IROAST Visiting Professor Paul BOWEN (University of Birmingham, UK), his host faculty, Professor MINE (FAST, Kumamoto University), and Distinguished Professor Kazuki TAKASHIMA (Director of IROAST), have published a new collaborative paper online titled "Effects of crystallographic orientation and lamellar configuration on fatigue crack propagation in single-colony structures of Ti–6Al–4V alloy: Alternating shear crack growth vs. damage accumulation crack propagation”, and that paper has been posted on the Publications webpage as an achievement of IROAST.
This is also a result achievement of the IROAST Research Cluster “Advanced Structural Materials” coordinated by Dr. MINE.
*FAST: Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University