Dr. Nonaka, Honorary Retirement Professor at Kyoto University, gave lectures in key labs and gave lectures
Release Date: 2010-04-27
At the invitation of the State Key Laboratory of Explosive Science and Technology (Beijing Institute of Technology) and funded by the School Intelligence Initiative, Dr. Taijiro Nonaka, a renowned expert on the structure of buildings in Japan and Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University in Japan, from November 16 to 12, 2008 On the 15th of this month, he gave a lecture at our school and taught undergraduates 48 courses of the course "Inelasticity and Plastic Structures." Prof. Nonaka first started with the basic concepts of elasticity, plasticity, and viscosity of structural materials, systematically introduced the strength and stability analysis of various structures in buildings using limit analysis theory, and further introduced the response of building structures under impact loads. .
In addition, Prof. Nonaka gave an academic report on “Dynamic Failure and Failure Modes of Buildings” and “Research on Mechanical Behavior of Steel Structures under the Effect of Disaster Loads” on December 5 and 9, respectively. In the first report, taking the collapse of the World Trade Center in September 11th as an example, various failure modes of high-rise buildings such as beams, columns, and steel frames were analyzed in detail from aspects of mechanical modeling and numerical simulation. The damage effects of wing and engine on building load-bearing structures were studied. The second report mainly discusses the shear failure mode of steel structures under blast loading and the closed solution of components under cyclic axial loads. With the large number of engineering examples in the Kobe Earthquake, the longitudinal waves of columns under earthquakes are studied. Communication problems, etc.
Prof. Nonaka received a doctoral degree from Brown University in 1964 and became a professor at Kyoto University in 1979. After graduating from Kyoto University in 2000, he was appointed as a full professor at Central University in Japan from 2000 to 2007. Due to his outstanding academic contributions, Professor Nonaka received many academic awards and became a lifelong academic member of the Japan Institute of Architectural Research and the Japan Structural Advisory Committee.
