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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
40
Citations
6198
World Ranking
2029
National Ranking
48

Best Publications

  • Coupled thermal–electrical analysis for carbon fiber/epoxy composites exposed to simulated lightning current

    Toshio Ogasawara;Yoshiyasu Hirano;Akinori Yoshimura

  • Mechanical properties of corrugated composites for candidate materials of flexible wing structures

    Tomohiro Yokozeki;Shin-ichi Takeda;Toshio Ogasawara;Takashi Ishikawa

  • Characterization of multi-walled carbon nanotube/phenylethynyl terminated polyimide composites

    Toshio Ogasawara;Yuichi Ishida;Takashi Ishikawa;Rikio Yokota

  • Experimental characterization of strength and damage resistance properties of thin-ply carbon fiber/toughened epoxy laminates

    Tomohiro Yokozeki;Yuichiro Aoki;Toshio Ogasawara

  • Damage characterization in thin-ply composite laminates under out-of-plane transverse loadings

    Tomohiro Yokozeki;Akiko Kuroda;Akinori Yoshimura;Toshio Ogasawara

  • Mechanical properties of carbon fiber/fullerene-dispersed epoxy composites

    Toshio Ogasawara;Yuichi Ishida;Tetsuo Kasai

  • Direct measurements of interfacial shear strength of multi-walled carbon nanotube/PEEK composite using a nano-pullout method

    Terumasa Tsuda;Toshio Ogasawara;Fei Deng;Nobuo Takeda

  • Mechanical properties of aligned multi-walled carbon nanotube/epoxy composites processed using a hot-melt prepreg method

    Toshio Ogasawara;Sook-Young Moon;Yoku Inoue;Yoshinobu Shimamura

  • Stress–strain behavior of multi-walled carbon nanotube/PEEK composites

    Toshio Ogasawara;Terumasa Tsuda;Nobuo Takeda

  • Negative axial thermal expansion coefficient of carbon nanotubes: Experimental determination based on measurements of coefficient of thermal expansion for aligned carbon nanotube reinforced epoxy composites

    Keiichi Shirasu;Go Yamamoto;Itaru Tamaki;Toshio Ogasawara

  • Helium gas permeability of montmorillonite/epoxy nanocomposites

    Toshio Ogasawara;Yuichi Ishida;Takashi Ishikawa;Takahira Aoki

  • Potential use of CNTs for production of zero thermal expansion coefficient composite materials: An experimental evaluation of axial thermal expansion coefficient of CNTs using a combination of thermal expansion and uniaxial tensile tests

    Keiichi Shirasu;Akihiro Nakamura;Go Yamamoto;Toshio Ogasawara

  • Nonlinear behavior and compressive strength of unidirectional and multidirectional carbon fiber composite laminates

    Tomohiro Yokozeki;Toshio Ogasawara;Takashi Ishikawa

  • Interleaved MWCNT buckypaper between CFRP laminates to improve through-thickness electrical conductivity and reducing lightning strike damage

    Vipin Kumar;Sushant Sharma;Abhishek Pathak;Bhanu P. Singh

  • Lightning strike damage behavior of carbon fiber reinforced epoxy, bismaleimide, and polyetheretherketone composites

    Shintaro Kamiyama;Yoshiyasu Hirano;Takao Okada;Toshio Ogasawara

  • Effects of layup angle and ply thickness on matrix crack interaction in contiguous plies of composite laminates

    Tomohiro Yokozeki;Takahira Aoki;Toshio Ogasawara;Takashi Ishikawa

  • Simple constitutive model for nonlinear response of fiber-reinforced composites with loading-directional dependence

    Tomohiro Yokozeki;Shinji Ogihara;Shunsuke Yoshida;Toshio Ogasawara

  • Effect of through-thickness electrical conductivity of CFRPs on lightning strike damages

    Vipin Kumar;Tomohiro Yokozeki;Takao Okada;Yoshiyasu Hirano

  • Experimental characterization of high-speed impact damage behavior in a three-dimensionally woven SiC/SiC composite

    Keiji Ogi;Tomonaga Okabe;Manabu Takahashi;Shigeki Yashiro

  • Correction method for evaluation of interfacial fracture toughness of DCB, ENF and MMB specimens with residual thermal stresses

    Tomohiro Yokozeki;Toshio Ogasawara;Takahira Aoki

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