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Mechanical and Physical Engineering
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Energy Estimates for Regularly Hyperbolic Operators with Non-classical Symbols
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Physical Electronics and Informatics
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An Improved Pedestrian Detection Method for DSS (Driver Supporting System) Using an
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Urban Engineering
Civil Engineering
A Numerical Model to Simulate the Time Dependent Behavior of Rock
Kenichi NAKAOKA, Koji HATA, Hiroaki KITOH and Yujing JIANG·························

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Evaluation of the Bolt Axial Force in High Strength Bolted Joints by Using Strain Gauges
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Finite Element Analysis on the Mechanical Behavior of High Strength Bolted Friction Type
Joints Considering Fluctuation of Bolt Axial Forces
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An Analysis on Influence of Regional and Individual Conditions to Intended Needs and Actual
Demands of Bus Service
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Waterfront Functions Required from a Ship Transport Perspective
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Energy estimates for regularly hyperbolic operators with non-classical symbols
Shigeo TARAMA∗(Received September 30, 2011)
Synopsism
Energy estimates for regularly hyperbolic operators with S1,2/3
class symbols are drawn.

KEYWORDS: energy estimates, regularly hyperbolic

1. Introduction
Consider the wave operator with an oscillating coefficientLε u = ∂t2 u − a2ε (t)∂x2 u = 0
with aε (t) = a(t/ε) . Here a(t) is a positive and periodic smooth function and ε is a small positive
parameter. For the standard energy E(t) = ut 2 + ux 2 of a solution u, we havetE(t) ≤ eC ε E(0).
2d22In order to improve the above estimate, we consider the decomposition of L̂ε = dt
2 + aε (t)ξ :(with a0 (t) =idid± iaε (t)ξ + a0 (t) ± a1 (t))( ∓ iaε (t)ξ − a0 (t) ∓ a1 (t)) = L̂ε + R± (t, ξ)
dt
ξ
dt
ξ

(1)

−aε (t)1, a1 (t) =(a (t) + a0 (t)2 ) and2aε (t)2aε (t) 0i
a1 (t)2.
R± (t, ξ) = ∓ (2a1 (t)a0 (t) + a1 (t)) +ξξ2Then we see thatû± = a−1/2(t)(εsatisfies(di∓ iaε (t)ξ − a0 (t) ∓ a1 (t))û
dt
ξ

d
i
± iaε (t)ξ ± a1 (t))û± = a−1/2(t)L̂ε û + R± (t, ξ)û± .
ε
dt
ξ

(2)

We define the energy e1 (t) by1
1 d
a1
e1 (t) = (|û+ |2 + |û− |2 ) = (| û − a0 û|2 + |(aε ξ + )û|2 .
2
aε dt
ξ
Note that|a0 (t)| ≤CC, |a1 (t)| ≤ 2 ,εεand |R± (t, ξ)| ≤ C(1
1
+ 2 4 ).
3
|ξ|ε
|ξ| ε

Then, when |ξ|ε is large, we see C −1 e1 (t) ≤ (|ût |2 + ξ 2 |û|2 ) ≤ Ce1 (t) with some C > 0. Hence from
(2) follows that a solution û of L̂ε û = 0 satisfies, when |ξ|ε is large,dC
e1 (t) ≤ 2 3 e1 (t),
dt
|ξ| ε
∗

Professor, Laboratory of Applied Mathematics－1－

from which we obtainCt

e1 (t) ≤ e |ξ|2 ε3 e1 (0), (t ≥ 0).

Hence, the high frequency energy Eε (t) = |ξ|≥Cε−3/2 (|ût |2 + ξ 2 |û|2 ) dξ with large C of a solution
Lε u = 0, has the estimate
Eε (t) ≤ C1 eC2 t Eε (0) (t ≥ 0)(see the related results 1),2) ).
In order to obtain a similar estimate for the regularly hyperbolic operatorPε u = Dtm u +1≤j≤m,|α|≤jt xaj,α ( , )Dtm−j Dxα u,ε εwe are led to study the property of the operator Pε in the case where ε|ξ|2/3 is large.
Noting, if ε−1 ≤ C|ξ|2/3 ,2
t x|∂tk ∂xα aj ( , )| ≤ C1 ε−(k+|α|) ≤ C2 |ξ|(k+|α|) 3 ,ε ε

we consider, in this paper, the regularly hyperbolic operator P whose symbol p(t, x, τ, ξ) is given byp(t, x, τ, ξ) = τ

m

+

m


aj (t, x, ξ)τ m−jj=1

with real aj (t, x, ξ) satisfying
2|∂tk ∂xα ∂ξβ aj (t, x, ξ)| ≤ Cξj−|β|+(k+|α|) 3jthat is, aj in S1,2/3
whereξ = (1 + |ξ|2 )1/2 .

k ([0, T ]) the set of symbols a(t, x, ξ) ∈ C ∞ ([0, T ] ×More precisely, for given T > 0, we denote by Sρ,δnn
R × R ) satisfying for any non-negative integer l and any multi-index α, β ∈ Nn , where N ={0, 1, 2, . . . },|∂tl ∂xα ∂ξβ a(t, x, ξ)| ≤ Cl,α,β ξk−ρ|β|+δ(l+|α|)on [0, T ] × Rn × Rn .
Let P be an operator on [0, T ] × Rn :P u = Dtm u +m

Aj (t, x, Dx )Dtm−j u

j=1


m−j with real symbols a (t, x, ξ) ∈ S jwhose symbol p(t, x, τ, ξ) = τ m + m
j
j=1 aj (t, x, ξ)τ
1,2/3 ([0, T ]) has
a factorization : if |ξ| ≥ R0 with some R0 > 0,mp(t, x, τ, ξ) =j=1

(τ − λj (t, x, ξ))(3)with real λj (t, x, ξ) satisfying, with some δ > 0,|λj (t, x, ξ) − λk (t, x, ξ)| ≥ δξ(t, x, ξ) ∈ [0, T ] × Rn × Rn with |ξ| ≥ R0

for any j, k ∈ I with j = k.

－2－

(4)

j
Here I = {1, 2, . . . , m} and Dt = 1i ∂t . For a symbol a(t, x, ξ) ∈ S1,2/3([0, T ]), we define theoperator A(t, x, Dx ) by

1
A(t, x, Dx )u =ei(x−y)ξ a(t, x, ξ)u(y) dydξ(2π)n
and for q(t, x, τ, ξ) = lj=0 aj (t, x, ξ)τ l−jQ(t, x, Dt , Dx ) =l

Aj (t, x, Dx )Dtl−j .

j=0

We show the following energy estimate for P .
Theorem 1. We assume that the opretator P satisfies the above mentioned conditions (3) and (4).
Then we have the following:
m−1




j=0 |α|≤m−1−jDtj Dxα u(t, ·)−(m−1)/2 ≤
m−1


C(



j=0 |α|≤m−1−jDtj Dxα u(0, ·)−(m−1)/2 + t0

(P + Psb )u(s, ·)−(m−1)/2 ds) (5)with respect to x, where Psb is the operator
for any u(t, x) ∈ C ∞ ([0, T ] × Rn ) that is rapidly decreasing
1 nwhose symbol psb (t, x, τ, ξ) is given by psb (t, x, τ, ξ) = 2iµ=0 ∂xµ ∂ξµ p(t, x, τ, ξ) with x0 = t, ξ0 = τ .

Here Dxj = 1i ∂xj and Dxα = Dxα11 · · · Dxαnn . The norm  · σ stands for the standard Sobolev norm
given by u(·)2σ = (1 + |ξ|2 )σ |û(ξ)|2 dξ with the Fourier transform û(ξ) of u(x).

Remark 1. The differential operator whose principal symbol has only real roots satisfying (3) and (4)is called the regularly hyperbolic operator.

Remark 2. We remark that the above estimate (5) dose not necessarily imply the wellposedness of the
Cauchy problem for P + Psb . The application of the above estimate to the operator with oscillating
coefficients will be discussed in a forthcoming paper.
If m = 1, Theorem 1 is evident. We assume m ≥ 2 from now on. In order to draw the estimate(5), we use the decomposition of P similar to (1). For the simplicity of expression, we use the Weyl
calculus of pseudodifferential operators. For the properties ofsuch calculus, refer to the section 14 in
Chapter 7 of Taylor’s book3) . For symbols a(t, x, ξ) and q = lj=1 aj (t, x, ξ)τ l−j , we define operators
Aw and Qw by

x+y
1
w
, ξ)u(y) dydξ(6)ei(x−y)ξ a(t,A (t, x, Dx )u =
n
(2π)
2

and

Q (t, x, Dt , Dx )u =
w

l

j=0

1
(2π)n+1ei((t−s)τ +(x−y)ξ) aj (t+s x+y,, ξ)τ l−j u(s, y) dsdydτ dξ22with some appropriately extended aj (t, x, ξ) on R × Rn × Rn . The same operator Qw (t, x, Dt , Dx )can also be given by
Qw (t, x, Dt , Dx )u =l

Dsl−j (Awj (j=0

For the proof of Theorem 1 we use the following.

－3－

t+s
, x, Dx )u(s, x))|s=t .
2(7)

Proposition 2. Let p(t, x, τ, ξ) = τ m +Suppose that we havem

j=1 aj (t, x, ξ)τ

p(t, x, τ, ξ) =

m


j=1

m−j

j
with real aj (t, x, ξ) ∈ S1,2/3([0, T ]).

(τ − λj (t, x, ξ))1([0, T ]) satisfying, with some δ > 0,with real λj (t, x, ξ) ∈ S1,2/3|λj (t, x, ξ) − λk (t, x, ξ)| ≥ δξ(t, x, ξ) ∈ [0, T ] × Rn × Rn

(8)for any j, k ∈ I with j = k. Then we have the following:
m−1




j=0 |α|≤m−1−jDtj Dxα u(t, ·)−(m−1)/2 ≤
C(

m−1




j=0 |α|≤m−1−jDtj Dxα u(0, ·)2−(m−1)/2 + t
0

P w u(s, ·)−(m−1)/2 ds) (9)for any u(t, x) ∈ C ∞ ([0, T ] × Rn ) that is rapidly decreasing with respect to x.
In order to see that Proposition 2 implies Theorem 1, first we remark that an operator Aw (t, x, Dx )swith a(t, x, ξ) ∈ S1,2/3([0, T ]) has the order s, that is, we have Auσ ≤ Cuσ+s ( see Proposition
5.5 and the section 14 in Chapter 7 in Taylor’s book3) ) and that, for an operator Qw (t, x, Dt , Dx )s−k+j([0, T ]), we havewith the symbol q(t, x, τ, ξ) = kj=0 aj (t, x, ξ)τ k−j with aj (t, x, ξ) ∈ S1,2/3kk−jQ(t, x, Dt , Dx )uσ ≤ C j=0 Dt uj−k+s+σ (see (7)).
nSuppose that p satisfies the assumptions of Theorem 1. Set q = −1µ,ν=0 ∂ξµ ∂ξν ∂xµ ∂xν p. Then
8
m
j−2/3
we see that q = j=1 bj (t, x, ξ)τ m−j with real symbols bj (t, x, ξ) ∈ S1,2/3 ([0, T ]) and we haveP w (t, x, Dt , Dx )u − (P + Psb + Q)u−(m−1)/2 ≤ C

m−1

j=0

Dtj um−j−1−(m−1)/2 .

(10)

Notingw

Q u − Qu−(m−1)/2 ≤ C
we havem−1
j=0Dtj um−j−1−(m−1)/2 ,(P − Q )u − (P u + Psb u)−(m−1)/2 ≤ C
w

w

m−1

j=0

(11)

Dtj um−j−1−(m−1)/2 .

3) for the above two claims (10) and (11).
See (14.8) on page 60 in Taylor’s bookmm−j has the factorization : whenOn the other hand, p − q = τ + m
j=1 (aj (t, x, ξ) − bj (t, x, ξ))τ|ξ| is large,p−q =(τ − λ̃j (t, x, ξ))with real λ̃j (t, x, ξ) satisfying, with some R1 > 0 and δ > 0,|λ̃j (t, x, ξ) − λ̃k (t, x, ξ)| ≥ δξ(t, x, ξ) ∈ [0, T ] × Rn × Rn with |ξ| ≥ R1

for any j, k ∈ I with j = k. See the appendix for the proof of this claim.

－4－

1
The above λ̃j (t, x, ξ) (j = 1, . . . , m) can be extend as a real symbol in S1,2/3([0, T ]) satisfying (8).

See the appendix
 for the proof of this claim. Using the extended λ̃j (t, x, ξ) (j = 1, . . . , m), we setp̃(t, x, τ, ξ) = m
j=1 (τ − λ̃j (t, x, ξ)). Then p̃ = p − q when |ξ| is large. Hence we haveP̃ w u − (P u + Psb u)−(m−1)/2 ≤ C

m−1

j=0

Dtj um−1−j−(m−1)/2 .

While, applying Proposition 2 to p̃(t, x, τ, ξ), we obtain
m−1




j=0 |α|≤m−1−jDtj Dxα u(t, ·)−(m−1)/2 ≤
m−1




C(
Then, noting that
m−1




j=0 |α|≤m−1−jj=0 |α|≤m−1−jDtj Dxα u(0, ·)−(m−1)/2 + t
0

P̃ w u(s, ·)−(m−1)/2 ds).

α|α|≤m−1−j Dx uσ is equivalent to um−1−j+σ , we have

Dtj Dxα u(t, ·)−(m−1)/2 ≤
m−1




C(

+

 t
0

j=0 |α|≤m−1−jDtj Dxα u(0, ·)−(m−1)/2(P u(s, x) + Psb u(s, ·)−(m−1)/2 +

m−1




j=0 |α|≤m−1−jDtj Dxα u(s, ·)−(m−1)/2 ) ds).

Then, by Gronwall’s inequality we obtain the estimate (5). Hence Proposition 2 implies Theorem 1.
In the next section, we prove Proposition 2 by using the decomposition of P w given in Proposition
3 that is proved in the section 3.
We denote by L(k, s) with a non-negative integer k and a real s, the set of symbols q(t, x, τ, ξ) =kk−j with a (t, x, ξ) ∈ S j−k+s ([0, T ]). L(0, s) = S sj
j=0 aj (t, x, ξ)τ
1,2/3 ([0, T ]). For operators Q and R,
1,2/3w
we write Q = R mod L(k, s) when Q − R can be given by V (t, x, Dt , Dx ) with some v(t, x, τ, ξ) ∈k([0, T ]) means that Q can be given by Q = Aw withL(k, s). While, for an operator Q, Q ∈ S1,2/3
k([0, T ]).
a(t, x, ξ) ∈ S1,2/3
For the operator Qw (t, x, Dt , Dx ) whose symbol is q(t, x, τ, ξ) = kj=0 aj (t, x, ξ)τ k−j ∈ L(k, s), thej−k+s
expression (7) implies that there exist bj (t, x, ξ) ∈ S1,2/3([0, T ]) such that bj (t, x, ξ) − aj (t, x, ξ) ∈j−1/3−k+sS1,2/3([0, T ]) andQ (t, x, Dt , Dx )u =wk

Bjw (t, x, Dx )Dtk−j u.

j=0

We recall some properties of the Weyl calculus. See (14.24) on page 62 in Taylor’s book3) . We
define the Poisson bracket {q, r} of q(t, x, τ, ξ) ∈ L(k, s1 ) and r(t, x, τ, ξ) ∈ L(l, s2 ), by{q, r} =and (q, r)2 by

n


µ=0

(∂ξµ q∂xµ r − ∂xµ q1 ∂ξµ q2 ),n−1  (µ,ν)(ν) (µ)(qr(µ,ν) + q(µ,ν) r(µ,ν) − 2q(µ) r(ν) )(q, r)2 =
4
µ,ν=0

－5－

(12)

(ν)

where q (µ,ν) = ∂ξµ ∂ξν q, q(µ,ν) = ∂xµ ∂xν q and q(µ) = ∂xµ ∂ξν q with x0 = t and ξ0 = τ . We use also thenotation q (µ) = ∂ξµ q , q(µ) = ∂xµ q.
Here we note {q, r} = −{r, q} and (q, r)2 = (r, q)2 .
We set11
d0 = qr, d1 = {q, r}, d2 = (q, r)2 .
2i
2
We remark that dj ∈ L(k + l, s1 + s2 − j/3) (j = 0, 1, 2). We have, for j0 = 0, 1, 2,
Q R =
w

w

j0

j=0

Djw

(mod L(k + l, s1 + s2 − (j0 + 1)/3))

(13)

and
Qw Rw − Rw Qw = 2D1w

(mod L(k + l, s1 + s2 − 1))

Furthermore when q(t, x, τ, ξ) − τ k ∈ L(k − 1, s1 ) or r(t, x, τ, ξ) − τ l ∈ L(l − 1, s2 ), we have for
j0 = 0, 1, 2,
j0

w w
Q R =
Djw (mod L(k + l − 1, s1 + s2 − (j0 + 1)/3))
(14)
j=0

and

Qw Rw − Rw Qw = 2D1w

(mod L(k + l − 1, s1 + s2 − 1))(15)

In the following we use the following notations. We denote the inner product in the space ofsquare integrable functions on Rn , by (·, ·), that is,v(x)w(x) dx(v, w) =Rn

and its norm by v(·) = (v, v)1/2 .
We use C or C with some suffix in order to denote a positive constant which may be different line
by line.
2. Proof of Proposition 2.
In this section, because we use only the Weyl calculus, the operator define by (6) or (7) is denotedby A or Q instead of Aw or Qw .
Suppose that the assumption of Proposition 2 is fulfilled. Recall I = {1, 2, . . . , m}. For j ∈ I weset
pj (t, x, τ, ξ) =(τ − λk (t, x, τ, ξ)).
k∈I\{j}We have the following.

Proposition 3. We set, for j ∈ I,
e0j (t, x, ξ) =

 −1 {τ − λj , τ − λk }.
2i
λj − λkk∈I\{j}
1/3

There exist a real symbol e1j (t, x, ξ) ∈ S1,2/3 ([0, T ]) and a symbol rj (t, x, τ, ξ) ∈ L(m − 1, m − 1/3)
such that(Dt − Λj + Ej0 + Ej1 )(Pj + Rj ) − P ∈ L(m − 1, m − 1).
(16)

－6－

For the moment admitting the validity of the above proposition, we draw the estimates (9). In
the following, we denote by u a C ∞ function on [0, T ] × Rn , which is rapidly decreasing with respect
to x.
Set

wj (t, x, ξ) =|λj − λk |−1/2 .
k∈I\{j}−(m−1)/2

We see from (8) that wj ∈ S1,2/3{τ − λj , wj } = wj (−([0, T ]) and wj (t, x, ξ) ≥ C(1 + |ξ|)−(m−1)/2 . We havek∈I\{j}1{τ − λj , λj − λk }).
2(λj (t, x, ξ) − λk (t, x, ξ))

Then 1i {τ − λj , wj } = wj e0j . Setting g = wj e0j , we get from (15)−(m−1)/2(Dt − Λj )Wj − Wj (Dt − Λj ) = G (mod S1,2/3

).

1/3

1
While with ẽ1j ∈ S1,2/3 given by ẽ1j = − 2i{wj , e0j }/wj which is real-valued, we have

Wj Ej0 = G − Ẽj1 Wj−(m−1)/2(mod S1,2/3([0, T ])).

Then we have−(m−1)/2(Dt − Λj )Wj − Wj (Dt − Λj ) − Wj Ej0 − Ẽj1 Wj ∈ S1,2/3−(m−1)/2

which and Ej1 Wj = Wj Ej1 ( mod S1,2/3,

1/3([0, T ])), where e1j ∈ S1,2/3 ([0, T ]), imply that−(m−1)/2Wj (Dt − Λj + Ej0 + Ej1 ) − (Dt − Λj + Ej1 + Ẽj1 )Wj ∈ S1,2/3

.

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Then we see from (16) and (17) that there exists vj (t, x, τ, ξ) ∈ L(m − 1, (m − 1)/2) such that(Dt − Λj + Ej1 + Ẽj1 )Wj (Pj + Rj ) = Wj P + Vj .

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Since −λj (t, x, ξ)+e1j (t, x, ξ)+ ẽ1j (t, x, ξ) is real-valued, then −Λj (t, x, Dx )+Ej1 (t, x, Dx )+ Ẽj1 (t, x, Dx )is formally selfadjoint with respect to the inner product (u, v). Then we see thatdu2 = 2(iDt u(t, ·), u(t, ·)) = 2(i(Dt − Λj + Ej1 + Ẽj1 )u(t, ·), u(t, ·)).
dtd
Wj u2 = 2(i(Dt − Λj + Ej1 + Ẽj1 )Wj u(t, ·), Wj u(t, ·)). Then
Hence dtd
Wj u2 ≤ 2(Dt − Λj + Ej1 + Ẽj1 )Wj uWj u.
dt−(m−1)/2

Therefore, noting wj ∈ S1,2/3([0, T ]), we obtain from (18)m−1d
Wj (Pj + Rj )u2 ≤ C(P u−(m−1)/2 +Dtk u−k+(m−1)/2 )Wj (Pj + Rj )u,dt
k=0

from which we obtain
Wj (Pj + Rj )u(t, ·) ≤ Wj (Pj + Rj )u(0, ·)
 t
m−1

+C
(P u(s, ·)−(m−1)/2 +Dtk u(s, ·)−k+(m−1)/2 ) ds.
0

k=0

－7－

See for example Lemma 23.1.1 in the book of Hömander4) .
−(m−1)/2
Since wj ∈ S1,2/3([0, T ]) and wj ≥ C(1 + |ξ|)−(m−1)/2 , we have u−(m−1)/2 ≤ C(Wj u +u−(m−1)/2−1 ). Hence we see(Pj + Rj )u(t, ·)−(m−1)/2 ≤ C(

m−1

k=0

Dtk u(t, ·)−k+(m−1)/2−1

+

m−1

k=0

+

 t
0

Dtk u(0, ·)−k+(m−1)/2(P u(s, ·)−(m−1)/2 +

m−1

k=0

Dtk u(s, ·)−k+(m−1)/2 ) ds. (19)Now we draw the estimate of the norm of Dtk u from the estimate of (Pj + Rj )u−(m−1)/2 (j =1, . . . , m). First we note that rj ∈ L(m − 2, m − 1 − 1/3) implies that
Rj u−(m−1)/2 ≤ C

m−2

k=0

Dtk u−k+(m−1)/2−1/3(20)Note that we havepj (t, x, τ, ξ) = τ

m−1

+

m

k=2

ajk (t, x, ξ)τ m−k ξk−10with ajk (t, x, ξ) ∈ S1,2/3([0, T ]).
Let A be a m by m matrix whose (j, k) element is ajk (t, x, ξ). Here we set aj1 (t, x, ξ) = 1. We
remark thatm τ m−km−1
pj (t, x, τ, ξ)/ξ
ajk (t, x, ξ)
=
ξ
k=1

Then we have | det A| ≥ C with C > 0. Indeed, sincek∈I\{j} (λj (t, x, ξ) − λk (t, x, ξ)) l = jpj (t, x, λl (t, x, ξ), ξ) =0otherwise,andpj (t, x, λl (t, x, ξ), ξ)/ξ

m−1

=

m


 λl (t, x, ξ) m−k,ξajk (t, x, ξ)

k=1

then we obtain the desired estimate | det A| ≥ C from (8) and the Vandermonde determinant.
0
Hence each element of A−1 belongs to S1,2/3([0, T ]). Then there exists an m by m matrix L ∈−1
0([0, T ]). Noting that([0, T ]) satisfying L(t, x, Dx )A(t, x, Dx ) − I ∈ S1,2/3
S1,2/3

Pj u −m
k=1

Ajk (t, x, Dx )Dtm−k Dx k−1 u−(m−1)/2 ≤ C

m−2Dtl u−l+(m−1)/2−1/3 ,m−1Dtl u−l+(m−1)/2−1/3 ,l=0

we see that, for k ∈ I,


m

j=1

Lkj (t, x, Dx )Pj u − Dtm−k Dx k−1 u−(m−1)/2 ≤ C

－8－

l=0

where Lkl is the (k, j) element of the L. Then we obtain from the above estimate and (20)
m−1

k=0

Dtm−1−k u(t, ·)k−(m−1)/2 ≤ C(

m

j=1

(Pj + Rj )u−(m−1)/2 +

m−1

k=0

Dtk u(t, ·)−k+(m−1)/2−1 ). (21)Here we used the property of Sobolev norm: uσ−1/3 ≤ εuσ + Cε uσ−1 for any ε > 0 with someCε .
It follows from (19) and (21)
m−1


m−1
m−1


k
k
Dt u(t, ·)−k+(m−1)/2 ≤ C(
Dt u(t, ·)−k+(m−1)/2−1 +Dt u(0, ·)−k+(m−1)/2
k=0
k=0
k=0
 t
m−1

+
(P u(s, ·)−(m−1)/2 +Dtk u(s, ·)−k+(m−1)/2 ) ds.
0
k=0

(22)

Note that for 0 ≤ k ≤ m − 2dDk u(t, ·)2−k+(m−1)/2−1 ≤ 2Dtk u(t, ·)−k+(m−1)/2−1 Dtk+1 u(t, ·)−k+(m−1)/2−1 .
dt t
and
d
Dm−1 u(t, ·)2−(m−1)/2−1
dt t≤ 2Dtm−1 u(t, ·)−(m−1)/2−1 ((P u(t, ·)−(m−1)/2−1 +

m−1

k=0

Dtk u(t, ·)(m−k−(m−1)/2−1 ). (23)Then we have
m−1

d 
(
Dtk u(t, ·)2−k+(m−1)/2−1 )dt
k=0≤ C(P u−(m−1)/2−1 +

m−1

k=0

m−1


Dtk u(t, ·)2k−(m−1)/2−1 )1/2 ,m−1Dtk u(s, ·)−k+(m−1)/2 ) ds).

Dtk u(t, ·)−k+(m−1)/2 )(k=0

from which we obtain
m−1

k=0

Dtk u(t, ·)−k+(m−1)/2−1 ≤ C(

m−1

k=0

+

Dtk u(0, ·)−k+(m−1)/2−1

 t
0(P u(s, ·)−(m−1)/2−1 +k=0Hence from the above estimate and (22), we obtain
m−1

k=0

m−1


Dtk u(t, ·)−k+(m−1)/2 ≤ C(

k=0+

Dtk u(0, ·)−k+(m−1)/2
 t
0(P u(s, ·)−(m−1)/2 +

m−1

k=0

Dtk u(s, ·)−k+(m−1)/2 ) ds. (24)Then we obtain from (24) the desired estimate (9), by using Gronwall’s inequality.

－9－3. Proof of Proposition 3.
In this section also, we use only the Weyl calculus. Then the operator define by (6) or (7) isdenoted by A or Q instead of Aw or Qw .
First we show two lemmas on symbols.
Recall I = {1, 2, . . . , m}. For j, k ∈ I with j = k, we setpj =(τ − λl (t, x, ξ)), pkj =(τ − λl (t, x, ξ)).
l∈I\{j}l∈I\{k,j}

When m = 2, we set pjk = 1.

Lemma 4. For j ∈ I, we set
a0j = −
and for k ∈ I \ {j},k∈I\{j}b0jk =We set also

1 {τ − λj , λk − λj }2i
λk − λj

1 {τ − λj , λk − λj }.
2i
λk − λjrj0 =

bjk pjk .

k∈I\{j}

Then we have1{τ − λj , pj } + a0j pj + (τ − λj )rj0 = 0.
2iProof. Indeed, by the definition of the Poisson bracket, we see that {τ − λj , pj } = k∈I\{j} {τ −λj , τ − λk }pjk . Since 1 =(τ −λj )−(τ −λk ), noting (τ − λj )pjk = pk and (τ − λk )pjk = pj , we get
λk −λjpjk =pk − pj.
λk − λj(25)

Since {τ − λj , τ − λj } = 0 and (τ − λk ) − (τ − λj ) = λj − λk , we see that {τ − λj , τ − λk } ={τ − λj , λj − λk }. Hencep k − pj{τ − λj , pj } ={τ − λj , λj − λk }.
λk − λjk∈I\{j}Then, noting (τ − λj )pjk = pk , we obtain1{τ − λj , pj } + a0j pj + (τ − λj )rj0 = 0.
2i
1/3

1,h
Lemma 5. There exist real symbols a1,hj , bjk ∈ S1,2/3 ([0, T ]) (h = 1, 2, 3, 4) such that 1,1
bjk pk(τ − λj , pj )2 = a1,1
j pj +(26)

k∈I\{j} 1,2
1 0{aj , pj } = a1,2
bjk pkj pj +2i(27)k∈I\{j} 1,31{τ − λj , rj0 } = a1,3
bjk pkj pj +2ik∈I\{j}
 1,4
1,4
0 0
bjk pkaj rj = aj pj +k∈I\{j}where a0j and rj0 are symbols defined in Lemma 4.

－ 10 －(28)(29)

Proof. For three distinct elements j, k, l in I, we setpjkl =(τ − λh ).
h∈I\{j,k,l}When m = 3, we set pjkl = 1.
Lagrange’s interpolation formula implies that, for three distinct elements j, k, l ∈ I,1=

(τ − λl )(τ − λj )(τ − λj )(τ − λk )(τ − λk )(τ − λl )++(λl − λj )(λl − λk ) (λj − λk )(λj − λl ) (λk − λl )(λk − λj )Then we havepjkl =

pj
pk
pl
+
+
(λl − λj )(λl − λk ) (λj − λk )(λj − λl ) (λk − λl )(λk − λj )Note that we have for µ, ν ∈ {0, 1, 2, . . . , n}pj(µ,ν) =(τ − λk )(µ,ν) pjk +k∈I\{j}k,l∈I\{j},k=l(30)(τ − λk )(µ) (τ − λl )(ν) pjkl .

Then we see from (25) and (30) that(τ − λj )(µ,ν) pj(µ,ν) =(τ − λj )(µ,ν) (τ − λk )(µ,ν)×

k∈I\{j}+k,l∈I\{j},k=lpk − p j
λk − λj(τ − λj )(µ,ν) (τ − λk )(µ) (τ − λl )(ν)

pj
pl
pk
+
+
(λl − λj )(λl − λk ) (λj − λk )(λj − λl ) (λk − λl )(λk − λj ). (31)

1/3

Since λk (k ∈ I) is real-valued, we see that there exist real symbols ak ∈ S1,2/3 ([0, T ]) so that we have(τ − λj )(µ,ν) pj(µ,ν) =

ak pk .

k∈I

Since this argument can be applied to other terms of (τ − λj , pj )2 (see (12)), we see that the assertionfor (26) is valid. Noting that
follows from

a0j
i

2/3

∈ S1,2/3 ([0, T ]) is real valued, we see that the assertion for (27)1 0{a , pj } =
2i j
=



k∈I\{j}k∈I\{j}1 0{a , τ − λk }pjk
2i j
pk − pj
1 0{aj , τ − λk }.
2i
λk − λjSince
1{τ − λj , b0jk pjk } =
2i
b0

b0jk
1
{τ − λj , b0jk }pjk +{τ − λj , τ − λl }pjkl ,
2i
2i

2/3

noting that jki ∈ S1,2/3 ([0, T ]) is real valued, we see from (25) and (30), the assertion for (28) is valid.
Finally, noting that a0j rj0 is real-valued, we see from the definition of a0j and rj0 and from (25) thatthe assertion for (29) is valid.

－ 11 －

We see from (14) that(Dt − Λj )Pj = P + Qj,1 + Qj,2(mod L(m − 1, m − 1))1{τ − λj , pj } and qj,2 = 12 (τ − λj , pj )2 .
with qj1 = 2i
1
1
Setting h1 (t, x, τ, ξ) = 2i{a0j , pj } + 2i{τ − λj , rj0 }, we see from Lemma 4 and (14) that

A0j Pj + (Dt − Λj )Rj0 + Qj1 = H1

(mod L(m − 2, m − 1)).

Then, setting h2 (t, x, τ, ξ) = h1 (t, x, τ, ξ) + qj2 + aoj rj0 , we see that(Dt − Λj + A0j )(Pj + Rj0 ) = P + H2
Since
h2 (t, x, τ, ξ) =(mod L(m − 1, m − 1)).

1 0
1
1
{aj , pj } + {τ − λj , rj0 } + (τ − λj , pj )2 + aoj rj0 ,
2i
2i
2
1/3

Lemma 5 shows the following expression of h2 with real symbols a1j , b1jk ∈ S1,2/3 ([0, T ])h2 (t, x, τ, ξ) = −a1j pj −With rj1 =

b1jk pkk∈I\{j}1k∈I\{j} bjk pjk ∈ L(m − 2, m − 2 + 1/3) we haveh2 (t, x, τ, ξ) = −a1j pj − (τ − λj )rj1

Then we see that
Then we obtain

H2 = −A0j Pj − (Dt − Λj )Rj1

(mod L(m − 2, m − 1)).

(Dt − Λj + A0j + A1j )(Pj + Rj0 + Rj1 ) = P(mod L(m − 1, m − 1)).

Since a1j (t, x, ξ) is real-valued, Proposition 3 is proved.
4. Appendix.
Weshow the validity of two claims stated in Introduction. Assume that the symbol p(t, x, τ, ξ) =m
m−j with real a (t, x, ξ) ∈ S j
j
j=1 aj (t, x, ξ)τ
1,2/3 ([0, T ]) has the following factorization when|ξ| ≥ R0 with some R0 > 0.
m(τ − λj (t, x, ξ))(32)p(t, x, τ, ξ) =

τm +

j=1

with real λj (t, x, ξ) satisfying, with some δ > 0,|λj (t, x, ξ) − λk (t, x, ξ)| ≥ δξ(t, x, ξ) ∈ [0, T ] × Rn × Rn with |ξ| ≥ R0

(33)

for any j, k ∈ I with j = k.

m−j with real b (t, x, ξ) ∈The first claim is the following. For any q(t, x, τ, ξ) = m
j
j=1 bj (t, x, ξ)τ
j−2/3

S1,2/3 ([0, T ]), p(t, x, τ, ξ) + q(t, x, τ, ξ) has the factorization similar to (32) and (33) when |ξ| ≥ R1
with some R1 > 0. Indeed, when |ξ| ≥ R0 , set pj = l∈I\{j} (τ − λk (t, x, ξ)). Then, by Lagrange’s
interpolation formula, we havemdjq(t, x, τ, ξ) =pj
j=1

－ 12 －

withdj =Since pj (t, x, λj (t, x, ξ), ξ) =q(t, x, λj (t, x, ξ), ξ).
pj (t, x, λj (t, x, ξ), ξ)l∈I\{j} (λj (t, x, ξ) − λk (t, x, ξ)), we see from (33)|pj (t, x, λj (t, x, ξ), ξ)| ≥ Cξm−1(|ξ| ≥ R0 ).

