Vol. 53 No. 1 CONTENTS
Special Issue on
Ground Improvement
Special Issue on Reliability Engineering
General Paper

Special Issue on Ground Improvement (Vol.53 No.1)

Original Paper (Vol.53 No.1)

Study on Reinforcement Mechanism and Design Method of Soil Nailing in Cut Slope

Tatsuaki NISHIGATA, Kazuhiko NISHIDA and Katsuji KURAMOCHI

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Numerical Study on Stability of Japanese Castle Masonry Wall

Tomio TAMANO, Kazuhiko NISHIDA, Bimal SHRESTHA, Masanobu KANAOKA and Hiroyuki MORIMOTO

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Quality Evaluation Method for Soil-Cement Column by Deep Mixing Method

Mamoru FUJII, Masashi KAWAMURA, Masahito TAMURA, Kazuhiro WATANABE, Eijirou MIZOGUCHI

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Evaluation of Shearing Property for Cemented Granular Materials Using Splitting Strength and Dilatancy Property

Daisuke KATSUKI, Yukio NAKATA, Masayuki HYODO, Norimasa YOSHIMOTO and Hidekazu MURATA

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Strenth Properties of Fiber-Reinforced Soil Cement Composites with Ductility

Toshiaki SANEMATSU, Satoru MOCHIDA, Shumpei TANAKA and Tetsushi KANDA

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Improvement of Muddy Soil through the Mixing of By-Product of Industry

Kohei SAWA and Seishi TOMOHISA

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Deflection Properties of Pavement Constructed on Subgrade Containing Crushed Oyster Shell

Mikio YAMADA, Katsuya TANIGUCHI, Mitsushi OKUMURA and Hiroaki SANO

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A Paving Material for Dairy Facilities Utilizing Sugar-Manufacturing Waste

Keiichi KATSUSE, Hiroyoshi HORIKAWA, Kohji ITABASHI, Noriaki UCHIDA, Nobuhiro NAGANO, Touru TAKAHASHI, Mitsunori YOSHIDA, Hiroshi SOGA, Shigeo TAKANE, Hiroyuki KOMAI and Kiminori MONMA

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Ground Improvement Construction Method of Low Vibration and Noise Type(KS-EGG Method of Construction) Considered Environment

Daisuke KIMURA and Masashi KUROSAKI

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The New Accelerated Consolidation Method Combining Vacuum Consolidation and Plastic-Board-Drain by Floating System (PDF) Methods

Masaaki KIYAMA, Akihiko OSHIMA, Shoji HIGASHI, Kenji HARADA and Shigehiro MURAKAMI

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Chemical and Biochemical Characteristics of Acid Sedimentary Soft Rock

Mitsushi OKUMURA,Mikio YAMADA, Hiroaki SANO and Haruyoshi MAEKAWA

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Experimental Study on the Heavy Metal Leaching from the Stabilized/Solidified Soil

Masashi KAMON, Toru INUI and Kazunori SASAKI

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Special Issue on Reliability Engineering (Vol.53 No.1)

Foreword

N.Okabe

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Original Paper (Vol.53 No.1)

Strength and Reliability of Unidirectional CFRPs with Different Fiber Surface Properties

Yoshikazu MIWA, Munenori KASEBE, Koichi GODA, Junji OHGI, Satoshi NAGATSUKA and Hitoshi KODAMA

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A New Probabilistic Approach for Describing Fatigue Crack Growth under Random Overloads

Hiroaki TANAKA

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Fundamental Study for Optimizing the Thickness of a SMA Ring to Combine Two Pipes

Keisuke OKITA, Nagatoshi OKABE, Maho HOSOGI, Toshio SAKUMA and Kiyoshi YAMAUCHI

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Life Prediction Using the Creep Rupture Data Described by XML

Hiroshi YOSHIZU, Masayoshi YAMAZAKI, Kohmei HALADA, Mitsutane FUJITA and Takeshi NAKATA

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Proposal for Load Factor Design Formats for Steel Piers of Highway Bridges

Hitoshi INOMO, Wataru SHIRAKI, Masahiro Dogaki and Hiroshi ISHIKAWA

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Multi-Objective Optimization Approach Based on Robustness Index and Its Application to Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants

Juksanee VIRULSRI, Shinsuke SAKAI and Satoshi IZUMI

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General Paper (Vol.53 No.1)

Review paper (Vol.53 No.1)

Bio-Environment Designing for Biomaterials

Naohide TOMITA

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Original Paper (Vol.53 No.1)

Autoclave Treatment of Anodic Oxide Film of Aluminum in Zinc Acetate Solution and Improvement of Alkali Resistance

Tomoaki ISHIKURO and Shinichi MATSUOKA

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Improvement in Fracture Resistance and Microstructure of Bone-Like Apatite Coating on Titanium Alloys by Alkali Treatment

Noriyuki HISAMORI, Yuji MARUYAMA and Kenichi TAKAI

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Influence of Temperature on Corrosion Rate of Steel Bar in Carbonated Concrete Members

Nobuaki OTSUKI, Shinichi MARUYAMA, Takahiro NISHIDA and Baccay Melito ALIBUYOG

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Molecular Dynamics Study on Directional Orientation of Molecular Chains and Nucleation of Chain Entanglements in Amorphous Polymer under Uniaxial Tension

Kisaragi YASHIRO, Tomohiro ITOH and Yoshihiro TOMITA

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Lecture (Vol.53 No.1)

The State of the Arts on Current Timber Structures ‡U:The Present Situation and Problems on Limit States Design of Wood Structures

Noboru NAKAMURA

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