Vol. 45 No. 4 CONTENTS
Special Issue on
Wood and Wood Based Materials
General Paper

Special Issue on Wood and Wood Based Materials (Vol.45 No.4)

Review paper (Vol.45 No.4)

Function of water vapor in manufacturing wood composites and the appilcation

Hikaru Sasaki

363

Technical Note (Vol.45 No.4)

Improving the dimensional stability of particle boards by steam pretreatment

Xiang Shi; Hiromu Kajita; Hiroyuki Yano

369

Original Paper (Vol.45 No.4)

Effect of temperature on bending creep of wood during moisture adsorption

Morihiko Tokumoto; Takashi Takeda; Tatuo Nakano

376

Formulation of creep behavior of wood during water desorption

Takato Nakano

381

Contribution of moisture content on the occurrence of effect of local steam explosion

Kazuo Hayashi; Yoji Nagase; Saori Kishimoto; Yasushi Kanagawa; Minoru Yasujima

385

Dimensional stabilization of wood by glyoxal resin treatments - a few considerations concerning mechanism of dimensional stabilization

Takafumi Itoh; Shigehisa Ishihara

390

Effect of odors from coniferous woods on contingent negative variation (CNV)

Fumio Terauchi; Mitsunori Kubo; Toshimasa Ohgama; Hiroyuki Aoki

397

Effect of router tool wear on AE count rate

Grzegorz Cyra; Chiaki Tanaka; Tetsuya Nakao

403


General Paper (Vol.45 No.4)

Original Paper (Vol.45 No.4)

Effect of phase transformation on localized deformation in Ti-Ni shape memory alloy

Xiaoping Jiang; Moritaka Hida; Yoshito Takemoto; Akira Sakakibara; Shuzo Fujii

411

Evaluation of fracture strain from measurement of aspect ratio for ferrite grains

Makoto Ohashi

417

Basic test on the dynamic strength of R/C square columns under biaxial bending

Ikuo Hirasawa; Masao Kanoh; Masahiro Fujishiro

423

Multi-layer welded 2.25Cr-1Mo steel: creep-rupture properties and HAZ microstructure of large joints

Takashi Watanabe; Masayoshi Yamazaki; Hiromichi Hongo; Junichi Kinugawa; Yoshio Monma

430

Effect of case-hardened depth on fatigue strength of micro pulse induction hardened S45C thermal refined steel

Takeshi Horikawa; Hiroshi Nakamura; Masahiko Kawamura; Kazuhiro Kawasaki; Toshitaka Misaka

437

Initiation and growth behavior of small surface fatigue cracks on SiC particle reinforced aluminum composite

Atsushi Sugeta; Masahiro Jono; Kunihiko Bessho; Atsushi Sakaguti

443

Preparation and capability of polymer type silane coupling agents for GFRP

Kazuo Sugiyama; Takato Uemura; Ichiro Shimohara; Yoshikuni Yoshimitsu

449

Separation of hydroxyapatite from scales of fish

Hiroyuki Sawa; Tamotsu Torii; Hokuto Nakata; Kouta Matsumoto; Kaoru Aoki

455

Friction welding of 2017 and 6061 aluminum alloys to S45C carbon steel

Hiizu Ochi; Koichi Ogawa; Yoshiaki Yamamoto; Yasuo Suga

461

Lecture (Vol.45 No.4)

Developments of new technology in Rock mechanics - from micro to macro -
III : Applications to mechanical problems of rocks and rock mass - Micromechanics and homogenization method

Takashi Kyoya; Muneo Hori

467