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Hidekazu Murakawa

Hidekazu Murakawa

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
44
Citations
8306
World Ranking
1600
National Ranking
33

Overview

Hidekazu Murakawa is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and specializes in engineering, particularly within the subfields of mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, civil and structural engineering, automotive engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The primary focus of Murakawa's research includes welding techniques and residual stresses, fatigue and fracture mechanics, advanced welding techniques analysis, non-destructive testing techniques, numerical methods in engineering, surface treatment and residual stress, and advanced machining processes and optimization.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Murakawa are:

  • Naoki Osawa
  • Ninshu Ma
  • Sherif Rashed
  • Dean Deng
  • Yukio Ueda

Common venues for publications include:

  • QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN WELDING SOCIETY
  • Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics
  • Journal of the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers
  • Welding International
  • Journal of Constructional Steel Research

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Murakawa cover various aspects of welding and fatigue crack growth, including:

  • Toward large-scale simulation of residual stress and distortion in wire and arc additive manufacturing, 2020, Additive manufacturing
  • Investigation of thickness and welding residual stress effects on fatigue crack growth, 2022, Journal of Constructional Steel Research
  • Thickness and weld orientation effects on fatigue crack growth after a single tensile overload, 2023, International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
  • Numerical investigation on the effect of thickness and stress level on fatigue crack growth in notched specimens, 2021, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics
  • Prediction of the fatigue curve of high-strength steel resistance spot welding joints by finite element analysis and machine learning, 2023, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Best Publications

  • Numerical simulation of temperature field and residual stress in multi-pass welds in stainless steel pipe and comparison with experimental measurements

    Dean Deng;Hidekazu Murakawa

  • Prediction of welding distortion and residual stress in a thin plate butt-welded joint

    Dean Deng;Hidekazu Murakawa

  • Numerical simulation of welding distortion in large structures

    Dean Deng;Hidekazu Murakawa;Wei Liang

  • Determination of welding deformation in fillet-welded joint by means of numerical simulation and comparison with experimental measurements

    Dean Deng;Wei Liang;Hidekazu Murakawa

  • Prediction of welding residual stress in multi-pass butt-welded modified 9Cr–1Mo steel pipe considering phase transformation effects

    Dean Deng;Hidekazu Murakawa

  • Influence of thermo-mechanical material properties of different steel grades on welding residual stresses and angular distortion

    Ayjwat A. Bhatti;Ayjwat A. Bhatti;Zuheir Barsoum;Zuheir Barsoum;Hidekazu Murakawa;Imad Barsoum;Imad Barsoum

  • Numerical and experimental investigations on welding residual stress in multi-pass butt-welded austenitic stainless steel pipe

    Dean Deng;Hidekazu Murakawa;Wei Liang

  • Measurement of residual stress in arc welded lap joints by cosα X-ray diffraction method

    Jian Lin;Ninshu Ma;Yongping Lei;Hidekazu Murakawa

  • FEM prediction of buckling distortion induced by welding in thin plate panel structures

    Dean Deng;Hidekazu Murakawa

  • Applications of inherent strain and interface element to simulation of welding deformation in thin plate structures

    Hidekazu Murakawa;Dean Deng;Ninshu Ma;Jiangchao Wang

  • Toward large-scale simulation of residual stress and distortion in wire and arc additive manufacturing

    Hui Huang;Ninshu Ma;Jian Chen;Zhili Feng

  • Influence of transformation induced plasticity on simulated results of welding residual stress in low temperature transformation steel

    Dean Deng;Hidekazu Murakawa

  • Numerical analysis of the competitive influence of Marangoni flow and evaporation on heat surface temperature and molten pool shape in laser surface remelting

    Y.P. Lei;Hidekazu Murakawa;Y.W. Shi;X.Y. Li

  • Finite element analysis of temperature field, microstructure and residual stress in multi-pass butt-welded 2.25Cr–1Mo steel pipes

    Dean Deng;Hidekazu Murakawa

  • Actual application of FEM to analysis of large scale mechanical problems in welding

    H. Nishikawa;H. Serizawa;H. Murakawa

  • Investigation of welding residual stress in flash-butt joint of U71Mn rail steel by numerical simulation and experiment

    Ninshu Ma;Zhipeng Cai;Hui Huang;Dean Deng

  • Effect of jig constraint position and pitch on welding deformation

    Ninshu Ma;Hui Huang;Hidekazu Murakawa

  • Prediction of welding distortion in a curved plate structure by means of elastic finite element method

    Dean Deng;Hidekazu Murakawa;Wei Liang

  • Numerical prediction and mitigation of out-of-plane welding distortion in ship panel structure by elastic FE analysis

    Jiangchao Wang;Jiangchao Wang;Sherif Rashed;Hidekazu Murakawa;Yu Luo

  • Mechanism investigation of welding induced buckling using inherent deformation method

    Jiangchao Wang;Sherif Rashed;Hidekazu Murakawa

  • Prediction of welding deformation and residual stress by elastic FEM based on inherent strain. Report 1: Mechanism of inherent strain production

    Yu Luo;Hidekazu Murakawa;Yukio Ueda;村川 英一

  • Prediction of Welding Deformation and Residual Stress by Elastic FEM Based on Inherent Strain (Report I)

    Y. Luo;Hidekazu Murakawa;Yukio Ueda

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianxun Zhang
Jianxun Zhang Xi'an Jiaotong University
Yufeng Sun
Yufeng Sun Zhengzhou University
Hidetoshi Fujii
Hidetoshi Fujii Osaka University
Kamran Nikbin
Kamran Nikbin Imperial College London
Zhili Feng
Zhili Feng Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kiyoshi Nogi
Kiyoshi Nogi Osaka University
Seiji Katayama
Seiji Katayama Osaka University
Minlin Zhong
Minlin Zhong Tsinghua University
Satoyuki Tanaka
Satoyuki Tanaka Kagoshima University
David Dye
David Dye Imperial College London

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