Vol.11 No.01 <January-February>

Nothing is Unbreakable
Reliability Assessment of Structural Materials Project

2013.02.19 Published


Contents

New Year's Greetings

President   Prof. Sukekatsu Ushioda

Nothing is Unbreakable
Reliability Assessment of Structural Materials Project

-Creep Strength Evaluation - Life Assessment of Thermal Power Plants
Kota Sawada (Creep Resistant Materials Group, Materials Reliability Unit, Environment and Energy Materials Division)

-Evaluation of Gigacycle Fatigue Characteristics by Ultrasonic Fatigue Testing
Yoshiyuki Furuya (Materials Fatigue Group, Materials Reliability Unit, Environment and Energy Materials Division)

-Fatigue Prediction Technology Using Noncontact Ultrasonic Measurement
Mitsuharu Shiwa (Group Leader, Non-Destructive Evaluation Group, Materials Reliability Unit, Environment and Energy Materials Division)
Hisashi Yamawaki (Non-Destructive Evaluation Group, Materials Reliability Unit, Environment and Energy Materials Division)

-Hydrogen Embrittlement Characteristics of High Strength Steels
Eiji Akiyama (Environment Durability Group, Materials Reliability Unit, Environment and Energy Materials Division)

-Farigue Testing Under Hydrogen Ion Irradiation Using Cyclotron Accelerator
Yoshiharu Murase (Environment Durability Group, Materials Reliability Unit, Environment and Energy Materials Division)

-Hierarchical 3D/4D Characterization of Stress Corrosion Cracking
Jin Kawakita (Semiconductor Device Materials Group, Nano-Electronic Materials Unit, Nano-Materials Field, MANA)
Tadashi Shinohara (Group Leader, Materials Corrosion Group, Materials Reliability Unit, Environment and Energy Materials Division)
Nobuo Nagashima (Materials Fatigue Group, Materials Reliability Unit, Environment and Energy Materials Division)
Mitsuharu Shiwa (Group Leader, Non-Destructive Evaluation Group, Materials Reliability Unit, Environment and Energy Materials Division)

Interview

 The Job Doesn't End with Writing a Paper.
 How much Can We Contribute to Society?

 Kazuhiro Kimura (Unit Director, Materials Reliability Unit, Environment and Energy Materials Division)

Research Highlights

 Gold Nanoparticles Catalyst Learning from Enzymes in Nature
-Metal Nanoparticle Catalyst for Surface Capture of Catalytic Reactants

   Kazushi Miki (Group Leader, Functional Heterointerface Group, Polymer Materials Unit)
   Katsuhiro Isozaki (Functional Heterointerface Group, Polymer Materials Unit)
  Tomoya Taguchi (Functional Heterointerface Group, Polymer Materials Unit)


NIMS News

  • NIMS-NSC-NTU Joint Workshop and Conclusionof Cooperative Graduate School Agreement with NTU and Memorandum of Understanding with NSC.
  • Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, Visits NIMS
  • Hello from NIMS