Vol. 54 No. 1 CONTENTS
Special Issue on
Reliability Engineering
General Paper

Special Issue on Reliability Engineering (Vol.54 No.1)

Foreword

T.Sakai

1

Original Paper (Vol.54 No.1)

Evaluation of Detection Probability for Flaw by Multiple Modalities

Masao NAKAGAWA and Hidetoshi NAKAYASU

2

On Reliability Evaluation of a Structure for Fatigue under Service Loads with Rain Flow Method and Fatigue Limit Diagram

Masaru ZAKO, Tetsusei KURASHIKI and Hiroaki NAKAI

8

Strength Estimation and Optimum Reliability Design of Ceramic Cylinder Component Subjected to Thermal Shock at Trip

Toshio SAKUMA, Nagatoshi OKABE and Akihiko SUZUKI

13

A Precise Spatial Estimation Approach for Geotechical Characterizations

Wataru SHIRAKI, Hitoshi Inomo, Norio ITOU and Fumiko HIRAYAMA

19

Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Pier Paying Attention to Difference of Seismic Preformance

Hitoshi FURUTA and Kazuhiro KOYAMA

25

On Reliability Evaluation of the Oil Tanks Considering the Corrosion of Bottom Plate

Satoshi HANAKI, Masato YAMASHITA, Hitoshi UCHIDA and Masaru ZAKO

32

Comitee Report (Vol.54 No.1)

Publication of the Second Edition of "Standard Evaluation Method of Fatigue Reliability for Metallic Materials" yStandard Regression Method of S-N Curvesz

Tatsuo SAKAI and Atsushi SUGETA

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General Paper (Vol.54 No.1)

Original Paper (Vol.54 No.1)

Evaluation of Structural and Mechanical Properties of Amorphous Silicon Surabaces by a Combination Approach of Ab-initio and Classical Molecular Dynamics

Shotaro HARA, Tomohisa KUMAGAI, Satoshi IZUMI and Shinsuke SAKAI

45

Structure and Property of Medium-Oriented Polyoxymethylene by Press Elongation Method

Kenji TAKASA, Norikazu MIYASHITA, Shun-ichi TACHIBANA and Kunihiko TAKEDA

51

Dynamic Viscoelasticity for Nylon6 During Isothernal Crystallization

Hisahiko KASHIHARA, Masaoki TAKAHASHI, Kenji URAYAMA and Toshikazu TAKIGAWA

56

Analyses of Transversely Isotropic Piezoelectric Materials with Multilayered Elliptical Inclustion under Several Singular Loads

Toru SASAKI, Takuo SUZUKI and Ken-ichi HIRASHIMA

60

Effect of Forging Ratio and Grain Size on Tensile and Fatigue Strength of Pure Titanium Forgings

Yuki KOBAYASHI, Yoshiteru TANAKA, Kazuyoshi MATSUOKA, Kazuhiro KINOSHITA, Yoshiyuki MIYMOTO and Hidenori MURATA

66

Deposition of Nanocrystalline Diamond Films on Pure Ti by CH4/H2 Microwave Plasma CVD

Cheolmun YIM, Dohoon SHIN, Yusuke HAYASHI, Keishi IRIE, Ri-ichi MURAKAMI and Yun-hae KIM

73

Trials for Multi-Functionalization on Biodegradable Resins Through Forming Thin Films by Ion Beam Mixing Method

Kaori YAMADA, Takayoshi YAGASAKI, Yuji KIMURA and Ichiro TAKANO

79

Mechanical Properties of Mesh-Type Artificial Tracheas

Shunsuke NOTAZAWA, Tatsuo NAKAMURA, Yasuhiko SHIMIZU and Toshikazu TAKIGAWA

85

Effect of Precipitate Morphology on Tribological Properties in AZ91 Alloy

Akihiro MURATA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Takashi MATSUOKA, Kazuhiko SAKAGUCHI, Hiroyuki WATANABE and Toshiji MUKAI

90

Basic Mechanical Properties of TEEK Polyimide-Foam and TEEK-Filled Aramid Honeycomb Core-Materials for Sandwich Structures

Akitsu KUWABARA, Megumi OZASA, Toshiyuki SHIMOKAWA, Naoyuki WATANABE and Kazuhiko NOMOTO

97

Lecture (Vol.54 No.1)

The Environment and Polymeric MaterialsT:Environment and Polymer Materials

Kunihiko TAKEDA

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