Vol. 61 No. 8 CONTENTS

Technical Topics (Vol.61 No.8)

A Trial for Forecasting Earthquake Occurrences from Sandpile Experiments

Naoto YOSHIOKA

675

Original Paper (Vol.61 No.8)

Effects of FPP/Gas Nitriding Hybrid Surface Treatment on Fatigue Properties of Austenitic Stainless Steel (SUS316)

Shoichi KIKUCHI, Yasuhito NAKAHARA, Koji DOBASHI and Jun KOMOTORI

680

Fractographical Analysis on Fracture Mechanism of Stainless Steel Having Harmonic Microstructure

Akira UENO, Hiroshi FUJIWARA, Muhammad RIFAI, Zhe ZHANG and Kei AMEYAMA

686

High Cycle Fatigue Behavior of High Tensile Steel Sheet for Hot Press Use

Masaki NAKAJIMA, Yuki NAKAMURA, Toshihiro SHIMIZU and Yoshifumi KAMIYA

692

Effect of Material Strength on Shelling Property of Railway Wheel Steel

Takanori KATO and Taizo MAKINO

698

Multiaxial Low Cycle Fatigue Life Evaluation of Nickel Base Single Crystal Superalloy Cruciform Specimen

Noriaki MATSUDA, Masao SAKANE, Tomomasa HORI, Atsushi NOSE, Morio YORIKAWA, Kouichi MASUNO, Nobuhiro ISOBE and Akira YOSHINARI

704

Effect of Humidity on Growth Behavior of a Fatigue Crack of 7075-T6 Extruded Al Alloy

Kohji KARIYA, Hideki MAEDA, Norio KAWAGOISHI, Quing CHEN, Yuzo NAKAMURA and Kazuhiro MORINO

712

The Paris Law for Continuous and Discontinuous Fatigue Crack Growth in Polycarbonate

Keiji OGI and Tetsuro Shiraishi

719

Plastic Strain and Temperature Dependences of Hall-Petch Effect

Yoji SHIBUTANI, Daisuke MATSUNAKA and Ryuichi TARUMI

724

Study on UV Degradation Resistance of a Sand-Fixing Material by W-OH

Weimin GAO, Zhiren WU, Zhishen WU, Kentaro IWASHITA and Hirondo INAGAKI

730

Influence of the Ions in Pore Solution and around the Steel Bar on Corrosion of Steel in BFS and FA Mortars

Nobuaki OTSUKI, Anita II ODCHIMAR and Tsuyoshi SAITO

736

Lecture (Vol.61 No.8)

Wood Biorefinery II: Development of Functional Materials from Sugi Carbonized Wood

Toshimitsu HATA

742