Note that the estimates |aj | ≤ Cξj (j = 1, . . . , m) imply |λj | ≤ Cξ (j = 1, . . . , m). Then fromj−2/3
bj (t, x, ξ) ∈ S1,2/3 ([0, T ]) we obtain |q(t, x, λj (t, x, ξ), ξ)| ≤ Cξm−1−2/3 . Hence |dj | ≤ Cξ−2/3 .
Then dj is small when |ξ| is large. Since bj (t, x, ξ) is real-valued, dj is real-valued. From p + q =djp(1 + mj=1 τ −λj ) and from (33), by considering the change of sign, follows that there exists a positive
R1 such that, when |ξ| ≥ R1 , we have the factorization of p + q similar to (32) and (33). Then we seethat the first claim is valid.
The second claim is the following. Each λj (t, x, ξ) (j = 1, . . . , m) appearing in (32) has an real
1([0, T ]) satisfying, with some δ > 0,extention λ̃j ∈ S1,2/3|λ̃j (t, x, ξ) − λ̃k (t, x, ξ)| ≥ δξ(t, x, ξ) ∈ [0, T ] × Rn × Rn

(34)

for any j, k ∈ I with j = k.
We show this claim by using Nuij’s theorem5) . We assume λ1 < λ2 < · · · < λm when |ξ| ≥ R0 .
Let a non-negative function χ(s) ∈ C ∞ (R) satisfy

1 |s| ≤ 3/2
χ(s) =
0 |s| ≥ 2.
1([0, T ]).
Note that by the implicit function theorem and (33), we see (1 − χ(|ξ|/R0 ))λj (t, x, ξ) ∈ S1,2/3
m
Set p̃ = j=1 (τ − (1 − χ(|ξ|/R0 )λj (t, x, ξ)). The polynomial p̃ has only real roots that are distinct
when |ξ| ≥ 2R0 . Thanks to Nuij’s theorem, we see that|ξ|p̃˜ = (1 + χ()∂τ )m−1 p̃
2R0
has only simple real roots λ̃j (j = 1, . . . , m). We assume λ̃1 < λ̃2 < · · · < λ̃m . Since p̃˜ = p when|ξ| ≥ 4R0 , we see that λj = λ̃j there. Then (34) is verified when |ξ| ≥ 4R0 . When |ξ| ≤ 4R0 , thecoefficients of p̃ are bounded. Then as a polynomial in τ , the set {p̃(t, x, τ, ξ) | (t, x, ξ) ∈ [0, T ] × Rn ×
Rn with |ξ| ≤ 4R0 } is a bounded set. For any p̃ belonging to its closure that has also only real roots,p̃˜ has only simple real roots. Then we see that, even if |ξ| ≤ 4R0 , (34) is valid. Hence the claim isverified.
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An Improved Pedestrian Detection Method for DSS (Driver Supporting System)
using an Attitude Measurement Unit
Yukie HASHIMOTO*, THI THI ZIN*, Takashi TORIU* and Hiromitsu HAMA**(Received September 30, 2011)
Synopsis
This paper proposes an improved method for pedestrian detection using an Attitude Measurement Unit
(AMU) in conjunction with multi-slit data. During the next decade, on-board pedestrian detection systems willplay a key role in the challenge of increasing traffic safety. The main goal of these systems, to detect pedestrians
in urban scenarios, involves overcoming difficulties like processing outdoor scenes from a mobile platform andsearching for aspect-changing objects in cluttered environments. Using our new method, it becomes possible todecrease the margin of error of parameters by revising the image width. It is demonstrated that using an AMU as ameans of on-road pedestrian detection for automobiles eliminates the need for finding specific configurations on
the scene plane. Previously finding these configurations has been too time-consuming for practical use. Our
results indicate that the integration of the proposed techniques will give rise to a more economical, accurate, andversatile system.
KEYWORDS: person detection, attitude measurement unit, multi-slit method, vanishing line

1. Introduction
Pedestrian detection is for the safety of both drivers and pedestrians themselves. There are various kinds ofhardware and software used for pedestrian detection. As for its applications, a pedestrian detection system can bevery useful for monitoring traffic flow, in on-board driver assistance systems, for intelligent pedestrian crossing
systems, etc. Using computer vision, pedestrians can be detected and segmented from complex backgrounds.
This allows the system to ascertain both the size and position of pedestrians in the camera’s field of view.
Methods of pedestrian detection can be mainly categorized into two types: motion analysis and shape analysis.
In motion analysis 1-4), a continuous segmentation of pedestrian movement is analyzed. Although thesemotion-based methods are effective for reducing the rate of false detection of pedestrians, there are still some
limitations. They cannot detect motionless pedestrians or any unusual motion of a pedestrian, such as jumping or
crawling. Also, a pedestrian’s legs must clearly appear in the image for patterns of pedestrian motion to berecognized, but this does not always occur. Furthermore, a sequence of images is required for segmentation andrecognition, which cannot be done within a single image. In shape analysis, specific pedestrian characteristics
are analyzed for segmentation and recognition 5,6). Obviously, the advantage of almost all of these shape-based
methods is that multiple images are not required.
Further improving upon this advantage, we have developed two module systems based on both 2D and 3D
sensor cues. The first module uses pitch and roll angles for calculating the vanishing line on the image to select a
coherent set of Regions Of Interest (ROIs) to be further analyzed. The second module develops a modified
multi-slit method to classify the incoming ROIs into pedestrian and non-pedestrian in order to refine the final
results. 7,8) Our method utilizes horizontal slicing of the image, called the “multi-slit” method and associates the*Information and Communication Engineering, Dept. of Physical Electronics and Informatics** R&D Center of 3G Search Engine, Incubator, Research Center for Industry Innovation
Osaka City University－ 15 －

ImageInitialvanishing line

camera coordinate system

Sensor
AMU

jC

iC

n1
kC

Pitch, Roll ,Updating new vanishing linenworld coordinate system
jW
n0
iW
kW

Composing multi-slits
road surface

Pedestrian detection

Fig.1 Overview of proposed system.

Fig.2 Normal vectors of the road surface in two
coordinate systems.

multi-slit data with histograms of oriented gradients. In the multi-slit method, the use of vanishing lines is a key
feature. The multi-slit approach is a new line of research which utilizes projective geometry and homogeneous
coordinates. Depending on the setting, the geometric relationship between the object space and the image spaceis described via either similarity, affine or projective transformations. It is known that these transformations canbe recovered by analyzing the vanishing points and vanishing lines. The most common approach to finding thevanishing line for a scene plane is first to determine two vanishing points from two sets of linear features parallelto the plane, and then construct the vanishing line through the two vanishing points. However, these linear
features may not be readily available for every scene and their generation may be prone to errors if the linear
features are short in distance. Other methods include estimation from equally spaced coplanar parallel lines andusing orthogonal relationships among vanishing points and lines 9). However, these methods still require parallellines on the scene plane or specific configurations which are hard to retrieve for practical use.
In contrast to these approaches, in this paper we mainly focus on robust real-time vanishing line estimation
for driver assistance applications by using an AMU which measures the altitude or inclinations in both object
space and image space (Fig.1). Attitude, pitch and inclination measurement are required in a wide variety ofmarkets such as aerospace, industry and instrumentation. The tilt sensor technique has many advantages; forexample, it is low cost, small size, lightweight, and is easy to be intelligent and integrated 10).
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we establish a technique for constructing thevanishing lines using AMU units. The experimental results are shown in Section 3 and Section 4 contains
concluding remarks.

2. Pedestrian detection using multi-slit method
In this paper, we assume a pin-hole camera model. In addition, the normal vector n on the road surface isexpressed as n0 in the world coordinate system ( iW , jW , kW ) and n1 in the camera coordinate system(iC , jC , kC ) as shown in Fig.2. The vanishing line in an image is obtained from the normal vector n1 . The
vanishing line is obtained by the following procedure.

－ 16 －

[Step1]

Suppose jC shows jW rotated through  0 about the x-axis (Pitch) and  0 about the z-axis (Roll).

j C  ( a 0 , b0 , c 0 )  a 0 iW  b0 jW  c 0 kW , j C  1,

(1)

where iW  (1,0,0), jW  (0,1,0) , kW  (0,0,1).
And a0 , b0 , c0 are obtained from the next expressions as shown in Fig.3:

a 0  b0 tan  0 , b0 1 / tan 2  0  1  tan 2  0 , c 0  b0 tan  0 .

(2)

In addition, the rotating matrices are01R1 (. )   0 cos  0 sin  cos  sin  , R2 ( )   sin  0cos  0

 sin 
cos 
0

0

0
1 

(3)

We obtain  and  by resolving the following expressions:(4)   sin 1 (c0 ),   sin 1 a0 / cos   .

(5)Therefore, the camera coordinate system is obtained by the following expressions:( iC , jC , k C ) （iW , jW , kW ）
 R ( 0 ,  0 ) （iW , jW , kW ）
 R1 ( )  R2 ( )(6)i C  (  cos  , sin  , 0)jC  (cos   sin  , cos   cos  ,  sin  )(7)

k C  (sin   sin  , sin   cos  , cos  )[Step2] We can calculate the road surface normal vector n1  (a1 , b1 , c1 ) in the camera coordinate systemfrom vanishing line parameters m, d ( y  mx  d ) to be provided from an input image. We obtain vanishingline parameters by two ways: finding manually and (2) calculating a1 , b1 , c1 using the next expressions:a12  b12  c12  1, tan  1  d / LV   c1 / b1 , m  tan  1  a1 / b1 ,b1  1 / m  1  d / LV  , a1  m  b1 , c1  b1  d / LV .
2

2

y

b0

0
 0 jW

jC

ｚ

c0
a0
x

Fig.3 Normal vector.

－ 17 －(8)(9)

Here, LV is expressed for a pixel unit for relative role and imagination as a vertical angle and a verticalresolution of image at distance from the lens center to screen. We illustrate by Section 3 in more detail.
Therefore, when the normal vector of n0 is expressed as (a0 ' , b0 ' , c0 ' ) in the world coordinate system, then0 is converted from the camera coordinate system into in the world coordinate system the following
expression:(10)n  (a ' , b ' , c ' )  a i  b j  c k .
0

0

0

0

1 C

1 C

1 C

The road surface normal vector n0 in the world coordinate system is fixed.
[Step3] When the camera attitude is changed, we calculate the new camera coordinate system ( iC ' , jC ' , kC ' )from the new camera attitude angles by Eq.(7). Therefore, we calculate n1 by the following expressions from
Eq.(10):a1 '  n0  i C ' , b1 '  n0  jC ' , c1 '  n0  k C '.

(11)

[Step4] And, we obtain new vanishing line parameters m' , d ' ( y  m ' x  d ' ) by the following expressions
from Eq.(9):(12)
Therefore, when the camera attitude is changed, we can update the new vanishing line from new attitude
using the road surface normal vector in the world coordinate system.
This section explains processing that extracts head nominators by multi-slit method. The multi-slit method
calculates the position (slit) with the possibility with the pedestrian on the image, and it tries to improve thedetection accuracy by judging whether there is pedestrian's feature in each slit. The multi-slit method utilizes
y-position of vanishing line as the scale factor. The effectiveness of this technique is proven by the reference 7,8) .
3. Experimental Results
The effectiveness of the proposed method is confirmed through our experimental results. We took pictures ina variety of camera attitude angles (pitch and roll angles), and we estimated the vanishing line to each image byusing pitch and roll angles obtained from an AMU at the same time.
LV is expressed for a pixel unit for relative role and imagination as a vertical angle and a vertical resolutionof image at distance from the lens center to screen as shown in Fig.4. Specifically, because the verticality angleof view of the camera used by the experiment is 37.8° and the verticality resolution of image 2448 pixels, thevalue of LV is obtained by the following expression:

LV  1224 / tan(18.39)  3575 .015.

(13)

y1224pixels
18.9°
LV

d



z
screenFig.4 Image of LV .

－ 18 －



Calculation using LV may cause error between d '  and d . It is also necessary to revise the magnification ofimage width to correct for error between m' and m  as shown in Fig.5Therefore, we introduce a correction
coefficient on experimental basis by the following expression:

LV ' LV u 0.863 3085 .238 .
x' 1 / 0.9968  x.

(14)
(15)

Then, the mean of the error margin of d and d ' has been improved from 44 to 9 and that of m and m'  from-0.0031 to -0.0029 as shown in Table 1. Fig.6(a),(b) shows the error margin of the vanishing line parameters.
Examples of multi-slit drawn using vanishing lines estimated by LV ' are shown in Fig.7.

(b) d and dc(a) m and mc
Fig.6 The error margin of the vanishing line parameters
using LV ' and x ' .Fig.5 To revise the magnification of image width.

Table1. The error margin using LV , x and LV ' , x'

LV , x

m'm
d 'd

SD
0.004433

MEAN-0.003144

LV ' , x'm ' md ' dFig.7 Examples of multi-slits using LV ' and x ' .

㧙  㧙

SD
0.004328

MEAN-0.00299

4. Conclusion
We have developed an improved method for pedestrian detection using an AMU in conjunction withmulti-slit data. In this paper, we proposed a fast and simple technique for obtaining the vanishing lines using an
AMU. This system was shown to keep the necessary precision. Therefore, it is possible to combine the multi-slitlines with the data from an AMU mounted in a vehicle in real-time even when the car moves or wobbles around
while driving. The effectiveness of our proposed method was confirmed by our experimental results. However, it
has here been assumed that the road surface is perfectly level and smooth. As this is of course not always thecase, it will be for future research to develop a real-time system for practical use that can handle more generally
encountered conditions.
Acknowledgment. This work is partially supported by KAKENHI 21500176 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific
Research(C).
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A Numerical Model to Simulate the Time Dependent Behavior of Rock
Kenichi NAKAOKA*, Koji HATA**, Hiroaki KITOH*** and Yujing JIANG****(Received September 30,2011)
Synopsis
To simulate the time-dependent deformation of the rock, we propose herein a numerical creep model. The
model can evaluate consistently from immediately after loading up to collapse considering the confinement
effect. In this paper, firstly, a rheological relaxation model consisting of spring and damper components is
explained to rock under a constant compressive stress and also under a constant strain rate are simulatedusing the proposed model. As a result, the obtained time history of strain rate under the constant stress, andalso the relation between stress and strain including strain softening behavior under the constant rate are
fairly agreed with the test’s results.
KEYWORDS: creep, numerical model, strain rate effect, strain-softening
1. Introduction
Under the swelling rock, there is sometimes increasing of ground deformations around the tunnel withtime though while the tunnel is not under excavation. And it often make difficulty to continue tunnel
excavation, so cause the cost up, and delay the schedule For radioactive waste disposal tunnel, long-term
evaluation of deformation is needed for performance assessment because it is concerned that the creep
phenomenon continues.
It is known that creep deformation of rock specimen under tri-axial compression test with constantstress which called “creep test” hereafter, shows three phases of their states. Firstly, strain rate decrease bydegrees from fast to slow. Next, the slow strain rate condition continues. Finally, strain rate increase rapidly
and collapse. Each of these states is called primary creep, secondary creep, and, tertiary creep, respectively.
By contrast, under tri-axial compression test with constant strain rate, which called “loading test”
hereafter, axial stress of specimen decrease beyond its peak stress to residual stress, which is called strain
softening.
As the numerical models that can evaluate both the creep deformation and strain softening behavior,
there are the elasto-viscoplastic model proposed by Adachi and Oka1), and, the model that varies thecompliance depending upon time duration and current stress proposed by Okubo and Fukui et al2).
For the model by Adachi and Oka1), materials parameters have to be modified depend on confinedpressure to simulate the tri-axial tests. To make simulation easy, it is desirable to use same parameters
through the analysis if the stress changes even in analysis step. Considering the confinement effects easily,
Azuma and Ohtsuki et al.3),4) modified the Adachi-Oka model by adding the new eight model parameters.
While, in Okubo’s model, the confinement effect is not considered. Furthermore, for the model, thedetermination of the model parameters using creep tests results is difficult when evaluation of primary totertiary creep deformation needed.
In this study, the numerical model introducing a non-dimensional parameter s which represents thedegree of creep development. The features of the model are easiness of estimating the model parameters
because the numbers of parameters are not many. It can evaluate the effect of compression pressure based on
Mohr – Coulomb criteria. At first, the numerical model is formulated, and the rheological relaxation model
consisting of spring and damper is explained. Next, the model is installed into a finite difference method
framework. Then, calculations of creep test and loading test are carried out about the existing tests data using
one element model. By comparison between the results of numerical analysis and tri-axial compression test,
applicability of the model is discussed.

*
Student, Doctor Course of Department of Civil Engineering (Obayashi Corporation)**
Obayashi Corporation*** Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Osaka City University**** Professor, Division of System Science, Nagasaki University－ 21 －

2. Creep model(1) Introduce of non-dimensional parameter s
The non- dimensional important parameter s indicates the degree of creep development. It is assumed,
herein, that the value of s increases with repeating of many stop and forward sequences as shown in Fig.1. As
shown in the figure, the number of repetition is to be ds･n within an interval ds, so the increment value of swith the repetition is 1/n. Introducing the stationary time f for the stop sequence dependent upon current
stress state, moreover, increasing rate of s can be described as eq. (1). It is noted that in Fig. 1, the duration
for the forward sequences is to be zero, and it for the stop is to be the sum of the time f. Strain rate, so called
creep strain is proportional to the increasing rate of s to be described later in detail.

ds (n・ds times stop and forward)
stop

stop

stop

stop

stop

ft

ft

ft

ft

ft

s

forward forward forward forward forward forward1nFig.1 Concept of increasing s.
�� �

1
n�

(1)

The parameter n is that means density of the stop sequence duration in unit interval s. It is assumed thatthe parameter n varies depending on increments of s, and the function of stopping density n=g’(s) is definedby eq. (2), which is never decrease.
���

� ���

�

��

�� √2���� �� �� � ��
√2��

�

� �

(2)

Here, bn and av are material constants, these called as variance and mean, respectively, as follows.
Parameter α1 is the maximum value of g’(s), and π is circular constant. It is assumed, furthermore, that thestationary time f is the function of stress p, so called f’(p). Thus, increasing rate of s (after, �� ) is described byeq. (3) based on eq. (1) and (2). Now, stress p is defined as the distance from coordinate of principal stress tohydrostatic axis in three-dimensional principal stress space as shown in Fig.2, which is described as eq. (4).
Here, J2 in eq. (4) is second invariant of deviatoric stress, which is as eq. (5), δij in eq. (6) is Kronecker’s
delta. The increasing concept of s is shown in Fig.3 with consideration of stopping density. For creep test’s
condition, f’(p) is constant so that every stationary durations of stop sequences is same.
�� �

1����������

(3)� � �2��

(4)

��� � ��� � ��� ��

(6)

�� �

1
� �
2 �� ��

�� �

1
�
3 ��

－ 22 －

(5)

(7)

σ1
σ

p

Hydrostatic axis

σ3

σ2

Fig.2 Stress p to increases s.
t
Stopping time

forwardstops

Fig.3 Concept of s increase with consider of stopping density.
G'(s)

α1

s

Fig.4 An example of stopping density function.
The concept of this model is based on the assumption as follows: In the case of unconfined material,
contact and disconnections will occur between grains, while, in case of rock, the micro cracks will develop
and penetrate. At every time of both of the events occurs, the increase of parameter s expressing creep
development stops each time. Afterward, the parameter goes forward until next event occurs. For example, at
beginning stage of loading under low strain condition, almost grains do not contact each other, or almost
micro cracks do not develop so that the number of stopping is small. Subsequently, when the loading stage
proceeds, the number increases, because the both events occur evidently. Consequently, approaching at final
stage, the number decreases owing to the gradual termination of the both events.
Furthermore, another assumption is introduced here as follows: strain increment with each event is
proportional to the deviatoric stress p. It is based on that the event under high stress condition causes
considerable large slips or crack extensions, so the strain increment becomes also larger than under low
stress condition. Now, consider creep tests, we set parameters α1=ft(p)=1. ‫ݏ‬ሶ curves are obtained as shown in
Fig.5 and Fig.7 as numerical solutions for eq. (3). Moreover, the functions of stopping density are as shownin Fig.6 and 8. The s values at ‫ݏ‬ሶ minimum in Fig.5 and Fig.7 correspond to the s values at maximum
stopping density in Fig.6 and 8.

－ 23 －

10 5
10 4

.
s

10 3
10 2
10 1
10 0
10 -1
10 -6

a v=1, b n =0.1
a v=1, b n =0.2
a v=1, b n =0.3
a v=1, b n =0.5
10 -5

10 -4

10 -3

t

10 -2

10 -1

10 0

10 1

Fig.5 Time history of ‫ݏ‬ሶ with various variances: bn.
1.2

a v=1, b n =0.1
a v=1, b n =0.2

1.0

a v=1, b n =0.3
a v=1, b n =0.5g’(s)/α1

0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.0
0.0

0.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

s

Fig.6 Function of stopping density with various variances: bn.
10 5
10 4

.
s

10 3
10 2
10 1

a v=1, b n =0.1
a v=0.5, b n =0.1
a v=0.3, b n =0.1
a v=0.2, b n =0.1

10 0
10 -1
10 -6

Fig.7

10 -5

10 -4

10 -3

t

10 -2

10 -1

10 0

Time history of ‫ݏ‬ሶ with various means: av.

－ 24 －

10 1

1.2

a v=1, b n =0.1
a v=0.5, b n =0.1
a v=0.3, b n =0.1
a v=0.2, b n =0.1

1.0g’(s)/α1

0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.0
0.0

0.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

s

Fig.8 Function of stopping density with various means: av.
From these dual logarithmic figures; Figs. 5 and 7, it can be found that, with same mean, the times when�� is minimum become later with variance increase. While, as the same manner, with same variance, thetimes when �� is minimum are similar with variable mean. Inclined straight line lengths before the time ofminimum �� become longer with the mean increase, and become shorter with mean decreasing. Creep strain
rate curve calculated by the creep model is similarity shape to Fig.5 or 7. From these figures, the gradient of
the length are similar and the value is about 0.9, even though mean and variances are varied. To vary thegradient, parameter n has to be added into stopping density function as eq. (8). With smaller n, the gradientbecome smaller and curvature near the time when minimum �� occur become larger. With large n, thegradient become larger and curvature become smaller. The distribution of stopping density is shown by
Fig.10.

10 5����� ����� √2���� �� �� � � ���
√2��

�

(8)

� �

10 4

.
s

10 3
10 2
10 1

n=2
n=1
n=0.5
n=0.2

10 0
10 -1
10 -6

10 -5

10 -4

10 -3

t

10 -2

10 -1

10 0

10 1

Fig.9 Time history of �� (variation of n, at av=1 and bn=0.1).

－ 25 －

1.2

n=2
n=1
n=0.5
n=0.2

1.0

g’(s)/ α1

0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.0
0.0

0.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

s

Fig.10 Function of stopping density (variation of n at av=1 and bn=0.1).
Because, many reports about creep tests of rock show that the gradients of straight intervals are near thevalue 0.9, hereafter, we regard n=1. Next, the function of stopping time is assumed as eq. (9) according to the
Arrhenius equation, which rapidly decrease with the intensity of invariant stress p became larger than that ofh relevant to shear strength. Parameter h in eq. (9) is obtained from eq. (10) based upon the Mohr-Coulomb
criteria.
(9)����� � �� exp���� � ���(10)� � � � �� ����Parameters of α2 and q define the relation between stopping time and p. Furthermore, parameters of c andφ define the strength depend on hydrostatic pressure σm. By changing of eq. (2) and (9) to eq. (11) and (12),eq. (14) is obtained from eq. (3). The parameter that has to be defined is α in eq. (14).
���� � exp �� �� � ��
√2��

�

� �

���� � exp���� � ���
��

�� �

�� √2π�� �����������

(11)
(12)
(13)
(14)

(2) Calculation of deviatoric stress p
To install the proposed creep model into a finite difference method framework, FDM, variation of stressdue to relaxation is calculated in each loading step previously. By using the stress modifying process
additionally, residual force is calculated firstly. Subsequently, after a current incremental stage is convergent,
new stress and strain are calculated with the residual force that assumed as load in the FDM. Using obtained
residual force, next step to convergence is also done. Finally, next loading step with relaxation calculation
is done.
Now, consider a rheological model with spring and damper as shown in Fig.11. The normal force ofspring is assumed equal to p shown in Fig.2. It’s both ends of the model do not move in process of relaxation
calculation. With increments of time step in each loading step, displacement of damper increase and then theforce of spring p become smaller. At this process, strain does not change. Next loading step, increment load
is added onto spring force, relaxation calculation is repeated again.

－ 26 －

s

Fig.11 Rheological model
As shown in Fig.11, the displacement of damper is assumed as s indicating degree of the creep
development. Being the increment of creep strain by the event of stop and forward sequences as shown in
Fig.1 proportional to stress, spring constant is defined as eq. (15). When the spring constant is proportional tostress, relaxation rate becomes faster owing to large stress, and become slower owing to small stress. As theresult, the creep strain obtained from convergence calculations satisfies the proportional relation to productof stress p and s. Parameter k’ is material constant.
� � ���

(15)

The flowchart of calculation of relaxation and decreasing of p with time step involved in loading step isshown in Fig.12. The creep strain in Fig.12 is 0.The parameter r in Fig.12 is the stress that increases withcreep development to be explained later. It is also assumed that p does not become smaller than r.
s, p Inputt’=0, s’=s, p’=pg(s), f(p) calculation
t’=t’+ΔtΔs’=Δtαg(s)･f(p)Δt: Increment timeof time steps’= s’+Δs
p’= max(r,p’– k’Δs･p’)ndt: Increment timeof loading stept‘=dt
ys‘, p‘ Output

Fig.12 Flowchart of relaxation calculation.
(3) Defining of strength parameter r
The strength parameter r in Fig.12 is to be increases with the accumulated events number as shown in Fig.
1. Thus, r becomes residual strength that is defined by Mohr-Coulomb criteria in eq. (16). Strength parameterr is finally defined by eq. (17).
�� � �� � �� tan��� ������ � ���� � ��f
�
2
√2��

(16)
(17)

Where, parameters cr and φr are cohesion and friction angle at residual stress state, respectively, and σm ishydrostatic pressure, erf is error function.
(4) Modifying method of stress using p
Amount of decrease in spring force p is put as dp. Modified spring force is put as p’ (= p – dp), and, thus
stress calculated from p’ is updated as σij’. As shown in Fig.13, the direction of stress shift by modifying in－ 27 －

principal stress space is normal according to the well-known von Mises’s yield surface. In this case,hydrostatic pressure does not change by modifying of stress. As shown in the figure, at point B, the σi isprincipal stress before modify, point A is hydrostatic pressure σm. Point C is principal stress after modifying,
and C rides on line A-B. Stress si is deviatoric principal stress before modify, si = σi − σm. From figure,deviatoric principal stress after modify si’ that is described by eq. (18) is same with vector AC. The
derivation method of modify the principal stress from point B to C is discussed as follows:

σ1
σ2
σ3

σ1

B

BC=αAB

AB=
C

s1
s2
s3

Hydrostatic axisΑ
AC=(1-α)AB
σ3

σ2

Fig.13 Modify of principal stress��� � �1 � ����(18)

��� � �� �� � �� � �(19)Deviatoric principal stress si is defined by eq. (19). Parameter of J3 is third invariant of deviatoric stress thatis defined by eq. (20).

�� �

1
� �
3 �� ��

(20)

Deviatoric stress after modifying is put sij’ as eq. (21).

�s��� �1 � �����

(21)

Second and third stress invariants after modifying of J2’ and J3’ are defined by eq. (22) using invariant
stress before modifying.
1 � �
1s�� s�� � �1 � ��� ��� ��� � �1 � ��� ��
2
2
1
1
� � �
��� � ������ ��� � �1 � ��� ��� ��� ��� � �1 � ��� ��
3
3
��� �

(22)
(23)

From eq. (22) and (23), stress invariants before modifying are defined as eq. (24) and (25).
�� �
�� �

���
�1 � ���
���
�1 � ���

(24)
(25)

By substitution of eq. (24) and (25) into eq. (18) and multiplying by (1-α)3, next equation is obtained.
��1 � ���� �� � ��� �1 � ���� � ��� � �(26)Comparing with eq. (19) and eq. (26), it is found that the stress si’ defined in eq. (18) is same as deviatoric－ 28 －

principal stress of deviatoric stress sij after modifying. So the hydrostatic pressure σm’ after modifying isequal to hydrostatic pressure σm before modifying eq. (27) is given from eq. (21).
����� � ��� ��� ���� � ��� �� � �� � ������ � ��� �� �

(27)

Stress σij’ after modifying is given as eq. (28) from eq. (27). Parameter α is given by eq. (29) that is derived
from eq. (24).
��� � �� � ��� � ������ � �� � ��� � ������ � �� � ��� � �������� �� � �����
�� �� � ���������� �� � ������ ����

(28)

���
��

(29)

If we consider the volumetric creep strain, it is possible to use the elasto-plasticity constitutive equation
based on flowing rule. Here, creep strain is assumed as plastic strain εpij. Calculation method of stressmodified using constitutive equation is discussed below. Strain inclement in an incremental loading step dεji
is given by sum of elastic strain dεeij and plastic strain dεpij as shown by eq. (30).
����� � ����� � ����(30)

Incremental creep strain is defined by eq. (31).

����� � �

��
�� ��

(31)

Here, function g defines the direction of creep strain in principal stress field. In the case of the direction
is normal with the von Mises’s yield surface, the function become as eq. (32). Parameter H defines theamplitude of creep strain. In the process in relaxation calculation, total increment strain dεij = 0, eq. (33) isobtained from eq. (30) and (31).
(32)

� � �2J�
������� ����� � ��

��
�� ��

(33)

Using the vector of partial differential of g(σ) by each stress component, eq. (34) is obtained from eq.
(33). After here, vector representation of stress is used.
��� � � � �

�

�2��

�� �

�� � � ��� � �� � �� � �� � �� � �� � 2���� 2���� 2��� �

(34)
T

(35)

Relation of incremental elastic strain and incremental stress is defined with strain-stress matrix D.
���� � � ��� � �(36)

By putting β as eq. (37), the difference of stress {dσ} by modifying is obtained by eq. (38) from eq. (34).

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���

H

(37)

�2��

(38)

���� � ���� �

From eq. (38), by multiplication of D and {F}, {dσ} is obtained as eq. (39). Here, G is the shear
elasticity modulus.
���� � 2����� � �� � �� � �� � �� � �� � ��� � ��� � ��� �

T

(39)

Also {dσ} is described as eq. (40), the relation σm’=σm is obtained by solving for stress after modify
using eq. (39) and (40). And by solving for deviator stress eq. (41) is derived.
������� � ���� � �� � ��� � �� � ��� � �� � ���� ��� � ���� ��� � ���� ��� ��� �� � 2������ � �� ���� � ��

T

(40)

�
��� � ��� �� � 2������ � �� ��� �� � 2������ � �� ���� � ������� �� � 2����������� �� � 2������
�� �� � 2������
���

(41)

By square the both side of eq. (41), relation of J2 and J2’ is obtained as eq. (42). And substitution of βdescribed in eq. (37) into eq. (42) give H as eq. (43).
��� � �� � 2���� �����2��� � �2��
2�

(42)
(43)

By substitution of 1 + 2Gβ that is described using J2 and J2’ using eq. (42) into eq. (39), same result of eq.
(28) is derived. Volumetric strain with creep deformation becomes zero by solving of the dεx + dεy + dεzusing eq. (34) and (35). Evaluation of dilatancy effect enable by giving the gradient of the surface that isdefined by g in eq. (32) about hydrostatic axis in principal stress field. Here, direction of creep strain depends
on the stress only. Degree of creep s has no relation with the direction.
(5) Method of calculation of creep strain
The strain is evaluated by the calculation that the residual force assumed as load. The residual force iscalculated by stress that modified by using decreased p.
3. Simulation of tri-axial confined test
(1) Condition of test and material parameters
The stress modified by the process previously discussed is introduced into the FDM. While, tri-axial
confining test with constant axial strain rate so-called loading test and with constant axial load so-called
creep test are simulated. Here, one element FDM model is used. Target tests are two4), 5) (Case1 and Case2each). Sedimentary rock is used as specimen for both tests. Each creep tests of Cases1 and 2, such as 70%,
80%, and 90% loads of peak deviator stress resulted from loading tests is applied. Table 1 shows condition oftri-axial compression tests. Table 2 shows model parameters for calculation. Each parameter is adjusted to fit
the results of calculation with tests results. Parameters relevant to the time dependence are α, av, bn, k’, c, φ,q. Herein, α is assumed 1, and bn is assumed av/5 to the straight line length before the time of minimum
strain rate in Fig.7 becomes longer. These parameters can be also adjusted separately from residual strengthparameters cr and φr. It is confirmed by test calculation that Poisson’s ratio ν has almost no influence withresults. It is assumed ν = 0.3.

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Table 1 Conditions of tests.
Case14)
unit
Confine stress σc (loading，creep
MPa
0.6
test)
Strain rate (loading test)
%/min
0.1
Table 2 Material parameters.
unit
E (Young’s modulus)MPaν (Poisson’s ratio)
α (Parameter for increase rate of s, set as
1/min
1)
av (mean)bn (variance, set as av/5)k' (spring modulus of rheological model)c (cohesion)MPaφ (friction angle)
drgreeq (coefficient of sensitivity for stopping
1/MPa
time)
cr (cohesion of residual stress state)MPaφr (friction angle of residual stress state)drgreeCase25)
0.5
0.01

Case1
900
0.3

Case1
900
0.3

1

1

400
80
0.0035
0.16
47

200
40
0.01
0.7
47

22

22

0
51

0
56

(2) Results
Comparison between calculation and test results of Case1 and Case2 are shown in Fig.14 to 17. From
Fig.14 and 16, it is shown that the specific curves of creep rate were simulated satisfactory. The time rapidly
strain rate increases, furthermore, were also agreed with that for each case. In Fig.14, the reason of the lines
did not continue at tertiary creep is that the overflow of ‫ݏ‬ሶ occurred along the iteration for convergence.
However, the time of that was considered as frailer time. While, for the loading tests, peak values of eachcase obtained numerically corresponded well, and strain – stress relations were also fairly agreed. From
Fig.18 of the time history of strain, it can be seen the behavior from primary creep to tertiary creep was
satisfactory simulated consistently.
10 -2

Deviator strain rate (/min)

10 -3
10 -4
10 -5
10 -6
10 -7
10 -8
10 -2

90% (Calculation)
80% (Calculation)
70% (Calculation)
90% (Test result 4))
80% (Test result 4))
70% (Test result 4))
10 -1

10 0

10 1

10 2

10 3

10 4

10 5

10 6

Time (min)Fig.14 Strain rate by calculation of creep test (Case1, confined pressure σc=0.6MPa).

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4.0

Calculation, σc=0.6MPa
Calculation , σc=0.3MPa
Test Result 4), σc=0.6MPa

Deviator stress (MPa)

3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.00

Fig.15

0.01

0.02

0.03

0.04

Axial strain

Stress – strain relation by calculation of loading test (Case1, σc=0.6、0.3MPa).
10 -2

Deviator strain rate (/min)

10 -3
10 -4
10 -5
10 -6
10 -7
10 -8
10 -2

90% (Calculation)
80% (Calculation)
70% (Calculation)
90% (Test result 5))
80% (Test result 5))
70% (Test result 5))
10 -1

10 0

10 1

10 2

10 3

10 4

10 5

10 6

Tme (min)Fig.16 Strain rate by calculation of creep test (Case2, σc=0.5MPa).
4.0
Deviator stress (MPa)

3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0

Calculation , σc=0.5MPa
Test Result 5), σc=0.5MPa

0.5
0.0
0.00

0.01

0.02
Axial strain

0.03

0.04

Fig.17 Stress – strain relation by calculation of loading test (Case2, σc=0.5MPa).

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0.6

Axial strain (%)

0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
90%
80%

0.1
0.0

0.0

200

400

600

800

Time (min)Fig.18 Time history of strain (Case1, σc=0.6MPa).
Fig.19 shows the relation between strain rate and peak stress obtained numerically relevant to loading test.
The peak stress was lager at the region when strain rate became faster. The relation of peak stress and strain
rate in dual logarithm graphs was liner, which was caused by the derivation of this relation in eq. (9).
Because it is reported that the peak stress is proportional to logarithm strain rate6) as described by eq. (44),the relation obtained by calculation is identical to eq. (44).
‫݌‬௝ ൌ ‫݌‬଴ ൅ ܽ

ߝሶ
ߝሶ଴

(44)

where, pj is deviator stress, p0 and ߝ଴ሶ are basis deviator stress and strain rate, respectively, and, a is gradientof line as shown in Fig.19.
4.0
Peak deviator stress (MPa)

3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
10 -4

10 -3

10 -2

10 -1

10 0

10 1

10 2

Axial strain rate (%/min)Fig.19 Peak stress vary with strain rate obtained by calculation (Case1, σc=0.6MPa).
Fig.20 shows the relation of deviatoric stress and the time obtained numerically when strain rate became
the minimum for creep test. The time of minimum strain rate increases exponentially with stress decreasing.
The liner relation of stress and logarithms time as shown in Fig.20 is also suitable to eq. (9).

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Deviator stress (MPa)

3

2

1

0
10 -1

Fig.20

10 0

10 1

10 2

10 3

10 4

Time (min)Time at minimum strain rate (Case1, σc=0.6MPa).

Fig.21 shows an obtained result on the relation of confined stress and peak stress for loading test. It isshown that the peak stress increase linearly with confined stress, which agree with the Mohr – Coulomb
failure criterion. The gradient of the line is dependent upon loading strain rate. For example, when loading
rate is very slow, peak stress become equal to residual strength, so the gradient coincide with φr.

Peak axial stress and p (MPa)3.5
Axial stressp (=(2J2 )^0.5)

3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0

0.0

0.2

0.4

0.6

Confining pressure (MPa)Fig.21

Peak deviator stress vary with confining pressure obtained by calculation (Case1, σc=0.6MPa).

