The Plaston Concept

Isao Tanaka Isao Tanaka is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Kyoto University in Japan. He has joint appointments as a director of the Center for Elements Strategy Initiative for Structural Materials (ESISM), Kyoto University, Japan, a senior chief researcher of Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC), Nagoya, Japan. His research area covers first principles theory and experiments in the field of inorganic materials science. He got international awards including Philip Franz von Siebold Prize from German Government in 2008 and Richard M. Fulrath Award from American Ceramics Society in 2004. He is an associate editor of the Journal of American Ceramics Society. Nobuhiro Tsuji is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Kyoto University, Japan since 2009, after working as an assistant professor and associate professor in Osaka University, Japan, for 15 years. He is a principal investigatorof the Center for Elements Strategy Initiative for Structural Materials (ESISM), Kyoto University, Japan. His research area is physical and mechanical metallurgy of structural metallic materials including steels and non-ferrous alloys. He has energetically studied structural evolution and mechanical properties of bulk nanostructured metals. He got the 5th JSPS Award from Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 2009, the Lee Hsun Lecture Award from Chinese Academy of Science, Institute for Metals Research in 2018, and so on.   Haruyuki Inui is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Kyoto University in Japan. He has a joint appointment at the Center for Elements Strategy Initiative for Structural Materials (ESISM), Kyoto University, Japan. His research area covers the understanding of fundamentals of mechanical properties in various metallic materials including intermetallics and high-entropy alloys on a wide length-scales basedon dislocation theory. He has served as an editor of the Journal of Intermetallics, an associate editor of the journal of Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, and also President of Japan Institute of Metals and Materials..

Part I. Introduction.- 1. Plaston induced plasticity in bulk nanostructured metals.- Part II. Simulation of plaston and plaston induced phenomena.- 2. Nucleation of plaston at surface and interface of metallic materials.- 3. Atomistic study of plaston in nanostructured metals.- 4. First principles calculations of collective motion of atoms in metals.- 5. Machine learning interatomic potentials with controlled accuracy.- 6. First principles calculations of dislocation cores in HCP metals.- Part III. Experimental analyses of plaston.- 7. STEM observation of plaston in alumina.- 8. Micro-pillar deformation experiments of brittle intermetallics in steel.- 9. Nano-indentation study of steels.- 10. Synchrotron x-ray study on plaston in metals.- 11. Improvement of fatigue lifetime by controlling plaston at crack tip.- Part IV. Design and development of high performance structural materials.- 12. Development of bulk nanostructured steels.- 13. Design and development of high Mn steels.- 14. Design and development novel magnesium alloys.