Hydrogen Gas Embrittlement - Mechanisms, Mechanics, and Design

Hisao Matsunaga is Professor of Hydrogen Utilization Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan where he is also Director of the Research Center for Hydrogen Industrial Use and Storage. His research focuses on the study of the influence of hydrogen on strength properties of metallic materials and development of methods of materials selection and strength design. He is a member of the Japan Welding Society, The Society of Materials Science, Japan, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has authored over 120 peer-reviewed papers that have published in a variety of high impact journals.