4. Conclusion
In this paper, a numerical model to evaluate the creep behavior including strain softening of rock is
proposed. The predominant parameter s which corresponds to degree of creep development is introduced. To
describe the strain rate depend on time or creep strain increase, the function of normal distribution is used as
reference. Furthermore, dependence of stress is described by refer to Arrhenius equation. The rheologicalmodel consisted of spring and dumper is also developed, which is remarkable that the spring force is equal todeviator stress, to install into the finite difference framework. Numerical simulation for an existing evidenceof creep and loading test under the tri-axial confining condition were performed. From creep test simulation,
the strain rate curve with primary to tertiary creep was obtained. While, from loading test simulation, stress –strain relation curve with strain softening behavior was also obtained. The both simulation results have agood agreement with test results using same model parameters.
The concern of this model is indicated as follows: The parameter s for the rock, under higher stress thanresidual stress, absolutely increases. Accordingly, parameter s becomes higher than av and then stressapproaches to residual stress under natural conditions. However, many creep tests show the creep behavior
from primary to tertiary creep. It follows that the initial s of many specimens is lower than av. If there is rockthat has stress higher than residual strength under natural conditions, it is may be difficult to simulate the－ 34 －

creep behavior of such a rock by using the proposed model herein.
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no.454(III-20), pp.75-81, 1992. (in Japanese)2) Okubo, S., Fukui, K., Hashiba, K.: Extension of constitutive equation of variable compliance type and its
validation based on uniaxial compression and tension tests of Sanjome Andesite, Shigen – to – Sozai, Vol.
119, pp.541-546, 2003. (in Japanese)
3) Azuma H., Tasaka, Y., Uno, H., Zhang, F, Yasima, A: Improvement of strain softening typeelasto-viscouse-plastic model considering confining pressure and strain rate dependency of deformationand strength characteristic, 58th National Science Convention, CS7-056, 2003
4) Nishi, K.: Study on elast-plastic behavior of geological materials and application to design of foundations,CRIEPI report, No. 304, pp. 93, 103, 1982. (in Japanese)5) Ohtsuki, H., Tasaka, Y., Suzuki, Y., Ohmori, T., Kishida, K., Adachi, T.: Expansion of a soil-water coupledelasto-visco-plastic model and its application to cavern excavation in soft rock, Proceedings of the 35th
Symposium on Rock Mechanics, pp.231-236, 2006. (in Japanese)
6) Yong, R. N. and Japp, R. D.: Stress-strain behavior of clays in dynamic compression, vibrational effects ofearthquakes on soil and foundations, ASTM, STP, 450, pp.233-262, 1969

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Evaluation of the Bolt Axial Force in High Strength Bolted Joints by Using Strain Gauges
Chao PAN *, Takashi YAMAGUCHI ** and Yasuo SUZUKI ***(Received October 11, 2011)
Synopsis
In Japan, high strength bolted joints frequently used in steel bridge structures, because high strength bolted
joints are easy to joint members than welding from the view point of construction and qualification. On theother hand, performance based design method for bridge structures is being established in Japan to bepossible to consider various limit states. Therefore, the high strength bolted connections must be consideredvarious limit states, such as slip state, bearing state, and tearing state. It is important point to understand such
behaviors to know the change of bolt axial force at the various limit states. The objective of this study is tocollect information of the change of bolt axial force experimentally by using strain gauges in which fastened
the connected members until the ultimate limit state and to find the preferable measuring method of it bystrain gauges.
KEYWORDS: slip state , bearing state, tearing state ,axial force, strain gauges
1.Introduction
In this study, two methods are taken into consideration. One is the method to glue two strain gauges on thebolt shank and the other is the method to glue the strain gauges on the surface of the bolt head as shown in
Fig. 1 respectively. The former method is needed to make two small holes for wires of strain gauges and it iswondering that they might be cut after slip state for friction type connection. The latter method does not needto make holes and less possibility of cutting wires. In order to understand the characteristics of two methods
preciously, the experiment and finite element analysis (FEA) has been carried out and discussed about
influenced factors, such as the position of glued strain gauges, the measured length of the strain gauge.
strain gauge

strain gauge

Fig.1

strain gauge

Strain gauges on bolt shank and on head

2. Calibration experiment
Calibration experiment is conducted to find relationships between load (bolt axial force) and strain (formstrain gauge). In experiment, 22mm diameter bolts which grade is 1000MPa are used. Both of the head strain
and shank strain were measured by 90o double-element cross strain gauge and single element strain gauge2).
1)*
Student, Doctor Course of Dept. of Civil Engineering, Osaka City University** Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Osaka City University*** Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Utsunomiya University－ 37 －

In Fig.2, single element gauge which gage length is 5mm are glued to bolt shank for measuring shankstrain. 90o double-element cross strain gauges which gauge length is 2mm/5mm, are used for measuring headstrain. Two types of specimens are named, K2 (90o double-element cross strain gauge length 2mm) and K5(90o double-element cross strain gauge length 2mm) respectively as shown in Fig.3.

(a) length 2mm(b) length 5mmoFig.2 90 double-element cross strain gauge(a) specimen K2(b) specimen K5
Fig.3 Specimen K2 and K5

Specimens are loaded by jigs as show in Fig.4. Each K2 and K5, had executed three times of eachspecimens. The results are shown in Fig.5 and Fig.6 . Fig.5 shows a results of load versus head strain curves
and Fig.6 shows results of load versus shank strain.
Load Jig

Load Jig

Fig.4

Fig.5

Load versus head strain

Fig.6

Load versus shank strain

Calibration experiment

Each of load versus strain relationships (whichis measured by head strain gauge and shank strain
gauge) is alignment as show in Fig. 5 and Fig. 6.
Variation of gradient of the curve from headstrain is larger than that from shank strain . The
results of calibration experiment also show inTable.1 for discussion.
Table.1

Average valueStandard deviation
Coefficient of variation

Statistics of K2 and K5
K2
Load/
Load/
Load/
Shank strain
Head strain
Shank strain
77.56
147.29
77.65
0.18
1.07
0.14
0.00240.00730.0018－ 38 －

K5

Load/
Head strain
149.330.98
0.0066

In Table.1, the accuracy of the measurement results of strain by shank and head strain gauge are compared.
In the results of specimen K2, the standard deviation of load/shank strain is 80% off than the standard
deviation of load/head strain, the coefficient of variation is 65% off. In the results of specimen K5, thestandard deviation of load/shank strain is 85% off than the standard deviation of load/head strain, thecoefficient of variation is 70% off. By the results, the accuracy of the measurement by using shank strain isbetter than that by using head strain. Comparing the length of head strain gauge for accuracy of themeasurement, 5mm length (K5) is better than 2mm length (K2).
3.Finite element analysis (FEA)
Finite element analysis (FEA) is conducted to simulate bolt that is fastened in bolt hole. Two case were set,
bolt is fastened on bolt hole axial or off bolt hole axial. FEA software ABAQUS3) is used in this study. In thecase of bolt off bolt hole axial, bolt axial offside bolt hole axial 2mm are set. FEA model is show in Fig.7.
5mm Length

Head Strain

2mm Length

Shank Strain

240
230
220
210
200
190

230
220

180

Off bolt hole axle

170

150
1000

Experimental result 2

1100

1150

1200

1250

1300

1350

1400

2300

2400

2500

2600

2700

2800

2900

3000

Bolt axial force versus shank strain

210
200
190

On bolt hole axle

180

150
1000

1450

Absolute value of strain (10-6 )

Fig.9

2200

Off bolt hole axle
Experimental result 1
Experimental result 2

160

Experimental result 3
1050

2100

170

Experimental result 1

160

Experimental result 3

Fig.8

220

On bolt hole axle

Experimental result 2

Absolute value of strain (10-6 )

230

190

Experimental result 1

150
2000

240

200

Off bolt hole axle

160

240

210

On bolt hole axle

180
170

Bolt axial force（kＮ）

Bolt axial force（kＮ）

The FEA result and experimental result are shownwith bolt axial force versus shank strain in Fig.8.
Bolt axial force versus head strain (2mm strain
gauge length) show in Fig.9. Bolt axial force versus
head strain (5mm strain gauge length) show in
Fig.10.
In Fig.8, both FEA results and experimental results
are on a same line. It means that accuracy of themeasurement by shank strain got a better quality.
Other results show in Fig.9 and Fig.10.

FEA model

Bolt axial force（kＮ）

Fig.7

Experimental result 3
1050

1100

1150

1200

1250

1300

1350

1400

1450

Absolute value of strain (10-6 )Bolt axial force versus head strain (2mm)Fig.10－ 39 －

Bolt axial force versus head strain (5mm)Table.2

Load/Head strain
Average valueStandard deviation
Coefficient of variation

Load/Shank strain
Average valueStandard deviation
Coefficient of variation

Statistics of head strain and shank strain

Head (gauge length 2mm)
on bolt hole axial
off bolt hole axial
161.52
159.72160.620.90
0.0056
Shankon bolt hole axial
off bolt hole axial
78.35
78.31
78.33
0.02
0.0003

Head (gauge length 5mm)
on bolt hole axial off bolt hole axial
161.02161.51161.260.24
0.0015

Table.2 show statistics of head strain and shank strain by FEA. In Table.2, the standard deviation value ofshank strain which is 95% off than head strain, the coefficient of variation of shank strain which is 90% off
than head strain. By the result, using shank strain can get a very good accuracy of the measurement. However,using head strain can’t get accuracy of the measurement as good as shank strain, but between gauge length
2mm and gauge length 5mm, gauge length 5mm get a better accuracy of the measurement than gauge length
2mm.
4. Fasten experiment
Actually, bolt is fastened by a torque wrench4). In this experiment, use a torque wrench to fasten eachspecimen, that which can just fasten bolt by need torque value. Same bolts (22mm diameter 1000MPa grade
high strength bolt ) are used for the specimen for K2 and K5. Three specimens are used to get shank strain by
5mm length single element gauge, named shank strain 1,2,3. The other three specimens are used to get headstrain by 5mm length 90o double-element cross strain gauge, named head strain 1,2,3. Use load/strain
relation to convert that both shank strain and head strain to bolt axial force. Plot equivalent bolt axial force
versus torque in Fig.11. Input torque values are set from 100 N · m to 800N · m, each per 100 N · m areraised.

Fig.11. Bolt axial force versus torque－ 40 －

In Fig.11, under 600 N · m torque value, both shank strain and head strain average value nearly on a sameline . Over 600 N · m torque value, the equivalent bolt axial force by measuring from head strain gauge, islarger than the equivalent bolt axial force by measuring from shank strain gauge. At 800 N · m torque value,
the equivalent bolt axial force of head strain is larger than the equivalent bolt axial force of shank strain.
Therefore, both the two way under torque value 600 N · m, can put out a nice equivalent bolt axial force.
5. Conclusion
The main results of the present study are summarized as followings:
1) The method of measuring bolt shank strain by 5mm length single element gauge, it can get higher
precision to convert bolt axial force than measuring bolt head strain by 90o double-element cross strain
gauge. Even if bolt is fastened off bolt hole axial, it also can get high precision.
2) In the method of measuring bolt head strain by 90o double-element cross strain gauge, the gauge lengthof 5mm is recommended, because it can get higher precision than gauge length 2mm.
3) On bolt bearing state, the method of measuring bolt head strain by 5mm length 90o double-element
cross strain gauge is recommended, because it don’t about cutting wires.

1)

2)
3)
4)

6. References
Recommendations on Design, Construction and Maintenance for Friction Type of High Strength
Bolted Connections, Subcommittee on Design of Friction Type of High Strength Bolted Connections
Committee on Steel Structures Japan Society of Civil Engineers, December 2006 .
Specifications for Highway Bridges, Japan Road Association, 2002.
ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual. SIMULIA.
Preset Type Torque Wrench Instruction Manual, MAEDA Metal Industries, LTD－ 41 －

Finite Element Analysis on the Mechanical Behavior of High Strength Bolted Friction Type
Joints Considering Fluctuation of Bolt Axial Forces
Xue PENG* and Takashi YAMAGUCHI**(Received October 11, 2011)
Synopsis
Resent years, from the viewpoint of rational fabrication of the steel bridges, there are some applications
using extremely thick plates for primary members of bridge structures. In case of joining such thick plates
by using high strength bolted friction type joints, the bolt axial force is specified by the design code.
However, the actual bolt axial force tightened is varied, and then mechanical behavior of such multiple
joints is not clear. In this study, the finite element analysis (FEA) for such joints has been carried out inorder to investigate the mechanical behavior considering fluctuation of bolt axial forces..
KEYWORDS: extremely thick steel plates, high strength bolted friction type joint, many bolts in a line,
variation of the bolt axial force, slip coefficient
1. Introduction
Resent years, from the viewpoint of rational fabrication of steel bridges, there are some examples to use
extremely thick plates for primary members. In case of joining such thick plates, welding are ordinary used.
However, the cost of welding will increase due to its qualification. On the other hand, joints with highstrength bolts are not adopted in general due to lack of enough technical information of them.
In order to solve these problems, the experiment1)2) and FEA3) had been carried out in these years. In
case of joining such thick plates by using high strength bolted friction type joints, the bolt axial force is
specified by the design code. However, the actual bolt axial force tightened is not the constant value
specified by the design code, and mechanical behavior of such multiple joints is not clear. In this study,
FEA has been conducted in order tounderstand the influence of the variation of the bolt axial forces to

its mechanical behavior.
2. FEA model
2.1 GeneralIn this study, the FEA program ABAQUS has been used. The connected plate, splice plate and highstrength bolt are meshed by solid elements of 8 nodes. The material property is referred to theexperimental date2). The surface boundary which can simulate contact are installed between the connected
plate and splice plate, the connected plate and the splice plate and bolt. The friction coefficient is assumed*

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0.5 in the FEA model. There are two steps for the model advancing. The first step is that the connected
plate and splice plate are tightened by high strength bolts, and the second step is that tensile load is appliedat the edge of the model.
2.2 FEA model
The FEA model is 1/8 of experimental specimen2) as shown in Fig. 1. The thickness of the connected
plate is 50mm, the thickness of the splice plate is 28mm, and the size of bolt is M16. Structural dimensionsof all models are tabulated in Table 1. The first character set of model’s name denotes nominal diameter ofbolt, the second character set denotes the number of the bolts in a line, and the third character set denotes
slip/yielding strength ratio β. The last character set denotes the number of bolts with 120% bolt axial force.
For example, M16-4-0.72-1 means; the bolt is M16, the number of bolts in a line is 4, the slip/yielding
strength ratio β is 0.72, and the bolt number with 120% bolt axial force is bolt1.

bolt1
bolt2
bolt3
bolt4

Fig. 1 FEA model
Table 1 Structural dimensions of all models
Specimen`s nameNominal diameter of bolts
Steel grade
Yield stress (N/mm 2 )Thickness of connected plate(mm)Thickness of splice plate(mm)Width of the plate (mm)friction coefficient
bolt1
bolt2
bolt3
bolt4
bolt axial
force (kN)
bolt5
bolt6
bolt7
bolt8

M16-40.72

M16-40.72-1

M16-40.72-4

M16-80.72

M16-80.72-1

M16-80.72-4

M16-80.72-8

16
SM490
295
50
28
50
0.5
106
106
106
106
-

16
SM490
295
50
28
50
0.5
127
106
106
106
-

16
SM490
295
50
28
50
0.5
106
106
106
127
-

16
SM490
295
50
28
82
0.5
106
106
106
106
106
106
106
106

16
SM490
295
50
28
82
0.5
127
106
106
106
106
106
106
106

16
SM490
295
50
28
82
0.5
106
106
106
127
106
106
106
106

16
SM490
295
50
28
82
0.5
106
106
106
106
106
106
106
127

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3. FEA results and discussion
3.1 Load vs. Relative Displacement between the connected plate and splice plate.
Table 2 shows the summary of FEA results. There are slip load , slip coefficient, and reduction rate ofbolt axial force. Fig. 2 shows location of relative displacement between the connected plate and splice
plate. And Slip occurrence is defined by the relative displacement when it has been reached 0.2mm in Fig.
3. Slip coefficient equal the ratio of slip load divided by design bolt axial force. Fig. 4 shows the curves ofload vs. relative displacement between the connected plate and splice plate. The vertical axis shows thetensile load P, and the horizontal axis shows relative displacements. From Fig. 4, whichever bolt was
tightened by 120% bolt axial force, the slip load of model is constant as the number of the bolt in a line issame. It is also found that slip load become high as bolt axial force tightened increase. And, comparing
model M16-4-0.72, the slip coefficient of model M16-4-0.72-1 and M16-4-0.72-4 increase 5.2%.
Comparing model M16-8-0.72, the slip coefficient of model M16-8-0.72-1, M16-8-0.72-4,
andM16-8-0.72-8 increase 2.5%. However, focusing on the slip coefficient evaluated by bolt axial force
before loading, in case of 4 or 8 rows, slip coefficients are constant.
Table 2 Summary of FEA results
Specimen`s name
Slip load PSL (kN)
Slip coefficient μ
bolt1
bolt2
Reduction
bolt3
rate ofbolt4bolt axial
bolt5
force (%)
bolt6
bolt7
bolt8

M16-40.72
408.3
0.481
4.8
3.9
3.8
3.1
-

M16-40.72-1
428.8
0.506
4.5
4.0
3.9
3.3
-

M16-80.72
817.5
0.482
5.9
5.1
4.9
4.8
4.6
4.5
4.3
4.1

M16-40.72-4
428.8
0.506
5.1
4.1
4.0
2.8
-

M16-80.72-1
837.8
0.494
5.6
5.2
5.0
4.9
4.7
4.6
4.4
4.2

M16-80.72-4
838.0
0.494
6.1
5.3
5.1
4.2
4.7
4.6
4.4
4.2

M16-80.72-8
838.0
0.494
6.1
5.3
5.0
4.9
4.8
4.7
4.4
3.6

600

Location of relative displacement

500

Slip load

P(kN)

400
300
200
100
0
0

600

1100

500

900

400
M16-4-0.72
300

M16-4-0.72-1
M16-4-0.72-4

200

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

100

Fig.3 slip load's definition

700

M16-8-0.72

500

M16-8-0.72-1
M16-8-0.72-4

300

M16-8-0.72-8

100
0

0.5

1

1.5

1

Relative Displasement(mm)

P(kN)

P(kN)

Fig.2 Location of relative displacement

2

0

0.5

1

1.5

Relative Displasement(mm)Relative Displasement(mm)(a) M16-4-0.72(b) M16-8-0.72

Fig. 4 Load vs. relative displacement curves－ 45 －

2

3.2 Reduction rate of bolt axial force
Reduction rates of each bolt axial force at slip load are shown in Fig. 5. The horizontal axis shows thebolt number as shown in Fig. 1. In this figure, reduction rate means normalized decrease of bolt axial force
at slip divided by bolt axial force before loading. It is confirmed that reduction rate of bolt axial force with
120% bolt axial force is smaller than that with 100% bolt axial force. Comparing the model that the bolt
number in a line is 4, the reduction rate of bolt axial force of model that the bolt number in a line is 8
6

6

5

5

4
3

M16-4-0.72

2

M16-4-0.72-1
M16-4-0.72-4

1

Reduction rate

Reduction rate

become high. The reason is plate stress of in model of 4 rows become higher than that in model of 8 rows.

04
M16-8-0.72

3

M16-8-0.72-1

2

M16-8-0.72-4

1

M16-8-0.72-8

0

bolt1

bolt2

bolt3

bolt4

bolt1bolt2bolt3bolt4bolt5bolt6bolt7bolt8

Bolt Number

Bolt Number(a) M16-4-0.72(b) M16-8-0.72
Fig. 5 Reduction rate of bolt axial force

3.3 Stress distribution along the plate's axial direction
Fig. 6 shows stress distribution along the plate's axial direction of models which has four bolts in a line .
Fig. 7 shows stress distribution along the plate's axial direction of models which has 8 bolts in a line. It canbe found that stress along the plate's axial direction of M16-4-0.72 smaller than that of M16-8-0.72. Also,
about model M16-8-0.72, local yielding has occurred at the neighborhood of the bolt1.
bolt1

bolt2

bolt3

(a) M16-4-0.72(b) M16-4-0.72-1(c) M16-4-0.72-4
Fig. 6 Stress distribution along the plate's axial direction－ 46 －

bolt4

bolt1

bolt2

bolt3

bolt4

bolt5

bolt6

bolt7

bolt8

(a) M16-8-0.72(b) M16-8-0.72-1(c) M16-4-0.72-4(d) M16-4-0.72-8
Fig. 7 Stress distribution along the plate's axial direction
4. Concluding remarks
In this study, the finite element analysis (FEA) for high strength bolted friction type joints has been
carried out to understand the mechanical behavior of them. As the bolt axial force tightened is various,
obtained concluding remarks are as followings:(1)Focusing on slip coefficient evaluated by design bolt axial force, in model of 4 rows, slip coefficient ishigher than that of 8 rows. However, focusing on slip coefficient evaluated by bolt axial force tightened, inmodel of 4 or 8 rows, slip coefficient is constant.
(2)For model that bolt number in a line is 4 or 8, as relative displacement is 0.2mm, the major slip has
occurred. So that, the fluctuation of variation of the bolt axial force is small.
5. References
1)Xue Peng, Takashi Yamaguchi, Masahide Matsumura, Jun Murakoshi, Naoki Yanadori, Tosiki Yshizawa:
Experimental study on the slip behavior of high strength bolted friction type joints with many bolts in aline and extremely thick plate, Japan Society of Civil Engineers 2010 Annual Mmeeting, І-471.
2)Takashi Yamaguchi, Xue Peng, Yasuo Suzuki, Shuhei Miyao:Experimental study on the mechanicalbehavior of high strength bolted friction type joints with extremely thick plates and many bolts in a line,
Japanese Society of Steel Construction, Vol.17, No.66, 2010.
3) Xue Peng, Takashi Yamaguchi, Jun Murakoshi, Mamoru Sawada, Naoki Toyama, Atsuo Ookate: Finite
element analysis study on the slip behavior of high strength bolted friction type joints with many bolts inaline and extremely thick plate, Japan Society of Civil Engineers 2011 Annual Meeting, І-252.

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An Analysis on Influence of Regional and Individual Conditions toIntended Needs and Actual Demands of Bus Service
Naoki OKAMOTO* and Yasuo HINO**(Received September 30, 2011)
Synopsis
Recently, the vicious circle of decline of bus service and decrease of bus passengers has
become remarkable, as the automobile-based life style has popularized with progress of
motorization. On the other hand, the mobility of aged people has become important and serious
problems because of progress aging society. Therefore, many local governments tried to introduce
bus services depended on public subsidy into the inconvenient areas on public transport service 1) .
However, as the bus passengers must be limited, there are not few cases that were not sustainable
due to increase of subsidy.
In this study, the influence of regional and individual conditions to intended needs and actual
demands of bus service was analyzed through the experimental case study 2), 3) . As a result, someinteresting findings came out as follows; 1) the number of actual bus passengers may be estimatedas a half of the number of persons intended needs for bus, because many residents did not consider
the cost subsided by tax, but 2) some intended needs with obligated purpose and/or without any
alternative modes must be actual demands, and also the service level as the distance to bus stop
must influence to actual use.
KEYWORDS: Bus service, Social experiment, Needs and actual demands, Questionnaire survey
1. Introduction
In order to secure the mobility of vulnerable people, some of bus services have been
supported by the cooperation of bus company, local government and academic staff. In such cases,
it is general that an experimental bus service may be introduced based on the intended needs ofbus use which will be obtained by a questionnaire survey. And also, it is true the number of actual
demands may be a half of the number of intended needs. Therefore, it is not easy to continue theexperimental bus service. That is, it must be important to correctly evaluate the actual demands
based on the estimation by analyzing the intended needs from the questionnaire survey.
Then in this study, the relation between the intended needs and the actual demands wasanalyzed through the before-after analysis, as a case study of the experimental bus service in
Kawachi-nagano City located at the south-east area of Osaka Prefecture, Japan. And also, theestimation method of the actual demands of bus use was referred based on the results of thequestionnaire survey.

2. Case study
The case study area was the mountain area located at the suburb of the city. This area has 900
population including 26% aged people, and was divided into three zones as shown in Figure-1.
*Student, Master Course of Department of Civil Engineering**Professor, Department of Civil Engineering－ 49 －

As the longest distance between residences and bus stops of the existing bus route was 1.1km,
this area was defined as the inconvenience on public transport service. Therefore, the local
government intended to introduce the experimental bus service with no fare to improve theinconvenience of this area. Then the questionnaire survey was executed to estimate the needs
before introducing this bus service. As the average number of the intended needs for bus use was
40%-80% according to the location of zone, the circular service to connect the existing bus route
was introduced during the limited period. The concern of local government must be put on theactual demands in order to evaluate this bus service. That is, it should be important to reveal how
many persons of intended needs became the actual passengers of this bus service.
legendShimozato
zone A
5

existing bus route64

experimental bus route7①～⑧： experimental bus stop

3
NakaoBzone
Monzenzone C： existing bus stop
8

2
1

Figure-1 Case study area and bus route
Questionnaire surveys were planned twice before and after introducing the experimental bus
service as shown in Table-1. Questionnaires were distributed to residents over the age of primarychild, 38 and 64% of respondents were obtained. At the before survey, the ratio of respondents
was lower because of the lack of reality for this bus service.
Table-1 Outline of questionnaire survey
implementation
distribution/collection
targetdistributed
repondents
collected ratio

before survey
December, 2009

after survey
June-July, 2010

posting
residents of primary school children and older
880

1000

289

640

32.8%

64.0%

3. Analysis of relation between intended needs and actual demands
Here, in order to understand the results of analyses after this section, we define the difference
between the intended needs and the actual demands, as follows.
1) The intended needs mean the number of respondents who show intention of use after
introducing the bus service.
2) The actual demands show the actual users as passengers of bus service.
It is clear that the actual demands were 60-80% of the intended needs and both number are－ 50 －

depended on the location of zone as shown in Figure-2. Then, in order to estimate the bus
passengers (actual demands) based on the intended needs before introducing the bus service, thesedifferences must be investigated by using some factors which influence to bus use.
Table-2 shows the shortened distance from residence to bus stop of the experimental bus
service. From Figure-2 and Table-2, it should be clear that both ratio of actual demands andintended needs were higher in zone-A where is far from the existing bus stop.
100%

ratio of intended needs
ratio of actual demands

84%

80%

65%

60%

51%
42%

40%

31%

26%

20%
0%
Zone-A

Zone-B

Zone-C

Figure-2 Intended needs and actual demands by each zone
Then, we analyzed the relation between the shortened distances as the improvement level ofconvenience and the ratio of realization of intended needs, as shown in Figure-3. As a result, somemajor findings came out of this analysis as follows.
1) The larger the shortened distance become, the higher the ratio of intended needs and actual
users become.
2) The ratio of actual users (demands) realized from intended needs must be high in case of 300m
or over of shortened distance.
Table-2 Shortened distance by using experimental bus use
Zone
A
B
C

Location of residence
for bus stop
most farnearestmost farnearestmost farnearest100%

distance todistance toexisting bus stop(m) experimental bus stop(m)shorteneddistance(m)

1050

170

880

520

200

320

720

160

560

120

120

0

530

290

240

380

220

160

ratio of intended needs
ratio of demands for needs

average
(m)
600
280
200

ratio of actual demands
84%

80%

63%

60%

60%

77%
65%

51%

40%

41%

20%

31%

26%

0%
0

200

400
600
shortened distance (m)800

Figure-3 Change of needs and demands according to shortened distance by using bus service－ 51 －

ratio of actual demands

Next, the relation between the intended needs and actual demands was directly analyzed asshown in Figure-4. It is easy to distinguish the difference of results between zone-A and others.
That is, the result of zone-A shows the linear relation of them. On the other hand, the relation ofthem in zone-B and C is not correlative and rather constant in spite of the ratio of intended needs.
Here we have to note the peculiar point of zone-C which is the value of respondents for school
children who need bus services for going to school.

Shimozato

100%

Monzen

Nakao

80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

ratio of intended needs

Figure-4 Relation between intended needs and actual demands
Then the relation between the shortened distance and the ratio of intended needs and actual
demands were analyzed, as shown in Figure-5, 6. From these figures, three major findings cameout as follows.
1) The needs of school children for bus service are remarkably high, because they have to go toschool.
2) The results of elderly people show the high necessity of bus service, because many of them
have to go to hospital.
3) Most respondents except school children and elderly people show the intention according to theshortened distance.

ratio of intended needs(%)

10's

20～30's

40～50's

60's～

100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
0

200

400

600

800

shortened distance(m)Figure-5 Intended needs according to shortened distance by age rank

－ 52 －

10's(school chirdren)
280%
ratio of demands for needs(%)

20～30's
60's～(elderly people)

40～50's

260%
100%
80%
60%
y=0.0006x+0.402

40%R2=0.388

20%
0%
0

200

400
600
shortened distance(m)800Figure-6 Ratio of demands for needs according to shortened distance by age rank
4. Actual demands for necessity of school children and elderly people
Generally, the public service with no charge may be acceptable for many people. However,these needs must be depended on the intention to only keep the service, as shown in some results
mentioned above. On the other hand, it was revealed that there were some cases with the highnecessity for bus service according to the specified purposes by age rank.
Table-3 shows the cases of relatively high ratio of needs and demands. Here, we can confirm
the necessity for bus in case of going to school. However as for medical use, both needs anddemands are not always high. This trend may be depended on the possibility of alternative modes
and the lower convenience than expected convenience. On the other hand, the ratio of actual
demands for shopping was higher than the ratio of intended needs. This trend means some people
may evaluate the importance of convenience for shopping use.
Table-3 Comparison of needs and demands for school children and elderly people
purpose10's
as school
chirdren
60's and more
as elderly
peopleschoolhospital

shopping

1) shortend distance 2) ratio of intended(m)need (%)

3) ratio of actual
demands (%)

3)-2)

600

72.2

80.6

8.4

280

100.0

100.0

0.0

200

0.0

75.0

75.0

600

42.9

25.0

-17.9

280

40.0

23.5

-16.5

200

50.0

45.5

-4.5

600

36.7

43.0

6.3

280

40.0

41.2

1.2

200

25.0

36.4

11.4

5. Summary and next step
Some major findings concerned with the relation between intended needs and actual demandsof bus use came out of this study as follows.
1) It is clear that the actual demands were 60-80% of the intended needs and both number are
depended on the location of zone. That is, both ratio of actual users and intended needs werehigher in the zone where is far from the existing bus stop.

－ 53 －

2) The larger the shortened distance become, the higher the ratio of intended needs and actual
users become. Especially, the ratio of actual users (demands) realized from intended needs mustbe high in case of 300m or over of shortened distance.
3) It is easy to distinguish the difference of the relation between the intended needs and actual
demands among zones. That is, the result of zone which was located far from the existing bus
stop shows the linear relation of them. On the other hand, the relation of them in other zones
which were near the bus stop is rather constant in spite of the ratio of intended needs.
4) The needs of school children for bus service are remarkably high, because they have to go toschool. And elderly people show the high necessity of bus service to go to hospital.
5) Although the public bus service with no charge may be generally acceptable for many people,
these needs must be depended on the intention to only keep the service.
6) It was revealed that there were some cases with the high necessity for bus service according to
the specified purposes by age rank. However, this trend may be depended on the possibility ofusing alternative modes and the level of convenience in comparison with the expected
convenience
These findings may be useful not only to introduce an experimental bus service but also to
consult with residents who need bus service. That is, these data will be able to help residents tounderstand that the actual demands will not always expected even if the intended needs areobserved in the questionnaire survey before introducing bus service. On the other hand, local
government will be able to make plans for bus services to improve the inconvenient areas on
public transport.
6. Acknowledgement
This study was implemented as a part of a joint research with Kawachi-nagano city. We
would like to thank members of research group, cooperators in the questionnaire surveys.
7. References
1) Noboru Ise and Yasuo Hino: A Modeling for a Lifecycle of Housing Estate based on Change ofResident’s Life Stage, The City Planning Institute of Japan, City Planning Review, No.43-3，
pp.493-498, 2008 (In Japanese)
2) Noboru ISE，Yasuo HINO and Koichi KAWASAKI: Investigation of Bus Demand and Service
in Future based on Lifecycle Model and Scenario Analysis, EASTS, Proceedings of the Eastern
Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol.7，13pages, 2009
3) Naoki OKAMOTO, Yasuo HINO, Noboru ISE and Yutaka TAWA: A Study on Relationshipbetween Intention and Actual Need for Experimental Bas Service in Inconvenient Area on
Public Transport, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Kansai Chapter, Proceedings of the Annual
Conference of JSCE Kansai Chapter, IV-48, 2011 (In Japanese)－ 54 －

Waterfront Functions Required from a Ship Transport Perspective
Yasumasa FUKUSHIMA* and Takashi UCHIDA**(Received September 30, 2011)
Synopsis
Waterfronts perform various functions such as sites of ‘bustling’ and ‘healing’. From the viewpoint of
the involvement of river area residents with rivers, it is important to develop waterfronts utilizing thesefunctions. Devoting attention to needs related to ship transport which used to be an important interface
between river and residents along the Yodo River, this study elucidates concrete measures for activation ofship transport and investigates functions that are required at the waterfront of the Yodo River.
KEYWORDS: waterfront development, river ship transport, activation of ship transport, wharf, crisis
management
1. Background and Objectives of Research
In recent years, the maintenance of urban rivers involves activities for waterfront development that
include environment improvement and recreational utilization, in addition to flood control and water
utilization. However, no method for waterfront development that is suitable for urban rivers has been
established to date, because conditions and environments for the development include diverse andcomplicated factors for every river and region.
This study, with examination from perspectives of facility, utilization, landscape, and social
involvement, advances research for the overall concept of waterfront development in urban rivers. By using
questionnaire/hearing survey results, current problems are examined according to needs for ship transport
which used to be an important interface between river area residents and the old Yodo River. Then theorientation of functions necessary for the waterfront at present is investigated. Concrete measures for theactivation of ship transport are discussed.
Since ancient times, the Yodo River has served as a main artery of ship transport, supplying needs forgoods distribution and passenger transportation between Osaka Bay and the Kyoto area. At the zenith of its
prosperity, from the Muromachi Period to the Edo Period (until 19th century), more than 1,000 vessels(Sanjukkoku-bune junks, Kurawanka-bune junks, and river ferries; see Figure 1) came and went along theriver; the wharfs and posting stations which served as their bases were invariably crowded1). However, atthe end of the Meiji Period (early 20th century), ship transport started to follow a course of decline after landtransportation was developed because of provisions and improvements of railroads and roads. At present,

Figure 1 Left: Sanjukkoku-bune junk and Kurawanka-bune junk (“Yodo River”, Kyoto Beauty Spots, painted
by Hiroshige). Right: Landscape of ferry (“Miyado River, Naganawa”, Chienoumi, painted by Hokusai).
* Student, Doctor Course of Department of Civil Engineering** Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering－ 55 －

their connection with residents and society has become extremely tenuous. Recently, ship transport is being
reconsidered for sightseeing purposes during normal times and as an alternative transportation in land
traffic paralysis in a wide-scale disaster such as an earthquake. Various measures are now being promoted
towards the activation of ship transport. The reality, however, is that only gravel carriers and unscheduledsightseeing ships are operating, which have not become a part of people’s lives
2. Present Needs and Problems related to Ship Transport
2.1 Ship transport needs
We use the result summary of investigations performed by the Yodo River Office, Kinki Regional
Development Bureau to ascertain needs for ship transport along the river2). This investigation was conducted
to examine basic concepts for evaluating ship transport and to obtain basic data for preparation of a ‘Target
picture of ship transport along the Yodo River (draft) ’. The objective is to elucidate needs related to shiptransport along the Yodo River, and particularly, the following items were surveyed through a questionnaireand hearing (see Table 1): a) Awareness and utilization consciousness of ship transport facilities for 2,035
residents along the Yodo River; b) Willingness to use ship transport and to bear financial burdens formunicipalities along the Yodo River (2 prefectures, 9 cities, 1 town); c) Willingness to use ship transportfacilities and to launch projects for 65 shipping agents (including 5 agents located upstream of the Yodo
River great weir). The surveys with the questionnaire and the hearings were conducted during year of
2002–2003.
2.2 Results of surveys of needs and problems related to ship transport
Here are collected results of questionnaires and hearing of needs related to ship transport along the
Yodo River below. Present problems are extracted from survey results.
Table 1 List of surveys related to ship transport needs along the Yodo RiverSurvey name

Survey type

Outline of survey

Questionnaire of Yodo
River Ship Transport(2003)

Questionnaireadministered to residents(2003)

6DPSOH: residents (2,035 people) along the Yodo River.
4XHVWLRQV: Yodo River utilization status, frequency ofuse, demand for facility development, ship transport
image, awareness of emergency wharf, intention for
utilization by sightseeing, HWF.

Survey of Municipalities
along the Yodo River(2003)Hearing frommunicipalities (2003)

6DPSOH: municipalities along the Yodo River (2prefectures -- Osaka, Kyoto, 9 cities -- Hirakata,
Neyagawa, Osaka, Moriguchi, Settsu, Takatsuki,
Kyoto, Uji, Yawata, 1 town -- Shimamoto)
4XHVWLRQV: willingness to independent use of emergency
wharf, willingness to bear financial burdens, ranking
of Yodo River ship transport in urban planning,
willingness of regional activation using Yodo River
ship transport, cooperation of watershed cities, HWF.

Survey of BusinessInstitutions Related to
Yodo River Shiptransport (2002)

Questionnaireadministered to theshipping agents (2002)

6DPSOH: ocean and river shipping operators (65 operators
including 5 parties located upstream of the Yodo
River great weir)
4XHVWLRQV: willingness to use emergency wharf,
willingness to provide vessels in emergencies,
willingness to launch a project along the Yodo River,HWF.

㧙  㧙

a) Questionnaire administered to residents (2003)
First, to show items regarded as necessary to attain revival and activation purposes of Yodo River shiptransport, results of six questionnaire items are presented in Figure 2. Needs for sightseeing activation
promotion [6] and reduction in environmental loads [3] are high, revealing that more than half of respondents
felt the necessity for ship transport. Particularly, the necessity of ship transport [1] as emergency
transportation when land routes are disconnected at the time of disaster was highly appreciated (about 90%).
Furthermore, utilization of emergency wharfs for sightseeing, traffic and transportation during normal
times (Table 2) is highly evaluated (about 70%), reflecting higher needs of utilization of ship transport byresidents along the river. Awareness on the provisions and the improvements of the emergency wharf is low(Table 3) reflecting that ship transport is not presented efficiently to the public by administrative authorities(nation, municipalities along the river).

