Japanese Activities on Aerospace Structures

Kyohei Kondo
Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Tokyo
President, The Japanese Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics

Sponsored by: Center for Materials Research and Analysis and the Department of Engineering Mechanics

Date:  Friday, April 16, 1999
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  W128 Nebraska Hall


The size of Japan's aerospace industry is still small compared to its automobile, electronic appliances, and electronics industries. It is approximate in scale to the aerospace industries of Great Britain or France, and one tenth the aerospace industry of the U.S.A. Some of the current aerospace products in Japan are reviewed and related structural issues are addressed in this presentation with the emphasis on composite materials.