Past Members
Fumihiro Wakai
Professor
Materials processingMicrostructure controlInorganic materials: properties
Research Projects
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Finding of ceramics superplasticity for the first time in the world.（1985.07）
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Mechanical principles behind sintering in micro- and macro scales
Topics
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We developed a method to estimate thermodynamic driving force of sintering from the analysis of X-ray microtomography (Journal of the American Ceramic Society 2017)
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We developed a micro-mechanical test method using micro-cantilever beam specimens to determine the very early part of resistance curve (Scientific Reports2015, Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, Kagaku Kogyo Nippou)
| 1980 | Master of Science, Kyoto University (1988 Doctor of Engineering ) |
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| 1997 | Professor, MSL, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2015 | Director, MSL, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2016 | Director, Laboratory for Materials and Structures, IIR, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2017 | Professor, Laboratory for Materials and Structures, IIR, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 1988 | Science and Technology Agency Award |
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| 1989 | Shimpo Award of Ceramic Society of Japan |
| 1994 | MITI Award of Agency of Industrial Science and Technology |
| 2004 | Academic Award of Ceramic Society of Japan |
| 2008 | The American Ceramic Society, Fellow |
| 2011 | The World Academy of Ceramics, Academician |
| 1990 | F. Wakai, et al. “A superplastic covalent crystal composite”Nature, 344, 421-423 1990. |
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| 2005 | F. Wakai, M. Yoshida, Y. Shinoda and T. Akatsu, “Coarsening and grain growth in sintering of two particles of different sizes” Acta Materialia, 53, 1361-1371 (2005). |
| 2011 | F. Wakai and K. Brakke, “Mechanics of sintering for coupled grain boudndary and surface diffusion” Acta Materialia, 59, 5379-5387 (2011). |
| 2015 | Kimiko Yoshida et al. “Large increase in fracture resistance of stishovite with crack extension less than one micrometer”, Scientific Reports 5, Article number:10993 (2015) |
| 2016 | F.Wakai et al. “Sintering force behind the viscous sintering of two particles”, Acta Materialia, 109 -292-299 (2016) |
| 2017 | Kimiko Yoshida, Norimasa Nishiyama, Masato Sone, Fumihiro Wakai, “Strength and toughness of nanocrystalline SiO2 stishovite toughened by fracture-induced amorphization”, Acta Materialia, 124, 316-324 (2017) |