Takashi Akasaka

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Takashi Akasaka (1925-2010) was a Japanese engineering professor at Chuo University known for his work on cord-rubber composites and tires. [1]

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Education

Akasaka completed his undergraduate studies during world war II, graduating from the Applied Mathematics Section of the Engineering Department of the University of Tokyo in 1946. He was first in his class in the Astronautics Department but because research in Aeronautical Engineering was prohibited in Japan after the war, the Astronautics Department was reorganized as the Applied Mathematics Department. Not finding employment, Akasaka continued at the University of Tokyo as an assistant to Tsuyoshi Hayashi, who was working on tires. [2] Akasaka received a doctorate degree in 1962 from the University of Tokyo at the age of 37. His dissertation developed a theory of cord-rubber composites based on an assumption of inextensible cords.

Career

Akasaka joined the faculty of Chuo University in 1952 as a lecturer, teaching mathematics. In 1962 he joined the engineering department, teaching mechanics of materials. Along with Joseph Padovan, he was a founding associate editor and the longest serving associate editor of the journal Tire Science and Technology with 36 years. He delivered the 1989 invited plenary address at the Tire Society conference. He retired from the university in 1995 and remained an honorary faculty member.

His most cited work derived analytical equations describing the contact pressure distribution of a radial tire rolling with a camber angle. [3]

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ Yamazaki, S. (March 1, 2011). "In Memory of Takashi Akasaka". Tire Science and Technology. 39 (1): 2–4. doi:10.2346/1.3555110.
  2. ↑ Tsuyoshi, Hayashi (1973). Anniversary Volume of Collected Papers of Tsuyoshi Hayashi: On the Occasion of His 61st Birthday and Retirement from the University of Tokyo. Hokuto Publishing Company.
  3. ↑ Kim, Seoknam; Kondo, Kyohei; Akasaka, Takashi (2000). "Contact pressure distribution of radial tire in motion with camber angle". Tire Science and Technology. 28 (1): 2–32. doi:10.2346/1.2135988.
  4. ↑ McIntyre, James E. III (7 June 2021). "40 Years and More of Tire Science and Technology: A History of The Tire Society". Tire Science and Technology. 50 (2): 100–187. doi:10.2346/tire.21.20015. S2CID   240119323 . Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  5. ↑ "GM tyre/wheel specialist to keynote Tire Society event". European Rubber Journal. Crain. 25 August 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  6. ↑ "30th Annual Meeting and Conference on Tire Science and Technology Program and Abstracts" (PDF). tiresociety.org. the Tire Society. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
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