Vol. 55 No. 1 CONTENTS

Original Paper (Vol.55 No.1)

Development of a Bond-Order Potential that can Reproduce the Elastic Constants and Melting Point of Silicon

Tomohisa KUMAGAI, Shotaro HARA, Satoshi IZUMI, Shinsuke SAKAI

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Analysis for Isotropic Elastic Medium with Multi-Layered Elliptic Inclusions under Out-of-Plane Normal Stress

Takeshi TANE, Ken-ichi HIRASHIMA and Masashi KUROSE

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Inplane and Out-of-Plane Stress and Displacement Analysis of Micropolar Elastic Medium with Circular Hole, Circular Solid Inclusion or Circular Ring of Solid Inclusion

Noriaki SUGISAKA, Takuo SUZUKI and Ken-ichi HIRASHIMA

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Tensile Strength of Finger Jointed Laminae Recycled from Old Temples

Yasutoshi SASAKI, Mariko YAMASAKI, Takanori SUGIMOTO and Wataru YAMADA

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A Study on Cutter Wear and Mechanical Properties of Rocks in Tunneling with a TBM

Chikaosa TANIMOTO, Shunichiro YAMANAKA, Kimikazu TSUSAKA, Tatsuto NAKANE, Minoru HIRANO, Hiroshi KANZAKI, Suguru ABE and Shuichi IWATA

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ECAP Process in Polypropylene

Masayoshi KITAGAWA and Takahiro KOZAKI

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Surface Damage of Ultra-Fine Grain Copper in High-Cycle Fatigue Regime

Masahiro GOTO, Seung-Zeon HAN, Terutoshi YAKUSHIJI, Cha-Yong LIM, Norio KAWAGOISHI and Sang-Shik KIM

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Fatigue Behavior of Friction Stir Welded Joints of 6061-T6 Aluminum Alloy

Yoshihiko UEMATSU, Keiro TOKAJI, Yasunari TOZAKI and Hideaki SHIBATA

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Microstructure and Fatigue Behaviour of Mg2Si-Dispersed Magnesium Alloys Produced by Solid-State Synthesis

Mitsutoshi KAMAKURA, Keiro TOKAJI and Yoshihiko UEMATSU

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Fatigue Crack Growth of Quenched Amorphous Polymers PC, PVC and PET

Masayoshi KITAGAWA and Daisuke NISHI

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Formation of Factory-Roof in Torsional Fatigue Specimen with Circumferential Notch

Chobin MAKABE, Anggit MURDANI, Tatsujiro MIYAZAKI,Toshiyasu SUEYOSHI and Tateki YAFUSO

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Influence of Impurity Content on Recession Characteristics of Sintered Yttria Stabilized Zirconia in Combustion Gas Flow

Isao YURI, Shin NAJIMA and Tohru HISAMATSU

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Fabrication and Corrosion Resistance of Hot-Dip Galvanized Steel Plates Coated with Silica-Sol Prepared from Tetraethoxysilane

Tetsuya KOMEDA, Koshi TAKADA, Yoshihiko TAKANO, Kazuki SAKAI, Shigekazu TANAKA, Atsushi KAWADA, Ken HIROTA and Osamu YAMAGUCHI

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Study on Interfacial Strength Properties between PBO Fiber Modified by Oxygen Plasma Treatment and Epoxy Resin

Tomo NAKAMURA, Takashi MATSUOKA and Kazuhiko SAKAGUCHI

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Effect of CNF Size and Content on Electrical and Mechanical Properties of CNF/UPR Nanocomposites

Shi-Hong WU, Ken KURASHIKI, Qing-Qing NI, Toshiaki NATSUKI, Masaharu IWAMOTO

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Non-destructive Observations of Internal Microstructures of Materials by Scanning Electron-induced Acoustic Microscopy

Yoji SHIBUTANI, Atsuhiro KOYAMA and Takeshi SHIOTA

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Correction of Surface Aberration in Strain Scanning Method with Analyzer

Takahisa SHOBU, Junichiro MIZUKI, Kenji SUZUKI, Yoshiaki AKINIWA and Keisuke Tanaka

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Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar Method with Finite-Length Specimen Utilizing Fourier Analysis

Tadayoshi SHOYAMA and Tadashi SHIOYA

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Various Hydration Reactions of Silica Fume Blended Cement under Different Curing Conditions, and a Hypothesis for the Ultra High Strength Development Mechanism of RPC

Masami UZAWA, Yoshihide SHIMOYAMA@and Shigeo KOSHIKAWA

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Comitee Report (Vol.55 No.1)

Recommendation for Structural Design of Polymer Concrete-Draft-

Committee on Resins for Concrete

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Lecture (Vol.55 No.1)

Composite Science/Technology and New Challenges for Tomorrow's Applications ‡T:Present and Future State of FRP Processing

Kiyoshi Uzawa

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