Toshio Nakamura
Professor
Address
137 Light Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2300
Contact Info
Phone: (631) 632-8312
Fax: (631) 632-8544
Email: Toshio.Nakamura@stonybrook.edu
Personal Web Page
Education
- Brown University, Ph.D. 1986
- Brown University, M.S. 1983
- Brown University, B.S. 1981
Professional Experience
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, 87 - present
- Senior Fellow, National University of Singapore, 97-98
- Visiting Research Fellow: Tokyo Institute of Technology, 94-94
Research Interests and History
Toshio Nakamura's research area is in the computational stress and fracture analysis
of various materials and structures. His studies include the detailed stress and failure
investigation of multi-phase materials used in electronic packaging, failure mechanisms
of laminated structures, and development of nonlinear constitutive equation of composite
solids. Recent research activities also cover the investigations of various mechanical
aspects of thermally sprayed coatings. Nakamura has organized several fracture and
FGM symposiums and is the Chair of Fracture and Failure Committee (1999-01) in Applied
Mechanics Division of ASME. He was a senior participant of NSF MRSEC Center on Thermal
Spray at Stony Brook. Nakamura was a visiting research fellow at Tokyo Institute of
Technology for seven months in 1993, and spent six month as a senior fellow at the
National University of Singapore with the joint appoint with the Institute of Material
Research and Engineering in 1997. He has received Ross Coffin Purdy Award from the
American Ceramic Society in 1992 and authored/co-authored over forty research articles
in journals and proceedings.