Technical Topics (Vol.61 No.8)

A Trial for Forecasting Earthquake Occurrences from Sandpile Experiments
Naoto YOSHIOKA	675

Original Paper (Vol.61 No.8)

Effects of FPP/Gas Nitriding Hybrid Surface Treatment on Fatigue Properties of Austenitic Stainless Steel (SUS316)
Shoichi KIKUCHI, Yasuhito NAKAHARA, Koji DOBASHI and Jun KOMOTORI	680
Fractographical Analysis on Fracture Mechanism of Stainless Steel Having Harmonic Microstructure
Akira UENO, Hiroshi FUJIWARA, Muhammad RIFAI, Zhe ZHANG and Kei AMEYAMA	686
High Cycle Fatigue Behavior of High Tensile Steel Sheet for Hot Press Use
Masaki NAKAJIMA, Yuki NAKAMURA, Toshihiro SHIMIZU and Yoshifumi KAMIYA	692
Effect of Material Strength on Shelling Property of Railway Wheel Steel
Takanori KATO and Taizo MAKINO	698
Multiaxial Low Cycle Fatigue Life Evaluation of Nickel Base Single Crystal Superalloy Cruciform Specimen
Noriaki MATSUDA, Masao SAKANE, Tomomasa HORI, Atsushi NOSE, Morio YORIKAWA, Kouichi MASUNO, Nobuhiro ISOBE and Akira YOSHINARI	704
Effect of Humidity on Growth Behavior of a Fatigue Crack of 7075-T6 Extruded Al Alloy
Kohji KARIYA, Hideki MAEDA, Norio KAWAGOISHI, Quing CHEN, Yuzo NAKAMURA and Kazuhiro MORINO	712
The Paris Law for Continuous and Discontinuous Fatigue Crack Growth in Polycarbonate
Keiji OGI and Tetsuro Shiraishi	719
Plastic Strain and Temperature Dependences of Hall-Petch Effect
Yoji SHIBUTANI, Daisuke MATSUNAKA and Ryuichi TARUMI	724
Study on UV Degradation Resistance of a Sand-Fixing Material by W-OH
Weimin GAO, Zhiren WU, Zhishen WU, Kentaro IWASHITA and Hirondo INAGAKI	730
Influence of the Ions in Pore Solution and around the Steel Bar on Corrosion of Steel in BFS and FA Mortars
Nobuaki OTSUKI, Anita II ODCHIMAR and Tsuyoshi SAITO	736

Lecture (Vol.61 No.8)

Wood Biorefinery II: Development of Functional Materials from Sugi Carbonized Wood
Toshimitsu HATA	742