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
㽲 Emergency
transportation
whenlandroutes
routesareare[1]Emergency
transportation
when
land
disconnected
because ofbecause
disasterdisconnectedof disaster

89.5%[2]Revivalof ‘relaxing’ship transportation
㽳Revivalof ‘comfortable’ship transportation
㽴Reduction ofloads
by reduced
CO2[3]Reductionof environmental
environmental
loads
by reduced
CO2 emissions emissions
㽵Utilizationofofships
shipsforfor river maintenanceas[4]Utilization
developmentsuchsuch
as highstandard
embankmentriverbanks complying
with high standards
㽶Expansion ofof
regional
cooperationof cities with
the[5]Expansion
extensivecooperation
amongRiverRiveracting acting
as a pivot
cities withYodo
the Yodo
as a pivot
㽷 Sightseeing activation
promotionof citiesofalongthe[6]Sightseeing
activation
promotion
citiesYodo River
along the Yodo River
Considered necessary

Item[1]Emergency transportation whenland routes are disconnected
because of disaster[2]Revival of ‘relaxing’ship transportation[3]Reduction of environmentalloads by reduced CO2 emissions[4]Utilization of ships for riverdevelopment such as
high standard embankment[5]Expansion of extensive
cooperation among cities with the
Yodo River acting as a pivot[6]Sightseeing activation promotionof cities along the Yodo River

3.7% 3.7% 3.0%

60.1%

12.2%

22.8% 4.9%

63.6%

10.2%

20.1% 6.1%

52.5%

15.0%

25.9%

6.5%

53.7%

13.0%

26.3%

7.0%

64.2%

Not considered necessary

11.4%

Neither

No answer

19.1% 5.3%

Considerednecessary

Not considerednecessary

Neither

No answer

Total

1,822

76

76

61

2,035

89.5%

3.7%

3.7%

3.0%

100.0%

1,224

248

463

100

2,035

60.1%

12.2%

22.8%

4.9%

100.0%

1,294

207

410

124

2,035

63.6%

10.2%

20.1%

6.1%

100.0%

1,069

305

528

133

2,035

52.5%

15.0%

25.9%

6.5%

100.0%

1,093

264

536

142

2,035

53.7%

13.0%

26.3%

7.0%

100.0%

1,307

232

388

108

2,035

64.2%

11.4%

19.1%

5.3%

100.0%

Figure 2 Items considered necessary to achieve revival and activation purposes of Yodo River shiptransport (n = 2,035) (Questionnaire administered to residents (2003), Question 3)㧙  㧙

Table 2 Evaluation of emergency wharf of the Yodo River, emergency transportation, and utilization of
emergency wharf for sightseeing, traffic and transportation(Questionnaire administered to residents (2003), Question 6 (3))
Response
I recognize the value
I do not recognize the value
Neither
No answer
Total

%
72.0%
10.0%
15.0%
3.0%
100.0%

Table 3 Evaluation of emergency wharf of the Yodo River and emergency transportation, andawareness that the emergency wharf is already provided(Questionnaire administered to residents (2003), Question 6 (1))
Response
I know it
I did not know it
I want to know details
No answer
Total

%
13.0%
68.0%
16.0%
3.0%
100.0%b) Hearing from municipalities (2003)
From the results of a hearing from municipalities along the river, the ship transport is expected to
improve regional development (Table 4), but willingness for utilization of facilities for activation of regional
industries is low (Table 5), and opposing exists on the emergence of effects of extensive cooperation among
cities (presence or absence of advantages). Therefore, municipalities seem skeptical (Table 6).
Although the attractiveness of ship transport is apparent, municipalities are hesitant to embark
voluntarily on ship transport because financial circumstances are strained now. It is considered that they are
seeking cooperation with the national government and the shipping industry.
Table 4 Recognition that ship transport can improve regional development (n = 12)(Public hearing from municipalities (2003), 3-1)
Response
It is possible
It is not possible
Total

Answer
9
3
12

%
75.0%
25.0%
100.0%

Table 5 Willingness to utilize ship transport for regional industrial activation (n = 12)(Public hearing from municipalities (2003), 3-2)
Response
I want to use it
I do not want to use it
No answer
Total

Answer46212㧙  㧙

%
33.3%
50.0%
16.7%
100.0%

Table 6 Advantages of Yodo River ship transport for extensive cooperation among cities (n = 12)(Public hearing from municipalities (2003), 4-1)
Response
There is advantage
There is no advantage
No answer
Total

Answer
5
5
2
12

%
41.7%
41.7%
16.7%
100.0%c) Questionnaire administered to the shipping agents (2002)
As facilities to be provided to emergency wharfs (Figure 3), shipping agents cited road access,unloading facilities, and waiting rooms. However, according to the willingness to use emergency wharfs(Table 7), fewer than 30% of respondents consider using them, even after these are provided, which reveals
that half of them hesitate to make judgments about utilizing them at present.
Even though direct access from Osaka Bay to the Yodo River upstream would become possible after
installation of locks at the Yodo River great weir, 40% do not think of establishing businesses and more thanhalf have no opinion (Table 8) although demands exist for the installation. In the present economic
deterioration as typically represented by the fact that respondents have no ships to use and can not afford toinvest (Figure 4), judgments to establish a business solely by shipping agents are difficult from a commercial
profit perspective.

0.0%

Access road from main road

20.0%

60.0%
50.0%

㪸㪻

㫅㪻㩷
Storage area of cargo and materials

Unloading facilities

40.0%

32.5%
42.5%

㪼㫊

Waiting rooms for passengers

20.0%

㫉㫊

Others15.0%㫉㫊Nothing in particular

35.0%

㪸㫉

Response
Access road from main road
Storage area of cargo and materials
Unloading facilities
Waiting rooms for passengers
OthersNothing in particular
Total (Number of votes)
Total of valid responses
No answer
Total

Number of times
cited
20
13
17
8
6
14
78
40
25
65

%
50.0%
32.5%
42.5%
20.0%
15.0%
35.0%
100.0%

Figure 3 Facilities provided for emergency wharfs (Multiple answers, n = 40)(Questionnaire administered to the shipping agents (2002), Question 19)㧙  㧙

Table 7 Willingness to use when facilities in Question 19 (Table 8) are provided (n = 41)(Questionnaire administered to the shipping agents (2002), Question 20)
Response

Number of times
cited
11
9
21
41
24
65

I want to use it
I do not want to use it
No opinion/difficult to answer
Total
No answer
Total

%
26.8%
22.0%
51.2%
100.0%

Table 8 Willingness to establish a business after installation of locks
is realized at the Yodo River great weir (n = 46)(Questionnaire administered to the shipping agents (2002), Question 21)
Response

Number of times
cited
6
18
22
46
19
65

I want to establish
I do not want to establish
No opinion/difficult to answer
Total
No answer
Total
0.0%

I cannot afford to invest

Profitability is not expected

40.0%

29.4%
11.8%

㫆㫋㩷㵺

35.3%

㫉㫊

Response
I cannot afford to invest
Human resources are insufficient
I have no ship to use
Profitability is not expected
OthersTotal (Number of votes)
Total of valid responses
No answer
Total

60.0%

5.9%

㫊㪼

Others

13.0%
39.1%
47.8%
100.0%

17.6%

㫊㫋

Human resources are insufficient 㫉㪼㩷㵺I have no ship to use

20.0%

%

Number of times
cited
3
1
5
2
6
17
17
1
18

%
17.6%
5.9%
29.4%
11.8%
35.3%
100.0%

Figure 4 Reasons for not wishing to establish a business even after installation of locks
at the Yodo River great weir (Multiple answers, n = 18)(Questionnaire administered to the shipping agents (2002), Question 24)㧙  㧙

Although it cannot be shown directly, based on the results of hearings from shipping agents held to date,cooperation with facilities operated by the nation or municipalities along the river––acting as a basis ofsightseeing––has been demanded, as have been administrative support through public relations activities, andinstallation of facilities such as public restrooms and waiting rooms. It is considered that businesses areseeking cooperation with public administrative entities (the nation or municipalities along the river).
3. Concrete Measures for Activation of Ship Transport
For the improvement of ship transport activation, to date we have devoted attention to the promotion ofutilization during normal times. Recently, with the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, and the anticipatedoccurrence of the Tokai, Tonankai, and Nankai earthquakes, now is the time to tackle it from the viewpointsof the aggressive utilization during emergencies while the nation and municipalities along rivers, andeventually the entire nation, act in an integrated manner based on these people’s understanding.
For the nation responsible for the management of ship transport facilities, hardware support withinstallation of facilities that are necessary for shipping agents is important, and also so it is to promote
software aspects for support promptly and accurately, such as the provision of navigation route charts, theflexible application of ship transport facilities, and aggressive appeals by holding events etc. For
municipalities which remain passive about utilization of ship transport considering that it can improve
regional development, momentum can be gathered for appealing to residents along the river and for
promotion of support measures required for shipping agents if they share the target that active involvement
in ship transport during normal times might engender its smooth utilization during emergencies.
As seen from the above we propose the following concrete measures for activation of ship transport3)
considering viewpoints of emergency use as well as normal times.
3.1 Measures from viewpoints of normal circumstances
Although residents along the river have needs, shipping agents must continue as a business, and also
municipalities must connect it to regional activation. For these reasons, concrete measures for activation ofutilization during normal times are presented below.
a) Regional activation for ship transport by municipalities along the river, consciousness improvement ofcooperation of watershed cities, and further promotion of cooperation between the public and private
sectors should be promoted. Sightseeing ship transport taking advantage of the history and culture of the
Yodo River are planned by which improvement of civil needs can be most expected.
Examples:• Attractive events using land-based facilities (municipalities along the river) to highlight the history of
the Yodo River (Kema locks, etc.) and nature (wando-biotopes, etc.)• Events for improvement of customer satisfaction from Kema to Hirakata, where the landscape
becomes monotonous (slide shows and lectures by a narrator to instruct people on the Yodo Riverhistory).
b) Although it is important to secure revenues and expenditures of business of civil business institutions, it ishard to improve the present situation since willingness to use facilities remain low. Therefore, thehardware measures should be administrated through adequate infrastructure provision by the nation andmunicipalities along the river for the improvement of various needs. Furthermore, the same should be thesoftware provision such as support for flexible operation of the facility and public relations activities.
Examples:• Provision of public restrooms and waiting rooms at emergency wharfs attending to the needs of theusers.
• Development of wharfs and effective utilization of the Hirakata wharf which enable to avoid
unavailable time of the Kema locks.
• Extension of available time at the Kema locks for weekends, public holidays and the night time: thelocks are available 8:30am – 17:00pm on weekdays at present. Simplification of passing procedures.
c) Investigation of information presentation methods that contribute to safe and smooth navigation for the
shipping agents should be performed.
Examples:• Early provision of navigation route charts and ship navigation rules.
• Construction of information presentation systems through the combination of prior information and－ 61 －

real-time information (river bed transitory condition after flooding, etc.) of navigation route charts
using the internet and other means.
3.2 Measures from viewpoints of emergencies
Shocked by the tragic results of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, public consciousness of crisis
management has been increasing. At present, improvement of needs related to utilization of ship transport
during and after disaster occurrence is expected more than ever.
It can become motivation to the improvement of needs to encourage interest of people by actively
publicizing the roles to be played during emergencies as well as sightseeing activities of ship transport
during normal times, promoting earthquake-resistance measures of emergency facilities used during and afterwide-scale disasters. Concrete measures are described below.
a) Hold events incorporating opportunities to ascertain the roles of ship-transport-related facilities and riverterrace parks to be developed in the event of a wide-scale disaster.
Examples:• Experience events of the transportation utilizing the facilities such as navigation route, emergency
wharfs, emergency river terrace roads so as to aware the effectiveness of alternative transportation forlifesaving and critical materials in a wide scale disaster.
• Training events for residents along the river to set up the evacuation area at the river terrace park, in
addition to learn the place and the function of the park set as the regional evacuation site.
b) Promote the provision of a management plan sheet for utilization of ship-transport-related facilities. Make
their presence known to related institutions and establish a cooperative framework. In these measures,develop and share momentum for ship transport activation during normal times, which are regarded as
supporting the smooth utilization during emergencies.
Examples:• Advancing the provision of rules for ship transport utilization by municipalities in wide scale disaster.
• Promoting information share such as; emergency river terrace roads (construction and standards,
approaching positions, and route restrictions); emergency wharfs (construction and navigable ship
standards); and navigation routes (positions and depth) etc. so as to act effectively with thecooperation by agreement among building industry, consultants association, gravel gathering union.
4. Conclusions
Recent development of ship transport facilities has been performed for utilization during and afterwide-scale disaster occurrence. The active utilization in normal times might be regarded as training for theformer, and might foster efficient and effective maintenance, and might be connected directly to the smoothutilization during and after a wide-scale disaster. Based on these perspectives, activation of ship transport in
the future is expected to be undertaken recognizing that actions to be taken during normal times and during
emergencies are linked inextricably and should not be considered separately.
In this study, using needs related to ship transport as the subject, themes for its activation are assessedusing existing survey data. Some concrete measures are proposed. The authors intend to investigate futurecommunity renovation considering how waterfront development should be performed for urban rivers,
particularly using various functions of rivers and waterfronts while bringing both utilization during normal
times and emergencies into perspective.
Finally, the authors wish to express their heartfelt thanks to the Yodo River Office, Kinki Regional
Development Bureau who presented us valuable survey data.
References
1) Y. Fukushima, T. Adachi, K. Kawamura, K. Motobayashi: "Decoding waterfront cities from mechanismof "bustle", Collection of papers to be presented at a meeting for presentation of research papers, ResearchInstitute of Environmental Technology, pp. 185–186, 2003. (in Japanese)
2) Yodo River Office, Kinki Regional Development Bureau: "Business report of investigations of basic
concept and rules related to ship transport", pp. 6-1 – 6-37, 2008. (in Japanese)3) Yodo River Office, Kinki Regional Development Bureau: "Summary of transition data related to shiptransport", Business report summarizing Yodo River ship transport, pp. 8-1 – 8-5, 2010. (in Japanese)－ 62 －

Abstracts of Papers
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Mechanical and Physical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Practice and Problem of the Solar Energy Use
Nobuya NISHIMURA
Trans. of Jpn Soc. for Multiphase Flow, Vol.25(3), pp.221-228(2011) (in Japanese)
This paper summarizes the results of author’s studies on solar energy resource utilization. One is thedevelopment of a micro solar power generation which was combined with micro wind power generation at
urban area. The other is the solar thermal utilization by an absorption heat pump for air conditioning. Daily
fluctuations of energy supply in Osaka city both by electricity and by town gas were presented precisely inorder to understand the energy consumption of urban area. Then, field test results about a micro hybrid
power generation system were presented at urban coastal area where there is few wind power resource.
Lastly, the performance of a solar-assisted absorption chiller heater of 352 kW refrigeration capacity has
been introduced through a long series of proof examination of 17 months.
The Application of a Low Cost Hydroponic Roof Planting by Sweet Potato for Mitigating Urban Heat
Island in Summer
Keiko MASUMOTO, Yuko FURUICHI, Misaki SONOYAMA, Atsusi KATO, Takasi ORITA, Hiroshi
GODA and Nobuya NISHIMURA
3rd Int. Conf. on Passive and Low Energy Cooling for the Built Environment (CD-ROM), Greece (2010)
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas(L.)Lam.) grows up in summer and the rate of evapotranspiration is high.
When it is cultivated in the roof, the effect of the heat island mitigating is expected as the cool roof. The
simple hydro-cultivation system using plastics gutters with automatic water supply was examined. The
runner of the sweet potato grew up remarkably， and covered the roof widely. Experimental measurementsof thermal environment were carried out at some small-sized buildings which thermal-insulation are not high.
The cooling performances were compared by the shadow that the leaves of the sweet potato made, and also
the energy consumption reductions were calculated. A “Workshop on the Sweet-Potato Green Carpet
Environment" for elementary school children was held and the effect of heat island mitigating by this systemwere announced to public through the media and internet. This low-cost heat island mitigating system is
expected to spread widely to the citizens and the private sectors.
Effects of Porosity And Pore Size Distribution on Capillary Water Transfer In Porous Media
Tamotsu INOUE and Hiroyuki IYOTA
Proc. of 7th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference, No.T1-2(CD-ROM), Tianjin, China (2011)
In this study, we built a simple experimental apparatus for measuring water transfer rate. The experimental
results were then used to investigate the effects of porosity and pore size distribution on capillary watertransfer in porous media. Several types of cylindrical porous ceramics were used as sample porous media. In
addition, we considered a method for predicting the moisture transfer coefficients on the basis of the poresize distribution. The results showed that the water transfer rate increased with the porosity. In addition, thewater transfer rate for unit porous area was affected by the pore size distribution. Further, we developed amethod for predicting the moisture transfer coefficients of the samples using theoretical analysis.
Defatting and Dehydration of Meat Products during Heating in Steam Convection Oven
Junko YAMAGATA, Hiroyuki IYOTA, Kuniko SUGIYAMA and Nobuya NISHIMURA
J. of JSEM, Vol.11, Special Issue, pp.86-91 (2011)
In this study, we investigated the effects of steam on the reduction in fat and/or water content during theheating of foods. Experiments were performed at 250°C with steam and without steam by using three typesof heating equipments; the equipments had different heat transfer coefficients and rates of increase of gas
humidity. Sausage and raw pork pate were used as model sample materials. During roasting with steam, theamounts of weight loss and fat loss were greater in the raw pork pate than in the sausage because the amountof protein shrinkage in the pork pate was greater than that in the sausage.
Effects of Placed Conditions on The Internal Temperature Change After Oven Heating of Meat andPoultry
Sadako TAKASAKI, Yoshiko ABE, Kimiko ISHIWATA, Keiko NAKAMURA, Tomoko HARA, Yasuko
MATSUDA, Junko YAMAGATA, Hiroyuki IYOTA, Kuniko SUGIYAMA and Shoko SHIBUKAWA－ 65 －

Journal of Cookery Science of Japan, Vol.44(4), pp.277-285(2011) (in Japanese)
The effects on the internal temperature of meat and poultry after oven heating (residual heat), of the ovenheating conditions, of the kind of placement medium, and of the presence of a cover were investigated byactual measurements. The time for maintaining a temperature of over 75°C due to the residual heat was also
predicted by a numerical analysis using a simplified heat transfer model. No marked difference was apparent
in the three kinds of placement medium (stainless steel, wood or gotoku) which had different thermophysicalproperties. This was due to the small contact area between the medium and the oven plate. The effect of acover was strong in retaining the residual heat. The time predicted by the simplified numerical model for
maintaining over 75°C of internal temperature in the meat was similar to that of the actual measurements,
confirming the validity of the heat transfer model.
Development and Evaluation of Directional Retroreflective Materials -Directional Retroreflective
Materials as a Heat Island Countermeasure Part 1Hideki SAKAI, Hiroyuki IYOTA, Kazuo EMURA and Norio IGAWA
J. Struct. Constr. Eng., AIJ, Vol. 76(665), pp.1229-1234(2011) (in Japanese)
Two kinds of directional retroreflective materials are manufactured, which are designed to show abruptchange in reflectance at the incident angle (θ) of around 30 degrees. The measured solar reflectances are 39.0
percent for θ ≤ 20 deg. and 17.7 percent for θ ≥ 40 deg. for one type; 54.4 percent and 40.8 percent for theother. Building materials having these kinds of incident angle dependences can be used as cool roofs free ofside effect; they can be high-reflective exclusively against summer sunlight, and low-reflective against otherlight sources, such as, winter sunlight, head lights of cars, and street lights.
Investigating of the Actual Awareness of Energy Consumption among Mass Cooking Staff and Attempt
at the "Visualization Method" of Energy Consumption in the Registered Dietitians' Training Course
Junko YAMAGATA, Hiroyu IYOTA, Azumi YAMAGISHI, Tadashi AKAO, Hiroe KIKUSAKI, Nobuya
NISHIMURA and Masayoshi FUJIWARA
Japan Journal of Food Service Management, Vol.5(1), pp.29-37(2011) (in Japanese)In this study, we administered a questionnaire to the food service staff at a hospital in order to clarify thefood service staff’s awareness level with regard to energy consumption. For the result, both registereddietitians and dietitians were significantly more aware of energy consumption and wastage than other kitchen
staff members such as cooks, cooking assistants, and washing staff. It is necessary for registered dietitians tolearn the basic knowledge of energy in order to promote energy conservation in the kitchen and improve thecooking staff’s awareness of energy conservation without causing any problems and strain during thecooking task. Further, during institutional food service management practicum in the registered dietitians
training course, we displayed the numeric value of gas consumption of a steam convection oven. This“visualization method” helped us investigate the change in students’ awareness of energy consumption via
the questionnaire. Displaying the value of gas consumption during the practicum gave almost all the students
an accurate idea of energy consumption. This made them aware of the importance of energy conservation.
Our study revealed that the use of a display to indicate the value of gas consumption is effective in training
the students about energy. Furthermore, the education for energy conservation should be incorporated into
the registered dietitians training course.
Development of Equipment and Software for Evaluating Surface Color Change of Baked Food Using
Digital Camera
Hiroyuki IYOTA, Hideki SAKAI, Hiroyuki TAKASAGO and Hideki SHIMADA
Japan Journal of Food Engineering, Vol.11(4), pp.203-213(2010) (in Japanese)
Visual images are one of the most important means of determining whether food has been cooked toperfection, especially while baking, which is a popular cooking method. In this study, equipment forrecording the images of the food surface and image editing software were developed in order to record color
images having generality and to evaluate the color change due to baking. A spherical dome with a diameterof 500 mm, whose inner surface was painted white, was used as the integrating sphere. The subject (food)
was placed in the middle of the dome. Two D65 fluorescent lamps powered by a high-frequency inverter
power supply were placed below the subject as the light source. Thus, the subject could be illuminated only
by indirect light. The X-Rite White Balance Card and X-Rite ColorChecker were used for color correction.
The colors with Munsell chroma, C, less than 5 were in a good agreement with the standard value obtained
from the color chart after color correction. The color change of breadcrumbs during re-baking under 200 °C
airflow is evaluated from a histogram of L* values versus the number of pixels of the corrected image as a

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test case.
Bubble Formation from an Air Jet Injected into a Turbulent Boundary Layer (On a Single Bubble)
Kenji KATOH and Tatsuro WAKIMOTO
J. Fluid Science and Technology, Vol. 5, pp. 528-541 (2010)
The diameter of small bubbles separated from an air jet injected into a turbulent boundary layer from a
nozzle on the wall is evaluated. There exist three patterns of bubble separation that are dependent on the jet
velocity, i.e., single bubble, coalesced bubbles, and a continuous air jet. The mechanism of bubble separationfrom the jet is theoretically considered for the single-bubble region. First, the bubble volume is calculated
when the force separating the bubbles, such as the drag or lift from the free stream, overcomes the surface
tension acting on the wall. Then the total volume of the separating bubble is obtained by adding the volume
supplied from the nozzle until the final separation. The diameter of a single bubble was measured for various
experimental conditions. The results are well approximated by the results obtained from the theoreticalconsiderations described in the present study.
Bubble Formation from an Air Jet Injected into a Turbulent Boundary Layer (Bubble Separationfrom a Continuous Jet)
Kenji KATOH, Yusuke ARII and Tatsuro WAKIMOTO
J. Fluid Science and Technology, Vol. 6, pp. 487-498 (2011)
A theoretical and experimental study is conducted to investigate the bubble separation from an air jet injected
into a liquid turbulent boundary layer. The following three patterns of bubble separation are dependent on thejet velocity: (a) a single bubble, (b) a coalescent bubble, and (c) a continuous jet. The critical jet velocity
from (a) to (b) is theoretically estimated from the condition that the jet from the nozzle overtakes the rear endof the separated bubble, which shrinks due to surface tension. The calculated results generally reproduce theexperimental results observed by a high-speed video camera. In addition, the process of bubble separationfrom the continuous jet (c) is classified into two patterns: (i) the bubble separates from the swell at the front
end of the jet, or (ii) the jet breaks due to the instability at the liquid–gas interface. The separated bubble
diameter of pattern (i) is theoretically determined by considering the force balance at the front end of the jet
between the surface tension, the drag from the free stream, and the virtual mass force. The bubble diameterof pattern (ii) is calculated from the most unstable wavelength of Rayleigh instability. Both of these
theoretical results also agree well with those obtained experimentally.
Effect of Air Injection on Drug-Reducing Surfactant Solution Flow in Horizontal Pipe
Koichi ARAGA, Ryosuke MATSUI , Tatsuro WAKIMOTO, Keiji MURATA and Kenji KATOH
J. of JSEM, Vol. 10, pp. 46-53 (2010) (in Japanese)
It is known that small quantities of surfactant additives can greatly reduce the friction factors during the flowof a heat transfer medium. The friction factors are reduced because the generation of turbulent vortices issuppressed by the formation of rod-like micelles, and the flow remains laminar in the high Reynolds number
range. However, the values of heat-transfer coefficients decrease during flow laminarization; as a result, heatexchangers with a larger heat transfer area are required. The objective of this research is to study the heattransfer enhancement effect of microbubble injection. This paper presents an experimental investigation of
the heat transfer and flow characteristics of the two-phase flow of an air-surfactant solution through ahorizontal pipe. In the experiment, microbubbles were injected through three types of porous metal. The
experimental results are as follows: The size of the bubbles in a bubbly flow decreases with a decrease in thefiltering accuracy of a porous metal. The flow patterns of the two-phase flow of an air-surfactant solution
depend on the size of the microbubbles. The heat-transfer coefficient is promoted by microbubbles injection,
but the effect depends on the flow pattern or the size of microbubbles. If the diameter of the microbubbles isapproximately 100 μm, there is little enhancement in heat-transfer, but a remarkable enhancement in heattransfer is observed when the diameter of the microbubbles is approximately 400 μm or more.
Volume of a Liquid Drop Detaching from a SphereKenji KATOH, Hiroyuki IYOTA, Tamotsu INOUE and Tomoya TSUJINOHeat Transfer Asian Research, Vol. 39, pp. 396-409 (2010)
A theoretical and experimental study is conducted to investigate the detached volume from a pendant drop on
the surface of a sphere. Observation of drop detachment by high-speed video camera reveals that the
movement of the upper part of the neck of the drop is quite slow compared to that of the detaching lower part.
The surface profile of the upper part was calculated approximately as a static problem using the－ 67 －

axisymmetric Laplace equation. Using the drop profile, the system energy, including the work done by thesolid-liquid wetting behavior, was calculated. Based on the condition of minimum energy, the volume of thedetached part V was calculated. The volume V increases with the sphere diameter and approaches the value
for the pendant drop attached to a plate. In addition, V is strongly dependent on the wettability between thesphere and the liquid and decreases with the receding contact angle. The detached volume of the water drop
was measured for spheres of porous brick of various diameters. The experimental and theoretical results were
found to be in good agreement.
A New Method to Precisely Measure Contact Angles by Combining Tilting Plate and Optical Methods
Kenji KATOH, Tatsuro WAKIMOTO and Masahiro SUMITANITrans. of Jpn Soc. Mech. Engrs., Ser. B, Vol. 76, pp. 1508-1515 (2010) (in Japanese)A new method was proposed to measure the advancing and receding contact angles by combining the tilting
plate and the optical methods. Because of its too high sensitivity, the optical method is usually not applied tomeasure the contact angles which may widely change from 0 to 180 degrees. In the method proposed in thisstudy, first the liquid-gas interface attached to the test plate was set horizontally as possible by adjusting theinclination of the plate (tilting plate method). Since the interface should not be perfectly horizon, the small
inclination angle of the liquid-gas interface at the plate was detected by using the reflection of Laser beamthat was directed vertically on the interface. The contact angle can be obtained from the difference of theinclination between the test plate and the interface measured by the optical method. Based on the proposed
method, the contact angles were actually measured for each combination between various test plates andliquids. The experimental results were in good agreement with those of another method within theexperimental uncertainty. The contact angles can be measured with the accuracy of 0.01 degs. Also the local
contact angle can be measured by the space resolution of 50 μm corresponding to the diameter of Laserbeam.
A New Method to Actuate a Droplet on a Plate by Use of Laser and Ultrasonic Oscillation
Kenji KATOH, Tatsuro WAKIMOTO and Ryohei MASUDA
Trans. of Jpn Soc. Mech. Engrs., Ser. B, Vol. 76, pp. 2135-2142 (2010) (in Japanese)A new method to actuate a small droplet on a plate was proposed. In order to reduce the resistance to thedroplet movement, which is typically represented by the resultant of surface tension acting on thethree-phase contact line, i.e., σ (cosθR－cosθA) (σ : liquid surface tension, θR ,θA: receding and advancing
contact angles), a supersonic oscillation was imposed on the plate to suppress the contact angle hysteresis(θR-θA). The experimental results using SAMs (Self-Assembled Monolayers) plates showed that theresistance was reduced by 80 % due to the oscillation having the frequency of 28 kHz and the amplitude offew micrometers. Then the Laser beam was directed to one end of the droplet. The contact angle wasremarkably decreased due to the local heating of SAMs plate and the droplet moved to the end of the Laserbeam, since the tangential component of surface tension at the heated end overcomes that on the other. The
droplet can be actuated by about 0.6 mm/s by the method combining the oscillation and the local heating by
the Laser beam.
Characteristics of Liquid Film Flowing around Side Wall of a Horizontal Circular Cylinder(Separation of Liquid Film)
Kenji KATOH and Tatsuro WAKIMOTO
J. of JSEM, Vol. 11, Special Issue, pp. 97-102, (2011)
A standing wave with a peak line toward downstream appears on the surface of a liquid film flowing arounda horizontal circular cylinder. The amplitude of the wave grows in the downward direction and finally a partof the wave separates from the film. A theoretical model was proposed to explain the physical mechanism of
separation. The wave peak would separate when the resultant of the centrifugal force, gravitational force,
surface tension and negative pressure acting on the wave root is not sufficient to supply the flow ratenecessary to maintain the wave amplification. The points of separation on the cylinder were calculated
theoretically for three kinds of test liquids, i.e., water, ethanol and glycerin solutions. The results agreewith those from experiments for various flow rates of the film flow.
Disintegration Process of a Fan Liquid Sheet Formed with Surfactant Solution
Tatsuro WAKIMOTO and Kenji KATOH
J. of JSEM, Vol. 11, Special Issue, pp. 107-111 (2011)－ 68 －

