Masao Sakane

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Email: sakanem@se.ritsumei.ac.jp

Prof. Masao Sakane was awarded the M.E. and the ph.D degrees from Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan in 1974 and 1979, respectively. He joined Ritsumeikan University in 1976 and became a full professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1994. His research interests are low cycle fatigue, creep, creep-fatigue, constitutive modeling for electronic and conventional structural materials and inverse problem of indentation hardness under uniaxial and multiaxial stress states. He served as a chairman of the Society of Materials Science for 2013-2014 and as a dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering at Ritsumeikan University for 2007-2012. He was awarded Fellow from Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2003 and other several awards. He published more than 200 papers relating to his expertise.