Research

Staff

Nobuyuki Odagiri

Professor / Advisor

Research Field

Composite materials design
Composite fabrication process engineering

Career

Education:
Mar. 2021 Ph.D., Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan,; Major: Mechanics of Composite Materials
Mar. 1981 M.S., Graduate School of Waseda University, Tokyo Japan,; Major: Applied Polymer Science
Mar. 1979 B.S., Waseda University, Tokyo Japan,; Major: Applied Polymer Science
Mar. 1974 Koryo High School, Kanagawa Japan

Occupation:
Apr. 2017-May 2024 Vice President and Senior Technical Fellow, Toray Composite Materials America, Inc.
Sep. 2015-Mar. 2017 Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Toray Composites (America), Inc.
July 2008-Aug. 2015 General Manager, ACM Technology Department, Toray Ind., Inc.
Sep. 2000-Jun. 2008 Director, Technical Dept. & Technical Center, Toray Composites (America), Inc.
Jan. 2000-Sep. 2000 Senior Manager, ACM Technology Department, Toray Ind., Inc.
Apr. 1998-Dec. 1999 Manager, Composite Materials Research Laboratories, Toray Ind., Inc.
Oct. 1996- Mar. 1998 Senior Staff, Research & Development Planning Department, Toray Ind., Inc.
Apr. 1981-Sep. 1998 Composite Materials Research Laboratories, Toray Ind., Inc.

Social Responsibilities:
Jan. 2022-Jan. 2023 President and the Member of the Board, Japan Business Association of Seattle, WA
Jan. 2016-Dec. 2021 Vice President/ the Member of the Board, Japan Business Association of Seattle, WA
Oct. 2017-Oct. 2023 Member of the Board, Composite Recycling Technology Center (CRTC), Port Angels, WA
Sep. 2019 Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE)

Research Theme

Innovation through PPP (Public-Private-Partnership) and Industry-Academia Partnership
Creation of an Ecosystem for a Composite Materials Society

Explanation of the research

Major research accomplishments

  1. Invention of particle interlayer toughened technology and establishment of production and quality assurance technologies for industrial commercialization and application to primary aircraft structural materials.
  2. Research on the formation of cross-linked structures and the physical properties of epoxy thermosetting resins.

Results

Papers

  • Nobuyuki Odagiri, Keiichi Shirasu, Yoshiaki Kawagoe and Tomonaga Okabe, Cure Path Dependency in Crosslinked Structure of DGEBA/DICY/DCMU Thermosetting Resin, Material Systems, 38, 21-30 (2021)
  • Nobuyuki Odagiri, Keiichi Shirasu, Yoshiaki Kawagoe, Gota Kikugawa, Yutaka Oya, Naoki Kishimoto, Fumio S. Ohuchi and Tomonaga Okabe, Amine/epoxy Stoichiometric Ratio Dependence of Crosslinked Structure and Ductility in Amine-Cured Epoxy Thermosetting Resins, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 138 (23), 50542, (2021)
  • Yutaka Oya, Masahiro Nakazawa, Keiichi Shirasu, Yuki Hino, Kyosuke Inuyama, Gota Kikugawa, Jing Li, Riichi Kuwahara, Naoki Kishimoto, Hiroki Waizumi, Masaaki Nishikawa, Anthony Waas, Nobuyuki Odagiri, Andrew Koyanagi, Marco Salviato, Tomonaga Okabe “Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Cross-Linking Processes and Material Properties for Epoxy Resins Using First-Principle Calculation Combined with Global Reaction Route Mapping Algorithms.” Chemical Physics Letters 762, 138104 (2021)
  • Nobuyuki Odagiri, Hajime Kishi, Dongyeon Lee and Tomonaga Okabe, A Study of Resin Fracture Toughness: Comparison of Particle-toughened Thermosetting Resin and Micro Phase-separated Thermosetting Resin. Material Systems, 37, 29-35 (2020)
  • Nobuyuki Odagiri,Hajime Kishi and Masaki Yamashita, Development of Torayca Prepreg P2302 Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic for Aircraft Primary Structural Materials. Advanced Composite Materials, 5, (3) pp.249-254 (1996)
  • Nobuyuki Odagiri, Hajime Kishi, and Masaki Yamashita, Development of TORAYCA prepreg P2302 carbon fiber composite for aircraft, Journal of the Japan Society of Composite Materials, 21, (4) pp.152-154 (1995)
  • Nobuyuki Odagiri, Toshio Muraki, Kuniaki Tobukuro, High impact resistant CFRP. Carbon (No.137) 100 (1989)
  • Masahisa Ikemi,Nobuyuki Odagiri,Shinobu Tanaka,Isao Shinohara and Akio Chiba, Hydrophobic Domain Structure of Water Soluble Block Copolymer. 2. Transition Phenomena of Block Copolymer Micel1es. Macromolecules,15 pp.281-286 (1982)
  • Masahisa Ikemi,Nobuyuki Odagiri,Shinobu Tanaka,Isao Shinohara and Akio Chiba, Hydrophobic Domain Structure of Water Soluble Block Copolymer 1. Analysis of the Polymolecular Micelle.  Macromolecules,14,pp.34-39 (1981)