Disintegration process of aqueous surfactant solutions injected from a fan spray nozzle has been clarified.
Adsorption of surfactant molecules on the liquid surface causes time-dependent surface tension referred to as"dynamic surface tension". Therefore, when a new liquid surface is formed, surface tension decreases from thevalue of solvent to equilibrium value with time. This relaxation time of surface tension can be critical for thedisintegration process of a liquid sheet that breaks up in comparable timescale. In this study,poly(oxyethylene)(10)octylphenyl ether was used as the surfactant, and the dynamic surface tension of thesurfactant solution depending on concentration was measured by oscillating jet method. The break-up length ofthe liquid sheet and the amplitude of flapping waves inducing the disintegration were also measured byphotography and laser induced fluorescence (LIF) method, respectively. The addition of the surfactant decreased
the relaxation time of surface tension, and promoted the growth of the wave. However, break-up length increases
with surfactant concentration. This discrepancy may be due to surface-stabilizing effect by the surfactant
molecules, which is usually seen in a soap film.
Nonlinear Growth of Disturbance Waves in a Radial Liquid Sheet
Tatsuro WAKIMOTO and Kenji KATOH
Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows (ICJWSF), CD-ROM, 6pages(2010)
Nonlinear growth of disturbance waves in a radial liquid sheet has been clarified. The radial liquid sheet wasformed by releasing of a radial water film flowing along the disk into still air. In this liquid sheet, a velocity profile
with an inflection point is formed during the relaxation of the velocity profile. This velocity profile causes
instability and amplifies disturbances in the liquid sheet. Consequently, disturbed liquid surface forms a wave,
referred as a disturbance wave. In this study, the growth of the disturbance waves depending on the wave
amplitude was analyzed by numerical simulation and experiment under the condition of 80μm sheet thickness and14.2m/s surface velocity. The simulated disturbance waves demonstrated that the growth rate decreases when theamplitude exceeds 15μm, which is 19% of the sheet thickness. Measured growth rate also showed similar
dependence of the growth rate on the amplitude. This implies that disturbance waves are strongly decayed by
nonlinear effect.
Basic Seminar on Atomization Mechanism Caused by Rayleigh Instability
Tatsuro WAKIMOTO
Atomization, Vol. 19, pp. 116-122 (2010) (in Japanese)
In a cylindrical liquid jet injected at relatively slow speed, axisymmetric disturbance is amplified because of
surface tension. This instability is widely known as Reylegh instability and is the most fundamental
mechanism of liquid atomization. In this article, governing equation and boundary condition of multiphaseflow is explained in advance, and then the concept and formulation of the Rayleigh instability theory aredescribed. In Rayleigh instability theory, non-viscous fluid and infinitesimal disturbance are assumed. The
equation giving temporal growth rate of the disturbance is derived based on the linear stability theory.
Rayleigh instability theory predicts that the only axisymmetric disturbance with a wavelength, which is about
3 times longer than the diameter of liquid cylinder, becomes unstable. The most unstable wavelength is about
4.5 times as long as the cylinder diameter.
Vibration Test of a 1/10 Reduced Scale Model of Cylindrical Water Storage Tank
Akira MAEKAWA, Yasutaka SHIMIZU, Michiaki. SUZUKI (Institute of Nuclear Safety System), Katsuhisa
FUJITAASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol.132 / 051801-1-051801-11 (2010)
In this paper, vibration tests by shaking table are conducted using a reduced scale tank model to investigate
the seismic-proof safety of tanks. Sinusoidal excitation tests and seismic excitation tests are conducted. The
measured values are compared with the calculated ones by some conventional seismic design methods. The
results reveal that the distribution shape and magnitude of the dynamic fluid pressure are different between
the positive side and the negative side, and depend on the magnitude of input acceleration. Further
examination concludes that the oval-type vibration, which is a high-order vibration mode, affects the
distribution shape and magnitude of dynamic pressure. However, it is certified that the vibration does not act
as a seismic load in the conventional evaluation of seismic-proof safety.
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Katsuhisa FUJITA, Ayumi OHKUMAJSME Journal of System Design and Dynamics, Vol.4, No.6, pp.809-821 (2010)
The evaluation methodologies for the flow-induced vibration of an elastic beam subjected to an axial flow in
confined narrow passage are reported. One of authors has already proposed an analytical method using theNavier-Stokes equation for the dynamic stability of an elastic beam subjected to an axial flow confined in anarrow passage. In this paper, by using the proposed analytical methods, the numerical studies are performed
taking three kinds of support conditions as parameters, that is, a cantilever fixed at the upstream end, acantilever fixed at the downstream end, and a simple support beam, respectively. Moreover, theparameter-studies are also performed concerning with a width of annular gap, viscosity of a fluid, andstructural damping. And the effects of support conditions of a structure, structural damping, and fluid
characteristics on the dynamic stability of an elastic beam are clarified.
Dynamics of Two-Wheels Modeling Roller Coaster Running on a Complicated 3 Dimensional (3D)
Trajectory Considering Air ResistanceKatsuhisa FUJITA , Koichi KATSUOKA, Hiroaki TOSHIMITSU
JSME Journal of System Design and Dynamics, Vol.5, No.3, pp.403-415 (2011)
The motion and vibration of a moving body running on a complicated 3 dimensional (3D) trajectory
considering an air resistance are investigated. A roller coaster is a concrete example of moving body. The
equations of motion of a roller coaster in which a trajectory and a vehicle are coupled are derived by using
differential algebraic equation. Although a roller coaster has been modeled as a one-wheel vehicle, it ismodeled as a two-wheel vehicle here. The Baumgarte method is adopted for numerical stabilization. The
influence of air resistance and rolling resistance, and the interaction between a vehicle and passengers so on
are investigated. And also, the transmissibility of vibration through its suspensions is studied. Besides, a partof simulations are compared with the experiments reported by the previous paper.
Stabilization or Destabilization Effect of Fluid Viscosity, Structural Damping on the Vicinity of
Critical Velocity of Elastic Beam Subjected to Axial Flow Confined in Narrow Passage
Katsuhisa FUJITA, Ayumi OHKUMATransactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Vol.77, No.777, C, pp.1938-1948 (2011) (inJapanese)
The evaluation methodologies for the flow-induced vibration instability of an elastic beam subjected to anaxial flow confined in a narrow passage have been reported. In this paper, by using this proposed method, theparameter-studies are performed on the dynamic stability of an elastic beam. The effects of supportconditions of structures, structural damping, and fluid characteristics on the dynamic stability are clarified.
Especially, paying an attention on the vicinity of critical velocity, the effects as for stabilization ordestabilization effect on flutter and divergence phenomena are investigated by changing fluid viscosity andstructural damping.
Active Control of Annular Flow-induced Vibration of Axisymmetric Elastic Beam by the Local Gap
Width Control
Shoji TAKADA, Atsuhiko SHINTANI, Tomohiro ITO (Osaka Prefecture University) and Katsuhisa FUJITA
JSME Journal of System Design and Dynamics, Vol.5, No.4, pp.577-588 (2011)
In this paper, for the purpose to avoid vibration troubles, the active control of vibration of an axisymmetricelastic beam subjected to annular flow is investigated. An air-pressured actuator is attached on the surface ofthe circular cylinder for the vibration control. As the shape of the actuator changes by control, the gap widthchanges, which causes the change of the fluid pressure. Therefore, the vibration of the fluid-structure
coupled system can be suppressed. The fluid-structure coupled equation based on the Euler-Bernoulli type ofpartial differential equation and the Navier-Stokes equations is analytically derived including control terms.
By applying the optimal control law to the coupled system, the unstable behavior is stabilized. The stabilityof the coupled system is investigated by eigenvalue analyses of controlled coupled equations.
Pressure Pulsation Behavior in Actual Size Mock-Up Piping System
Akira MAEKAWA, Tsuneo TAKAHASHI, Takashi TSUJI (Institute of Nuclear Safety System),Michiyasu NODA (Kansai Electric Power), Minoru KATO (Kobelco Kaken) and Katsuhisa FUJITA
JSME Journal of System Design and Dynamics, Vol.5, No.4, pp.603-611 (2011)
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operations was investigated to improve the prediction accuracy of pressure pulsation. Vibration experiments
were conducted by using an actual size mock-up piping system. A drastic change in the boundary conditionof the acoustic resonance by a slightly different valve opening ratio to set a different inner pressure was seen
experimentally. The simulation using the method of characteristics showed that the boundary condition of
the acoustic resonance changed when the valve opening ratio was changed slightly from 10 % to 15 %. It
was concluded that the boundary condition of the acoustic resonance was sensitive to a slight change of thevalve opening ratio and this was one of the reasons why it is difficult to predict the pressure pulsation
behavior accurately in actual plants.
A Consideration on Nonlinear Sloshing of a Rectangular Liquid Storage Container Subjected to
Seismic Excitations
Katsuhisa FUJITA, Sho ASANO
Proceedings of ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,
PVP2011-57116 in CD-ROM (2011)
The liquid storage container (tank) in industrial facilities, is listed as one of the facilities which are apt to bedamaged by an earthquake. As for seismic damages of containers, the sloshing phenomenon of the liquid freesurface and the bulging phenomenon which is due to the interaction between the container structure rigidity
and the liquid pressure become problems. Here, we investigate a nonlinear sloshing. In this paper, a modal
method which superposes linear solutions using Fourier series’ representation depending time is proposed as
for a nonlinear solution. Furthermore, this nonlinear method is applied to the seismic response analysis on
the nonlinear sloshing of a rectangular liquid storage container in nuclear plants.
Influence of Fluid Viscosity and Structural Specifications on Stability in the Vicinity of Critical
Velocity of an Elastic Beam Subjected to Confined Axial Flow
Katsuhisa FUJITA
Proceedings of ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,
PVP2011-57117 in CD-ROM (2011)
Evaluation methodologies for the flow-induced vibration of an elastic beam subjected to an axial flow
confined in a narrow passage are reported. In this paper, by using the analytical method already proposed by
the author, a parameter study is performed on the dynamic stability of an elastic beam subjected to axial flow
confined a narrow passage. The effects of support conditions of structures, structural damping, and fluid
characteristics on the dynamic stability are clarified. Especially, paying attention on the vicinity of criticalvelocity, the effects of stabilization or destabilization on flutter and divergence are investigated by changing
fluid viscosity and structural damping.
Experiment and Simulation on Pressure Pulsation Accompanied by Acoustic Resonance and Piping
Vibration
Takashi TSUJI, Akira MAEKAWA, Tuneo TAKAHASHI (Institute of Nuclear Safety System), Michiyasu
NODA (Kansai Electric Power), Minoru KATO (Kobelco Kaken), Katsuhisa FUJITA
Proceedings of ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,
PVP2011-57221 in CD-ROM (2011)
To improve condition-based maintenance (CBM) techniques for operating plants, it is necessary toinvestigate on the behavior of fluid inside piping system in detail. This study was conducted using thefull-scale piping system under conditions that could seriously threaten the plant operation, by matchingpressure pulsation, acoustic resonance and piping natural frequency. Although piping vibration is reported toinfluence fluid pressure pulsation, there were few examples of such influence in the conditions of thisexperiment. Knowing that the opening ratio of the pressure control valve affects the boundary condition for
acoustic resonance, the experiment and numerical simulation at different opening ratios were conducted. It
was suggested that there are cases in which a valve partially open at 25% or less shouldn’t be taken as aclosed end. This finding conflicts with widespread design assumption.
Seismic Safety Margin of Cylindrical Liquid Storage Tanks in Nuclear Power Plants
Akira MAEKAWA, Tsuneo TAKAHASHI (Institute of Nuclear Safety System), Katsuhisa FUJITA
Proceedings of ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,
PVP2011-57241 in CD-ROM (2011)
In Japanese nuclear power plants, the quantitative evaluation for seismic safety margin of the equipment is
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power plants was investigated experimentally and analytically. The buckling load of the tanks was examined.
The test tanks were the reduced-scale models of large-scale liquid storage tanks in nuclear power plants. The
experimental buckling load was compared with the design value. Furthermore, dynamic and static
elastic-plastic buckling simulations by finite element analysis using a three dimensional model were made.
The simulated and experimental results agreed well. The design value was lower than the nearly-truebuckling load, indicating the difference is the seismic safety margin.
Diagnosis of Air-conditioner by SVM
Tadao KAWAI, Seiya. KUSHIZAKI
Proceedings of COMADEM 2010, pp.575-582 (2010)
To avoid failures of an air-conditioner, we need suitable condition monitoring technique. Unfortunately, an
air-conditioner has many parameters in it, i.e., inlet temperature, outlet temperature of a condenser or anevaporator, pressure at each component and input power to compressor and so on. Furthermore, we need
expensive sensors to measure pressure. It is very difficult to monitor so many parameters from viewpoint ofcost, setup in an air-conditioner and calculation cost of diagnosis technique. This is one of reasons why wemust select suitable parameters for diagnosis. In this paper, we checked suitable parameters to monitor thecondition of an air-conditioner by experiment. And then we applied neural network, i.e., NN, and support
vector machine, i.e., SVM, with two types of kernel function to diagnose its failure. We also checked theeffect of parameters on diagnosis performance to reduce the number of input parameter for NN or SVM.
Finally, we selected several parameters for input data and showed good diagnosis ability of SVM withpolynomial kernel.
Diagnosis of Engine Mount
Tadao KAWAI, Sigeto IMAMURA
Proceedings of D&D2010, in CD-ROM (2011)
Because in many cases damage of mount could be assumed to reduce a spring constant, we estimated spring
constant of each engine mount by solving inverse problem to detect a damage of mount in this paper. We
built physical model of engine and engine mounts by modelica language and modified spring constant ofmount to simulate failure of engine mount. Finally, we can identify spring constant of mount in the verticaldirection with high accuracy.
Diagnosis of Air-conditioner by using its Dynamic Property
Tadao KAWAI, Seiya. KUSHIZAKI
Proceedings of D&D2010, in CD-ROM (2011)
To avoid failures of an air-conditioner, we need suitable condition monitoring technique. Unfortunately, an
air-conditioner has many parameters in it, i.e., inlet temperature, outlet temperature of a condenser or anevaporator, pressure at each component and input power to compressor and so on. Furthermore, it is very
difficult to identify failures in an air-conditioner because of small difference of parameter between normal
and abnormal condition. In this paper, we proposed diagnosis technique by using SVM (support vector
machine) with identified system parameters by ARX model. Because dynamic property of an air-conditioner
identified by ARX model, did not depend on operation condition, i.e., room temperature, outside temperature,
our proposed technique did not need a lot of data. Finally, our proposed technique well identified clog in heatexchanger very well.
Walking Guide Interface Mechanism and Navigation System for the Visually Impaired
Atsushi IMADU, Tadao KAWAI, Yogo TAKADA, and Tomoki TAJIRI
Proc. of 2011 4th Int. Conf. on Human System Interactions, Yokohama, Japan, May 19-21, IEEE
CFP1121D-CDR, 34, (2011).
We propose a new mechanism, with an intuitive interface, for a walking guidance system for the visually
impaired. The user pushes the mechanism using a long handle like walking stick, and the mechanism steers
to navigate along a given route using environmental sensors, communicating the steering angle to the user by
twisting the handle. Using the interface, users are aware of their direction to go and can walk without
hesitation. A navigation method incorporating simple topological map information is proposed for themechanism, and a prototype system that follows the walls surrounding a route is developed. Experiments
illustrate the usability and performance of the proposed interface and system.
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Chemical Kinetics Calculation
Hideki TAKASE, Yukitoshi SHIDA, Yogo TAKADA and Tomoyuki WAKISAKA
Transactions of Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Vol.41, No.5, (2010), pp.1083-1088 (2010) (inJapanese)
The elementary reaction scheme including a soot model for a diesel surrogate fuel by Golovitchev and thesoot oxidation model for surface reaction by Nagle, et al. have been incorporated into the GTT-CHEM code
constructed by the authors’ group, in order to numerically predict soot emission from a direct injection diesel
engine. The reaction rate constants have been optimized to reasonably reproduce the φ-T map for sootgeneration and the ignition delay data. As a result, the experimental results of soot and NO emissions as wellas the rates of heat release under various injection conditions have been reproduced reasonably well bymeans of three-dimensional chemical kinetics calculation using the GTT-CHEM code.
Development of Small Fish Robot with Built-in Fuel Cells
Yogo TAKADA, Hiroki MASUDA, Tomoki TAJIRI and Tomoyuki WAKISAKA
Proc. of Int. Symp. On Techno-Ocean 2010, Kobe, Japan, 008.pdf (CD-ROM)(2010)
A polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) has high energy density and robots move for a long time with thePEFC. Therefore, the series-connected PEFCs are attractive as practical power supplies for robots. Authors
originally developed a small and lightweight passive-type polymer electrolyte fuel cell “Power Tube”.
Additionally, a submersible small fish robot with a magnetic actuator was made. The fish robot has anexternal power supply composed of four Power Tubes and a voltage booster. Next, authors tried to put Power
Tubes in another fish robot. When PEFC is used in the robot body inside, it is necessary to consider the
method of aerating in the body. Therefore, the hydrogen peroxide solution was used as an oxidant of PEFCin this study. With the oxygen supply system in the fish robot, it was able to swim in water for one hour or
more.
Stabilization of Walking on Uneven Road for a Small Humanoid Robot
Tomoki TAJIRI, Rei OGAMI, Kazuya SUGIMOTO, Yogo TAKADA and Tomoyuki WAKISAKA
Trans. of Jpn Soc. Mech. Engrs., Ser.C, Vol.76, No.772, pp.440-447 (2010) (in Japanese)
Recently, humanoid robots have widely researched, and they have become possible to be controlled
robots with complicated kinetic characteristics. However, in the cases that the robot walks on an unknown
undulating road or receives disturbances such as collision with an object from the outside, the robot loses
stability and falls even if the inverted pendulum model is used. In this paper, an impedance control of aswing leg and a PI control of the rotation of a humanoid robot's waist are used to stabilize the dynamic walkon the unknown undulating road. For an impedance control, force sensors on the soles of the humanoid robot
are used to measure the torque and force of a swing leg that collide with the unknown undulating road. An
angular velocity sensor and acceleration sensor in the body of the humanoid robot are used to measure therotation of the waist and its error signal are used for the PI control of humanoid robot motion. As a result, it
has been confirmed that the humanoid robot can walk on an unknown undulating road with proposed
walking method.
Effects of Tail Fin Flexibility on Propulsive Performance in Small Fish Robots (Investigation by
Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis Considering Elastic Deformation of Tail Fin)
Yogo TAKADA, Ryosuke ARAKI, Toshinori OCHIAI, Tomoki TAJIRI and Tomoyuki WAKISAKA
Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (Ser.C), Vol.77, No.778, pp.183-194 (2011) (inJapanese)
Fish robots that swim with the tail fin do not give the caution to underwater creatures. Therefore, they
become useful for the investigation of ecosystem in water and the usage of the environmental surveillanceand so on. However, the propulsive velocity of fish robots is extremely slower than that of live fishes. It isnecessary to examine the difference of how to swim between live fishes and fish robots in order to put the
robots to practical use. In this study, the modification has been added to the CFD code that had beendeveloped up to now, so as to clarify the relation between tail fin’s flexibility and the propulsive performanceof the fish robot. The new code can calculate fluid-structure interaction analysis considering elastic
deformation of tail fin. By using the modified CFD code, effects of tail fin flexibility on propulsive velocity
and flow pattern of water around the fish robot have been examined.

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Effect of Titanium Layer on Low-Velocity Impact Damage Behaviour of Ti/GFRP Laminates
Hayato NAKATANI, Tatsuro KOSAKA, Katsuhiko OSAKA and Yoshihiro SAWADA
J. of the Soc. of Materials Science, Japan, Vol.59, No10, pp.792-799 (2010) (in Japanese)In the present paper, effects of titanium skin layer on impact damages in GFRP core of Ti/GFRP laminates as
Fibre-Metal Laminates under impact loadings were investigated. Low-velocity impact tests using adrop-weight tower were conducted on Ti/GFRP laminates with single titanium layer as a face sheet. In thesetests, the titanium skin or GFRP layer were considered to be as an impact surface, and damages in the GFRP
layer after the impact loading were observed in each case. From the experimental evidence, it was found that
out-of-plane deformation and internal damages of GFRP layer were constrained by the titanium layer which
was set at the opposite side of impact. Furthermore, four-point bending tests were conducted using the GFRP
core derived from Ti/GFRP laminates after impact loadings. Experimental results showed that the specimens
impacted from the GFRP layer side exhibited superior residual bending strength and bending stiffness
compared to those impacted from the titanium layer side. Numerical analyses of impact damages in Ti/GFRP
laminates using a finite element method were executed in order to evaluate damage development in the
GFRP layer. The calculated damage state in the GFRP layer agreed well with the experimental results. As aconsequence, it was revealed that the titanium layer at the opposite side of impact plays a major role inpreventing damages in the GFRP core under low-velocity impact loading on Ti/GFRP laminates.
Measurement of Cure Shrinkage Strain of Resin by Optical Fiber Strain Sensors
Tatsuro KOSAKA, Katsuhiko OSAKA and Yoshihiro SAWADA
J. of the Soc. of Materials Science, Japan, Vol.60, No.5, pp.432-438 (2011) (in Japanese)
Strain monitoring of resin during cure process is an effective method to manufacture high-quality FRP
products because it is known that residual stress generated during molding decreases strength of final
products. Although both cure and thermal shrinkage occur during cure process, it is difficult to measure cureshrinkage of FRP products due to dramatic changes in mechanical properties of resin by cure reaction.
Among cure monitoring methods, it is proven that fiber optic embedded strain sensors can measure cureshrinkage of resin. However, quantitative evaluation of cure shrinkage strain measured by optical fiber strain
sensors has not been conducted. In the present paper, we monitored curing shrinkage of epoxy resin by anembedded EFPI sensor. Mechanical and thermochemical properties of the resin during cure process wereexperimentally obtained by several methods. Volume shrinkage of resin during cure process was alsomeasured by a dilatometer. In this paper, a viscoelastic model during cure process was driven and the model
was used for FEM analysis of cure shrinkage strain generated in the embedded EFPI sensor. From the results,
it appeared that the calculated cure shrinkage strain of the EFPI sensors agreed well with the measured strain
especially when the degree of cure was high. Therefore, it was concluded that an embedded EFPI sensor canmeasure cure shrinkage strain quantitatively.
Damage Characterization of Titanium/GFRP Hybrid Laminates Subjected to Low-velocity Impact
Hayato NAKATANI, Tatsuro KOSAKA, Katsuhiko OSAKA and Yoshihiro SAWADA
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Vol.42, No. 7, pp.772-781(2011)Low-velocity impact-induced damage in Ti/GFRP laminates as titanium-based Fibre-Metal Laminates(FMLs) was investigated to reveal the extent of internal damage in the in-plane direction and to evaluate theeffects of titanium facesheets on impact damage in the GFRP core. It was found that interlaminardelamination in the GFRP layer expands widely due to crack initiation in the titanium layer on non-impactedside. However, matrix cracks and residual out-of-plane deformation are suppressed by energy absorption
achieved by the bottom titanium layer. Furthermore, impact responses and damages obtained by finite
element analysis with detailed modelling agree well with the experimental results. Thus, this study confirmedthat the impact behaviour of the Ti/GFRP laminates is dominated by a fracture in the titanium layer on
non-impacted side that fails in tension and that this layer plays a major role in preventing impact damages in
the GFRP core.
Resin Cure Monitoring in RTM Process by Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer
Tomohiro YAMASAKI
Proc. 4th Japan-US Symposium on Emerging NDE Capabilities for a Safer World, pp.186-192 (2010)
Degree of resin cure is measured using electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) in manufacturing
process of fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) by resin transfer molding (RTM). RTM method is suitable for－ 75 －

fabrication of FRP products of complicated shape. In order to reduce the cost by minimizing the cycle time,
cure monitoring of resin is necessary. Dielectric sensors have been used for such a purpose. However, they
may affect the strength of the products, since they should be embedded in the mold. Furthermore, effect ofconductivity of the carbon fibers must be removed. Ultrasonic methods, such as velocity measurement, havealso been applied. In this study, attenuation of shear standing wave in the mold is measured by the EMAT.
As resin cure proceeds, increase in the resin viscosity causes decrease in reflection coefficient at the interface
between the resin and the mold. Then the attenuation coefficient of the standing wave in the mold gives us
the information about the resin cure. In the cure process of resin without reinforcement, attenuation
coefficient is compared with the results of dielectric sensor, showing that the cure index can be evaluated by
the attenuation measurement. Cure monitoring is also executed in the molding process of CFRP.
On the transition from serrated to non-serrated plastic flow in metallic glasses at low temperatures
A. VINOGRADOV, D. LAZAREV, V. LOUZGUINE-LUZGIN, Y. YOKOYAMA, S. LI, A. R. YAVARI and
A. INOUE
Acta Materialia Vol.58, pp. 6736-6743 (2010)
The mechanical behavior and the kinetics of shear banding in bulk metallic glasses was investigated at roomand liquid nitrogen temperature using the acoustic emission (AE) technique. It was demonstrated that theintensive AE reflecting the activity of strongly localized shear bands at room temperature vanishes at thetransition of plastic flow from serrated to non-serrated with a reduction in temperature. The disappearance of
AE clearly suggests that the shear band propagation velocity significantly decreases at low temperature, andsliding along the principle shear band is observed at the machine-driven rate.
Comparative Analysis of Inhomogeneous Plastic Flow in Bulk and Ribbon Metallic Glasses Monitoredby Acoustic Emission
A. LAZAREV, A. VINOGRADOV and S. HASHIMOTO
Int. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 504S, pp. S60-64 (2010)
Aiming to gain a better insight into the phenomenological description and mechanisms of inhomogeneous
plastic deformation in metallic glasses, we review the currently available experimental data on the acoustic
emission (AE) behaviour in these materials under load and compare the results for typical ribbon-shaped andbulk metallic glasses. It is shown that the AE patterns reflecting the kinetics of shear banding are very muchalike for both kinds of glasses (as-cast and as-spun) despite a gross difference in the quenching rate during
manufacturing, geometry and loading conditions. It is also shown that the stress drops during serrated
plasticflowin BMGs are triggered by short time localised shear events having a comparatively large scale
although no simple correlation between the stress drops and AE amplitudes is found.
Acoustic Emission Analysis of Fracture of Metallic Glasses
A. LAZAREV and A. VINOGRADOV
Proc of Int. Symp. on Acoustic Emission, IAES-20, ed by S.Wakayama et al., Kumamoto, Japan, JSNDI pp.
121-126 (2010)
This is the first report where the crack velocity is measured in metallic glasses. From the high speed AE
waveform records we argued that the crack velocity in the melt-spun ribbon metallic glass amounts to180±20 m/s. The wavelet analysis has been shown to be a practical tool for extraction of scales
corresponding to fracture process in these materials.
On the reversibility of dislocation slip during cyclic loading of Al alloys containing shear-resistantparticles
W. HAN, A. VINOGRADOV and C. HUTCHINSON
Acta Materialia, Vol. 59, pp. 3720-3736 (2011)
The cyclic deformation behavior of a model Al–4Cu–0.05Sn (wt.%) alloy containing a homogeneous andwell-defined distribution of shear-resistant h0 (Al2Cu) precipitate plates was used to study the effect ofprecipitate state on the cyclic slip irreversibility. The precipitate spacing was controlled so that it was lessthan the self-trapping distance of dislocations. The cyclic deformation tests were conducted under constant
plastic stain amplitude mode and the evolution of the cyclic stress and cyclic hardening rate with cumulative
plastic strain were monitored. The deformed and undeformed microstructures were characterized usingtransmission electron microscopy. The cyclic deformation behavior and the corresponding dislocation
structures depend on both precipitate state and imposed plastic strain amplitude. An expression for the cyclic
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on proposed mechanisms of interaction between the mobile dislocations and the precipitates. The cyclic
deformation curve was calculated using the expression for the slip irreversibility and shown to describe mostfeatures of the cyclic deformation curves well, as a function of precipitate state and imposed plastic strain
amplitude, as well as describing the results of plastic strain amplitude jump tests.
Dynamic Precipitation During Cyclic Deformation of an Underaged Al-Cu AlloyW. HAN, Y. CHEN, A. VINOGRADOV and C. HUTCHINSON
Materials Science and Engineering A Vol 528, pp. 7410-7516 (2011)
The cyclic deformation behavior of Al–4Cu alloy containing shear-resistant particles was investigatedsystematically as a function of precipitate state. Pronounced cyclic hardening was observed in the under aged
Al–4Cu–0.05Sn (wt.%) alloy strained under various imposed plastic strain amplitudes at room temperature.
Such cyclic hardening is absent from the longer aging treatments. Microstructural characterization reveals
that the pronounced cyclic hardening of the under aged alloy is due to the dynamic precipitation of GP zones.
The dynamic precipitation occurs during all the cyclic loading process and only at the peak stress, where thehardening increment from dynamic precipitation saturates, does strain localization occur which is soon
followed by failure of the material. The dynamic precipitation of GP zones has a positive effect on the low
cycle fatigue performance of this alloy, and can significantly elevate the strength of this alloy without loss inductility. Experiments performed to test the dependence of the cyclic hardening on plastic strain amplitude
and strain-rate illustrate a relatively strain-rate independent and strain amplitude dependent behavior. Suchkinetic behavior is approximately consistent with that expected if the GP zone formation is controlled by thevacancies production process during plastic deformation.
The influence of temporary hydrogenation on ECAP formability and low cycle fatigue life of CP
titanium
A. CZERWINSKI, R. LAPOVOK, D. TOMUS, D. ORLOV, Y. ESTRIN and A. VINOGRADOV
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 509, pp. 2709-2715 (2011)
It is generally believed that thermo-hydrogen processing has a beneficial effect on tensile ductility andfatigue properties of titanium. This study was concerned with investigating whether this also applies totitanium of commercial purity (CP) with an ultrafine-grained structure obtained by equal-channel angularpressing (ECAP). It was shown that despite the possibility to manipulate the microstructure of titanium thethermo-hydrogen processing offers, temporary hydrogenation was not able to improve ductility and low
cycle fatigue life of CP titanium over the levels achievable by straight ECAP.
Reversible nature of shear bands in copper single crystals subjected to iterative shear of ECAP inforward and reverse directions,
H. MIYAMOTO, T. IKEDA, T. UENOYA, A. VINOGRADOV and S. HASHIMOTO.
Materials Science and Engineering A. Vol.528, pp.2602-2609 (2011)
Copper single crystals were subjected to equal-channel angular pressing for two passes via the routes A andC, in order to examine the effect of iterative shear in forward and reverse directions on the development ofshear bands in a crystallographic aspect. Shear bands were clearly revealed metallographically after one pass,which accompanies splitting of distinct crystallographic orientations. These shear bands remained after thesecond pass via route A, where shear was given in a forward direction with regard to the previous shear.
Micro-indentation tests show that the shear bands were harder than the matrix, and both the shear bands andthe matrix became harder progressively by the second pass. In route C, where the second shear is given in theparallel plane, but in the reverse direction with regard to the previous shear, most of these shear bands wereless visible in metallographic and EBSD observations. Besides, the distribution of microhardness became
homogeneous across the traces of shear bands and the matrix. It is suggested that the shear bands weredissolved by merging with the matrix by diffusion of the geometrically necessary dislocations (GND)
delineating the shear bands and the matrix.
Deformation and Fracture Behavior of Metallic Glassy Alloys and Glassy-Crystal Composites
D. LOUZGUINE, A. VINOGRADOV, S. LI, A. KAWASHIMA, G. XIE, A. R. YAVARI and A. INOUE
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol 42, pp.1504-1510 (2011)
The present work demonstrates the deformation behavior of Zr-Cu-Ni-Al bulk glassy alloys andZr-Ni-Cu-Al-Pd glassy foils as well as Ni-Cu-Ti-Zr bulk crystal-glassy composites. Fracture of
Zr60Cu16Ni14Al10 and Zr64.13Ni10.12Cu15.75Al10 bulk glassy alloys is featured by nearly equal fraction
areas of cleavage-like and vein-type relief. The observed pattern of alternating cleavage like and vein-type－ 77 －

patterns illustrates a result of dynamically self-organizing shear propagation at the final catastrophic stage.
The deformation behavior of Zr64.13Ni10.12Cu15.75Al10 alloy has also been tested at LN2 temperature.
The strength of the sample decreases with temperature, and no clear serrated flow typical for bulk glassy
samples tested at room temperature is observed in the case of the samples tested at LN2 temperature. We alsostudied the deformation behavior of Zr-Ni-Cu-Al-Pd glassy foils thinned to electron transparency in situ intension in a transmission electron microscope. We also present a Ni-Cu-Ti-Zr crystal-glassy composite
material having a superior strength paired with a considerable ductility exceeding 10 pct. The metastable cP2
crystalline phase promotes a strain-induced martensitic transformation leading to pseudoelastic behavior aswell as enhanced plasticity at room temperature.
Nanostructurization assisted by twinning during Equal Channel Angular Pressing of Metastable 316L
Stainless Steel
H. UENO, A. VINOGRADOV, K. KAKIHATA, Y. KANEKO and S. HASHIMOTO
Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 46, pp.4276-4283 (2011)
A conventional SUS 316L low carbon stainless steel has been processed by Equal channel angular pressing(ECAP) to the equivalent shear strain equal to 2, 4, 6 or 8 at different temperatures ranging from 250 _C toroom temperature. The aim of this study is to gain extra control over the ‘‘strength-ductility’’ combination
via nanostructure formation, involving twinning and/or strain-induced phase transformation. The resultant
microstructure is examined by transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) techniques. Substantial structure refinement down to nanoscale is observed inparallel with significant enhancement of tensile yield and ultimate tensile stress, both exceeding 1GPa. A
considerable resistance to fracture during localized plastic flow and a fairly good elongation to fracture intension is reported.
Mechanical Properties and Wear Resistance of Nano-Multilayers Fabricated by Electrodeposition
T. HATTORI, Y. KANEKO and S. HASHIMOTO
Tribologist, Vol. 56 pp.155-160 (2011) (in Japanese)
Mechanical properties and wear resistance of multilayered metallic structures were reviewed. The
multilayers were composed of alternate stack of two kinds of thin metallic films. First, method of Ni/Cu and
Co/Cu multilayers fabrications, which are based on electrochemical-potential dependence of deposit
composition, were explained. Then, the high strength of the multilayered structure is explained in terms ofblockage of lattice dislocation by the misfit dislocation networks which are located at interlayer interfaces. It
is shown that the Ni/Cu multilayer had apparently high wear resistance with compared to a conventional
nickel electrodeposit. The wear resistance of the Ni/Cu multilayer
Multi-Scale Modeling of Irradiation Effects in Spallation Neutron Source Materials
T. YOSHIIE, T. ITO, H. IWASE, Y. KANEKO, M. KAWAI, I. KISHIDA, S. KUNIEDA, K. SATO, S.
SHIMAKAWA, F. SHIMIZU, S. HASHIMOTO, N. HASHIMOTO, T. FUKAHORI, Y. WATANABE, Q.
XUA and S. ISHINO
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, Vol.269, pp. 1740-1743 (2011).
Changes in mechanical property of Ni under irradiation by 3 GeV protons were estimated by multi-scalemodeling. The code consisted of four parts. The first part was based on the Particle and Heavy-Ion Transport
code System (PHITS) code for nuclear reactions, and modeled the interactions between high energy protons
and nuclei in the target. The second part covered atomic collisions by particles without nuclear reactions.
Because the energy of the particles was high, subcascade analysis was employed. The direct formation ofclusters and the number of mobile defects were estimated using molecular dynamics (MD) and kinetic
Monte-Carlo (kMC) methods in each subcascade. The third part considered damage structural evolutions
estimated by reaction kinetic analysis. The fourth part involved the estimation of mechanical property changeusing three-dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD). Using the above four part code, stress–strain
curves for high energy proton irradiated Ni were obtained.
Synthesis and characterization of bioactive hydroxyapatite–calcite Nanocomposite for biomedical
applications
G. S. KUMAR, E. K. GIRIJA, A. THAMIZHAVEL, Y.YOKOGAWA and S. N. KALKURA
J. Colloid and Interface Sci., Vol.349, pp.56-62 (2010)
In a number of recent reports on the synthesis of hydroxyapatite (HA) by sol–gel method using citric acid asan organic modifier, washing was an essential step to remove the byproducts and citric acid. In the present－ 78 －

study we made an attempt to synthesize HA by sol–gel method in the presence of citric acid, wherein we
have employed calcination technique instead of the conventional washing process. The products thus
obtained were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transform-Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy,
thermogravimetry and scanning electron microscopy which confirmed the formation of a nanocomposite of
HA and CaCO3 (calcite) when citric acid was added during synthesis. HA is known to be bioactive andbioresorbable but the rates are too low. On the other hand, CaCO3 is highly biodegradable. The combinationof HA and CaCO3 compromised the demerits of each others. The dissolved Ca ions from CaCO3 enhanced
the supersaturation of the surrounding fluid which resulted in higher bioactivity of HA.
Biomolecules Loading and Mesoporous SBA-15 Pore Sizes
Y. YOKOGAWA, T. TOMA, A. SAITO, A. NAKAMURA and I. KISHIDA
Bioceramics Development and Applications, Vol.1, (2010). Article ID D110126, 3 pages
The encapsulation and immobilization of biomolecules on solid materials, mesoporous SBA-15, have beenstudied. Highly ordered hexagonal mesoporous silicates (MPS) with different mean pore sizes have beensynthesized using two kinds of triblock copolymers (P123 or L123) as a template. The mixture of tetraethyl
orthosilicate(TEOS)
andthetriblockcopolymer(poly(ethylene
glycol)-poly(propylene
glycol)-poly(ethylene glycol)) was stirred and hydrothermally treated at various temperatures to form the
MPS structure. Higher temperatures during stirring and hydtrothermal treatment led to the enlargement ofpore size. UV-spectrometry was performed to determine the amount of bovine serum albumin (BSA)
encapsulated in MPS. It was found that the adsorption processes of BSA on/in MPS could be well describedby intraparticle diffusion model.
Synthesis of Microporous Materials and their Adsorptive Properties of H 2S for Dental Application
I. KISHIDA, H. UTAKA, H. MORIKAWA, A. NAKAMURA and Y. YOKOGAWA
Bioceramics Development and Applications, Vol.1, (2010), Article ID D110130, 3 pages
The microporous materials, Zeolite A and ZSM-5 were hydrothermally synthesized and their H2S adsorption
was studied. The obtained samples were put into a separable glass flask filled with H2S gas, and the change
in concentrations of H2S was measured for 1–48 h at rt. Then the samples were taken out and put into apyrolysis plant attached to gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy to determine the amount of H2S desorbed
from samples. The amount of H2S adsorbed on Zeolite A was found to be larger than that on ZSM-5. That is
46% of H2S was desorbed from Zeolite A when heated at 400 °C, while 24% of H2S was desorbed from
ZSM-5. The adsorption/desorption behavior of H2S from zeolite materials could be interpreted by theelectrostatic interaction between H2S and adsorbent.
Formation of the Microstructure of TiO2 Film Through Anodic Oxidation of Titanium
Y. YOKOGAWA, T. YASUKI, T. HIROTOMI, A. NAKAMURA and I. KISHIDA
Mater. Sci. Eng., Vol. 18, (2011) 182003
Recent titanium oxide nanotube arrays have attracted attention for their applications. Titanium oxide
nanotubes were prepared under potentiostat conditions (10 - 60 V) for various times (1 min - 3 hr). SEM
observations revealed that the pore sizes of the nanotubes have a tendency to increase with an increase in theapplied potential in the NH4F-glycerol-H2O electrolyte. Some corrosive pores were observed on the surfaceof titanium substrate at 40 V for 1 minute at 40ºC. The pores covered the surface of the titanium substrate
after 10 minutes, and some small pores were observed in the inner part of the pores, which should
correspond to the combining of some small adjacent pores into a large one. The combining of the tubes wereobserved after 2 h and 3 h anodization times, and the nanotube arrays seem to be formed upward from theSEM side-views. The photocatalytic activity of the titanium oxide nanotubes was evaluated according to the
JIS standard (JIS R 1703-2). The R factor of the titanium oxide nanotube arrays formed at 40 V and 40ºC fora 3h the anodization time was 9.71 n mol/l·min, which was twice that of the titanium oxide thin film obtainedby the rf-sputtering method.
Synthesis of Microporous Materials and Their VSC Adsorption Properties
Y. YOKOGAWA, H. MORIKAWA, M. SAKANISHI, H. UTAKA, A. NAKAMURA and I. KISHIDA
Mater. Sci. Eng., Vol. 18, (2011) 192011.
Oral malodor is caused by volatile sulfur compounds (VSC) such as hydrogen sulfide (H2S), methyl
mercaptan and dimethyl sulfide produced in mouth. VSC induces permeability of mucous membrane andoral malodor formation. Thus, the adsorbent which highly adsorbs VSC should be useful for health in mouthand may prevent teeth from decaying. The microporous material, hydrotalcite, was synthesized by a wet－ 79 －

method, and the H2S adsorption was studied. The samples, identified by powder X-ray diffraction method,were put into glass flask filled with H2S gas. The initial concentration of H2S was 30 ppm. The change inconcentrations of H2S was measured at rt, and the amount of H2S absorbed on the hydrotalcite for 24 h was
300 micro L/g. The samples were taken out from the above glass flask and put into a pyrolysis plant attachedto gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to determine the amount of H2S desorbed from samples. Only
3 % of H2S was desorbed when heated at 500 ºC. H2S in water was also found to adsorb into hydrotalcite,which was confirmed by the headspace gas chromatography with flame photometric detector. The
hydrotalcite material should be expected to be an adsorbent material, useful for health in mouth.
TEM Observation of Biomolecules on/in Mesoporous SBA-15
Y. YOKOGAWA, A. SAITO, N. OGAWA, A. NAKAMURA and I. KISHIDAKey Engineering Materials, Vols. 493-494, pp. 728-731 (2012)
The encapsulation and immobilization of biomolecules on/in mesoporous silica materials (MPS) have beenstudied by using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The mixture of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS)
and the triblock copolymer as a template was stirred, hydrothermally treated to form the mesoporous
SBA-15 structure, and heat-treated at 550 oC. SEM observation indicated that long and narrow particles
were linked together in the long axis direction to form secondary particles of SBA-15. UV-spectrometry was
performed to determine the amount of bovine serum albumin (BSA), cytochrome C, myoglobin or
β-lactoglobulin encapsulated on/in SBA-15. The time profiles for adsorption of proteins can be welldescribed by intraparticle diffusion model. The TEM observations of proteins on/in mesoporous SBA-15
revealed that proteins were embedded on/in mesoporous SBA-15 and the protein behaviors given by TEM
observations may correspond to the intraparticle diffusion model.
Synthesis of Ag-doped zeolite materials and their sulfide adsorption properties
Y. YOKOGAWA, H. MORIKAWA, M. SAKANISHI, H. UTAKA, A. NAKAMURA and I. KISHIDA
Arch.BioCeram Res., Vol.10, pp. 6-9 (2010)
Halitosis is reported to be caused by volatile sulfide compounds (VSCs) such as hydrogen sulfide (H2S) andmethyl mercaptan yielded in mouth. The VSCs also have a bad influence on parodontium, and it may cause
periodontitis. Thus, material which adsorbs VSCs should be useful to keep health in mouth. Previously, we
reported the H2S adsorptive properties of zeolite and hydrotalcite materials with micro pores. The amount of
H2S adsorbed on the zeolite was found to be around 300-400 ppm, and depend on their Si/Al ratio. Thesematerials are sparingly soluble in water, and are expected to be likely absorbents for VSCs. In this study,
Ag-doped LTA zeolite materials and its H2S adsorption were investigated. The materials were hydrothermallysynthesized and identified by powder X-ray diffraction method. The specimens were put into H2S gas sealed inglass flask, and then the change in concentrations of H2S was measured using FPD gas chromatography (GC)and GC- mass spectrometer(MS). Then the materials were heated in a pyrolysis equipment attached to
GC-mass spectroscopy to determine an amount of H2S desorbed from the materials quantitatively. The H2S
adsorptive property of zeolite was remarkably improved by the addition of Ag.Instructions for preparing
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Synthesis of hybrid films of surface-modified ceramic platelets by Langmuir-Blodgett method forbiosensor
Y. YOKOGAWA, S. SAKABE, H. KURIBAYASHI, H. UTAKA, A. NAKAMURA and I. KISHIDAArch .Bio Ceram. Res., Vol.10, pp. 91-93 (2010).
Recent, nano-structured films have been attracted interest because of their potential applications to sensor,
optical device, electronic device, and so on. Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) method is of use to produce
multi-layered organic and inorganic nano-structured film. In this paper, formation of hybrid film of inorganic
platelets and an amphiphilic molecule by LB method was studied. NL-BIO40-MWCT (Nippon Laser
Electron) was used to measure a π-A plots, and to prepare the hybrid film. Kaolin treated using a silane
coupling reagent, and arachidic acid as amphilphilics on mica as substrate were used. Also the
inorganic/organic hybrid film formation by in-situ inorganic crystal precipitation on amphiphilic monolayers
was investigated. The hydroxyapatite crystals precipitated from SBF solution on LB monolayers / mica
substrate was reported.
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T. NAKAGAWA, A. NAKAMURA, I. SAKAGUCHI, N. SHIBATA, T. MIZOGUCHI, T. YAMAMOTO, H.
HANEDA, N. OHASHI and Y. IKUHARA
Acta Materialia, Vol. 59, pp. 1105-1111 (2011)
The diffusion behavior of impurity cations was examined in deformed a-Al2O3 single crystals (sapphire) that
had a high density of unidirectional basal dislocations. This behavior was examined in the temperature rangeof 1150–1400 oC by secondary ion mass spectrometry depth profiling techniques. In order to investigate
different pipe diffusion behaviors with different diffusing elements, diffusion behaviors of Cr and Ti werestudied. Cr was expected to exhibit behavior similar to that of Al because both are isovalent and because of
the complete mutual solubility of Cr2O3 and Al2O3 at high temperatures. Ti was selected because it isrepresentative of an element that is hardly soluble and thus is expected to segregate at dislocations. A drastic
decrease in the activation energy for Ti penetration was observed; however, such behavior was not observedfor Cr penetration. This fact well explains that the electrical conductivity of deformed sapphire, which resultsfrom diffused Ti nanowires along the dislocations of the crystal. The behavior of Cr was similar to that of
18O, examined previously, in that their activation energies for lattice and pipe diffusion were similar.
Because Cr diffusion was expected to mimic cation self-diffusion, it was assumed that the activation energy
for pipe diffusion was not very low compared to that for bulk diffusion. This assumption is consistent withthe fact that the activation energy for grain boundary diffusion in alumina and other ceramics is equal to or
higher than that of bulk diffusion. Thus, the absolutely low temperature dependence of Ti pipe diffusion insapphire may not be because of the enhanced migration of Ti along dislocations but because of other effects,
such as the segregation of Ti or Ti clustering at dislocations.
Dislocation Structures in a {-1104} / <11-20> Low-angle Tilt Grain Boundary of Alumina (α-Al2O3)
E. TOCHIGI, N. SHIBATA, A. NAKAMURA, T. YAMAMOTO and Y. IKUHARA
J. Mater. Sci., Vol. 46, pp. 4428-4433 (2011)
An alumina (a-Al2O3) bicrystal with a (-1104)/[11-20] 2o low-angle tilt grain boundary was fabricated bydiffusion bonding at 1500 oC in air, and the grain boundary was observed by transmission electron
microscopy (TEM). High-resolution TEM observations revealed that the grain boundary consists of at least
two kinds of dislocations. One is a perfect dislocation which has a Burgers vector of 1/3[-12-10]. The other isdissociated into two partial dislocations with a stacking fault on the (0001) plane, and each partial dislocation
has a 1/6[-1101] edge component. It is suggested from structural considerations that the
dissociated-dislocation pair originates from a b = 1/3[02-21] perfect dislocation (i.e., 1/3[02-21] →1/6[02-21] + 1/6[02-21]). This dissociation produces a stacking fault in the anion sublattice. The stacking
fault energy is estimated to be roughly 1.3 J/m2 based on the elastic theory. The authors discuss thedislocation structures and the stacking fault formed on the (0001) plane in detail.

