Nowadays, machine civilization plays a very important role for the convenience and comfort of human life as well as productivity in all sectors of industry. It is often accompanied, however, with various problems such as noise, safety, waste of energy, and deterioration of the environment; these are becoming an increasing concern. To resolve these problems, new advanced technologies are absolutely vital for developing ideal or optimal machinery which features high efficiency, silence, cleanliness, safety, reliability, manufacturability and recycling. As a result of rapid advances in the latter half of the last century, the modern, complex urban infrastructure and facilities are not satisfactorily reliable for protection against natural hazards such as earthquakes, flood, unusual weather, and so on. This course further focuses on the research of civil-infrastructures as well as new types and materials for mega-systems composed of various structures, ranging from architecture to public works.

Field	Advanced Courses
Mechanical Engineering	Solid Mechanics Structural Reliability Machine Elements and Design Transport Phenomena Combustion Engineering Thermal Engineering Fluid Dynamics Hydraulics and Pneumatics Instrument and Control Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering	Material Forming Processes Machining Technology Precision Machining Processes Joining Processes Thermal Spray Process Computer Aided Engineering
Structural Systems in Architecture and Civil Engineering	Spatial Structure Systems Earthquake Engineering Stability Theory Reinforced Concrete Structures Steel Structures Wooden Structures Soil Mechanics Infrastructure Systems Planning Study of Structural Systems and Materials

Mechanical Engineering

OOP Design of CAE Software, Computational Fracture Mechanics, Parallel Computing with PC Cluster Heat or fluid-solid coupling stress analysis for shell structures Elastic and non-elastic impact of two equivalent spheres Molecular dynamics simulation of fluid dynamics on contact line Experimental simulation of atmospheric turbulence and control of turbulent shear flows Research on high-speed two-phase flow in energy conversion system Heat-transfer associated with phase change and liquid atomization by gas flow Convective heat transfer and heat transfer augmentation Modeling of combustion phenomena with turbulence and chemical reaction Research focus is on the fundamentals of combustion, with applications in energy and environmental issues Development of combustion technologies for flame stabilization and low emission Development of a hydraulic free piston internal combustion engine Design and analysis on molten-salt nuclear energy systems The research on the dynamic characteristics of small molten salt reactor Research of system identification for control system design Development of control strategy for mechanical and/or robotic systems Development of robust and adaptive control strategies for mechanical systems Robust control of hydraulic servo systems Tribology of heat resisting materials, meta-stable alloys and DLC films Electrostatic liquid filtration

Manufacturing Engineering

Finite element simulation of forming processes Optical finishing of brittle materials by nano-abrasion machining Understanding of flattening and solidification behaviors of sprayed particle to control the thermal spraying process Joining and forming of sintered parts in resistance sintering

Structural Systems in Architecture and Civil Engineering

Stability and ultimate strength of spatial structures, steel shells, and reinforced concrete shells Analysis and design of membrane fabric structures Analysis and design of steel, steel reinforced concrete, CFRP and GFRP structures Analysis and design of wooden structures Bond-slip behavior of reinforcing bars in concrete structures confined with FRP sheets Parallel FEM analysis for dynamic response of saturated soil layers Frequency dependent property of waves in saturated soil Sensing system for strains and deformation in structures Restoration engineering for damaged structures Dynamics and anti-earthquake design Theory of earthquake engineering, stability