Vol. 55 No. 4 CONTENTS
Special Issue on
Wood and Wood-Based Materials
General Paper

Special Issue on Wood and Wood-Based Materials (Vol.55 No.4)

Review paper (Vol.55 No.4)

Characterization of Shear Properties of Wood and Wood-Based Materials

Hiroshi YOSHIHARA

349

Wood Charcoals as Old but New Material-Materials for Energy or Environment Cleaning-

Hisashi MIYAFUJI and Shiro SAKA

356

Technical Note (Vol.55 No.4)

Hydrotropic Pulping and Biobleaching of Kenaf

Daisuke TATSUMI, Nobuhiro ZAIMA, Takayoshi MATSUMOTO, Hidehiko SUGIYAMA and Haruo TAKAHASHI

363

Original Paper (Vol.55 No.4)

Analysis of Strain Distributions of Wooden Dovetail Joints Using Digital Image Correlation Method

Kazunari MIYAUCHI, Minoru MASUDA and Koji MURATA

367

The Influence of Colors on the Psychological Image of the Wooden Interior : Application of the Image Analysis in Consideration of the Accent Color

Junko ITO, Masashi NAKAMURA and Minoru MASUDA

373

Properties of Piezoelectric Voltage Considering Microscopic Structure of Wood Cell Walls

Takahisa NAKAI and Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO

378


General Paper (Vol.55 No.4)

Technical Topics (Vol.55 No.4)

Current Issues and Future Direction of Low Cost High Density Packaging Technology

Yutaka TSUKADA

385

Original Paper (Vol.55 No.4)

Characterization of Thermo-Responsive Poly [N-(2-hydoxypropyl) Methacrylamide-Dimethylsiloxane] Block Copolymers

Nobuyuki TANIGAWA, Kohei SHIRAISHI and Kazuo SUGIYAMA

391

Stress and Displacement Fields for a Semi-Infinite Plane Containinga a Circular Hole Subjected to Stresses at Infinity

Takashi TSUTSUMI and Ken-ichi HIRASHIMA

397

Effects of Rolling Ratios, Microstructures and Crystal Orientations on Peculiar Fatigue Crack Growth Paths in Anisotropic Cold-Rolled Pure Aluminum Sheets

Yudy Surya IRAWAN, Yoshihiko HAGIWARA and Shin-ichi OHYA

402

Effect of Elastic-Plastic Constitutive Relationship on Superficial Rockwell Hardness

Akihiko HIRANO, Masao SAKANE and Naomi HAMADA

409

Acoustic Damping Characterization and Microstructure Evolution during Creep of a High Temperature Bolting Steel

Toshihiro OHTANI, Hirotsugu OGI and Masahiko HIRAO

416

Shrinkage Properties of the Concrete Used for Centeral Japan International Airport Apron Pavement

Takeyuki KIMIJIMA, Seiichi NAGAOKA, Takayoshi KOBAYASHI, Atsushi KUNITA and Tsutomu HUKUTE

424

Effect of the Cross-Sectional In-Plane Crstal Orientation on the Structural Strength of Single-Crystal Turbine Vanes

Jinxiang CHEN, Ryosaku HASHIMOTO, Yoshitaka FUKUYAMA, Masahiro MATSUSHITA, Makoto OSAWA, Hiroshi HARADA, Tadaharu YOKOKAWA and Toyoaki YOSHIDA

432

Lecture (Vol.55 No.4)

Composites Science/Technology and New Challenges for Tomorrow's Applications ‡W:Green Composites' Research and Today's Progress

Kazuya OKUBO, Hitoshi TAKAGI and Koichi GODA

438