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Strain-induced Variation of Relaxation Time in Crosslinked Epoxy Glass Evaluated by a Simple
Nonlinear Mechanical Model
Shin’ya YOSHIOKA and Mariko IWAMOTO
Zairyo (J. Soc. Mat. Sci., Jpn), Vol.60, pp.51-56 (2011) (in Japanese)
The single relaxation time of epoxy glass, a thermoset having crosslinked molecular structures, wasevaluated during tensile yielding process by using a nonlinear single relaxation model. The model consistedof two elastic springs expressing linear viscoelastic behavior and a dashpot with variable viscosity as a single
parameter representing strain-induced structural change. We calculated the strain-dependent relaxation time
⎮SS by fitting the model to experimental stress-strain curves observed at various strain rates and temperatures.
The relaxation time ⎮SS steeply decreased with increasing strain at the beginning of stretching, and thenattained to low steady values at strains slightly larger than the yield strain. The steady values of ⎮SS were
almost inversely proportional to the strain rate, and slightly shorter at a higher stretching temperature. These
dependences of ⎮SS for epoxy glass on strain, strain rate and temperature were qualitatively identical to thosefor thermoplastic glassy polymers without crosslinked molecular structures. Strain-dependent relaxation
times for thermoplastic glassy polymers are known as the result of change in glassy structures. Thus, it isconcluded that the nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of crosslinked epoxy glass arises from strain-induced
structural change.

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Electrical Engineering
Study of a Multi-Pinhole Retinal Projection Display
Hideya TAKAHASHI, Kenji NISHIMURA, Masaru KOBAYASHI (Wear Vision Inc.),
Junichi HIRAMOTO (Wear Vision Inc.), Eiji SHIMIZU (Wear Vision Inc.), and Seiji YAMAGUCHI (Times
Corporation Ltd.)J. Jpn. Soc. Low-vision Research and Rehabilitation, Vol. 10, pp.68-74 (2010) (in Japanese).
Purpose: To determine if use of multiple pinholes is an effective method to increase the viewing zone for aretinal projection display.
Methods: We simulated the proposed method for increasing the viewing area of the retinal projection display bychanging the alignment and size of the multiple pinholes. We verified the effectiveness of the proposed methodby using the optical system simulator to evaluate the retinal projection display when various pinholes were used.
Results: When we evaluated the quality of retinal images using the modulation transfer function, we verified thatthe image quality of the proposed system was similar to that of the previous system. Moreover, in the simulationof changes in pupil size and alignment, we confirmed by the quality of the retinal images that the new method
increased the viewing zone.
Conclusions: The proposed method of using multiple pinholes effectively increased convergence points and theviewing zone for the retinal projection display.
The Method of Area Segmentation of Cancer Using Multispectral Image
Hideya. TAKAHASHI, K. YAMADA (Osaka University), Maki TAKEDA (Osaka University),
Shigeto YOSHIDA (Hiroshima University), Thi Thi ZIN, and Tahito AIDAICIC Express Letters, Vol.5, 10, pp.3859-3864 (2011).
Transnasal endoscopy has recently become a widely accepted screening method in practical application areas of
medical endoscopy. Pain tolerance and safety seem to be the greatest advantage of transnasal endoscopy whencompared to those of a conventional peroral endoscopy. Although there are some disadvantages such as poor
endoscopic images and less illumination caused by downsizing of scopes, as a whole, slim endoscopy is a safeand less invasive tool for screening purposes. On the other hand, flexible spectral imaging color enhancement(FICE) is one of the diagnostic methods using specific light spectra based on spectral image processing technology. FICE provides comparison of spectral images of diseased and surrounding normal areas for enhancement of
the contrast by combining wavelengths with greater differences in signals. It is thus in this paper, we propose anovel method of segmenting tumor region for medical endoscope surgery and investigation by using the narrowband images on several wavelengths.
Evaluation of Three-Dimensional Endoscope Using Compound Eye Optical System with
Multi-Wavelength Band-Pass Filter
Kenji YAMADA (Osaka University) and Hideya TAKAHASHIInternational Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Vol.7, 8, pp.4691-4701 (2011).
Diagnosis and intervention in endoscopy is based on image sequences of a video camera. However, an image
sequence provides no depth information. We propose the novel endoscope system with compound eye and wavelength band pass filter. The system is composed of micro-lens array, wavelength band pass filter, separation layer and image sensor. Several wave length band pass filters are covered with each micro-lens. The proposed system makes it possible to take any images from the membrane surface to deep blood vessel simultaneously. With
several test targets, the characteristics of the prototype system are evaluated.
Real-Time Updatable Volumetric Display System Based on Inclined-Image Scanning
D. MIYAZAKI, K. OHNO, and T. MUKAI－ 85 －

Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, pp. 684 687 (2010).
A new experimental volumetric display system based on inclined-image scanning is reported. A volumetric image is formed as a stack of about one hundred cross-sectional images. A high-speed video interface apparatus
for controlling a digital micromirror device, which displays the cross-sectional images, is introduced to achieve
real-time updating of volumetric images. The cross-sectional images of a three-dimensional (3D) object are generated from a depth map of the 3D polygon surface model within a video frame rate. In addition, to increase theviewing angle, the numerical aperture of an optical system is in-creased by use of a larger scanner mirror.
Three-Dimensional Display Using a Roof Mirror Grid Array and a Prism Sheet
Y. MAEDA, D. MIYAZAKI, N. HIRANO, and S. MAEKAWA (NICT)
17th International Display Workshops, pp. 1301-1304 (2010).
We developed a three-dimensional display using a roof mirror grid array, which is an optical imaging elementthat forms a real image, and a rotating prism sheet. The use of the rotating prism sheet can reduce a blur causedby diffraction at the roof mirror grid array.
Phase conjugatewave generation based on self-pumped four-wave mixing in a broad-area laser diodeK. HARA, M. INOUE, D. MIYAZAKI and T. MUKAI
22nd IEEE International Semiconductor Laser Conference, (ISLC2010), pp. 125 - 126 (2010).
The purpose this study is to construct the fast-response PCM only made of semiconductor gain material in a selfpumped manner, and to demonstrate the self-oscillation of the PCM cavity which may offer the drastically narrow spectral linewidth, as theoretically proposed by Petersen et al. This paper first demonstrates the destructive
interference due to the phase conjugate feature in the self-pumped, angled feedback experiment using a broadarea laser diode (BA-LD).
Self-Pumped Phase Conjugate Mirror Using a Broad-Area Laser DiodeT. MUKAI, K. HARA, M. INOUE, S. NAGIYAMA, and D. MIYAZAKI
Int. Quantum Electronics Conference/ Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (IQEC/CLEO Pacific Rim 2011, 3230-CT-6 (2011).
Self-pumped phase conjugate mirror is successfully constructed using a broad-area laser diode with angled feedback configuration. We demonstrate the light output decrease and the half-axial mode specific to the phase conjugate resonator.

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Characteristics of Exciton Polaritons in a ZnO Microcavity
T. KAWASE, S. KOMURA, K. MIYAZAKI, D. KIM, and M. NAKAYAMA
Physica E, Vol. 42, pp. 2567–2570 (2010).
We have investigated the characteristics of exciton polaritons in a ZnO microcavity with HfO2/SiO2
distributed Bragg reflectors. The results of the angle-resolved reflectance spectra were analyzed by calculating the cavity polariton dispersions with a phenomenological Hamiltonian for the coupling between the cavity photon and three kinds of excitons labeled A, B, and C peculiar to ZnO. The vacuumRabi-splitting energy is estimated to be ~80 meV. The reflectance dips originating from the cavity polaritons shift to lower energy side with an increase in temperature. We discuss the temperature dependence of the cavity-polariton energies of the ZnO microcavity on the basis of the phenomenological
Hamiltonian taking account of the temperature dependence of the exciton energies with Varshni’s law.
DOI:10.1016/j.physe.2009.12.058
Photoluminescence Properties of Exciton–Exciton Scattering in a GaAs/AlAs Multiple Quantum
Well
M. NAKAYAMA, T. HIRAO, and T. HASEGAWA
Physica E, Vol. 42, pp. 2644–2647 (2010).
We report on the photoluminescence (PL) properties of a GaAs (20 nm)/AlAs (20 nm) multiple quantum well under high-density-excitation conditions at excitation energies near the fundamental exciton
energies. The biexciton-PL band is dominant in a relatively low-excitation-power region. The PL originating from exciton–exciton scattering, the so-called P emission, suddenly appears with an increase inexcitation power. The excitation-energy dependence of the intensity of the P-PL band indicates that theexcitation energy higher than the fundamental heavy-hole exciton by the energy of the longitudinal optical (LO) phonon is the most efficient for the P PL. This suggests that the LO-phonon scattering plays
an important role in the relaxation process of excitons leading to the P PL. The appearance of the P-PL
band remarkably suppresses the intensity of the biexciton-PL band; namely, the exciton–exciton scattering process prevents the formation of biexcitons. Furthermore, we have confirmed the existence of
optical gain due to the exciton–exciton scattering process with use of a variable-stripe-length method.
DOI:10.1016/j.physe.2009.09.021
Upconversion of Photoluminescence due to Subband Resonances in a GaAs/AlAs Multiple Quantum Well Structure
T. HASEGAWA, S. OKAMOTO, and M. NAKAYAMA
Physica E, Vol. 42, pp. 2648–2651 (2010).
We have investigated the upconversion of photoluminescence (PL) due to subband resonances in a
simple GaAs(15.3 nm)/AlAs(4.5 nm) multiple quantum well embedded in a p–i–n diode structure. The
systematic measurements of the PL spectra and the calculated results of the interband transition energies as a function of electric field strength reveal that the PL bands from the electron subbands with
n=3 (E3) and n=4 (E4) sharply appear under the first-nearest-neighbor resonance conditions between
the E1 and E3 subbands and the E1 and E4 subbands, respectively, owing to the carrier injection to theE3 and E4 subbands from the E1 subband. This result indicates that the resonant tunneling due to thesubband resonance is a dominant mechanism for the carrier population in the higher lying subbands.
Utilizing these subband resonances, we have demonstrated the upconversion of PL from the E3 and E4－ 87 －

subbands under the excitation condition of the fundamental interband transition between the E1 and then=1 heavy-hole subbands.
DOI:10.1016/j.physe.2009.10.003
Coherent Control of Terahertz Wave from Coherent Longitudinal Optical Phonon in a
GaAs/AlAs Multiple-Quantum-Well Structure
K. MIZOGUCHI, Y. KANZAWA, G. OOHATA, S. SAITO, K. SAKAI, and M. NAKAYAMA
Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 49, 120202 (3 pages) (2010).
We report on the coherent control of terahertz (THz) waves emitted from coherent longitudinal optical(LO) phonons in a GaAs/AlAs multiple-quantum-well structure at room temperature using two-pulse
excitation. When the time difference between the first pump pulse and second weak control pulse isincreased, the intensity of THz waves from the coherent phonons is cancelled and enhanced by the control pulse, and the phase of THz waves shows periodic changes accompanied by a phase jump. The
time-difference dependences of the intensity and phase of THz waves are explained in terms of the superposition of two coherent oscillations.
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.49.120202
Photoluminescence Decay Profiles of Exciton-Exciton Scattering in a ZnO Thin Film
S. WAKAIKI, H. ICHIDA, K. MIZOGUCHI, D. KIM, Y. KANEMATSU, and M. NAKAYAMA
Phys. Status Solidi C, Vol. 8, pp. 116–119 (2011).
We have investigated the photoluminescence (PL) dynamics of a ZnO thin film under intense excitation conditions at 10 K. In the ZnO thin film, a PL band due to exciton-exciton scattering, the so-called
P emission, appears. The optical-Kerr-gating method with the ultrashort gating time of 0.6 ps enabled
us to obtain precise information of the temporal profiles including the peak energy, the bandwidth andthe intensity of the P emission, at various detection energies. We have found that the decay time of theP emission gradually shortens with decreasing detection energy. The change in the decay time can bereasonably attributed to the photon-like characteristics of the lower polariton branch that is the final
state of the exciton-exciton scattering. Furthermore, we have shown that the decay time of the P emission is phenomenologically determined by the group velocity of the final state although the origin of
the long decay time remains to be elucidated.
DOI: 10.1002/pssc.201000675
Simple Strategy for Enhancing Terahertz Emission from Coherent Longitudinal Optical Phonons Using Undoped GaAs/n-type GaAs Epitaxial Layer Structures
H. TAKEUCHI, J. YANAGISAWA, S. TSURUTA, H. YAMADA, M. HATA, and M. NAKAYAMA
Phys. Status Solidi C, Vol. 8, pp. 343–345 (2011).
We have explored the feasibility of enhancing terahertz (THz) emission from coherent longitudinal optical (LO) phonons using simple epitaxial layer structures: undoped GaAs/n-type GaAs (i-GaAs/nGaAs) epitaxial layer structures. Initially, using a numerical simulation we have confirmed that a decrease in the i-GaAs layer thickness d increases the built-in electric field in the i-GaAs layer. From theTHz wave measurement, it is observed in the THz waveforms of the samples that the monocycle oscillation, the so-called first burst, resulting from the surge current of the photogenerated carriers, accompanies with a clear oscillatory profile with a period of 113 fs corresponding to the GaAs LO phonon
frequency (8.8 THz). The Fourier transform spectra show that the intensity of the LO phonon band remarkably increases with a decrease in d that causes the enhancement of the built-in electric field in thei-GaAs layer. Thus, we conclude that the utilization of the i-GaAs/n-GaAs structure is a useful way to－ 88 －

enhance the THz emission from the coherent LO phonon. We also performed the time-partitioning
Fourier transform in order to investigate the decay time of the THz wave from the coherent LO phonon.
The decay time of each sample is almost the same: 2.0 ps.
DOI: 10.1002/pssc.201000396
Photoluminescence Properties of Exciton-Exciton Scattering in a Dilute Nitride GaAs1-xNx Epitaxial Film
M. NAKAYAMA, J. HASHIMOTO, and Y. MAEDA
Phys. Status Solidi C, Vol. 8, pp. 372–374 (2011).
We report on the photoluminescence (PL) properties of a dilute nitride GaAs1-xNx epitaxial film with
x=0.008 grown on a (001) GaAs substrate under high-density-excitation conditions. The band-gap energy of the GaAs0.992N0.008 film is 1.34 eV at 10 K, which was confirmed by photoreflectance spectroscopy; namely, GaAs0.992N0.008 belongs to a category of narrow-gap semiconductors. It has been foundthat a PL band appears with a threshold-like nature. At the threshold excitation power for the appearance of the PL band, the PL-peak energy is lower than the energy of the fundamental exciton by the
exciton binding energy. The results described above indicate that the PL band originates from excitonexciton scattering, the so-called P emission, which is typically observed in wide-gap semiconductors
with large exciton binding energies. Furthermore, we have confirmed the existence of optical gain in
the energy region of the P band with use of a variable-stripe-length method.
DOI: 10.1002/pssc.201000387
Exciton Polaritons in ZnO Microcavities with Different Active Layer Thicknesses
T. KAWASE, D. KIM, K. MIYAZAKI, and M. NAKAYAMA
Phys. Status Solidi B, Vol. 248, pp. 460–463 (2011).
We have investigated the characteristics of exciton polaritons in ZnO microcavities with different active layer thicknesses. The microcavity was made from a bulk ZnO active layer and two distributed
Bragg reflectors (DBRs) consisting of HfO2 and SiO2 layers. We adopted rf magnetron sputtering andpulsed laser deposition for the preparation of the DBR and ZnO active layer, respectively. Angleresolved reflectance spectra demonstrate the formation of cavity polaritons. From the analysis using aphenomenological Hamiltonian for the coupling between the cavity photon and three kinds of excitonslabeled A, B, and C peculiar to ZnO, the vacuum Rabi-splitting energies in the l/2-microcavity are estimated to be 30, 71, and 84 meV for the A, B, and C excitons, respectively. Moreover, we indicate thepotential to control the Rabi-splitting energy by changing the active layer thickness.
DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201000620
Frequency-Tunable Terahertz Electromagnetic Wave Emitters Based on Undoped GaAs/n-type
GaAs Epitaxial Layer Structures Utilizing Sub-Picosecond-Range Carrier-Transport Processes
H. TAKEUCHI, J. YANAGISAWA, S. TSURUTA, H. YAMADA, M. HATA, and M. NAKAYAMA
J. Lumin., Vol. 131, pp. 531–534 (2011).
We have investigated sub-picosecond-range carrier-transport processes in undoped GaAs/n-type GaAs
(i-GaAs/n-GaAs) epitaxial layer structures with various i-GaAs-layer thicknesses d ranging from 200 to2000 nm, focusing on the relation between carrier-transport processes and terahertz electromagnetic
wave frequency. Initially, using numerical simulation and photoreflectance measurement, we confirm
that a decrease in d enhances the built-in electric field in the i-GaAs layer. In the time-domain terahertz
waveform, it is observed that the intense monocycle oscillation induced by the surge current of photogenerated carriers, the so-called first burst, is followed by the oscillation patterns originating from the－ 89 －

coherent GaAs longitudinal optical (LO) phonon. From the Fourier power spectra of the terahertz
waveforms, it is clarified that the decrease in d causes a high frequency shift of the band of the first
burst. Consequently, we conclude that, in the sub-picosecond time range, the photogenerated carriers
are monotonously accelerated by the built-in electric field without being affected by intervalley scattering. The present conclusion signifies that the frequency-tunable terahertz emitters are realized by controlling i-GaAs-layer thickness. We also find the intensity of the coherent LO phonon band is enhanced
by a decrease in d.
DOI:10.1016/j.jlumin.2010.09.022
Control of Exciton-Photon Interactions in CuCl Microcavities
M. NAKAYAMA, K. MIYAZAKI, T. KAWASE, and D. KIM
Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 83, 075318 (5 pages) (2011).
We have investigated the active-layer-thickness dependence of exciton-photon interactions in planar
CuCl microcavities with HfO2/SiO2 distributed Bragg reflectors. The active layer thickness waschanged from λ/32 to λ/4, while the cavity length was fixed at λ/2. We performed angle-resolved reflectance measurements and clearly detected three cavity-polariton modes, originating from the lower,
middle, and upper polariton branches, in a strong-coupling regime of the Z3 and Z1,2 excitons and cavity photon. The incidence-angle dependence of the cavity-polariton modes was analyzed using a phenomenological Hamiltonian for the strong coupling. It was found that the interaction energies of thecavity-polariton modes, the so-called vacuum Rabi splitting energies, are systematically controlledfrom 22(37) to 71(124) meV for the Z3 (Z1,2) exciton by changing the active layer thickness from λ/32
to λ/4. The active-layer-thickness dependence of the Rabi splitting energy is quantitatively explainedby a simple theory for quantum-well microcavities.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.075318
Emission of the Terahertz Electromagnetic Wave from Coherent Longitudinal Optical Phonons
in a GaAs Buffer Layer Optically Masked by a GaSb Top Epitaxial Layer
H. TAKEUCHI, S. TSURUTA, and M. NAKAYAMA
Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 98, 151905 (3 pages) (2011).
We demonstrate that, in a GaSb/GaAs epitaxial structure, the coherent longitudinal optical (LO) phonon in the GaAs layer optically masked by the GaSb top layer is observed utilizing terahertzelectromagnetic-wave spectroscopy. It is confirmed from a Raman scattering measurement that only
the optical phonon in the GaSb layer is optically observable, where the photon energy of the excitation
laser beam was almost the same as that of the femtosecond pulse pump beam for the terahertz wave
measurement. In the terahertz wave measurement, the Fourier power spectrum of the terahertz waveform exhibits both the GaAs and the GaSb LO phonons; namely, the coherent LO phonon in the optically masked GaAs buffer layer is observed in the terahertz wave measurement. This fact demonstrates
that the instantaneous surface potential modulation originating from the impulsive carrier excitation by
the pump pulses reaches the GaAs buffer layer. Consequently, the above-mentioned surface potential
modulation generates the coherent GaAs LO phonon.
DOI:10.1063/1.3574541
Electric Field Effects on Excitonic Quantum Beats in a Single Quantum Well Embedded in a
GaAs/AlAs Superlattice
T. HASEGAWA, Y. TAKAGI, and M. NAKAYAMA
Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 83, 205309 (6 pages) (2011).

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We have investigated the characteristics of the quantum beat of excitons confined in a GaAs single
quantum well (6.4 nm) embedded in the center of a GaAs (3.2 nm)/AlAs (0.9 nm) superlattice (SL)from the viewpoint of the resonant coupling between the subband states in the single quantum well
(SQW) and the Wannier–Stark localization states in the SL with the use of a reflection-type pumpprobe technique. The resonant couplings, which cause anticrossing behaviors of relevant transition energies, were observed by electroreflectance spectroscopy and analyzed by calculating the eigenenergies
as a function of electric field strength. It is found that the frequency and intensity of the quantum beat
between the heavy-hole and light-hole excitons in the SQW significantly change under the resonant
coupling conditions of the electron states. The changes of the quantum-beat properties result from theformation of bonding and antibonding electron states which modifies the excitonic transition properties
in the SQW as a function of electric field strength. The experimental results of the quantum beat arereasonably explained by the electric-field-strength dependence of the energies and transition probabilities of the excitons in the SQW observed from electroreflectance spectra.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.205309
Cavity Polaritons of Heavy-Hole and Light-Hole Excitons in a CuI Microcavity
M. NAKAYAMA, M. KAMEDA, T. KAWASE, and D. KIM
Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 83, 235325 (5 pages) (2011).
We have investigated the exciton-photon coupling phenomena in a CuI bulk microcavity consisting of
a CuI active layer with an effective thickness of λ/2 and HfO2 /SiO2 distributed Bragg reflectors. In the
CuI active layer, a thermal strain removes the degeneracy of the heavy-hole (HH) and light-hole (LH)
excitons at the Γ point. Angle-resolved reflectance spectra measured at 10 K demonstrate strong coupling between the HH and LH excitons and cavity photon, resulting in the formation of three cavitypolariton modes: lower, middle, and upper polariton branches. The photoluminescence band from thelower polariton branch was clearly observed. The energies of the three cavity-polariton modes as afunction of incidence angle are reasonably explained by analysis using a phenomenological Hamiltonian for the strong coupling. The vacuum Rabi splitting energies are evaluated as 50 and 29 meV for
the HH and LH excitons, respectively. The magnitude of the Rabi splitting energy results from thelarge oscillator strength of the relevant exciton. Furthermore, it is confirmed that the strong coupling
regime is fully maintained at room temperature because of the high stability of the excitonic system.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.235325
Terahertz Spectroscopy of Dynamics of Coupling Between the Coherent Longitudinal Optical
Phonon and Plasmon in the Surge Current of Instantaneously Photogenerated Carriers Flowing
Through the i-GaAs Layer of an i-GaAs/n-GaAs Epitaxial Structure
H. TAKEUCHI, S. TSURUTA, and M. NAKAYAMA
J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 110, 013515 (6 pages) (2011).
We demonstrate the dynamics of coupling between the coherent longitudinal optical (LO) phonon andplasmon of instantaneously photogenerated electrons in an undoped GaAs/n-type GaAs (i-GaAs/nGaAs) epitaxial structure using time-domain terahertz spectroscopy. Initially, we experimentally andnumerically clarify the presence of the built-in electric field in the i-GaAs layer of the i-GaAs/n-GaAs
epitaxial layer. Next, we performed the terahertz-wave measurements of the i-GaAs/n-GaAs epitaxial
structure at various excitation conditions from a low density excitation regime to a high excitation regime. The LO-phonon-plasmon coupled (LOPC) mode has been confirmed from the terahertz-wave
measurement. It is found that the frequency of the LOPC mode is determined by the pump-beam power.
This fact demonstrates that the LOPC mode is formed in the i-GaAs layer. In addition, we performed－ 91 －

the time-partitioning Fourier transform in order to reveal the dynamical change in the LOPC mode as afunction of time delay. Using this analysis, we have observed that the disappearance of the LOPC mode
immediately occurs within the time delay of 0.6 ps. Following the disappearance of the LOPC mode,
only the bare coherent GaAs LO phonon dominates the terahertz waves.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3603046
Noncascading THz-wave parametric oscillator synchronously pumped by mode-locked picosecond Ti:sapphire laser in doubly-resonant external cavity
YUMA TAKIDA, SHINGO MAEDA, TATSUYA OHIRA, HIROSHI KUMAGAI and SHIGEKI
NASHIMA
Optics Communications 284, 4663 (2011).
A noncascading terahertz (THz) wave parametric oscillator synchronously pumped by a mode-locked
picosecond Ti:sapphire laser whose average power was less than 1Wwas demonstrated with a noncollinear phase-matching MgO:LiNbO3 crystal in an external enhancement cavity doubly resonant for
both pump (780 nm) and signal (781–784 nm) waves. In the external cavity, in which the pump wave
enhanced so as to reduce the pumping threshold of parametric processes, the signal wave could also
resonate and thus be enhanced simultaneously, resulting in a THz wave output at approximately 0.9
THz as the idler wave. The novel dual enhancement of pump and signal waves reduced the thresholdpumping intensity to approximately 50 MW/cm2, which was much lower than that of a conventional
externally pumped THz wave parametric oscillator with a crystal.
High-efficiency second harmonic generation of a mode-locked picosecond Ti:sapphire laser withan external enhancement cavity
YUMA TAKIDA, TATSUYA OHIRA, SHINGO MAEDA and HIROSHI KUMAGAI
Proceedings of LPM2011, 12th International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication, 11095 (2011)
We reported high-efficiency SHG of a low-power mode-locked picosecond Ti:sapphire laser, whose
average output power was less than 1 W, with a BiB3O6 (BiBO) nonlinear crystal installed in a fourmirror external enhancement cavity. A 15-mm-long BiBO crystal was cut for collinear critical type I (e+ e → o) phase-matching direction (θ, φ) = (149.3°, 90°). UV coherent light at 389 nm with the maximum average power of 506 mW was obtained with the input average power of 805 mW using the external cavity. Considering the reflective loss of the output coupler of the 389 nm light, we could estimate the intrinsic conversion efficiency of 70 %. This value, to the best of our knowledge, is the highest conversion efficiency for SHG with a BiBO crystal, even at the relatively low fundamental power.
Parametric oscillation of terahertz wave pumped by picosecond Ti:sapphire laser with MgOdoped LiNbO3 installed in external enhancement cavity
YUMA TAKIDA, TATSUYA OHIRA, SHINGO MAEDA, HIROSHI KUMAGAI and SHIGEKI
NASHIMA
Proceedings of LPM2011, 12th International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication, 11096 (2011)
We demonstrated a mode-locked picosecond Ti:sapphire laser pumped terahertz (THz) parame- tric
oscillation (TPO) with a 5 mol% MgO-doped lithium niobate (MgO:LiNbO3) crystal installed in a
simple external enhancement ring cavity. In the external cavity consisted of only four mirrors, the idler(Stokes) wave which made an intersecting angle of about 1 degree with the pump wave was re- sonatedas well as the pump wave automatically and simultaneously in order to reduce the pumping threshold－ 92 －

of TPO and improve the conversion efficiency. As a result, the novel doubly resonant of both pumpand idler waves achieved approximately 50 MW/cm2 of the threshold intensity and about 2.0×10-7 ofconversion efficiency. Also, we obtained the tunability of idler wavelength from 781.5 to 786.0 nm,
corresponding to the frequency of THz wave of 0.7 to 3.0 THz. A broad output spectrum of THz wave
at approximately 0.9 THz of peak frequency was confirmed by constructing a Michel- son interferometer with a silicon beam splitter.
TiO2/sapphire beam splitter for high-order harmonic
YASUTAKA SANJO, MASAKI MURATA, YUJI TANAKA, HIROSHI KUMAGAI and MASAYACHIKAGE
Proceedings of LPM2011, 12th International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication, 11097 (2011)
TiO2/sapphire beam splitter (BS) for high-order harmonics was studied and fabricated through taking
advantage of the self-limiting nature of atomic layer epitaxy (ALE). Theoretical calculation indicatedthat the highest reflectivity of the TiO2/sapphire BS was 44.8 % at 21.24 nm, which corresponds to the37th-order harmonics of the 800-nm pump pulse and then the optimal thickness of the TiO2 layer was
67.4 nm. Incident angle was set at 70.5° for TiO2, which corresponds to the Brewster’s angle of the
800-nm pump pulse. Moreover, experimental results indicated that refractive indices (λ = 632.8nm) of
the TiO2 films were almost constant at a value of 2.59 and growth rate of TiO2 films was
0.077nm/cycle, which corresponds to 885 cycles in order to deposit the TiO2 layer with the optimal
film thickness as an anti-reflection layer.
Sum-frequency generation of continuous-wave tunable ultraviolet coherent light in BBOinstalled external cavity
KENTA MUKOYAMA, KAZUHIRO TOKUYAMA, HIROSHI KUMAGAI, NORIHIRO INOUE,NAOAKI FUKUDA and TOSHIO TAKIYA
Proceedings of Photonics West 2012: LASE2012, (CD-ROM), (2012) in press.
We developed a CW, high-power, tunable, and UV light source through sum-frequency generation(SFG) with a BBO nonlinear crystal. We built up a two-stage frequency-conversion system using two
external cavities for the enhancement of CW lights. In the first stage, we obtained 532-nm coherent
light by the second harmonic generation (SHG) of a 1064-nm light source. The 1064-nm light source
was a fiber laser which was able to output up to 10 W. We employed a bow-tie external cavity incorporating four mirrors, whose cavity length was controlled by a Hänsch-Couillaud frequency stabilization
method. The mirrors of the cavity were placed on a monolithic brass board to away from any environmental fluctuations. In the second stage, we successfully obtained 312-nm coherent light by SFG of
532-nm light from the first stage and 754-nm light from a single-frequency CW Ti:Sapphire laser.
Quasi phase matching through periodic step structure
TAKAFUMI OHFUCHI, NOBUYUKI HIRANO, HIROYA MATSUKAWA, KOICHIRO NAKAYAMA, HIROSHI KUMAGAI, NORIHIRO INOUE, NAOAKI FUKUDA and TOSHIO TAKIYA
Proceedings of Photonics West 2012: LASE2012, (CD-ROM), (2012) in press.
We report on a new way to generate the second harmonic (SH) by quasi phase matching (QPM). In ordinary, QPM is achieved by polarization inversion, but we suggest the periodic step structure toachieve QPM. The periodic step structure is made by chipping off the region which might be ordinary
inversion structure by Focused Ion Beam (FIB). We processed several optical crystals such as lithium－ 93 －

triborate (LBO) and tried to generate the SH. The process cycle was calculated theoretically and conversion efficiency was also simulated.
Novel beam splitter for high-order harmonics with WO3/TiO2 bilayer grown on c-plane sapphire
substrate by sequential surface chemical reactionsYASUTAKA SANJO, MASAKI MURATA, HIROSHI KUMAGAI, YASUO NABEKAWA, KATSUMI MIDORIKAWA and MASAYA CHIKAGE
Proceedings of Photonics West 2012: LASE2012, (CD-ROM), (2012) in press.
We proposed and fabricated a novel beam splitter (BS) for the high-order harmonics with a WO3/TiO2
bilayer grown on a c-plane sapphire substrate by sequential surface chemical reactions. In BS for thehigh-order harmonics, reflection of the fundamental waves should be minimized by entering the ppolarized fundamental waves at the Brewster's angle, which could improve the separation between thefundamental waves and the high-order harmonics. Then, reflection characteristics at the soft-x-ray
wavelengths were investigated at the same Brewster's angle using monochromatized synchrotron radiation at Ultraviolet Synchrotron Radiation Facility (UVSOR), Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki,
Japan.
Tunable terahertz parametric oscillator synchronously pumped by mode-locked picosecond
Ti:Sapphire laser with MgO-doped LiNbO3
YUZURU TADOKORO, YUMA TAKIDA, TATSUYA OHIRA, HIROSHI KUMAGAI and SHIGEKI NASHIMA
Proceedings of Photonics West 2012: LASE2012, (CD-ROM), (2012) in press.
We built a THz parametric oscillator (TPO) in doubly-resonant external enhancement cavity synchronously-pumped by a mode-locked picosecond Ti:sapphire laser with 780 nm of center wavelength. As
a result, we developed a widely tunable picosecond TPO just by selecting the resonant idler wavelength.
The resonant idler wave was continuously tunable from 781.5 to 786.0 nm by varying the noncollinear
phase-matching condition, corresponding to the THz frequency range from 0.7 to 3.0 THz according to
the law of energy conservation. In addition, the measured angle between the pump and idler waves inside the crystal showed the good agreement with the theoretical calculation.
Coherent electro-optical detection of THz-wave generated from synchronously pumped picosecond THz parametric oscillator
YUMA TAKIDA, TATSUYA OHIRA, YUZURU TADOKORO, HIROSHI KUMAGAI and SHIGEKI NASHIMA
Proceedings of Photonics West 2012: LASE2012, (CD-ROM), (2012) in press.
We have been focusing on developing low-laser-power-pumped THz-wave parametric sources andsuccessfully demonstrated a synchronously-pumped picosecond THz parametric oscillation in doublyresonant external cavity with a bulk 5 mol% MgO-doped lithium niobate crystal. For the purpose of therealization of THz spectroscopy and imaging applications using our THz-wave source, we constructed
the coherent THz-wave detection system via electro-optical effect with a <110> ZnTe crystal. As a result, we obtained the temporal waveform and the relatively broad spectrum of the THz-waves generated from our parametric oscillator. Also, we compared this electro-optical detection system with a
Fourier transform Michelson interferometer using a high-resistance silicon beam splitter, from theviewpoints of availability, ease of use, and signal-to-noise ratio.
Topology of magnetic field lines: Chaos and bifurcations emerging from two-action systems
T. MIYAGUCHI, M. HOSODA, K. IMAGAWA, and K. NAKAMURA－ 94 －

Phys. Rev. E, 83, #016205-1-5 (2011).
Nonlinear dynamics of magnetic field lines generated by simple electric current elements are investigated. In general,the magnetic field lines show behavior similar to that of the Hamiltonian systems; in fact, they can be generallytransformed into Hamiltonian systems with 1.5 degrees of freedom, obey the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM)
theorem, and generate chaotic trajectories. In the case where unperturbed systems are described by two action (slow)
and one angle (fast) variables, however, it is found that the periodic orbits of the unperturbed systems vanish forarbitrarily small symmetry-breaking perturbations (a breakdown of the KAM theorem) and drifting or periodic
trajectories appear. The mechanism of this phenomenon is investigated analytically by weak nonlinear stability
analysis. It is also shown numerically that scattering processes of the perturbed system exhibit typical features ofchaotic dynamical systems.
Ubiquitous chaotic magnetic field lines
M. HOSODA
Parity, 26, No. 06, pp. 34-39 (2011). In Japanese.
We found that a kind of chaos, i.e., chaotic magnetic-field lines (CMFLs) exist everywhere and are ubiquitous in themodern technological world. Although it is commonly believed that magnetic-field lines generated by a wire carrying
electric current always have simple closed-loop structures, this belief is wrong, because CMFLs can be generated bysimple three-dimensionally crossed-wires. We investigated the existence of CMFLs in realistic systems, and revealed
that this chaos exists widely in conventional electrical and electronic products in our daily life, for example, in mobile
phones, personal computers, power wires in house etc., although we are unaware of this fact.
Noncascading THz-wave parametric oscillator synchronously pumped by mode-locked picosecond Ti:sapphirelaser in doubly-resonant external cavity
Y. TAKIDA, S. MAEDA, T. OHHIRA, H. KUAGAI, AND S. NASHIMA
A noncascading terahertz (THz) wave parametric oscillator synchronously pumped by a mode-locked picosecond
Ti:sapphire laser whose average power was less than 1 W was demonstrated with a noncollinear phase-matching
MgO:LiNbO3 crystal in an external enhancement cavity doubly resonant for both pump (780 nm) and signal (781-784nm) waves. In the external cavity, in which the pump wave enhanced so as to reduce the pumping threshold of
parametric processes, the signal wave could also resonate and thus be enhanced simultaneously, resulting in a THz
wave output at approximately 0.9 THz as the idler wave. The novel dual enhancement of pump and signal waves
reduced the threshold pumping intensity to approximately 50 MW/cm2, which was much lower than that of aconventional externally pumped THz wave parametric oscillator with a crystal.

