Joining Engineering
Welding and joining are employed widely as fundamental manufacturing technologies in a wide variety of fields, such as transportation equipment, including automobiles, ships, and railway vehicles; public infrastructure, such as electric power, oil, and chemical plants, construction, bridges, and pipelines; and home appliances and electronics. A challenge that all these industries are facing is to ensure that new products utilizing new materials meet performance requirements for achieving SDGs. Successfully meeting this challenge requires an approach to welding and joining that is integrated in terms of processes, materials science, and structural design, and that makes ample use of data science. To tackle these initiatives in this field of Joining Engineering, we formed the “Education and Research Base for Innovative Joining”, the only joining education and research environment in the world. This also serves to train joining specialists through research activities based on the new academic discipline of “integrated joining science.”
Researchers List
Co-Group Leader TANAKA Manabu
Professor
Joining and Welding Research Institute（Executive Vice President）
Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science
