design method by LCA and CAE Analysis of vibration and noise of automotives 3 Eco-material Engineering The course has three major research fields, that is, Material Processing, Structural Material, and Environmental Conscious Materials. Main recent researches are as follows: (1) Material Processing Ultrasonic welding Extrusion of Mg and Al alloy Powder metallurgy (2) Structural Materials Fatigue and fracture of polymers and composites Mechanics of nanocomposites and smart composites (3) Environmental Conscious Materials Materials for lithium-ion cell, Thermogalvanic cells Pressure variation in a de Laval nozzle measured with pressure sensitive paint Prototype design system based on tensegric model Mechanical reinforcements for nanocomposites Copyright(C) 2007 TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY, All rights reserved.