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Joichi Sugimura Last modified date:2023.11.22

Post-doctoral Fellow / Machine design
Research Center for Hydrogen Industrial Use and Storage


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Homepage
https://kyushu-u.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/joichi-sugimura
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Tribology and Machine Design Laboratories .
http://www.mech.kyushu-u.ac.jp/e/index.html
Mechanical Engineering Departments .
Phone
092-802-3068
Fax
092-802-3255
Academic Degree
Doctor of Engineering
Country of degree conferring institution (Overseas)
No
Field of Specialization
tribology, machine elements, machine design, hydrogen engineering
ORCID(Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1926-2169
Total Priod of education and research career in the foreign country
01years00months
Outline Activities
His research and educational fields are machine design and tribology. He worked on a variety of roughness-related tribology problems, including running-in, fractal modeling for hydrodynamic lubrication, wear processes, and ultra-thin film lubrication. He also studied non-steady state elastohydrodynamic lubrication in the UK and Japan, to which was awarded 1998 ASME Tribology Division Best Paper Award. His recent interests are hydrogen effects, thin film lubrication with nano and micro texture, fluid transportation in seals, grease lubricatoin, etc. He was the chief of the hydrogen refueling station project, and worked to investigate the accident that occurred in late 2005. He led the hydrogen tribology team for a NEDO project "Fundamental Research Project on Advanced Hydrogen Science" in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
He teaches machine design and descriptive geometry to undergraduates, and tribology and advanced energy engineering in graduate school. He was the head of Department of Mechanical Engineering Science of Graduate School of Engineering from April 2009 to March 2010, the head of Department of Hydrogen Energy Systems of Graduate School of Engineering from April 2010 till March 2011, and from April 2016 to March 2017, and is the director of Research Center for Hydrogen Industrial Use and Storage (HYDROGENIUS) from April 2013. He also worked for National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) as a director of AIST-Kyushu University Hydrogen Materials Laboratory (HydroMate) from January 2017 to March 2021.
He works for academic societies as the member of many committees; Fellow of JSME, and Fellow of STLE. He also takes the role of editor-in-chief for Tribology Online, and associate editors of three other international journals, a board member and a president of the Japanese Society of Tribologists (JAST) in 2020 and 2021.
Research
Research Interests
  • Tribology in hydrogen
    keyword : tribology, hydrogen, lubrication, wear, bearing, seal
    2003.04Tribology in hydrogen environment.
  • Thin film lubrication with multi-scale surface roughness
    keyword : tribology, surface roughness, texture, thin film lubrication, hydrodynamic lubrication, gas, lubricant, optical interferometry
    1998.04Effect of nano surface roughness in thin mixed film lubrication.
  • Mechanics of grease lubrication
    keyword : tribology, grease, lubrication, thickener, non-steady state, multi-phase flow
    2009.04Effects of pavement roughness on rolling-sliding traction of rubber materials.
  • Lubrication and fluid transfer in radial shaft seals
    keyword : tribology, oil seal, surface roughness, sealing, lubrication, gas
    2002.04Mechanisms of lubrication and sealing of rotational shaft seals.
  • Generation of wear particles and worn surfaces
    keyword : tribology, wear, surface roughness
    1999.04Mechanisms of wear particles and surface generation.
Academic Activities
Presentations
1. Joichi Sugimura, Tribology and Materials for Hydrogen Energy Society, 6th World Tribology Congress, 2017.09, Recent advances in tribology and materials for hydrogen applications are overviewed. Important issues on materials include hydrogen embrittlement of metals and blistering and other failures of elastomers. Important issues in tribology include tribochemical reactions at metal surfaces, transfer film formation and hydrogen permeation in solids..
Membership in Academic Society
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers
Educational
Educational Activities
for graduate students:
Tribology
Tribology (JP)
Hydrogen Engineering
Advanced Energy Engieering II
Seminar on hydrogen engineering I
Communication for hydrogen engineering I
Investigation on hydrogen engineering

for undergraduates:
Machine Design I, Machine Design II
Descriptive Geometry I
Japanese Communication
Introduction to Engineering
Social
Professional and Outreach Activities
Fellow Committee Member, STLE, May 2022
President, Japanese Society of Tribologists, May 2020
Director, Kyushu Branch, Japanese Society for Mechanical Engineers March 2020
Editor-in-Chief, Tribology Online, Japanese Society of Tribologists
Technical Editor, Tribology and Lubrication Technology, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, May 2020
Board member, Vice President, Japanese Society of Tribologists
Deputy Director, Kyushu Branch, Japanese Society for Mechanical Engineers March 2019
Chairman of Review Committee of Japanese Society of Tribologists
Vice chairman of International Planning Committee fo Japanese Society of Tribologists
Associate Editor, Journal of Tribology, ASME
Chairman of Organizing Committee, Tribology Kenkyukai, Kyodoyushi
Member of Editorial Board, Tribology International
Member of Editorial Board, Lubrication Science
Chairman, Committee for Information and Publicity, World Tribology Congress 2009
Chairman, Annual Meeting, Kyushu Branch, Japanese Society for Mechanical Engineers Mach 2011
Track Organizer, World Tribology Congress 2013
Chairman, Tribology Conference 2013 Autumn Fukuoka
Editor, Journal of Japanese Society of Tribologists.