Fundamentals of Sintering

Fumihiro Wakai is a professor emeritus at Tokyo Institute of Technology (now Institute of Science Tokyo), Japan. He was a director of the Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and is now working at the National Institute of Materials Science. Prof. Wakai has received an M.S. degree in Physics and a doctoral degree in Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan. He has published over 240 scientific papers. His early research was concerned with the superplasticity of ceramics. He then worked on modelling and theory of sintering, which is regarded as deformation induced by the motion of a huge number of particles from the mechanical point of view. He is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society, the Ceramic Society of Japan, and the World Academy of Ceramics.