Vol. 54 No. 4 CONTENTS
Special Issue on
Wood and Wood Based Material
General Paper

Special Issue on Wood and Wood Based Material (Vol.54 No.4)

Foreword

T.Matsumoto

357

Technical Topics (Vol.54 No.4)

Quantitative Analysis of Polymer Materials' Surfaces Using ATR-FTIR

Daisuke TATSUMI

358

Original Paper (Vol.54 No.4)

Rationality of Kiri Wood(Paulownia tomentosa)in Traditional Uses

Kazuya MINATO, Yuko ITO and Haruka SUGAWARA

361

Effect of Subsequent Kiln-Schedule after the High-Temperature Setting Treatment on Internal Stresses of Sugi Boxed-Heart Timber without Back-Splittings

Morihiko TOKUMOTO, Takashi TAKEDA and Takahisa YOSHIDA

365

Drying of Sugi Logs with Microwave Heating

Noboru FUJIMOTO, Yuusuke MORITA, Takeshi OOUCHI, Han Chien LIN, Kanehiro OOHASHI and Kazuyuki KONDO

371

Effects of Basic Wood Properties on Strength and Stiffness in Bending of Cryptomeria japonica Timbers

Yoshio KIJIDANI and Ryushi KITAHARA

377

Mechanical Properties of Timber Joints with Thick Particleboards and Screws -Relationships between Shapes of Screws and Characteristic Values of the Joints-

Masaki HARADA, Masako NAKAZAWA, Tomoyuki HAYASHI and Masahiko KARUBE

381

Application of Particulate Materials to a Physical Barrier against Termites -Effects of Size, Shape and Surface Properties of Particles on the Penetration Behavior of Termites-

Yoshiyuki YANASE, Yoshihisa FUJII, Shogo OKUMURA, Tsuyoshi YOSHIMURA, Yuji IMAMURA, Mitsuyoshi ISHIDA, Hirotoshi KAWAGUCHI and Toshinobu OKUMURA

387


General Paper (Vol.54 No.4)

Original Paper (Vol.54 No.4)

Synthesis of a Nanocomposites of Zr-Containing Nanoparticle/Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) Via Polymerization

Tsutomu MORIMOTO, Minoru YOSHIDA and Kikuo OKUYAMA

393

Deformation and Localized Necking Mechanism of Nanocrystalline Materials by Molecular Dynamics Simulation (Relationship between Intergranular Deformation and Intragranular Deformation of Nanocrystalline Materials)

Tomotsugu SHIMOKAWA, Toshiyasu KINARI, Sukenori SHINTAKU, Akihiro NAKATANI and Hiroshi KITAGAWA

399

Analysis of Surface Roughening with Uniaxial Tension of Polycrystalline Aluminum by Autocorrelation Function

Hualin SONG, Takeji ABE and Naoya TADA

407

Viscoplastic Constitutive Equation Describing Inelastic Behavior of Polymers under Reverse Loading

Mamoru MIZUNO and Yukio SANOMURA

414

Effect of Hydrogen on High Cycle Fatigue Failure of High Strength Steel, SCM435

Yukitaka MURAKAMI and Junji NAGATA

420

A Simplified Analysis of Crack Growth in a Steady State of Piezoelectric Ceramics by the Double Cantilever Beam Model

Mamoru MIZUNO, Yoshinori HONDA and Hiroyuki KATO

428

Analysis of Isotropic Elastic Medium with Layered Elliptic Inclusion under In-Plane Loads and Its Stress Intensity-Factor

Yuji MATSUDO, Masashi KUROSE and Ken-ichi HIRASHIMA

434

In-situ Measurement of Internal Stresses in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells during Thermal Cycling by Synchrotron Radiation

Hirofumi SUMI, Yasunobu MIZUTANI, Yoshihisa DOI, Yoshiaki AKINIWA and Keisuke TANAKA

440

Influence of WC Grain Size and Co Mass Content on Mechanical Properties of WC-Co Cemented Carbides

Shingo OKAMOTO, Kakuroh OHTUKA, Yuji NAKAZONO, Yoshinobu SHIMOITANI and Jun TAKADA

447

Thermal Expansion Behavior of Polystyrene Blended Porous Silica through Psuedo-Phase Separation

Narihiro MATSUDA, Masaki HIROSE, Kenji TAKASA, Mitsuru TANAHASHI and Kunihiko TAKEDA

453

Lecture (Vol.54 No.4)

The Environment and Polymeric Materials‡W:Polymer Materials Guided by Nature and Tradition

Kunihiko TAKEDA

459