Steel and metal materials are major materials that make up social infrastructure. The high-tech future society, where the importance of environment and energy efficiency is emphasized, requires the development of materials for infrastructure that require extreme physical properties, ultra-light weight, high strength, and high functionality. Materials for construction, bridges, wind power generation, polar marine structural steel, high-strength building materials for high-rise buildings, pipelines for oil transportation, and materials for future hyper loopers, materials for infrastructure connect the past, present, and future societies.
The Graduate School of Steel Energy and Materials is taking the lead in developing materials that can realize the extreme physical properties required in the future society based on the analysis of the correlation between microstructure and physical properties for materials for infrastructure that require different properties depending on the scope of application.