and others, 16 in total

Publications

  • "Thermoplastic and Thermosetting Resins" Supervised by Seizo Tomita, Science Forum Co., Ltd. (1992) [Joint authorship]
  • "Polymer Alloys - Fundamentals and Applications - (2nd Edition)", The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (1993) [Joint authorship]
  • "Toughened thermoset resin matrix composites" Hajime Kishi and Nobuyuki Odagiri, Series in Materials Science and Engineering - Aerospace Materials-, Chapter 14, An Oxford-Kobe Materials Text Edited by B. Cantor, H. Assender and P. Grant, Dept. of Materials, Univ. of Oxford, UK (August, 2001) [Joint authorship]

Contributions and Invited Speeches

  • "History and future prospects of composite technology for aircraft applications" SAMPE Japan Techno Forum 2020 (Virtual, Oct. 16th, 2020)
  • Nobuyuki Odagiri, Special Issue on "Indispensable Manufacturing": TORAYCA, a carbon fiber that realizes "light weight and strong" manufacturing from materials, Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol. 78, No. 8 pp. 518-520 (2014)
  • Nobuyuki Odagiri, Serial Lecture "Origin of Breakthroughs" (Vol. 7): "Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) technology, applied to primary structure of commercial aircraft. Journal of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers 117, (7), pp. 474-477 (2014)
  • Nobuyuki Odagiri, Toray develops CFRP for "Boeing 777", invents special matrix resin of "particle interlayer toughened technology" and received the first qualification for the primary structural material of aircraft., NIKKEI NEW MATERIALS, (4) pp.52-58 (1992)
  • Nobuyuki Odagiri,Hajime Kishi and Takeji Nakae, "Torayca" T800H/3900-2 Toughened Epoxy Prepreg System: Toughening Concept and Mechanism. Proceedings of the American Society for Composites, 6th Technical Conference,Oct.7-9 pp.43-52 (1991)
  • Nobuyuki Odagiri,Toshio Muraki and Kuniaki Tobukuro, Toughness Improved High Performance Torayca Prepreg T800H/3900 Series. 33rd SAMPE Symposium,pp.272-283 (1988)

and others, 47 in total

Awards

Subject; Research on "Development of TORAYCA® prepreg T800/3900, a carbon fiber reinforced composite material for aircraft"

  • Sept. 2019, SAMPE* Fellow Award
    *Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering
    Nobuyuki Odagiri
  • Mar. 2014, The 60th Okochi Memorial Production Special Prize "Development of Carbon Fiber Composite Materials for Aircraft
    Toray Industries, Inc.
  • Mar. 2013, The 61st Chemical Society of Japan Chemical Technology Award "Development and Commercialization of Carbon Fiber Composite Materials for Light Weight Airplanes"
    Nobuyuki Odagiri, Minoru Yoshinaga, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Toru Hiramatsu
  • Jun. 2012, "2012 World Changer Award" Japan Society of Northern California US-Asia Technology Management Center, Stanford University
    Toray Industries., Inc.
  • Mar. 2012, 41st Japan Industrial Technology Awards, Prime Minister's Prize, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, "Development of Carbon Fiber and Prepreg for Boeing 787".
    Toray Industries, Inc.
  • May 1994, 1993 Technology Award, The Society of Composite Materials, Japan
    Nobuyuki Odagiri, Hajime Kishi, Masaki Yamashita
  • May 1991, The 24th Japan Chemical Industry Association Technology Award
    Nobuyuki Odagiri, Kishio Miwa, Kosuke Katsuki, Malcolm T. Katsumoto
  • Jan 1991, 1990 "Nikkei Superior Products and Services Award" Nihon Keizai Shimbun Award, Grand Prize
    Toray Industries, Inc.

and others, 12 in total