Ultraslow Convergence to Ergodicity in Transient Subdiffusion.
T. MIYAGUCHI and T. AKIMOTO,
Physical Review E 83, 062101 (2011, June).
We investigate continuous time random walks with truncated α-stable trapping times. We prove distributional ergodicity for a class of observables; namely, the time-averaged observables follow the probability density function called the Mittag-Leffler distribution. This distributional ergodic behavior persists for a long time, and thus the convergence to the ordinary ergodicity is considerably slower than in
the case in which the trapping-time distribution is given by common distributions. We also find acrossover from the distributional ergodic behavior to the ordinary ergodic behavior.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.062101
Intrinsic Randomness of Transport Coefficient in Subdiffusion with Static Disorder.
T. MIYAGUCHI and T. AKIMOTO,
Physical Review E 83 031926 (2011, March).
Fluctuations in the time-averaged mean-square displacement for random walks on hypercubic lattices
with static disorder are investigated. It is analytically shown that the diffusion coefficient becomes a－ 95 －

random variable as a manifestation of weak ergodicity breaking. For two- and higher- dimensional systems, the distribution function of the diffusion coefficient is found to be the Mittag-Leffler distribution,
which is the same
as for the continuous-time random walk, whereas for one-dimensional systems a different distribution(a modified Mittag-Leffler distribution) arises. We also present a comparison of these two distributionsin terms of an ergodicity-breaking parameter and show that the modified Mittag-Leffler distribution has
a larger deviation from
ergodicity. Some remarks on similarities between these results and observations in biological experiments are presented.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.031926
Topology of Magnetic Field Lines: Chaos and Bifurcations Emerging from Two-Action Systems.
T. MIYAGUCHI, M. HOSODA, K. IMAGAWA and K. NAKAMURA,
Physical Review E 83 016205 (2011, January).
Nonlinear dynamics of magnetic field lines generated by simple electric current elements are investigated. In general, the magnetic field lines show behavior similar to that of the Hamiltonian systems; infact, they can be generally transformed into Hamiltonian systems with 1.5 degrees of freedom, obey the
Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) theorem, and generate chaotic trajectories. In the case where unperturbed systems are described by two action (slow) and one angle (fast) variables, however, it isfound that the periodic
orbits of the unperturbed systems vanish for arbitrarily small symmetry-breaking perturbations (abreakdown of the KAM theorem) and drifting or periodic trajectories appear. The mechanism of thisphenomenon is investigated analytically by weak nonlinear stability analysis. It is also shown numerically that scattering processes of theperturbed system exhibit typical features of chaotic dynamical systems.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.016205－ 96 －

Information and Communication Engineering
Assessment of Gait in Patients with Neck Disease Using a Wearable Accelerometer.
Namiko AKAMATSU (OCU Hospital), Shinji IMAKUBO(OCU Hospital), Ryoichi KATO(OCU Hospital),
Takashi MIYOSHI, (OCU Hospital) Tamotsu NAKATSUCHI (Tsuji Orthpaedic Rehabilitation Hosptal ), Shigeyoshi NAKAJIMA, Hiroyoshi IWAKI(Grad. Shool of MED,OCU), Mitsuhiko IKEBUCHI(Grad. Shool of
MED,OCU), Hidetomi TERAI(Grad. Shool of MED,OCU), Hiroaki NAKAMURA(Grad. Shool of MED,OCU)
Japanese Journal of Clinical Biomechanics, Vol.31, pp.85-90, Oct. (2010).
Patients with neck disease sometimes show instability in walking due to abnormal gait patterns. Evaluation ofsuch abnormalities is often made subjectively. A more objective and quantitative method of gait evaluation forthese patients has been desired. We are now studying a wearable accelerometer which is compact in size, simple
to use and allows measurement under less limited settings. The present study paid attention to the walking
rhythm of patients with neck disease and attempted a new method for quantification of their gait patterns. The
method attempted was DCT analysis of the data yielded from a wearable accelerometer and subsequent calculation of peak occupancy with the band pass filter technique. The study involved 37 patients divided into twogroups according to preoperative JOA score : the severe group (n=27) and the mild group (n=10). Ten healthy
volunteers served as the healthy control group. The preoperative peak occupancy in the severe group was lower
than the peak occupancy in the healthy control group, while the preoperative peak occupancy in the mild group
was comparable to the peak occupancy in the healthy control group. In the severe group, peak occupancy rosesignificantly 1 and 3 months after surgery as compared to the preoperative level (p<0.01), becoming closer to thepeak occupancy in the control group. The mild group showed no significant change in peak occupancy at any
point of measurement after surgery as compared to the preoperative peak occupancy. These results indicate thatmeasurement with a wearable accelerometer enables evaluation of gait rhythm in patients with neck disease. The
wearable accelerometer is useful as a means of objective and quantitative evaluation of gait and its clinical utilization seems to be possible if the data collected with this device are combined with findings as to instability andother physical features.
Measurement of Absolute Size of Moving Object Using An Omnidirectional Sensor Camera and Laser
Range Sensor
Yuuki FUKUI, Shigeyoshi NAKAJIMA, and Takashi TORIUICIC(Innovative Computing, Information and Control) Express Letters , Volume 4, Issue 6(B), pp.2451-2456,(2010)
We propose a new method to measure an absolute size of an object in sight using an omnidirectional sensor
camera and a laser range sensor．With a camera (omnidirectional or else), an angle of a view of an object or its
planer dimension tells us its relative size, but not its absolute size．And a range sensor tells us the distance fromthe sensor, to an object， also but not its absolute size．The combination of an omnidirectional sensor camera
and laser range sensor tells us an absolute size of object and it is good at surveillance for security.
Security and Observation System for Solitary Person Using Accelerometer and Surveillance Camera
Satoshi HASEBE, Shigeyoshi NAKAJIMA, ThiThi Zin and Takashi TORIUIJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, VOL.11 No.3, March (2011)
Recently people living alone increase according to a change of the state of the society in the world. Notably elderly people living alone increase more and more. The increasing number of hunger deaths and solitary deaths
becomes a big social problem. Municipal governments and care service companies provide services monitoringan alone elderly person using a television-phone or a remote camera and deliver a service person in emergency
On the other hand, there were many cases that a turnover accident of an alone elderly person causes a solitary
death. Then in this study we propose a system to discriminate human postures and behaviors using camera images and accelerometer data to detect quickly a turnover or else. We can discriminate with a camera and an accelerometer a posture which is not discriminable with only a camera. With an acceleration data we can easily
discriminate a face up lie from a face down lie. We show the results of our experiments to discriminate postures－ 97 －

which are not discriminable only with images also not discriminable only with accelerations and show the efficiency of the proposed method.
Separation of Mixed Plural Sound Sources in Instrumental Music Using Butterworth Parallel BPF
Yusuke YAMAGUCHI, Shigeyoshi NAKAJIMA and Takashi TORIUIJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, VOL.11 No.4, pp.85-90, April (2011).
Many researchers investigated sound source separation as one of themes of music information processing. Sound
source separation is a work to separate each sound from a mix of several sound sources such as pianos and violins etc. It is one of very important techniques in automatic music transcription. And also it is assumed as one ofearly stages in music recognition of human auditory perception and it will take a major role in computer simulations of human perception process. We propose a new method of sound source separation using Butterworth parallel bandpass filter(BPF). We show that the proposed method is superior to a recent work. As a result of experiment the proposed method improves fidelity of output comparing an original single instrument sound in input.
Band Pass Filtering at Harmonics for Visualization of 3D trajectory of Human Periodical Walking Motion from Wearable Accelerometer Data
Shigeyoshi NAKAJIMA, Mitsuhiko IKEBUCHI (Grad. School of MED, OCU) and Takashi TORIUICIC(Innovative Computing, Information and Control) Express Letters Part B: Applications, Vol.2, No.3,
pp.553-558, June (2011).
A human walk includes many kinds of information about the walking person. For many years a lot of researchersinvestigated data of human walk. A motion capture system is one of good mechanisms to record 3D motion dataof parts of human bodies such as wrists, waists, head and so on and good to record human walking data. But a
motion capture systems is heavy, large, not portable and needs much space. A wearable accelerometer is one of
portable and light machines to record acceleration data of a human body. An acceleration is the second orderdifferential of a motion. So terms of the motion upper than linear is recovered by twice integrations of an acceleration. Recently a researcher tried it but the result is unsatisfactory. We successfully extracted a periodical trajectory of a 3D human walking motion from acceleration data using DFT, frequency detection and multiple band
pass filtering.
Accuracy of Distance of Registration in Orthopedic Navigation System with Visible Radiation 3D Tracking Using X-ray Fluoroscopy Images and CT Images
S. NAKAJIMA, M. IKEBUCHI (Grad. School of MED, OCU), and T. TORIUICIC(Innovative Computing, Information and Control) Express Letters, Vol. 5, No. 10, pp. 3853-3857, Oct.
(2011).
We developed new navigations for orthopedic operations with X-ray fluoroscopy and CT images and a method
to measure accuracies of those navigations. We used 3D tracker with visible radiation. Many navigation systems
for orthopedic operations were proposed. But there were no reports about accuracies of distances of those navigation systems. X-ray images using a non-flat fluoroscopy include a distortion. Our system is designed to reduce
distance error with correction of such a distortion. Also we developed a navigation using a flat fluoroscopy without a distortion. We show the accuracies of distances of the proposed methods in this paper.

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Applied Chemistry
Examinations on 2.5V Li[Li1/3Ti5/]O4/Li[Li0.1Al0.1Mn1.8]O4 Cells at –10, 25, and 55 oC for the
first-generation 12V lead-free batteries
Mitsuyasu IMAZAKI, Lina WANG, Toru KAWAI, Kingo ARIYOSHI and Tsutomu OHZUKUElectrochim. Acta, Vol. 56, pp. 4576-4580 (2011).
Electrochemical behaviors of 2.5V Li[Li1/3Ti5/3]O4 (LTO)/Li[Li0.1Al0.1Mn1.8]O4 (LAMO) cells for the
first-generation 12 V lead-free battery were examined at –10, 25, and 55 oC. The LTO/LAMO cells showed
the same rechargeable capacity in temperature ranging from –10 to 55 oC when the cells were examined at
0.5 mA cm-2 in cell potential ranging from 0 to 3.0 V. Capacity fading after 250 cycles was negligibly small
at –10 oC. Rechargeable capacities, however, faded 5% at 25 oC and 15% at 55 oC after 250 cycles. In the
discharged LTO/LAMO cell after 250 cycles at 55 oC, the state of charge (SOC) of the positive electrode was
16% while SOC of the negative electrode was 0%, indicated that the capacity fading was due to an
imbalance in SOC between the positive and negative electrodes. To understand the progress of an imbalancein SOC, the LTO/LAMO cell with a lithium auxiliary electrode was fabricated and examined at 55 oC for 400
cycles, and the possible origin of capacity fading was discussed.
Effect of Primary Particle Size upon Polarization and Cycling Stability of 5-V Lithium Insertion
Material of Li[Ni1/2Mn3/2]O4
Kingo ARIYOSHI, Yusuke MAEDA, Toru KAWAI and Tsutomu OHZUKU
J. Electrochem. Soc., Vol. 158, pp. A281-A284 (2011).
The 5-V lithium insertion materials of Li[Ni1/2Mn3/2]O4 having different primary particle sizes were preparedby the two-step solid-state reaction at several temperatures and characterized by Fourier transform infrared,
X-ray diffraction, and scanning electron microscopy. The primary particle size of Li[Ni1/2Mn3/2]O4 depends
on the heating temperature. High temperature synthesis gives highly crystallized Li[Ni1/2Mn3/2]O4 having
large particle sizes with smooth {111} facets of octahedra characteristic of spinel. The steady-statepolarization measurements were carried out by applying the sinusoidal voltage of peak amplitude of 1 V at
0.1 Hz to the cell consisting of Li[Ni1/2Mn3/2]O4 and Li[Li1/3Ti5/3]O4. The well-developed primary particles
prepared at 1000 oC were superior to the small primary particles prepared at temperatures lower than thatvalue in terms of polarization together with cycling stability.
Silicon-Based Negative Electrode for High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries: "SiO"-Carbon Composite
Masayuki YAMADA, Atsushi UEDA, Kazunobu MATSUMOTO and Tsutomu OHZUKU
J. Electrochem. Soc., Vol. 158, pp. A417-A421 (2011).
The silicon-based materials were prepared and examined in lithium cells for high-capacity lithium-ion
batteries. Among the materials examined, "SiO"-carbon composite showed remarkable improvements on
capacity fading. "SiO" is composed of nanosized silicon crystallites highly dispersed in an amorphous silicon
dioxide matrix. The "SiO"-carbon composite materials consisting of "SiO," graphite, and carbon fiber withcarbon coatings show the smallest irreversible capacity at the first cycle and the best capacity retention
among the other silicon-based materials examined, such as carbon-coated silicon, the one-to-one mixture of"SiO" and graphite, or one-to-one mixture of carbon-coated "SiO" and graphite. Capacity of more than 85%
compared to capacities observed for initial ten cycles is retained after 100 cycles when the laminate-type cellwith a positive electrode is examined in voltage ranging from 2.5 to 4.2 V, which meets the requirement on
the negative electrodes for practical high-capacity lithium-ion batteries.
High-Capacity Lithium Insertion Materials of Lithium Nickel Manganese Oxides for Advanced
Lithium-Ion Batteries: Toward Rechargeable Capacity More Than 300 mAh g-1
Tsutomu OHZUKU, Masatoshi NAGAYAMA, Kyoji TSUJI and Kingo ARIYOSHI
J. Mater. Chem., Vol. 21, pp. 10179-10188 (2011).
Lithium nickel manganese oxides Li[NixLi(1/3-2x/3)Mn(2/3-x/3)]O2 (x = 1/2, 2/7, and 1/5) are prepared andcharacterized by XRD and FT-IR, and the samples are examined in non-aqueous lithium cells at room
temperature and 55 oC. Among these materials LiNi1/2Mn1/2O2 (x = 1/2) shows the highest operating voltage
and the smallest polarization with a rechargeable capacity of ca. 230 mAh g-1 and Li[Li1/5Ni1/5Mn3/5]O2 (x =1/5) shows the lowest operating voltage and the largest polarization with a rechargeable capacity more than
300 mAh g-1. Extraordinarily large rechargeable capacity of Li[Li1/5Ni1/5Mn3/5]O2 together with an－ 99 －

anomalously long voltage plateau at 4.5 V only observed at first charging process is examined bywindow-opening charge and discharge, continuous charge and discharge combined with differential
chronopotentiometry at room temperature and at 55 oC, and possible mechanisms are discussed in terms oflithium insertion scheme.
Low-Temperature Magnetic Properties and High-Temperature Diffusive Behavior of LiNiO2
Investigated by Muon-Spin Spectroscopy
Jun SUGIYAMA, Yutaka IKEDO, Kazuhiko MUKAI, Hiroshi NOZAKI, Martin MANSSON, Oren OFER,
Masashi HARADA, Kazuya KAMAZAWA, Yasuhiro MIYAKE, Jess H. BREWER, Eduardo J. ANSALDO,
Kim H. CHOW, Isao WATANABE and Tsutomu OHZUKU
Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 82, pp. 224412-1-11 (2010).
In order to elucidate the effect of Ni ions in the Li layer on magnetism and Li diffusion of LiNiO2, we havemeasured muon-spin rotation and muon-spin relaxation (μ+SR) spectra for the polycrystalline Li1-xNi1+xO2
samples with x=0.02, 0.03, and 0.15. Weak transverse-field-μ+SR measurements demonstrated the existenceof a bulk ferromagnetic transition at Tm=48(6) K for the x=0.03 sample and 161(7) K for x=0.15 while thex=0.02 sample exhibited an antiferromagnetic transition at 18(4) K. Zero-magnetic-field-(ZF) μ+SR
measurements below Tm clarified the formation of static ferromagnetic (FM) order for the x=0.03 and 0.15
samples but only a highly disordered antiferromagnetic (AF) order for the x=0.02 sample. Therefore, thevariation in the low-T magnetism with x is most unlikely due to the change in the concentration of an AF
NiO-type domain or an FM Ni-rich cluster but likely due to a homogeneous change in the whole system. In
the paramagnetic state, ZF- and longitudinal-field-μ+SR spectra exhibited a dynamic nuclear field relaxation.
From the temperature dependence of the field fluctuation rate, a diffusion coefficient of Li+ ions (DLi) at 300
K was estimated about 0.39(3) × 10-11 cm2/s for the x=0.02 sample and 0.12(7) × 10-11 cm2/s for x=0.15. On
the other hand, the related compound, LiCrO2, did not show any diffusive behavior even at the highest
temperature measured (=475 K). Considering the hindrance of diffusion by Ni in the Li+ diffusion plane andthe fact that LiCrO2 is electrochemically inactive, the estimated DLi is thought to be very reasonable for the
positive electrode material of Li-ion batteries. Furthermore, at low temperatures where the Li+ ions are static,
the internal magnetic field was still found to be fluctuating, due to a dynamic local Jahn-Teller distortion of
the Ni3+ ions in a low-spin state with S=1/2(t2g6eg1).
Structural and Chromatic Changes of Host Polydiacetylene Crystals during Intercalation with Guest
Alkylamines
Tomoyo SHIMOGAKI and Akikazu MATSUMOTO
Macromolecules, Vol. 44(9), pp. 3323–3327 (2011).
We report a new type of intercalation system using the host polydiacetylene (PDA) crystals including acarboxylic acid in the side chain in combination with various guest alkylamines. The role of the phenylene
or methylene spacer between the conjugated main chain and the carboxylic acid on the intercalation
property was investigated using three kinds of PDAs, i.e., poly(1,3-hexadecadiynyl-4-benzoic acid),poly(2,4-heptadecadiynoic acid), and poly(10,12-pentacosadiynoic acid), as the host polymer crystals. The
color of the PDA crystals changed from blue to red by the addition of the amines. A change in the interlayer
distance of the host polymer crystals according to the size of the guest amines was determined and theinclined structure of the alkyl groups was discussed based on the powder X-ray diffraction data. We further
succeeded in the direct observation of the intercalation reaction process by monitoring the color change in alarge PDA crystal using optical microscopy.
Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformation of Di(isopropylammonium) (Z,Z)-Muconate into the(E,E)-Muconate during One-Way Photoisomerization in the Solid State
Natsuko NISHIZAWA, Junya NAKAMURA and Akikazu MATSUMOTO
Cryst. Growth Des., Vol. 11(8), pp. 3442–3447 (2011).
The solid-state EZ photoisomerization of di(isopropylammonium) (Z,Z)-muconate (ZZ-1a) into thecorresponding EE isomer (EE-1a) via a single-crystal-to-single-crystal reaction process was investigated.
The molecular motion based on a bicycle-pedal model was directly observed during the photoisomerizationin the crystals by an X-ray single crystal structure analysis. The photoirradiation of ZZ-1a provided EE-1a
in a quantitative yield via a one-way isomerization mechanism, being different from the solution products inthe photostationary state. The isomerization reactivity was discussed for the ammonium and ester derivativesof muconic acid.

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Molecules
Tomoyo SHIMOGAKI, Satoshi DEI, Kazuchika OHTA and Akikazu MATSUMOTO
J. Mater. Chem., Vol. 21(29), pp. 10730–10737 (2011).
We report a new class of liquid crystalline system exhibiting columnar mesophases, which are constructedby the hierarchical supramolecular self-organization of a rod-like diacetylene derivative as the primarybuilding block. A series of 1,3-alkadiynyl-4-benzoic acids (mDA) with different alkyl chain lengths (m =8–16) were synthesized and their mesophase properties were investigated by differential scanningcalorimetry, polarized optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction under temperature control. The mDA
exhibited three types of mesophases, i.e., a discotic lamellar phase, DL, and two columnar rectangular phases,
Colrd and Colro, with disordered and ordered stacking structures of the mesogens in a column, respectively,
depending on the length of the alkyl substituent and temperature. We have revealed that the columnar
mesophase structures are constructed with the rod-like mDA molecules as the starting building blocks byhierarchical self-organization. The hydrogen-bonded dimers of the carboxylic acid with a rigid framework
are assembled to provide a disc-like mesogen unit, which consists of a p-stacked core-part and peripheral
alkyl-chains. The discotic supramolecular mesogens further stack in ordered and disordered columnar
structures, producing the Colro and Colrd mesophases, or in the layer DL mesophase. This is a rare example
for the discotic mesophases using the rod-like diacetylenes with a non-branched molecular structure.
Highly-Controlled Regiospecific Free-Radical Copolymerization of 1,3-Diene Monomers with Sulfur
DioxideNaruki TANAKA, Eriko SATO and Akikazu MATSUMOTO
Org. Biomol. Chem., Vol. 9(10), pp. 3753–3758 (2011).
The free-radical copolymerization of alkyl-substituted 1,3-butadienes with sulfur dioxide using a redox
initiating system in toluene at −78ºC produced poly(diene sulfone)s consisting of a highly alternating and
1,4-regiospecific repeating structure, irrespective of the position and number of alkyl substituents, and thehighly regioselective propagation via a free radical reaction mechanism is well accounted for by DFT
calculations using model reactions.
Intercalation of Mono- and Difunctional Azobenzenes as the Photoresponsible Guest Molecules into
the Host Poly(muconic acid) Crystals
Tomoyo SHIMOGAKI, Shinya OSHITA and Akikazu MATSUMOTO
Macromol. Chem. Phys., Vol. 212(16), pp. 1767–1777 (2011).
An intercalation system consisting of layered PMA crystals as the host material and amino-functionalized
azobenzene derivatives as the guests is studied. The intercalation of difunctional guest molecules yields low
conversions compared to the intercalation results using the corresponding monofunctional guests.
Investigation of the cis-trans photoisomerization of the intercalated azo compounds reveals that theisomerization rate depends on the packing structure and the mobility of the azobenzene moieties in the host
crystals. The monofunctional azobenzene moieties with a longer alkyl spacer undergo fast and reversible
photoisomerization. XRD and UV results reveal the arrangement of the guest molecules present in theinterlayer space of the host PMA crystals.
Mechanical Aging Behavior of Styrene-Butadiene Rubbers Evaluated by Abrasion Test
Takeo NAKAZONO and Akikazu MATSUMOTO
J. Appl. Polym. Sci., Vol. 120(1), pp. 379–389 (2011).
The ring-shaped styrene-butadiene rubbers (SBR) test pieces ran on a rotating stainless-steel ring using an
abrasion tester in order to evaluate the changes in the mechanical properties, such as the tensile storage
modulus and tanδ values, the modulus at 300% elongation, and the strength and extension ratio at the
breaking point, after a mechanical aging process. The surface of the SBR test pieces and the formed rubber
debris after the running experiment was investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). A change
in the cross-linking density of the SBRs and the analysis of the isolated free polymers showed the occurrenceof bond scission of the copolymer chains. On the other hand, the mechanical properties of whole SBR
samples showed only a small change during the mechanical aging test.
Phase Separation and Thermal Aging Behavior of Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Vulcanizates Using
Liquid Polymers as Plasticizers Studied by Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Dynamic
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Takeo NAKAZONO, Anri OZAKI and Akikazu MATSUMOTO
J. Appl. Polym. Sci., Vol. 120(1), pp. 434–440 (2011).
Styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) vulcanizates were prepared using plasticizers including the four liquid typesof styrene-butadiene copolymers (LPSB), polybutadiene (LPB), polyisoprene (LPI), and the hydrogenatedpolyisoprene (LHPI) as well as the conventional process oil, and their phase-separated structures andmechanical properties were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and dynamic mechanicalspectroscopy (DMS). The phase separation was observed for the SBR vulcanizates when LPI and LHPI wereused as the plasticizers, while the LPSB and LPB gave homogeneous structures because of the good
miscibility with the SBR. The phase-separated structure of the SBR vulcanizate prepared using LPI changed
to the homogeneous during the thermal aging. We revealed the role of the liquid polymers as the plasticizers
in maintaining the physical and mechanical properties of the SBR vulcanizates during the thermal aging
process when the plasticizers were miscible to the SBR.
Control of Interface Structure and Properties Using Polymer Reactions
Eriko SATO
J. Adhes. Soc. Japan, Vol. 47(10), pp. 398–404 (2011) (in Japanese).
Polymer reactions change the properties of polymers such as solubility, glass transition temperature, and soon. The introduction of reactive polymers or groups to other polymers such as a branched copolymer, a
block copolymer, and a network polymer would enhance property changes by polymer reactions. The
investigation of bulk and interface property changes of the reactive polymers and their application tofunctional materials was introduced.
Change in Mechanical Properties of Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Vulcanizates during Thermal Aging
Takeo NAKAZONO and Akikazu MATSUMOTO
Mem. Fac. Eng., Osaka City Univ., Vol. 51, pp. 1–10 (2010).
The change in mechanical properties was investigated during the thermal aging process of styrene- butadiene
rubbers (SBR) with different styrene, 1,2-, and 1,4-butadiene contents and the different types of plasticizers.
An increase in the hardness and modulus values during the aging was confirmed to be due to the additionalcross-linking reaction between the polymer chains in the SBR vulcanizates and the slow evaporation of theused process oil. We demonstrated the validity of the use of a nonvolatile liquid polymer as the plasticizer toachieve the desired physical properties of the SBR vulcanizate during thermal aging.
Fabrication of Thin-Film Crystals of Muconic Esters by Vapor Deposition and Their Solid-State
Reaction
Akikazu MATSUMOTO
Chemical Industry (Kagaku Kogyo), Vol. 2(4), pp. 249–254 (2011) (in Japanese).
Dismantlable Adhesion Technology Using Degradable Polymers
Eriko SATO
Science and Industry (Kagaku To Kogyo), Vol. 85(3), pp. 114–121 (2011) (in Japanese).
Adhesion Using Thermally Degradable Polymers
Akikazu MATSUMOTO
In Handbook of Bonding and Debonding Technologies: Source, Environment and Energy, Edited by Hiroo
Miyairi, NGT, pp. 339–345 (2011) (in Japanese).
Report on 19th Organic Crystals Symposium
Akikazu MATSUMOTO
Newsletters of Organic Crystals Division, The Chemical Society of Japan, No. 28, p. 73 (2011) (inJapanese).
Reports from Local Divisions: Report from the 57th Polymer Research Symposium (Kobe)
Akikazu MATSUMOTO
Kobunshi, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan, Vol. 60, No. 10, p. 762 (2011) (in Japanese)
Dismantlable Adhesion Using the Main- and Side-Chain Degradation of Polymers
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The 60th Annual Meeting of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, Invited Lecture, May 25–27, 2011,
Osaka, Polymer Preprints, Vol. 60, pp. 61-63 (2011) (in Japanese).
Dismantlable Pressure-Sensitive Adhesion System Responsible for Photoirradiation and Postbaking
Akikazu MATSUMOTO
The 4th Asian Conference on Adhesion, Invited Lecture, Busan, September 25–27, 2011, Abstracts, pp.
27-30.
Control of Interface Structure and Properties Using Reactive Polymers
Eriko SATOThe 60th Annual Meeting of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, Invited Lecture, May 25–27, 2011,
Osaka, Polymer Preprints, Vol. 60, pp. 105-107 (2011) (in Japanese).
Synthesis and Application of Block Copolymers Containing Main-Chain Degradable Polyperoxides
Eriko SATO
The 5th Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry, Invited Lecture, September 25-28, 2011, Shirahama,
Abstract, IL-24.
Experimental Parameters for XRF Analysis of Soils
Yukiko IMANISHI, Atsushi BANDO, Shintaro KOMATANI, Shin-Ichiro WADA and Kouichi TSUJI
Advances in X-ray Analysis, Vol. 53, pp. 248-255 (2010).
Harmful elements (Pb, Se, Cd, etc.) in the soil samples were measured by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) method.
We investigated the influence of the thickness of soil layer, the grain size of soils, and the water content insoils on XRF intensity. Since high-energy XRF such as Cd Kα was detected in deep inside of soils, a
thickness of 10 mm was recommended. The soil sample with a small grain size gave a relatively strong XRF
intensity, especially for low-energy x-rays. Therefore, this grain-size effect should be taken into account forquantitative XRF analysis of the soil. It was also confirmed that water in soils decreased the XRF intensity,
especially for low-energy x-rays. Preferably, after the soil sample was dried, the soils should be analyzed by
XRF. Otherwise, XRF intensity has to be corrected depending on water content in the soil sample.
Development of Laboratory Confocal 3D-XRF Spectrometer and Nondestructive Depth Profiling
Kazuhiko NAKANO and Kouichi TSUJI
J. Anal. At. Spectrom.,Vol. 25, pp. 562-569 (2010).
The present paper reports on the laboratory 3D-XRF results applied to industrial and environmental samples.
The feasibility of confocal 3D-XRF analysis was characterized with regard to the depth resolution and depth
sensitivity. To investigate the depth sensitivity of the confocal 3D-XRF analysis, the multilayered plastic
reference samples were prepared by using a spin coating method. It was confirmed that these plastic layeredreference materials were useful for evaluating the analytical performance of confocal 3D-XRF. In addition,
many applications of 3D-XRF to industrial plastics, chemical microchip, and biological samples were
demonstrated under the confocal XRF configuration.
Development of a Transportable µ-XRF Spectrometer with Polycapillary Half Lens
Tasuku YONEHARA, Daisuke ORITA, Kazuhiko NAKANO, Shintaro KOMATANI, Sumito OHZAWA,
Atsushi BANDO, Hiroshi UCHIHARA and Kouichi TSUJI
X-Ray Spectrom., Vol. 39, pp. 78-82 (2010).
We developed a transportable micro-XRF (μ-XRF) spectrometer using a polycapillary X-ray focusing halflens, which was placed between the sample and the detector. The total weight of the developed spectrometer
was about 2 kg; its dimensions were 18 (W) × 26 (D) × 40 (H) cm. The spatial resolution of the spectrometerwith the half lens of a working (focal) distance of 30mm was 171 μm at Fe Kα, which was evaluated by awire scanning method. In this setup, it is easy to replace the polycapillary X-ray half lens with one having a
different analytical performance, because a precise position-adjustment of the X-ray lens is not required. The－ 103 －

spacial resolution with the half lens of a working distance of 16 mm was 106 μm at Fe Kα. Depending on
analyzing area on the sample and required spatial resolution, we can easily change the X-ray lens, as in aconventional optical microscope. The calibration curves of V, Cr, Mn, and Ni measured for standard steel
materials showed good linear relationships (correlation coefficients>0.993). Clear elemental mapping could
be obtained by scanning the sample (Cu mesh). An elemental analysis of a micro-region in an electronic
device was also performed by the transportable μ-XRF spectrometer. Sn and Pb were detected at the metallic
part (Sn–Pb solder) of the device. Br and Ba were observed at some resin parts of the electronic device.
X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging with Polycapillary X-ray Optics
Tasuku YONEHARA, Makoto YAMAGUCHI and Kouichi TSUJI
Spectrochim. Acta Part B, Vol. 65, pp. 441-444 (2010).
X-ray fluorescence spectrometry imaging is a powerful tool to provide information about the chemicalcomposition and elemental distribution of a specimen. X-ray fluorescence spectrometry images wereconventionally obtained by using a μ-X-ray fluorescence spectrometry spectrometer, which requires
scanning a sample. Faster X-ray fluorescence spectrometry imaging would be achieved by eliminating theprocess of sample scanning. Thus, we developed an X-ray fluorescence spectrometry imaging instrument
without sample scanning by using polycapillary X-ray optics, which had energy filter characteristics causedby the energy dependence of the total reflection phenomenon. In the present paper, we show that two
independent straight polycapillary X-ray optics could be used as an energy filter of X-rays for X-ray
fluorescence. Only low energy X-rays were detected when the angle between the two optical axes wasincreased slightly. Energy-selective X-ray fluorescence spectrometry images with projection mode weretaken by using an X-ray CCD camera equipped with two polycapillary optics. It was shown that Fe Kα (6.40
keV) and Cu Kα (8.04 keV) could be discriminated for Fe and Cu foils.
X-ray Spectrometry (Review article)
Kouichi TSUJI, Kazuhiko NAKANO, Yoshio TAKAHASHI, Kouichi HAYASHI and Chul-Un RO
Anal. Chem., Vol. 82, pp. 4950-4987 (2010).
In this review, we focus on the most significant and essential progress in x-ray spectrometry (XRS)
published during the period 2008-2009 covering developments and improvements in x-ray optics, x-ray
detectors, new quantification models in x-ray spectra and data evaluation, micro-x-ray fluorescence (μ-XRF)
including 3D- x-ray fluorescence (3D-XRF), imaging techniques such as tomography and holographymethods for 2D or 3D imaging of microstructures, electron probe microanalysis (EPMA), total reflection
x-ray fluorescence (TXRF), particle-induced x-ray emission (PIXE) analysis, and x-ray absorption
spectrometry (XAS). In addition, different applications in each subfield of XRS are described including
sample preparation, standard materials, energy-dispersive XRF (ED-XRF) and wavelength-dispersive XRF(WD-XRF). This review involves only a selected minority of published papers and impressive figures. We
attempt to look over the current trends in this analytical field with a critically selected citing of papers to
support the research activity of the community of x-ray scientists.
Sample Surface and Near-surface Analysis by Confocal 3D XRF Spectrometer
Kazuhiko NAKANO and Kouichi TSUJI
Hyoumen-Kagaku, Vol. 31, pp. 331-336 (2010) (in Japanese).
We have developed a confocal 3D-XRF spectrometer in combination with polycapillary X-ray lenses and alaboratory X-ray source. The depth resolutions of the 3D-XRF configuration estimated by scanning of Au
and Cr thin foils were approximately 50 μm for AuLa, and 100 μm for CrKa, respectively. The capacity ofthe depth-sensitive analysis of the confocal setup was investigated by scanning a thick plastic reference
sample concluding trace metals of Ti, Cr, Co and Pb. The depth sensitivity in deeper region was significantly
decreased than that in the surface region because of the absorption of X-ray irradiation and X-ray－ 104 －

fluorescence in the material. The calculated LLD values of Cr at each depth were 9.4 mg/kg at 300 μm, 23
mg/kg at 500 μm, 38 mg/kg at 700 μm, 77 g/kg at 900 μm, and110 mg/kg at 1100 μm, respectively. 3D
elemental analysis with the confocal XRF setup was demonstrated for an electrical Cu cable covered with
PVC. The 3D elemental images agreed well with the actual distributions of the sample. The confocal
3D-XRF has a great advantage for 3D elemental analysis as well as nondestructive depth analysis at ambientpressure.
Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Metals in Leaching Solutions from Plastic Samples
Masaya KAWAMATA, Yukiko IMANISHI, Kazuhiko NAKANO and Kouichi TSUJI
Advances in X-Ray Chemical Analysis, Japan, Vol. 41, pp. 185-193 (2010) (in Japanese).
Total reflection x-ray fluorescence (TXRF) is well known as a trace analysis method. There are many
applications of trace elemental analysis by TXRF. Sample preparation technique has been developed
depending on the type of the samples to be analyzed. In the case of solution samples, a normal sample
preparation is to drop a small amount of solution on a flat sample carrier, then a dried residue is measured by
TXRF. We have studied how to measure the metals in surface layers of plastics by TXRF. In some cases, thesurface of the plastic products will be dissolved by acid solutions such as acid rain, leading that harmful
elements are also dissolved into the solutions or soils. In this study, we have studied dissolving and leachingprocesses of plastic products for TXRF analysis. A droplet of solutions dissolved by organic solutions was
prepared in thin films by spin coating techniques. This sample was analyzed by TXRF with an internal
standard solution. In addition, a actual plastic toy (minicar) was dissolved in acid solution. The leachingsolution was sampled in the time range from 0.5 min. to 180 min., then they were measured by TXRF. The
time-dependent curves of TXRF intensities showed specific shapes depending on the elements. This result
indicates that TXRF is useful for monitoring the leaching process of metals from plastic toys.
Photochromism of a Diarylethene with Methoxymethyl Groups at Reactive Carbons: Thermal
Irreversible Reaction of the Closed-Ring Isomer
Daichi KITAGAWA and Seiya KOBATAKE
Chem. Lett., 40(1), pp. 93–95 (2011).
A photochromic diarylethene having methoxymethyl groups at the reactive carbons was synthesized, and thethermal stability of the closed-ring isomer was examined. The closed-ring isomer of the diarylethene caused
both the thermal cycloreversion and a thermally irreversible reaction at 120 °C. The structure of the thermal
product was identified by 1H NMR, MS, and X-ray crystallographic analysis.
Correlation between Steric Substituent Constants and Thermal Cycloreversion Reactivity of
Diarylethene Closed-Ring Isomers
Daichi KITAGAWA, Kyohei SASAKI and Seiya KOBATAKE
Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 84(2), pp. 141–147 (2011).
Two kinds of diarylperfluorocyclopentenes having 5-phenyl-2-propyl-3-thienyl and 2-isobutyl-5-phenyl3-thienyl group as the aryl groups were newly synthesized, and the thermal stability of their closed-ringisomers was investigated. The bulkiness of the substituent (R) at the reacting positions in photochromic
diarylethenes plays an important role in the thermal cycloreversion reactivity of the photogenerated
closed-ring isomers. The steric substituent constant was introduced to investigate the relationship between
the steric hindrance of the substituent R and the thermal cycloreversion reactivity. We employed three steric
substituent constants, Es(R), Esc(R), and v(R) values. We found that there is a good correlation between the
Esc(R) value and the thermal cycloreversion reactivity. Furthermore, the Es(CH2R) value has also a goodcorrelation with the thermal cycloreversion reactivity, while Es(R) has no correlation. These results indicatethat the steric hindrance has an effect on the thermal cycloreversion and there is no hyperconjugation of the
α-hydrogen on the 2-substituent on the thiophene ring. Moreover, the activation energy was also found to berelated to the steric substituent constant. These findings would give a new useful strategy to design novel
diarylethenes having desired thermal stability.
Photoswitching of an Alcohol-Sensitive Photochromic Diarylethene
Seiya KOBATAKE, Shotaro IMAO, Yosuke YAMASHIRO and Yuko TERAKAWA－ 105 －

