Mechanical Engineering Program, Department of Advanced EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical Engineering Program, Kagoshima University

Outline

The Mechanical Engineering Program provides education and substantial research programs for design, production and energy which introduce advanced aspects into normal mechanical engineering subjects to adapt to new industrial techniques. The Department is organized around research divisions specializing in Production Engineering, Energy Engineering and mechanical System Engineering. These research divisions are achieved the research and education based on following field:
Production Engineering: Strength of Materials, Mechanical materials, etc.
Energy Engineering: Fluid Engineering, Fluid Machinery, Thermal Engineering, Internal Combustion Engine, Power, etc.
Mechanical System Engineering: Dynamic of Machinery, Measurements, Automatic control, Mechanical Elements, Lubrication, Design, Industrial processing, Production System, etc.,

Production Engineering

・Fracture Mechanics
・Reliability of Electronic Packages
・Remaining-Life Prediction Using Miniaturized  Disk-Type Specimen
・Damage Assessment Based on Change in  Hydrogen Desorption Characteristic
・Materials irradiation effect
・Nuclear/Fusion reactor materials
・Mechanical and Electrical reliability of  electronic packages
・Stress and strain evaluation using digital  images
・Solid-state Physics
・Electron Microscopy
・Theory of Dislocation

Energy Engineering

・Development of Hybrid Rocket
・Diesel Engine Combustion of Various Biofuels
・Flow and heat transfer of gaseous flow in  microchannels
・Gas‒liquid two-phase flow in microchannels
Flow rate measurement 

Computational Fluids Dynamics

Mechanical System Engineering

・Self-excited vibration with time-delay
・Nonlinear vibration in automatic transmission
・Assistive devices utilizing gyroscopic effects
・Nonlinear stochastic control theory and its  applications
・Ultrasonic motor servo control system
・Human assist control via control barrier  function approach
・Fracture Mechanics of Delaminations of  Laminated Materials
・Manufacturing Process of Composite Materials
・Monitoring of Metal Cutting Process