Vol. 57 No. 9 CONTENTS
Special Issue on
Biomedical Materials
General Paper

Special Issue on Biomedical Materials (Vol.57 No.9)

Review paper (Vol.57 No.9)

Creation of Titanium - Segmented Polyurethane Composite through Silane Coupling Agent

Harumi TSUTSUMI, Yohei HIROHASHI, Kazuhiko NODA, Mitsuo NIINOMI, and Takao HANAWA

859

Original Paper (Vol.57 No.9)

Evaluation of Mechanical and Biodegradable Properties on Composite Scaffolds Composed of Three-Dimensional Fabric Structure

Chiaki HIWA, Kumiko YOKOTA, Yoshikazu NAKAI, Nobuo TANAKA, Toshiyuki IMOTO, Taiji ADACHI, Masaki HOJO and Shunsuke BABA

868

Influence of Environmental Degradation and Vitamin-E (α-Tocopherol) Addition on the Fatigue Crack Growth Property of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene

Kazuto TANAKACAkimasa KAMIMURACTsutao KATAYAMACSadamu KINOSHITACHideyuki SAKODA and Koichi KURAMOTO

875

Effect of Low-Gamma Irradiation on the Impact Compressive Properties of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene and Its Constitutive Model

Koichi KOBAYASHI, Makoto SAKAMOTO and Yuji TANABE

882

ELID(Electrolytic In-Process Dressing) Grinding for Surface Modification of Titanium Alloy and Its Effects

Masayoshi MIZUTANI Souichi YAMAMOTO Jun KOMOTORI Kazutoshi KATAHIRA and Hitoshi OHMORI

887

Change in Fatigue Strength of Biomedical β-Type Titanium Alloy thorough Heat Treatment Processes

Toshikazu AKAHORI Mitsuo NIINOMI Masaaki NAKAI and Michiharu OGAWA

893

Biocompatibility Evaluation of Piezoelectric Materials through Cytotoxicity Test

Yasutomo UETSUJI, Takahiro UEDA, Hwishim HWANG,Yoshiaki HIRANO, Kazuyoshi TSUCHIIYA and Eiji NAKAMACHI

899


General Paper (Vol.57 No.9)

Original Paper (Vol.57 No.9)

Effect of Tempering Temperature on Very High Cycle Fatigue Behavior in Low-Alloy Steel, SNCM439

Kazuaki SHIOZAWA, Nobuhiro SHIBATA and Yasuhiro MARUYAMA

905

Effects of Mold Media and Porosity on Ductile Fracture Properties of Cast Aluminum Alloy A356

Hiroyuki MAE, Xiaoqing TENG, Yuanli BAI and Tomasz WIERZBICKI

913

Hall-Petch Relation and Twin Boundaries in Pure Copper and Cu-Al Alloys

Sei MIURA, Nagato ONO and Yoshito NISHIMURA

921

Improvements in Thermal Stability of Cobalt-Silicide Films by Adding Nickel

Hiromi SHIMAZU, Tomio IWASAKI, Hiroyuki OHTA and Hideo MIURA

929

Asymptotic Analysis of Mode Ⅱ Singular Fields near a Crack Tip in a Hardening Drucker-Prager Elastic-Plastic Material

Taiki SHIMBO and Chikayoshi YATOMI

936

An Expedient Evaluation Method for Warp Deformation Behavior of Laminated Beam Consisting of Viscoelastic Materials in Cooling Process

Shozo NAKAMURA and Takuya KAWABATA

944

Effect of Total Rubber Content on Ductility of Polypropylene Blended with Bimodal Distribution of Styrene-Ethylene-Butadiene-Styrene Particle Size

Hiroyuki MAE, Masaki OMIYA and Kikuo KISHIMOTO

951

Lecture (Vol.57 No.9)

Development in Composites Technology for Reduction of Environmental Load Ⅳ:The Approaches with SiC/SiC Composites for a High-Performance Gas Generator

Mitsuhiko SATO, Hirotoshi NAKAYAMA, Takahiro SEKIKAWA, Kenichiro IGASHIRA and Takeshi NAKAMURA

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