Enhancement of product durability and usability for resource-efficient society
Technology that minimizes the amount of materials used in manufacturing, while maintaining product function, both reduces cost and optimizes resource allocation by such effects as minimizing transportation and transportation costs.
However, the complexity of interface and phenomenon correlation between different materials in a composite material prevents the progress of scientific understanding of basic processes involved in fatigue, deterioration, damage and breakage. This is a barrier to making the most of the properties, such as high strength and light weight, inherent to the composite materials.
This Prioritized Theme elucidates the principle of complex phenomena of fatigue and / deterioration for composite materials that are expected to expand in the global market, and the mechanism leading to damage and breakage. We aim to establish technology to accurately evaluate the remaining life of products, promote continuous use/reuse and minimum resource utilization by highly optimized design, and achieve material design for longer life and highly functional products.
R&D Management Committee Members
| ITO Yoshiyasu | Councilor, Board of Trustees, Japan AeroSpace Technology Foundation |
| KAGAWA Yutaka | Vice President, Tokyo University of Technology/ Director General, Katayanagi Advanced Research Laboratory, Tokyo University of Technology |
| HASEGAWA Fumihiko | President, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation/ Special Advisor/ Professor, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe), Tohoku University |
| HOJO Masaki | President, Kinki Polytechnic College/ Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University |
R&D Projects
Full-scale R&D Project
Elucidation of fatigue deterioration mechanism and establishment of evaluation method to estimate the remaining life of CFRP laminates (Arai PJ)Feasibility Study
| <Adopted in FY2019> R&D Project Title | Summary | R&D Period |
|---|---|---|
| Development of material design and evaluation system improving long-term reliability of CFRP laminates ARAI Masahiro（Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University） |
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2019.11 -2022.03 |
| Fatigue life and physical/chemical damage prediction of advanced composite materials GOTO Ken（Associate Professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency） |
(PDF:595KB) |
2019.12 -2022.03 |
| Quantification of Lifetime for Thermoplastic CFRP Based on Entropy Damage KOYANAGI Jun（Professor, Faculty of Advanced Engineering, Tokyo University of Science） |
(PDF:260KB) |
2019.11 -2022.03 |
| Long-term sustainable use of composite materials by 5-D digital twin technology YOKOZEKI Tomohiro（Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo） |
(PDF:610KB) |
2019.11 -2022.03 |
| <Adopted in FY2020> R&D Project Title | Summary | R&D Period |
| Realization of non-destructive observation techniques of defects & cracks triggering fatigue and degradation * KIMURA Masao (Professor, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)) |
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2020.11 -2022.03 |
| Fatigue behavior of composites based on a multiscale structure analysis using synchrotron x-ray diffraction and scattering measurements * KOJIO Ken (Associate Professor, Institute of Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University) |
(PDF:178KB) |
2020.11 -2022.03 |
| Evaluation of Microscale Degradation based on High Sensitivity Measurement of Thermal Wave Propagation Behavior * NAGANO Hosei (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University) |
(PDF:294KB) |
2020.11 -2022.03 |
| Operando micro-measurement analysis method for CFRP composite degradation and a model for remaining life estimation * MARUMOTO Kazuhiro (Associate Professor, Division of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba) |
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2020.11 -2022.03 |
*Small-start type (Component technology type)