Information About

Toshio Mura Professor Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road, Rm. A160 Evanston, IL 60208-3111, USA TEL: 847-491-3218 FAX: 847-491-3915 t-mura@northwestern.edu link to research site BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo(19XX) MS Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo(19XX) PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo(19XX)

Research: Fracture and fatigue; nondestructive measurement; composite materials; thin films

Professor Mura is interested in micromechanics of solids, where mechanics of materials is studied. Examples of micromechanics are theories on fracture and fatigue of materials, mathematical analysis for dislocations and inclusions in solids, mechanical characterization of thin films, ceramics and composite materials. Professor Mura is also interested in the inverse problems. His research aims to predict inelastic damages in solids by knowing surface displacements on the surface of the solids, including prediction of earthquake by knowing the earth surface. The inverse problems play an important role in qualitative nondestructive evaluation of materials. Most of Professor Mura's research is mathematically oriented but cooperative with experiments in mechanics and materials science.

Selected publications

Mura, T. 1969. Mathematical theory of dislocations. Proceedings of ASME Symposium, Northwestern University.

Mura, T. 1981. Mechanics of fatigue. AMD-Vol. 47. Proceedings of ASME Symposium.

Mura, T. 1987. Micromechanics of defects in solids (2nd ed.). The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff.

Mura, T., and T. Koya. 1992. Variational methods in mechanics. Oxford University Press.