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Technology Creation and Collaboration Lab
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The lab creates new manufacturing technologies through composite material simulation and reliability evaluation.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating new technology through cross-disciplinary collaboration
The Technology Creation and Collaboration Lab advances the creation of new technology through interdisciplinary integration and industry-academia collaboration, centered on composite materials engineering, reliability engineering, and engineering education.
The lab works on evaluating the mechanical properties of advanced composite materials, easily dismantlable adhesive joining of dissimilar materials, reliability evaluation of items such as hydrogen tanks, and disaster simulation.
Placement of fourth-year undergraduates is limited to students in the Production Science Course of the Department of Applied Science and Engineering, and the lab accepts graduate students through the Division of Business Engineering.
On the lab's website, the lab is introduced under the name "Kurashiki Lab."
Key terms
- Advanced fiber-reinforced composites
- Composite materials reinforced with fibers; an example of materials with high strength, high stiffness, and light weight.
- Image-based analysis
- A method that builds a numerical analysis model of bone from CT images and evaluates the shape design, strength, and stiffness of artificial joints.
- Disaster simulation
- A simulation that captures, in a digital space-time on a computer, everything from the outbreak and spread of a disaster to the effect of disaster prevention.
NewsLab news
Prof. Kurashiki and colleagues received the Engineering Education Award from the Japanese Society for Engineering Education
A doctoral student received the Best Conference Paper Award at the International Conference on Knowledge Innovation and Invention 2025
A master's student received the Best Student Poster Award at the Canada-Japan Workshop on Composites
A master's student received the Best Poster Presentation Award and the Student Encouragement Award at the annual meeting of the Textile Machinery Society of Japan
A visiting faculty member received the Paper Award of the Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research and development on simulation techniques and new technologies for creating new technology in manufacturing across a wide range of fields, including materials, biomedical engineering, energy and environment, electronics, and disaster prevention and risk, with cross-disciplinary collaboration as its keyword. Examples of its research include evaluating the mechanical properties of advanced composite materials, image-based simulation of living bodies, and disaster simulation of major earthquakes in large cities.
*Illustrative imageMechanical property evaluation of advanced composite materials
Advanced fiber-reinforced composites have many design factors because of their complex geometry, in which fiber bundles interlace. To create reinforcing fiber structures that meet requirements, the lab develops simulation and experimental methods for evaluating mechanical properties.
*Illustrative imageImage-based simulation of living bodies
The lab aims to create custom-made artificial joints that fit a patient's skeleton perfectly. It carries out image-based analysis, in which an analysis model of bone is built from CT images and used for shape design and strength and stiffness evaluation, for areas such as the hip joint.
*Illustrative imageDisaster simulation of major earthquakes in large cities
To reduce human and material damage when a major earthquake strikes the Greater Tokyo Area or the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe (Keihanshin) region, the lab develops simulations that support estimating damage and optimizing response. Focusing on disasters at chemical plants, it makes it possible to understand on a computer everything from the outbreak and spread of a disaster to the effect of disaster prevention.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kurashiki Lab are faculty members, visiting faculty members and visiting researchers, project researchers, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students (including working-adult students and students in a double degree program with the Graduate School of Economics).As of 2025
- ProfessorTetsusei Kurashiki
- Assistant ProfessorKazutaka Mukaiyama
- Project ProfessorHiroshi Ishimaru
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Carbon fiber heating structure by TFP (2)” Xabier.irastorza / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Mechanical property evaluation of advanced composite materials: “Carbonsheetwiki1” Racingjeff / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Image-based simulation of living bodies: “Hip replacement Image 3684-PH” X-ray Image ID: 3684. Photographer: Unknown. / Public domain (cropped)
- Disaster simulation of major earthquakes in large cities: “PIA15374 NASA’s Damage Proxy Map to Assist with Italy Earthquake Disaster Response, Figure 1” NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/DigitalGlobe/Copernicus / Public domain (cropped)
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