• Integrity Control and Evaluation of Machines and structures

    Presentation by a student of our laboratory at the Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology 2023

    A student from our laboratory made a presentation at the Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribolog held in Leeds, England on September 5-7, 2023. The content of the presentation was the relationship between the sliding surfaces of gears and the measured temperature.

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    Japanese-German Joint Seminar in Japan

    Professors from Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, visited Japan from August 28 to September 4. The professors belonged to IMA and German Aerospace Center (DLR), and we exchanged opinions in the field of composite materials. Joint Japanese-German seminars on nondestructive testing of composite materials were held at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Kyoto University, and …

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    Visit to Technical University of Braunschweig

    Recently, German professors came to Japan and visited Technical University of Braunschweig, IMA, DLR, BAM and other German research institutes from 9/13 to 9/23. We exchanged information on research topics related to composite materials and deepened our friendship through cultural exchange with the German people. We had the opportunity to meet and discuss with the …

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    Tanegashima Space Center

    I visited the Tanegashima Space Center for the first time in several years to attend a meeting of the Technical Committee on High-Pressure Gas for Space Use. I visited the museum in the space center. I found several new H-III-related exhibits in the museum. Mizutani Lab has been focusing on carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) …

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    Open Campus

    August 10th is the day for Tokyo Tech’s online open campus. At 10:30, there will be a lab introduction by Sakamoto Lab and us, Mizutani Lab. https://admissions.titech.ac.jp/admission/event/open-campus/program-school-engineering The students in our lab made a video to introduce our lab. In the day, we will briefly introduce aerospace-related nondestructive testing, and then show the laboratory. Materials …

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    Selected for NEDO Project

    Development of non-destructive inspection, on-line monitoring, and damage tolerance technologies to ensure the integrity of high-pressure hydrogen containers for innovative low-cost fuel cell vehicles” has been selected as a theme of the “Development of Advanced Technologies for Hydrogen Utilization” in NEDO’s “Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration R&D Project for Solving Common Problems Toward Dramatic Expansion of Fuel Cell …

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    Graduation Ceremony(2021.3)

    The degree conferment was held in each laboratory due to the COVID-19. Cherry blossoms are in full bloom as last year.

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    Graduation Ceremony(2020.3)

    Due to the effects of the coronavirus, this year’s graduation ceremony has been drastically changed compared to previous years.Undergraduate students received their degrees in their own laboratories, and Todoroki and Mizutani laboratories held the ceremony under the cherry blossom trees. In the Todoroki-Mizutani Laboratory, the degree certificates were collected and handed over to the graduates …

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    Visit to Tokyo University of the Arts

    Mr. Ashizawa and I visited Prof. Kamekawa and Prof. Marui’s laboratory at Tokyo University of the Arts by the introduction of Mr. Ashizawa, a doctoral student. We were able to see the facilities that are not available at Tokyo Tech, such as the one shown in the photo, and also had a demonstration of 22.2ch …

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    On-campus lectures

    Dr. K.T. Tan of Akron University, USA, who is visiting TUAT as a visiting professor, and Dr. Mirz Christian of RWTH Aachen University, Germany, who is visiting TUAT on business, gave keynote speeches. We learned a lot from them. After the keynote speeches, we had a year-end party.

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