JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY OF PLASTICITY vol.46 no.529 February 2005 ---CONTENTS--- Essay At 60 Years after the 2nd World War-Looking Backward and Forward Masaru KOBAYASHI 1(99) Explanations Recent Trend of Wind Turbine Kosuke INOUE 2(100) Development of Functional Thick Steel Plates with Self-control Resistance against Fatigue Crack Growth Noboru KONDA,Kazuki FUJIWARA,Kazushige ARIMOCHI, Kazushi OONISHI and Masato YAMASHITA 6(104) Metal Foams and Porous Metals (Ultra Light Metals) Hideo NAKAE 10(108) Snow Metamorphism and Avalanche Release Mechanism Toshihiro OZEKI 15(113) Tendency of Researches on Bending of Automotive Aluminum Alloy Sheet Tadashi MINDA and Mineo ASANO 21(119) Lectures Simulation of Tube Hydroforming I Takayuki HAMA and Akitke MAKINOUCHI 26(124) Preface At the Beginning of a New Series "Fundamental of Tribology" Editorial Committee 32(130) Lectures Introduction to Tribology in Metalforming Processes Hiroshi IKE 33(131) Report Report on Winners of the Excellent Paper-Presentation Award in the 55th Japamese Joint Conference for the Technology of Plasticity Organizing Committee of the Conference 39(137) Visit to Institution Study on Novel Metal Forming Technology Masao MURAKAWA and Masahiko JIN 40(138) Papers Generation and Behavior of Wear Particle in Cold Rolling for Steel Takahiko OKAMOTO, Yoshio YAMASHITA and Tadayuki MATUMOTO 47(145) Variable-Shape Extrusion of Aluminum Square Pipes Kaoru HARA,Naoto OHTAKE and Kazunori KATO 52(150) Form Rolling Process for Shaping Grooves, Steps and Threads in Long Stem with Minute Diameters Using Only One Stroke Isao KUBOKI 58(156) Analysis of Wire Breaks and Its Countermeasure in Superfine Gold Wiredrawing Tsutomu YAMASITA and Kazunari YOSIDA 63(161) Factors Causing Undesirable Deformations in Bending Process of Extruded Sections Shuji SAKAKI and Noah UTSUMI 68(166) Copyright (C)1997-2005 JSTP. All Rights Reserved.