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SHIRO KOBAYASHI
1924-1995
BY CHANG-LIN TIEN
SHIRO KOBAYASHI, professor emeritus of mechanical engineer-
ing at the University of California, Berkeley, died on December
20, 1995, in Berkeley at the age of seventy-one.
Shiro was born on February ill, 1924, in Gotsu, Japan. He
received his unclergracluate education at Tokyo University,
where he completed his B.S. degree in mechanical engineer-
ing in 1946, a year after the end of WorIcI War IT. Following
graduation, he taught in high schools in Japan for seven years.
In 1953 he was appointed assistant professor at Doshisha Uni-
versity, where he taught for three years before coming to the
United States to further his stuclies.
Shiro came to Berkeley from Japan in 1956 to pursue his
M.S. en cl Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering. He com-
pleted his master's degree in 1957 and his doctorate in 1960.
Shiro started as assistant research engineer in the College of
Engineering's Office of Research Services in 1958 while still
working on his dissertation research and Shiro was hired as a
lecturer in Berkeley's mechanical engineering department
upon completion of his Ph.D. In 1961 he was appointed assis-
tant professor in the Department of Inclustrial Engineering,
where he taught for three years until his 1964 appointment as
assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineer-
ing. Shiro quickly rose through the ranks, achieving full
professorship in 1968. After a productive and influential ca
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
reer of more than thirty years, he retired from active teaching
in 1991. At the time of his death, he held the FANUC chair of
mechanical systems at Berkeley, a position endowed in 1989
by a grant from FANUC Ltd., a Japanese maker of factory
automation machines.
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980,
Shiro was wiclely recognized for his work in manufacturing
systems and metal forming. Particularly notable were his stucl-
ies in numerical analysis of rigid-plastic deformation processes
using the finite-element method, plastic deformation behav-
ior of rate-sensitive materials, ductile fracture in metalworking
processes, metal flow analysis at elevated temperatures, die
design, and die manufacturing in metalworking.
Shiro's two books, Mechanics of Plastic Deformation in Metal
Processing and Metal Forming and the Finite-element Method, stand
as testaments to his significant contribution to the field.
Throughout his professional career, Shiro was recognized and
honored for his contributions. In 1963 the Arr~erican Society
of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awarded him the ASME
Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award. He was honored as
the Battelle visiting professor in the Department of Metallur-
gical Engineering at Ohio State University from 1967 to 1968.
The University of Birmingham, in England, was his home in
1970 during his term as the E. A. Taylor visiting professor in
the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 1976 the Ja-
pan Society for Technology of Plasticity awarded him the Aide
Engineering Award, en c! in 19S3 the Society of Manufacturing
Engineering bestowed on him the Gold Meclal.
Shiro's consistent service to ASME includecI serving as a
member of the Honors Committee, a member of the Material
Processing Field Committee on Production Engineering, and
a member and chairman of the Joint Committee of the Mate-
rials Division and the Production Engineering Division. His
notable editorial activities include serving as counseling edi-
tor for the International journal of Machine Tool Design and
Research, published in England, deputy technical editor, then
associate editor of the journal of Engineering Materials and Tech-
nology, editorial board member of Englancl's International
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SHIRO KOBAYASHI
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Journal of Mechanics and the Japan Society for Technology of
Plasticity, and editorial advisory board member for the Journal
of Engineering Production of India.
Other professional service includes his membership on the
scientific committee of the North American Metalworking Re-
search Conference from 1973 to 1979. From 1983 to 1986 he
was a member of the North American Manufacturing Research
Institution of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers boars!
of directors.
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