This chair was established in 1989 as the ‘Chair of Technology of Plasticity’ in the Institute of Industrial Science, which at that time stood at Roppongi. The name of the Chair was changed as ‘CHF: Chair of Hyper-functional Forming’ in 1997, and moved to Komaba in 2001, and, in 2018, moved again to Hongo and belongs to the department of mechanical engineering, graduate school of engineering. Number of staffs and members of this chair is 16; 10 graduate students, 2 research fellows, one secretariat, 2 research associates, and one Professor.

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In the main campus in Komaba, we have 2500/500KN hydraulic press, ultrahigh-speed compression testing machine, multi-stage hot compression testing machine, 200kN rolling mill, vacuum sintering furnace, induction heating system, high-temperature SEM with EDS, optical microscopes, and 1000kN materials testing machines. Other facilities, such as six machining devices, high-speed hydraulic press, cam-plastometer, 1000kN lateral extrusion press and electric furnace, are located at our satellite campus in Chiba.This chair has above facilities, to enable the consistent forming experiment from the raw material to the product.

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他大学の卒業論文生、修士学生を受け入れる制度があり、また、民間企業の研究員の随時受け入れも行っております。研究室設立以来、20名程度の民間企業技術者を「受託研究員」「民間等との共同研究員」などで受け入れております。

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