Research Items

Research carried out by:
(person in charge)

1. Development of General Management Guide
�@Development of main system for the Materials Risk Information Platform

-National Institute for Materials Science (Koichi Yagi)
-Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
(Jun Nobe)

　(2) Technology and Society

-Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
(Yoshiyuki Tsuji)

-The Society of Non-Traditional Technology
(Emiko Kanoshima) [Holonomy Research Organization]

2-1　Technological developments related to materials risk

�@Study of materials degradation and damage through reproduction of an actual use environment
　(1) Proposal of high-accuracy life prediction method

　(2) Risk management technology with reproduction of failure accident under actual use conditions

-National Institute for Materials Science
(Kazuhiro Kimura)

-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries., Ltd.
(Nobuyoshi Komai)

�AResearch on materials-use case database
　(1) Microstructure and damage database

　(2) Development of materials accident case database

-Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
(Akito Nitta, Terutaka Fujioka)

2-2　Research on design and operation

�@Rational setting of safety factors and allowable stress
　(1)Study on setting of safety factor/allowable stress
　

　
　(2)Development of allowable stress database

- Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
(Kouichi Maruyama [Tohoku University])
　

-High Pressure Institute of Japan
(Shigemitsu Kihara [Best Materia Co., Ltd.])

�AResearch into equipment diagnostic support systems

　(1)Equipment diagnostic support systems
　

　(2)Maintenance of remaining life assessment database for boiler equipments

�BDevelopment of severe environment materials risk avoidance technology

-The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering
(Shinsuke Sakai)

-National Institute for Materials Science
(Toshio Ogata)