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Koji Gotoh, Professor
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The Production Systems Engineering Lab studies techniques for building large steel structures, such as ships and offshore structures, by welding, as well as the strength of those structures. Large welded structures must be finished into the intended shape while minimizing the loss of strength caused by welding and fabrication. Cracks can form under loads applied repeatedly during use and can lead to fracture, so clarifying the mechanisms of fatigue and fracture is an important issue. The targets are not limited to ships, but extend to steel bridges, steel frames of buildings, gas pipelines, construction machinery, and automobiles.
Hajime Kimura, Professor
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The Systems Planning Lab researches building systems that use artificial intelligence and robotics to support design and work in naval architecture and ocean engineering. In addition to basic shipbuilding engineering, the lab approaches its research from the standpoint of other fields, such as systems engineering and intelligent and information engineering. The lab aims to train people who, when facing a technical challenge, proactively introduce IT from other fields, especially systems engineering, and can devise and implement novel and rational solutions that have not existed before. The lab is housed in the endowed chair for human resource development in naval architecture and ocean engineering.
Jun Ando, Professor
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To improve ship propulsive performance, the Marine Fluid Engineering Lab studies the flow around ships, the flow created by propulsors, and the hydrodynamic forces acting on them. With global warming, CO2 emissions from ships are being strictly limited, and fuel efficiency, that is, propulsive performance, is becoming more important. The lab develops computational numerical methods and conducts model tests in a high-speed circulating water channel. Main research themes include the development of energy-saving rudders, propeller cavitation and pressure fluctuations at the stern, and propeller shape optimization.
Yoshitaka Furukawa, Professor
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The Ship and Ocean Motion Control Engineering Lab conducts research to establish methods for estimating the hydrodynamic characteristics and motion performance of ships and floating structures. The lab believes that, to operate ships safely and prevent the loss of life and pollution of the global environment caused by marine accidents, it is important to design and build ships and floating structures with excellent motion performance. Its research is based on theoretical calculations grounded in fluid dynamics and control engineering, and on model tests conducted in a ship motion performance test tank. The lab applies these results with the aim of developing ships that navigate autonomously, appropriately controlling their motion based on surrounding environmental conditions.
Daisuke Yanagihara, Professor
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The Structural Systems Engineering Lab studies how large structures such as ships and offshore structures deform under force and how much they can withstand. From the standpoint of structural mechanics and structural strength, the lab uses numerical analysis and experimental techniques to investigate static and dynamic deformation and strength. The lab also develops techniques for estimating the external forces that act under severe waves, which is important for safety assessment, and examines structural configurations that excel in safety and economy. Every day, the lab advances research aimed at "determining the safety of large structures."
Satoru Yamaguchi, Associate Professor
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The Ship Design and Marine Environmental Informatics Lab studies ship design based on how ships move in the real marine environment, as well as the development of underwater robots for observation and exploration and the control of their motion. For relatively small ships used on remote island routes and for leisure, excessive motion in waves is a problem, and autonomous control of that motion is seen as a challenge for the future. The lab also works on developing glider-type underwater vehicles and fish-like robots that use new types of propulsion mechanisms.
Takashi Tanaka, Associate Professor
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The Functional Systems Engineering Lab studies the design and evaluation needed to make the fullest use of functions such as transportation, production, and artificial structures for utilizing ocean space. The research covers the functional design and environmental design that marine systems should have, and optimal design in which the whole system integrates and harmonizes with the human system. The faculty members' researcher profiles list topics such as ventilation design for engine rooms of ships using alternative fuels, automation of painting processes, noise control in ship accommodation areas, and observation of work in shipyards.
Tomoaki Utsunomiya, Professor
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The Ocean Energy Resources Engineering Lab is advancing technology development (research toward practical application) for floating offshore wind power and floating ocean thermal energy conversion. The potential of offshore wind energy is enormous, and with carbon neutrality by 2050 as the goal, full-scale deployment is about to move forward in Japan as well. Looking overseas, ocean thermal energy conversion also has extremely large potential. The lab belongs to the Marine Systems Design Chair of the Marine Systems Engineering Division.
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