Osaka University, Japan, B.S. Metallurgy, 1969
Osaka University, Japan, M.S. Metallurgy, 1971
Osaka University., Japan, Ph. D. Materials Science, 1975
Research Collaboration
With Dr. Easo P. George, Metals and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA to study the grain boundary properties of Ni3Al.
Selected publications
T.Hirano: "Improvement of Room
Temperature Ductility of Stoichiometric Ni3Al
by Unidirectional Solidification" Acta metall. mater., 38(1990),2667-2671.
T.Hirano: "Tensile Ductility of Stoichiometric
Ni3Al Grown by Unidirectional Solidification" Scripta metall. mater., 25(1991),1747-1750.
M. Demura and T. Hirano: "Stress response by the strain-rate change in binary, stoichiometric Ni3Al single crystal"
Phil. Mag. Lett.,75(1997),143-148.
E. P. Geroge, M. Imai, and T. Hirano: "Effect of alloy stoichiometry
on grain boundary chemistry and fracture behavior of directionally
solidified Ni3Al" Intermetallics,
5(1997),425-432.
D. Golberg,
M. Demura and T. Hirano: "Compressive flow
stress of a binary stoichiometric Ni3Al
single crystal" Scripta mater.,
37(1997),1777-1782.
D. Golberg,
M. Demura and T. Hirano: "Single Crystal
Growth and Characterization of Binary Sotichiometric
and Al-rich Ni3Al", J. Cryst. Growth,
186(1998),624-628.
D. Golberg,
M. Demura and T. Hirano: "Effect of Al-rich
off-stoichiometry on the yield stress of Binary
Ni3Al single crystals", Acta
Mater., 46(1998),2695-2703.
T. Hirano, M. Demura,
E. P. George, and O. Umezawa: "Fabrication
of large-Grained binary sotichiometric Ni3Al",
Scripta Mater., 40(1999),63-69.
T. Hirano, D. Golberg,
and M. Demura: "Compliance to Scmidt Law in the Stress Anomaly Regime of Binary Stoichiometric Ni3Al", Acta mater. 47(1999),3441-3446
M. Demura
Y. Suga, O. Umezawa,
K. Kishida, E. P. George and T. Hirano:
"Fabrication of Ni3Al Thin Foil by Cold Rolling", Intermetallics, 9(2001),157-167.
H.Borodians'ka, M.Demura, K.Kishida and T.Hirano: "Fabrication of
Thin Foils of Binary Ni-Al gamma/gamma' Two Phase Alloys by Cold Rolling" Intermetallics, 10(2002),255-262.
J. Q. Su, M. Demura and T. Hirano:
"Grain-boundary Fracture Strength in Ni3Al Bicrystals"
Philo. Mag. A, 82(2002),1541-1557.
M.Demura, K.Kishida, T. Hirano and Y.Suga: "Room-temperature Mechanical Properties of Cold-rolled
Foils of Binary, Stoichiometric Ni3Al" Met. Mater. Transactions A, accepted for publication.
M.Demura, K.Kishida, Y.Suga, M.Takanashi and T. Hirano:
"Fabrication of
Very Thin and Wide Ni3Al Foils by Cold-rolling" Scripta Mater. Transactions
A, accepted for publication.