JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY OF PLASTICITY vol.47 no.543 April 2006 ---CONTENTS--- Essay Greetings from Bath Alan N. Bramley 1(253) Explanations Mechanochemical Polishing of High Functional Materials Nobuo YASUNAGA 4(256) Recent Aluminum Alloy Casting Technology Taketoshi TOMITA 10(262) Strip Casting of Aluminum Alloy Strip for Automotive Body Applications Hiroki ESAKI and Hideyuki UTO 17(269) Lectures Injection Molding Simulation Ryo NAKANO 21(273) Preface At the Beginning of a New Series "Basic of Joining and/or Complex Technology for Production Editorial Committee 27(279) Lectures Introduction to Joining and/or Complex for Production Engineer Terufumi MACHIDA 28(280) Round-Table Talk Round-Table Talk by Prize Winners of Kudo's Gold Medal JSTP Forging Committee 32(284) Papers Production of Superplastic Aluminum Sheet Clad with Metal Matrix Composite by Hot Rolling -Development of Superplastic Aluminum Sheet Clad with Ceramic-Particle-Reinforced Metal Matrix Composites I- Sumito KOJIMA and Takashi ISHIKAWA 47(299) Thickness Ratio Effect of Metal Matrix Composite in Clad Sheet on Superplastic Characteristics -Development of Superplastic Aluminum Sheet Clad with Ceramic-Particle-Reinforced Metal Matrix Composites II- Sumito KOJIMA and Takashi ISHIKAWA 52(304) Dynamic Characteristics of Blade Cutting Force during Pushing Shear on Paperboard Shigeru NAGASAWA, Akiyuki SUDO, Yasushi FUKUZAWA, Shigekazu SUZUKI, Tokuo SUGITA and Isamu KATAYAMA 57(309) Silicon Carbide Dispersion Strengthening by Mechanical Alloying Method in Magnesium Shigehiro KAWAMORI and Terufumi MACHIDA 62(314) Durability of Hair-Cutting Scissors Kenji INOUE, Mitsugu MOTOMURA, Takashi IIMURA and Tetsuya SONODA 66(318) Compressive Behavior of Iron Hollow Sphere at Elevated Temperatures -A Constitutive Equation for Pressure Sintering of Metallic Hollow Spheres I- Kazunari SHIN AGAWA, Hidenori YOSHIMURA, Yutaka MIHARA, Yoshihiro SUKEG AWA and Katsuhiko MURAKAMI 71(323) Experiment and Simulation of Firing of Iron Hollow- Sphere Compacts -A Constitutive Equation for Pressure Sintering of Metallic Hollow Spheres II- Kazunari SHIN AGAWA, Hidenori YOSHIMURA, Yutaka MIHARA, Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA and Katsuhiko MURAKAMI 76(328) Copyright (C)1997-2006 JSTP. All Rights Reserved.