Academic Staff and Fellows

OKINAKA Tomoo: Professor Ph.D.; Department/Civil and Environmental Engineering　 Graduate school/Environmental Engineering

In the break-up and collapse of a structure, splitting cracks will branch and propagate for several hundred meters. We use experiments and computer simulation to investigate what phenomena are occurring in such situations.

Photoelastic Experiment with Ultra-High-Speed Camera

Research Area	Material Mechanics, Applied Mechanics, Image Measurement Systems
Research Interests	2 dimensional crack propagation under uniaxial compresstion 3 dimensional growth of the inner crack under compression Application of the PDS-FEM to the crack growth phenomena Measurenment of the deformation with digital holography
Selected Publications	(1)Crack propagation analysis using PDS-FEM and comparison with fracture experiment, mechanics of Materials, 41, 1242-1252, 2009 (2)Application of PDS-FEM for Simulating 3D Wing Crack, Applied Mechanics and Materials, 553, 725-730, 2014
Research and Achievements	08_okinaka_tomoo.pdf
Education (Undergraduate Course)	BD from Tokyo Institute of Technology Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego

Applied Mechanics Laboratory

E-mail	tokinaka（at）civileng.kindai.ac.jp Note that this e-mail address has replaced the "@" with "(at)" to prevent spam. When e-mailing, replace the "(at)" with "@".