Feb., 1971:
　Born in Tottori, Japan.
March, 1989:
　Graduated from Yonago-Higashi High School, Tottori.
March, 1993:
　Graduated from Dept. of Welding & Production Engineering, Osaka Univ.
March, 1995:
　Completed the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Univ.
　(the degree of master of engineering)
April, 1996 〜 March, 1997:
　Research Fellow of the Japan Sciety for the Promotion Science
March, 1997:
　Completed the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Univ.
　(the degree of doctor of engineering)
April, 1997:
　Research Associate, Osaka Univ.
April, 2004 〜 present:
　Associate Professor, Osaka Univ.

1. Risk Estimation of Chemical Plant Considering for Diffusion of Gas, Heat Radiation and Explosion Pressure.
2. Study on Damage Development of Advanced Composites.
3. Estimation of Fatigue Life based on Statistical Model.

The Society of Materials Science, Japan
The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
The Textile Machinery Society of Japan
Japan Welding Society
Japan Society for Safety Enginnering

Doctor degree of engineering (Osaka Univ.)
Title: "Risk and Reliability Estimation of Chemical Plant based on Disaster Simulation of Chemical Plant"
（March, 1997）

• Tetsusei Kurashiki, Masaru Zako, Atsushi Ishii, Satoshi Hanaki and Munehiko Sugitani, "Study on Evaluation Method of Thermal Fatigue Life for BGA Solder", J. of JSMS, Vol.52, No.5, pp.535-540, (2003)

  Masaru Zako, Tetsusei Kurashiki, Atsushi Ishii, and Toshiki Matsuoka, "Study on Ionic Migration Resistance for Printed Wiring Board", J. of JSMS, Vol.52, No.5, pp.529-534, (2003)

• Masaru Zako, Yasutomo Uetsuji and Tetsusei Kurashiki, Finite Element Analysis of Damaged Woven Fabric Composite Materials", Composites Science and Technology, Vol.63, pp.507-516 (2003).

• Satoshi Hanaki, Yasuhiro Iwao, Masato Yamashita, Hitoshi Uchida, Masaru Zako and Tetsusei Kurashiki, "On a Decision Method of the S-N Curve Based on Fatigue Strength Distribution", J. of JSMS, Vol.52, No.1, pp.23-27, (2003)

• Masaru Zako, Tetsusei Kurashiki, Satoshi Hanaki, Hiroaki Nakai, Atsuji Ito and Masao Fukuda, "Evaluation on Fatigue Characteristics of Thin Plates for Diaphragms", Material Science Research International, Vol.8, No.3, pp.122-127, (2002).

• Masaru Zako, Tetsusei Kurashiki, Satoshi Hanaki, Hiroaki Nakai, Atsuji Ito and Masao Fukuda, "On Reliability Evaluation of a Diaphragm in a Light Touch Switch", Material Science Research International,Vol.8, No.3, pp.128-133, (2002).

• Shun-ichi Bandoh, Masaru Zako, Tsutomu Shiino, Tetsusei Kurashiki and Kenji Matsumura, Journal of The Society of Composite Materials, Vol.28, No.1, pp.3-10, (2002)

• Masaru Zako, Tetsusei Kurashiki, Satoshi Hanaki, Hiroaki Nakai, Atsuji Ito, Masao Fukuda, "On Reliability Evaluation of Diaphragm in Light Touch Switch", J. of JSMS, Vol.51, No.3, pp.338-343, (2002)

• Masaru Zako, Tetsusei Kurashiki, Satoshi Hanaki, Hiroaki Nakai, Atsuji Ito, Masao Fukuda, "Evaluation on Fatigue Characteristics of Thin Plates for Diaphragm", J. of JSMS, Vol.51, No.1, pp.88-93, (2002)

• Shun-ichi Bandoh, Masaru Zako, Tsutomu Shiino, Tetsusei Kurashiki, and Kenji Matsumura, "On the Detection of Fatigue Damage in CFRP by Measuring Poisson's Ratio", J. of the Society of Composite Materials, Vol.28, No.1, pp.3-10, (2002)

• Masaru Zako, Tetsusei Kurashiki, Satoshi Hanaki, "Statistical Method for Decision of S-N Curve with Fatigue Limit", J. of JSMS, Vol.50, No.3, pp.278-283, (2001)

• Masaru Zako, Tetsusei Kurashiki, Satoshi Hanaki, "On Evaluation Method of the Data for Super-Long Life Fatigue Property", J. of JSMS, Vol.50, No.2, pp.158-162, (2001)

1. Tetsusei Kurashiki, Masaru Zako, Ignaas Verpoest and Yoshihiko HAYASHI, "On damage development of woven fabric reinforced plastics (In case of considering an effect of mismatch of lay-up, 6th International Conference on Textile Composites (TEXCOMP-6), (Sep. 2002) Philadelphia

2. Tetsusei Kurashiki, Masaru Zako and Ignaas Verpoest, "An Effect of a disorderof pile-up for woven fabric composites on damage development", The 3rd Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-3), (Feb. 2002) Auckland

3. Tetsusei Kurashiki, Masaru Zako and Ignaas Verpoest, "Damage development of woven fabric composites considering an effect of mismatch of lay-up", 10th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM-10), (June 2002) Brugge

4. Tetsusei Kurashiki, Masaru Zako and Naoki Takano, "Study on Damage Development of Woven Fabric Composites under Low Temperature", 13th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-13), (June 2001) Beijing

5. Masaru Zako, Naoki Takano, Tetsusei Kurashiki and Hirokazu Moriki, "Characterization of Low Cycle Fatigue for Woven Fabric Composites (Below the Freezing Point)", Proceedings of 2nd Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials, pp.589-594, (Aug. 2000) Korea

6. Masaru Zako, Naoki Takano, Tetsusei Kurashiki, and Hirokazu Moriki, "Characterization of Low Cycle Fatigue for Woven Fabric Composites below the Freezing Point", Abstracts of 3rd Canada-Japan Workshop of Composites, p.26, (Mar. 2000) Kyoto

7. Tetsusei Kurashiki and Masaru Zako, "Risk Analysis of Chemical Plants based on Disaster Simulation", Abstracts of 7th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, p.111, (Nov. 1997) Kyoto

8. Tetsusei Kurashiki and Masaru Zako, "Risk Analysis of Chemical Plants based on Disaster Simulation", Engineering for Safety, Reliability and Availability 1997, pp.117-122 (Nov. 1997) Takamatsu

9. Masaru Zako and Tetsusei Kurashiki, "Effect of Explosion Pressure on Pipe Collapse in Chemical Plants", ASME/JSME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, vol.315, pp.307-312, (July 1995) Hawaii

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