Date and Place of Birth : Feb. 4, 1951 Japan
BS (Civil), Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1974.
MS (Eng. Mech.), University of Texas at Austin, 1975.
Ph.D. (Eng. Mech.), University of Texas at Austin, 1977.
Professor 1985 -
Associate Professor 1983 - 1985
Assistant Professor 1980 - 1983
Post Doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, Jan. -Aug. 1978.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, 1979-80.
Ph. D. Committees Chaired : 42 Ph.D. students by May 1998
Major Research Accomplishments
Computational Mechanics Laboratory, established by N.K., has been a world leading laboratory for research on the adaptive finite element method including automatic mesh generation and re-meshing schemes for nonlinear problems in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics, for developing mico-mechanical models for surface unilateral contact friction, for analysis and simulation of metal and sheet-metal forming processes, for shape optimization of elastic structures, for topology and generalized layout optimization using the homogenization design method that is regarded as a break through method in design, for the homogenization method in mechanics of composites including various bio-mechanical materials such as bones and tissues, for simulation of liquid molding processes for forming composite materials which can be further processed by a new thermal-molding, and for design of piezoceramic micostructure as well as piezoelectric actuators to realize smart structures and materials.
He has been working with major US federal government funding agencies such as NSF, ONR, AFOSR, US Army TACOM, NASA, and NIH, while he keeps industrial research programs with world-wide automotive industry.
Publications :
More than 10 papers have regularly presented in conferences per year for last 15 years.More than 150 papers have been published
Shorter Communications, Letters, Notes or Briefs in Refereed Publications
More than 10 invited lectures in conferences, universities, and industries per year for last 10 years.
Refereed Conference or Symposium Presentations ( only after 1990 )
Texbooks & Monographs
Kikuchi, N., and J.T. Oden, Contact Problems in Linear Elasticity, SIAM (Society of Industrialand Applied Mathematics), Philadelphia, 1987.
Kikuchi, N., Finite Element Methods in Mechanics,Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Chapters in Monographs
More than 50 articles have been published in monographs.
Member of the Committee on Computing in Applied Mechanics, ASME, from 1981
Reviewer, Applied Mechanics Reviews, ASME, from 1979
Member of International Advisory Committee, International Association of Computational Mechanics, from 1992
TICOM Scholarship, The University of Texas at Austin, 1977.
Incentive Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineering, 1981.
ARCO Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, from ARCO Oil and Gas Company 198l.
Outstanding Teaching Award, 1982, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan
Distinguished Service Award, Class of 1983, College of Engineering, The University of Michigan
The Henry Russel Award, 1985, The University of Michigan
Distinguished Research Award, 1991, Engineering College, The University of Michigan
Outstanding Research Award, 1993, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan
The Best Paper Award from ASME Design and Automation Conference in 1993, American Society of Mechanical Engineers