Kudo, Hideaki

Hideaki Kudo (^∗ March 16, 1924, Taihoku, Japan (now Taipei; Taiwan was governed by Japan from 1895 to 1945); † January 7, 2001, Tokyo, Japan) was a metal forming engineer and worked in plasticity theory.

Hideaki Kudo

Education

Hideaki Kudo has graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1945 just after the World War II. He was awarded his doctoral degree for a thesis on the analysis of forging.

Professional Career

Hideaki Kudo started his career at the Institute of Science and Technology at Tokyo University under the guidance of S. Fukui. He developed axisymmetric analysis as an approximate energy method without knowing that his method was related to the upper bound theorem. From 1959 to 1960, Kudo stayed at the Technische Hochschule Hannover with O. Kienzle and at the Manchester University with W. Johnson and wrote papers as well as a book on the upper bound method. In 1960, he joined the Government Mechanical Engineering Laboratory in Tokyo as the team leader for cold forging. He...