Tetrahedron Lett., 52(16), pp. 1905–1908 (2011).
The closed-ring isomer of diarylethene 1a, 1-(2-methyl-5-(4-N,N-diethylaminophenyl)thien-3-yl)2-(2-methyl-5-phenylthien-3-yl)perfluorocyclopentene was found to cause the substitution reaction withprimary alcohols at room temperature. The open-ring isomer 1a was stable in the alcohols. The productobtained in methanol was isolated by HPLC, and the structure was identified by 1H NMR, mass spectrometry,and X-ray crystallographic analysis. It was revealed that two fluorine atoms were replaced with methoxy
groups. The substitution reaction was also caused with ethylene glycol to form the fivemembered ring. Boththe products also showed photochromism, and had absorption maxima and photocycloreversion quantum
yields different from those of 1a.
Cyclization Reaction Dynamics of a Photochromic Diarylethene Derivative as Revealed by
Femtosecond to Microsecond Time-Resolved Spectroscopy
Yukihide ISHIBASHI, Mika FUJIWARA, Toshiyuki UMESATO, Hisayuki SAITO, Seiya KOBATAKE,
Masahiro IRIE and Hiroshi MIYASAKA
J. Phys. Chem. C, 115(10), pp. 4265–4272 (2011).
Cyclization reaction of a photochromic diarylethene derivative, 1,2-bis(2-methyl-3-benzothienyl)perfluorocyclopentene (BT), in nonpolar alkane solutions with different viscosity was investigated by means offemtosecond-microsecond transient absorption spectroscopy and a time-correlated single-photon counting
method. Transient absorption measurements revealed that a ring closure rapidly occurred with a time
constant of 450 fs. In addition to this rapid cyclization, transient species with longer lifetimes (ca. 150 ps andca. 1 μs) were observed. The faster time constant of 150 ps was independent of the solvent viscosity and was
assigned to the fluorescence lifetime of a conformer with molecular geometry unfavorable for the ringclosure. The longer component was strongly quenched in the solution purged with O2 and was attributed tothe triplet state of the open-ring form. Steady-state measurement and nanosecond transient absorption
spectroscopy revealed that the cyclization process did not occur via the triplet state of BT. These results
indicate that only the rapid reaction taking place in subpicosecond time region was responsible for thecyclization process. The key factors regulating the cyclization reaction of diarylethene derivatives werediscussed on the basis of the solvent viscosity dependence, by comparing the present results with thoseobtained for other diarylethene derivatives.
Enhanced One-Photon Cycloreversion Reaction of Diarylethenes near Individual Gold Nanoparticles
Hiroyasu NISHI, Tsuyoshi ASAHI and Seiya KOBATAKE
J. Phys. Chem. C, 115(11), pp. 4564–4570 (2011).
The photocycloreversion reaction of a diarylethene upon irradiation with visible light was found to beccelerated in proximity to a gold nanoparticle covered with diarylethene polymers (Au-poly(DE)) dispersed
in a solution. Enhancement of the reaction rate by the gold nanoparticle was quantitatively evaluated bykinetic analysis on the basis of absorption spectroscopy. Multicomponent bleaching of the closed-ring formof poly(DE) was observed around the gold nanoparticle upon irradiation with visible light; the irradiation
time dependence of the absorbance could be explained using a reaction model with two decay components
rather than one. The results indicate that the cycloreversion reaction was enhanced only in the vicinity of thegold nanoparticle. The faster reaction inside the polymer shell was confirmed by numerical spectral
simulation of Au-poly(DE) using a double shell model based on Mie theory. The enhancement factor
determined as the ratio of the enhanced reaction rate to the nonenhanced rate was estimated to be 2-5, andthe enhanced region was evaluated to be 9-12 nm from the surface of the gold nanoparticle. The
enhancement factor tended to increase with irradiation at longer incident wavelength, which did not correlatewith the spectral shape of the local surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) band of the gold nanoparticle.
High-Convertible Photochromism of a Diarylethene Single Crystal Accompanying the Crystal Shape
Deformation
Seiya KOBATAKE, Hiroki HASEGAWA and Kentaro MIYAMURA
Crystal Growth & Design, 11(4), pp. 1223–1229 (2011).
We designed and fabricated thin single-microcrystals of a photochromic diarylethene,
1,2-bis(2-methoxy-5-phenyl- 3-thienyl)perfluorocyclopentene, which exhibits photochromic reactions up tohigh conversion in high efficiency because the diarylethene molecule has extremely small
photocycloreversion quantum yield. The thin microcrystals prepared on glass plates by sublimation
underwent photochromism upon alternating irradiation with ultraviolet and visible light. The
photocyclization reaction proceeded with more than 90% conversion in the crystalline phase, keeping the－ 106 －

crystallinity. In addition to the high-convertible photochromic reaction in the crystalline phase, the crystals
were found to exhibit the shape changes, such as contraction, bending, and separation, depending on the
thickness of the crystal and the irradiation method with ultraviolet light. The intermolecular interaction
between the photogenerated closed-ring isomers plays a significant role in deforming the crystal.
Enhanced Photocycloreversion Reaction of Diarylethene Polymers Attached to Gold Nanoparticles in
the Solid State
Hiroyasu NISHI, Tsuyoshi ASAHI and Seiya KOBATAKE
J. Photochem. Photobio. A: Chem., 221(2-3), pp. 256–260 (2011).
The photochromic reactivity of diarylethene polymers attached to gold nanoparticle in the solid state wasinvestigated. The photochromic diarylethene polymers around the gold nanoparticle exhibited reversible
photochromism upon alternating irradiation with ultraviolet (UV) and visible light even in the solid state.
The local surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) band of the gold nanoparticle in the solid state was red-shiftedin comparison with that dispersed in a solution because of the closer interparticle distance. Alternating
irradiation with UV and visible light led to the photoreversible changes in the LSPR band because therefractive index of the diarylethene polymer shell changes along with the photochromic reaction of thediarylethene polymers. However, the behavior of the spectral changes significantly depended on theirradiation wavelength. It reveals that the photocycloreversion reaction heterogeneously took place in theshell of the diarylethene polymers upon irradiation at longer wavelength to be enhanced in proximity to thegold nanoparticles. The promotion of the photoreaction is due to the plasmonic enhancement effect both in
the vicinity and in the gap of the gold nanoparticles.
Control of Surface Wettability and Photomicropatterning with a Polymorphic Diarylethene Crystal
upon Photoirradiation
Daichi KITAGAWA, Itsuka YAMASHITA and Seiya KOBATAKE
Chem. Eur. J., 17(35), pp. 9825–9831 (2011).
A photochromic diarylethene crystal of 1,2-bis(2-methyl-6-nitro-1-benzothiophen-3-yl)perfluorocyclopentene (1a) was found to undergo a thermodynamic phase transition at 180 °C to form a needle-like crystal,
designated as 1a-γ. The phase transition involves melting of the initial α-crystal and growth of the γ-crystal.
The phase transition temperature decreased with the presence of the closed-ring isomer (1b) in the crystal
because of the decrease in the melting temperature. Upon irradiation with ultraviolet (UV) light, compound
1a in the α-crystal was converted into 1b to an extent of 20%. Consequently, the α-crystal containing 20% of
1b underwent the phase transition accompanied by melting of the crystal and growth of the γ-crystal even at
170 °C. Photomicropatterning by the phase transition upon irradiation with UV light using a photomask,followed by heating at 170 °C, was successfully accomplished with a resolution in the microcrystalline
pattern of about 20 μm. The contact angle with water on the γ-microcrystalline phase on a glass substrate
was larger than that on the α-microcrystalline phase by 20°. This can be ascribed to a difference in theroughness of the surface. Furthermore, the γ-microcrystal was also found to be formed upon heating an
amorphous film of 1a in poly(methyl methacrylate) for 2 min at 130 °C. The crystallized area exhibited ahigher water contact angle than the amorphous area. Upon irradiation of the amorphous film with UV light,
such crystallization did not take place because of the impurity effect of 1b in 1a. Photomicropatterning by
the crystallization in the polymer showed a pattern with a higher resolution of about 4 μm, which was muchbetter than that of the neat crystal. This photopatterning process represents a useful tool for controlling thesurface wettability in relevant applications.
Microcrystallization Patterning Using Photoisomerization of Photochromic Diarylethenes
Seiya KOBATAKE and Daichi KITAGAWA
Chemical Industry (Kagaku Kogyo), 62(4), pp. 313–317 (2011) (in Japanese).
Molecular Design for Photoresponsive Crystal Shape Changes of Diarylethenes
Seiya KOBATAKEThe 6th International Symposium on Organic Photochromism (ISOP2010), Invited Lecture, Yokohama,
October 17–21, 2010; Preprints pp. 31–32.
Enhanced Photocycloreversion Reaction of Diarylethene Chromophore Induced by Gold Nanoparticle
Hiroyasu NISHI, Tsuyoshi ASAHI and Seiya KOBATAKEThe 6th International Symposium on Organic Photochromism (ISOP2010), Yokohama, October 17–21, 2010;－ 107 －

Preprints p. 120.
Control of Surface Wettability and Photo-micropatterning with a Polymorphic Diarylethene upon
Photoirradiation
Daichi KITAGAWA and Seiya KOBATAKEThe 6th International Symposium on Organic Photochromism (ISOP2010), Yokohama, October 17–21, 2010;
Preprints p. 139.
Photochromic Reaction of Diarylethene Polymers Covered on Gold Nanoparticle
Seiya KOBATAKE, Hiroyasu NISHI and Tsuyoshi ASAHI
Third Japanese-French Joint Seminar on Organic Photochromism –Innovations in Photochromism–,
Yokohama, October 21–22, 2010; Preprints p. 61.
Control of Solid-State Physical Property of Mesoscopic Photofunctional Organic Molecular Crystals
Seiya KOBATAKE
The 19th Symposium on Organic Crystals, Invited Lecture, Osaka, November 11–12, 2010 (in Japanese);
Preprints.
Photoresponsive Property Changes of Photochromic Diarylethene Crystals
Seiya KOBATAKE
6th Asian Photochemistry Conference 2010, Award Invited Lecture, Wellington, New Zealand, November
14–18, 2010; Preprints p. 60.
Molecule and Crystal Moving by Photoirradiation
Seiya KOBATAKEThe 2nd Symposium on SPring-8 Upgrade Plan 2019, Invited Lecture, Tokyo, December 4, 2010 (inJapanese); Preprints.
Gold Nanoparticle Enhanced Photochromic Reaction of Photochromic Diarylethene Polymers
Seiya KOBATAKE, Hiroyasu NISHI and Tsuyoshi ASAHI
The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem2010), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA,
December 15–20, 2010; Preprints.
Synthesis, Optical Property, and Photoreaction of Gold Nanoparticle Covered with Photochromic
Diarylethene Polymers
Hiroyasu NISHI, Tsuyoshi ASAHI and Seiya KOBATAKEThe International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem2010), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA,
December 15–20, 2010; Preprints.
Photoinduced Micropatterning by Polymorphic Crystallization of a Photochromic Diarylethene in a
Polymer Film
Daichi KITAGAWA and Seiya KOBATAKEThe International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem2010), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA,
December 15–20, 2010; Preprints.
Development of Photofunctional Photochromic Crystal with Mesoscopic Material
Seiya KOBATAKE
The 10th Chemistry and Material Research Seminar, Kyushu University, Invited Lecture, Fukuoka, January
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Bioengineering
Cytotoxic Enhancement of a Bispecific Diabody by Format Conversion to Tandem Single-Chain
Variable Fragment (taFv): The Case of the hEx3 Diabody
Ryutaro ASANO, Keiko IKOMA, Ippei SHIMOMURA, Shintaro TAKI, Takeshi NAKANISHI, Mitsuo
UMETSU and Izumi KUMAGAI
J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 286, pp. 1812–1818 (2011).
Diabodies (Dbs) and tandem single-chain variable fragments (taFv) are the most widely used recombinant
formats for constructing small bispecific antibodies. However, only a few studies have compared theseformats, and none have discussed their binding kinetics and cross-linking ability. We previously reported theusefulness for cancer immunotherapy of a humanized bispecific Db (hEx3-Db) and its single-chain format(hEx3-scDb) that target epidermal growth factor receptor and CD3. Here, we converted hEx3-Db into a taFv
format to investigate how format affects the function of a small bispecific antibody; our investigation
included a cytotoxicity assay, surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy, thermodynamic analysis, and flow
cytometry. The prepared taFv (hEx3-taFv) showed an enhanced cytotoxicity, which may be attributable to a
structural superiority to the diabody format in cross-linking target cells but not to differences in the binding
affinities of the formats. Comparable cross-linking ability for soluble antigens was observed among hEx3-Db,
hEx3-scDb, and hEx3-taFv with surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. Furthermore, drastic increases incytotoxicity were found in the dimeric form of hEx3-taFv, especially when the two hEx3-taFv werecovalently linked. Our results show that converting the format of small bispecific antibodies can improvetheir function. In particular, for small bispecific antibodies that target tumor and immune cells, a functional
orientation that avoids steric hindrance in cross-linking two target cells may be important in enhancing the
growth inhibition effect.
Mechanism of HSV Infection Through Soluble Adapter-Mediated Virus Bridging to the EGF Receptor
Kenji NAKANO, Masatoshi KOBAYASHI, Kei-ichiro NAKAMURA, Takeshi NAKANISHI, Ryutaro
ASANO, Izumi KUMAGAI, Hideaki TAHARA, Michihiko KUWANO, Justus B. COHEN and Joseph C.
GLORIOSO
Virology, Vol. 413, pp. 12–18 (2011).
Herpes simplex virus entry into cells requires the binding of envelope glycoprotein D (gD) to an entry
receptor. Depending on the cell, entry occurs by different mechanisms, including fusion at the cell surface or
endocytosis. Here we examined the entry mechanism through a non-HSV receptor mediated by a solublebi-specific adapter protein composed of recognition elements for gD and the EGF receptor (EGFR). Virus
entered into endosomes using either EGF or an EGFR-specific single chain antibody (scFv) for receptor
recognition. Infection was less efficient with the EGF adapter which could be attributed to its weaker binding
to a viral gD. Infection mediated by the scFv adapter was pH sensitive, indicating that gD-EGFR bridging
alone was insufficient for capsid release from endosomes. We also show that the scFv adapter enhanced
infection of EGFR-expressing tumor tissue in vivo. Our results indicate that adapters may retarget HSV
infection without drastically changing the entry mechanism.
In Vitro and In Vivo Antitumor Effects of Recombinant Bispecific Antibodies Based on HumanizedAnti-EGFR Antibody
Yasuhiro WATANABE, Ryutaro ASANO, Kyoko ARAI, Ippei SHIMOMURA, Hiromi OGATA, Hiroko
KAWAGUCHI, Hiroki HAYASHI, Hideo OHTSUKA, Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Yu KATAYOSE, Shinichi
EGAWA, Takeshi NAKANISHI, Mitsuo UMETSU, Hiroshi YASUI, Tadao ISHIDA, Kohzoh IMAI, Toshio
KUDO, Michiaki UNNO and Izumi KUMAGAI
Oncol Rep., Vol. 26, pp. 949–955 (2011).
We performed in vitro and in vivo experiments of the anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) x－ 109 －

anti-CD3 bispecific diabody (hEx3-Db) with the IgG-like bispecific antibodies (BsAbs) (hEx3-scFv-Fc andhEx3-scDb-Fc) and the anti-EGFR therapeutic antibody cetuximab to assess the effect of BsAbs on cancer
growth inhibition. In vitro, efficacy of the BsAbs and cetuximab were compared by growth inhibition assaysof human cell lines of bile duct (TFK-1, HuCC-T1, OCUCh-LM1), epidermoid (A431), gastric (Kato-III),
colon (DLD-1, SW480), and breast (SK-BR-3, MCF-7) cancer. In vivo, in three mouse models, we evaluatedthe anti-tumor activity of hEx3-Db and cetuximab, assessed the effect of hEx3-Db alone, and compared theantitumor activity of hEx3-Db with the IgG-like BsAbs. In vitro, hEx3-scFv-Fc showed nearly 100% killing
activity for all cell lines. Both in vitro and in vivo, hEx3-Db needed CD3-positive phenotypes to induce a
growth inhibitory effect. In contrast, IgG-like BsAbs showed monotherapeutic effects in vivo by inducing
antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) similar to cetuximab. However, enhancement was notobserved when lymphokine-activated killer cells with the T-cell pheno-type were co-injected. Results suggestthat IgG-like BsAbs could not efficiently direct T lymphocytes toward tumor cells to induce ADCC due tosteric hindrance on binding to CD3- and Fc-receptor-positive phenotypes. Although hEx3-scFv-Fc showed
high cytotoxicity in vitro, its high molecular weight limits its usefulness. With an in vivo effect comparable tohEx3-scFv-Fc and its realistic molecular weight, hEx3-scDb-Fc shows promise as a novel recombinant
therapeutic antibody and may be modified to enhance its potency by prevention of steric hindrance.
Biomimetic Engineering of Modular Bispecific Antibodies for Biomolecule Immobilization
Hideki WATANABE, Kengo KANAZAKI, Takeshi NAKANISHI, Hidenori SHIOTSUKA, Satoru
HATAKEYAMA, Masaru KAIEDA, Takeshi IMAMURA, Mitsuo UMETSU and Izumi KUMAGAI
Langmuir, Vol. 27, pp. 9656–9661 (2011).
Modular bispecific antibodies (BsAb’s) that interact directly with a gold surface were engineered forimmobilization on biosensing devices. The BsAb’s consist of the variable fragments of antigold andantilysozyme antibodies connected via one of three linkers derived from naturally occurring proteins. The
BsAb’s were bound tightly to both the gold surface and to lysozyme, thus functioning as interface molecules
between lysozyme and the gold surface without a substantial loss of antigen-binding activity. The
antigen-binding capacity (the ratio of the amount of immobilized lysozyme to the amount of immobilized
BsAb) on the gold surface reached 82%. An analysis of the correlation between binding capacity and linker
characteristics indicated that the presence of a long, rigid linker sequence derived from a cellulase resulted ina higher antigen-binding capacity than did the presence of a long but relatively flexible glycine-rich linker.
This result suggests a strategy for designing linkers suitable for BsAb
Development of a Novel Fines-Dissolution Mechanism for Production of Large Crystals in Batch
Crystallization
K. IGARASHI, M. ARIMOTO, H NODA and H. OOSHIMA
Proc. of The 9th International Conference on Separation Science and Technology, 2011, Korea
In the industrial crystallization, there are many characteristics of product crystals that must be well controlled.
Crystal size distribution (CSD) is one of the most important characteristics of crystals. In many cases, large
crystals with a narrow CSD are preferred to make filtration easy. Various methods have been attempted toobtain uniform large crystals. As an effective solution, we have proposed the WWDJ-batch crystallizer,
which can dissolve undesirable fine crystals on the heated inner wall of the head space of crystallizer. In thepresent paper, we propose a novel batch crystallizer suitable for production of large and uniform crystals.
The crystallizer is composed of a jacketed-glass vessel, a newly developed fines-dissolver equipped with an
induction-heating (IH) system, and an agitation propeller. The fines-dissolver is a connected body of astainless-steel cylinder and a circular truncated cone at lower side. It was set on a coaxial rotation rod with anagitation propeller. The rotation speed of the dissolver and the agitation propeller can be individuallycontrolled. The lower end of the dissolver is placed in crystallization solution at a given depth from solution
level. To heat the fines-dissolver, the IH coil sealed from crystallization slurry is put around the－ 110 －

fines-dissolver. The rotating fines-dissolver was directly heated by a high-frequency alternating current flows
through the IH coil. The slurry is lifted up along the inner wall of the heated fines-dissolver by thecentrifugal force, and is returned to the crystallization phase from the top of the dissolver. Fine crystals in thelifted slurry can be expected to partially dissolve. The surviving large crystals are also expected to growfurther, at the expense of fine crystals, after returning to the crystallization phase. Using the novel crystallizer,
cooling crystallization of glycine was performed by controlling the temperature from 50 to 25oC at the initialconcentration of glycine of 268 mg/ml. The performance of the crystallizer was compared with that of aconventional batch cooling crystallization without the fines-dissolver. The average particle size obtained in aconventional crystallization was 622 µm. On the other hand, when the novel crystallizer was used, theaverage size of crystals was 1544 µm.
Effect of Complete Dissolution of Once Appeared Crystals on Induction Period and Crystal Size in
Cooling Crystallization of p-Acetanisidide
K. IGARASHI, A. KITANO, I. KOZUTSUMI and H. OOSHIMA
Proc. of The 9th International Conference on Separation Science and Technology, 2011, Korea
In crystallization of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), it may be preferred to produce fine crystals withlarge specific surface area. It is because fine crystals are desirable to improve bioavailability of low
solubility-pharmaceutical compounds. Crystal size and its distribution are depending on the timing of
nucleation. If nucleation would occur at the same time under a high super-saturation, lots of nuclei must be
generated and result in the formation of many fine crystals. Usually in industrial crystallization, the timing of
nucleation is controlled by adding seed crystals. However, if only it were possible in crystallization of API,use of seed crystals should be the second choice to prevent contamination by the third matter. In the present
study, in order to produce fine crystals with a narrow size distribution in cooling crystallization without seed
crystals, we investigated the effects of the introduction of a process of complete dissolution of crystals once
appeared in the first crystallization into the normal cooling crystallization. We expected that the solute
molecules and those aggregates once experienced crystals must keep the same conformation of moleculesand same structure of molecular aggregates as those of crystal for a while even after complete dissolution of
crystals. Such solution, as it were, “a metastable solution”, must be ready to nucleate. In the coolingcrystallization from the metastable solution, nucleation may occur easily and furthermore at the same time. A
novel experimental apparatus was used to perform cycling of a set of cooling crystallization and complete
dissolution of once obtained crystals in the first crystallization. This apparatus was able to cool and heat thesolution at a constant rate, and detect scattering light indicating appearance of crystals. p-Acetanisidide(PAC) was used as crystallization substances. Four mL of 95 mg/mL PAC/methanol solution was
pre-incubated for 12 h in crystallization cell to set the solution at a constant condition. Then the solution wascooled down to a little higher temperature 17°C (C/CS=0.95) than the saturation temperature 15.5°C andincubated for 20 min at the temperature. Then, the solution was cooled down to 5°C (C/CS=1.5) at a constantcooling rate of 2.4°C/min. Appearance of crystals was monitored by a photo sensor and the time when
crystals first appeared was recorded. After the appearance, the slurry was further incubated for 30 min andthen heated to 17°C at a constant heating rate of 2.4°C /min and incubated at 17°C for 20 min. After that, thesecond cooling was carried out. The cooling from 17°C was repeated 5 times in one batch crystallization.
The same batch experiment was carried out 4 times. As results, the long induction period from 8 to 30 min
was observed at the first cooling, and crystal size distribution (CSD) was wide from 5 to 270 mm. However,at the second cooling of the solution once experienced crystals, the induction time was shorten in the range
from 6.5 to 13 min. Furthermore, a narrow CSD was obtained from 5 to 50 mm. We confirmed the effect of“metastable” solution on induction period in crystallization and CSD.
Crystallization of Pharmaceutical Compounds Depending on the Structure of Solution
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Proc. of International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT), 2011, Singapore
In the manufacturing of crystal products, reliable and reproducible crystallization operation is required as aguarantee that the product crystals always possess the desired characteristics. It is also serious inpharmaceutical industry. There are many compounds that have polymorphs more than two in same solvent. It
is strongly required to produce a crystal polymorph selected as a drug with good reproducibility. Seedcrystals are not always useful for crystallizing a target polymorph. We always make a lot of efforts to find agood operation condition. In order to understand a causal relationship between crystallization operation(cause) and crystals as a product (result), we need to understand how the solute molecules play in solution
before nucleation and what is occurring in supersaturated solution. In the present paper, it will be discussed
taking several pharmaceutical compounds and other organic compounds for example that the conformationof solute molecules in supersaturated solution and its change depending on crystallization conditions areimportant to understand a causal relationship between crystallization operation (cause) and crystals as a
product (result).
Crystallization
H. OOSHIMAIn Chemical Engineering Handbook, 7th Edition, Chapter 11, pp. 579-610 (2011).
Membrane Disk and Sphere: Controllable Mesoscopic Structures for the Capture and Release of aTargeted Object
Tsutomu HAMADA, Ryoko SUGIMOTO, Mun’delanji C. VESTERGAARD, Takeshi NAGASAKI, andMasahiro TAKAGI
J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 132, pp. 10528–10532 (2010).
Design of molecules for self-assembled mesoscopic structures with specific functions is an important andinteresting challenge that spans across disciplines such as nanosciences. A closed lipid membrane is a good
example of a self-assembled mesostructure. In this study, we developed controllable membrane formation bymaking a subtle change at the molecular level. We utilized a synthetic photosensitive amphiphile (KAON12)
to achieve the photobased molecular manipulation of the opening and closing of membranes throughreversible transitions between sphere and disk structures. We found that the mechanism is based on thephotoswitching of the membrane line tension, as deduced from the fluctuation of the membrane edge,
through the action of KAON12. Furthermore, we demonstrated the controllable capture and release ofcolloidal particles into and from a membrane sphere. The observation of Brownian motion of the particle
confirmed colloidal encapsulation. This successful photomanipulation of mesoscopic membrane structures ina noncontact and reversible manner should lead to a better understanding of the mechanism of membraneself-organization and may see wider application, such as in microreactors and drug-delivery systems.
Photochemical control of membrane raft organization
Tsutomu HAMADA, Ryoko SUGIMOTO, Takeshi NAGASAKI and Masahiro TAKAGISoft Mat., Vol. 7, pp. 220-224 (2011).
Controllable membrane phase separation through the action of a synthetic photoresponsive amphiphile isreported. We studied multi-component giant vesicles formed from a ternary lipid mixture of saturated andunsaturated phospholipid and cholesterol together with the photoresponsive amphiphile. A change in theconformation of the photoresponsive amphiphile can switch membrane lateral segregation in a reversible
manner. Cis-isomerization induces lateral phase separation in one-phase membranes or produces additional
lateral domains in two-phase membranes. Membranes that are close to miscibility boundary show highphoto-responsiveness. This is the first report on the reversible control of membrane lateral segregation
triggered by a conformational change in a membrane-constituting molecule. These findings may lead to new
methods for controlling membrane self-organization such as raft engineering.

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Ultrasound-mediated Transfection with Liposomal Bubbles Delivers Plasmid DNA Directly into
NucleusTakeshi KAWAZU, Kazumi HAKAMADA, Yusuke ODA, Jun MIYAKE, Kazuo MARUYAMA and
Takeshi NAGASAKI
Chem. Lett., Vol. 40, pp.298-299 (2011).
Transfection using ultrasound exposure in the presence of nanobubbles can overcome the important barrier
for non-viral gene delivery, that is entering into nucleus without cell division. The monitoring of a
relationship between fluorescent protein expressing and cell division reveals that ultrasound-mediatedtransfection with liposomal bubbles is independent on the disappearance of nuclear membrane at mitosis.
Lateral phase separation in tense membranes
Tsutomu HAMADA, Yuko KISHIMOTO, Takeshi NAGASAKI and Masahiro TAKAGISoft Mat., Vol. 7, pp. 9061-9068 (2011)
The organization of lateral domains, called lipid rafts, in plasma membranes is essential for physiological
functions, such as signaling and trafficking. In this study, we performed a systematic analysis of lateral phaseseparation under membrane tension. We applied osmotic pressure directed toward the outside of vesicles to
induce membrane tension. Microscopic observations clarified the shifts in phase structures within bilayer
membranes with change in tension and temperature. The miscibility transition temperature between
one-liquid and two-liquid states was shown to increase under tension. We also observed a shift in thetransition temperature between two-liquid and solid–liquid states in membranes under tension. We
determined a quantitative phase diagram of phase organization with respect to the applied pressure andtemperature. The results indicate that membrane tension can induce phase separation in homogeneous
membranes. Our findings may provide insight into the biophysics of bilayer phase organization under tension,
which is an intrinsic mechanical property of membranes.
Tumor accumulation of ε-poly-lysines-based polyamines conjugated with boron clusters
Masayuki UMANO, Kazuhiro UECHI, Takatoshi URIUDA, Sayuri MURAYAMA, Hideki AZUMA,Atsuko SHINOHARA, Young LIU, Koji ONO, Mitsunori KIRIHATA, Hironobu YANAGIE and Takeshi
NAGASAKI
Appl. Radiat. Isot., in press.
Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is one of the potent cancer radiotherapies using nuclear reaction
between (10)B atoms and the neutron. Whether BNCT will succeed or not depends on tumor selective
delivery of (10)B compounds. ε-Poly-L-lysine is a naturally occurring polyamine characterized by the
peptide linkages between the carboxyl and ε-amino groups of L-lysine. Because of high safety ε-PLL isapplied practically as a food additive due to its strong antimicrobial activity. In this study, we focus on adevelopment of a novel polymeric delivery system for BNCT using biodegradable ε-PLL conjugated with
(10)B-containing clusters (BSH). This polymeric boron carrier will be expected to deliver safely andefficiently into tumor tissues based on Enhanced Permeability and Retention (EPR) effect.
1'-Acetoxychavicol acetate enhances the phase II enzyme activities via the increase in intranuclear
Nrf2 level and cytosolic p21 level
Keisuke YAKU, Isao MATSUI-YUASA, Hideki AZUMA and Akiko KOJIMA-YUASA.
Am. J. Chin. Med. Vol. 39, pp. 789-802 (2011).
(1'S)-acetoxychavicol acetate ((S)-ACA) exhibits chemopreventive effects on chemically induced tumor
formation. It has been shown that ACA inhibited the development of azoxymethane-induced colon
carcinogenesis through its suppression of cell proliferation in the colonic mucosa and its induction of
glutathione S-transferase and quinone oxidoreductase 1 in vivo. In this study, we investigated how ACA
induced these enzymes by using rat intestine epithelial cells (IEC6) in vitro. ACA induced glutathione－ 113 －

S-transferase (GST) and NAD(P)H: quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) activities, increased intracellularglutathione (GSH) level, and upregulated intranuclear Nrf2 and cytosolic p21. It suggested that activation ofphase II enzymes via Nrf2 associated with p21 is one of possible mechanisms of ACA to prevent advance of
carcinogenesis.
Biological Activity of Water-Soluble Inclusion Complexes of 1’-Acetoxychavicol Acetate with
Cyclodextrins
Hideki AZUMA, Yui AIZAWA, Nao HIGASHITANI, Takashi TSUMORI Akiko KOJIMA-YUASA, Isao
MATSUI-YUASA and Takeshi NAGASAKI
Bioorg. Med. Chem., Vol. 19, pp. 3855-3863 (2011).
1’-Acetoxychavicol acetate (ACA), isolated from the rhizomes and the seeds of the Zingiberaceae plant, hasa variety of biological activities such as anti-tumor, antiallergic and repellent effects. However, ACA seems
to have some disadvantages which may limit for future possible clinical applications, for example, its poor
water solubility. Furthermore, ACA is not stable in aqueous solutions and undergoes hydrolysis and/or
isomerization. To improve the solubility and stability of ACA in water, we prepared the inclusion complexes
with various β-cyclodextrins (β-CDs). In aqueous solution, the association constants of ACA with various
CDs were estimated at 662±95 (β-CD), 336±70 (methyl-β-CD, Meβ-CD) and 322±44 M-1(hydroxypropyl-β-CD, HPβ-CD), respectively, by a spectrofluorometric displacement method based oncompetition between a guest and a fluorescent probe for CDs. It was revealed that almost all ACAs existed
as a free molecule in the CD-containing aqueous solution. However, in the case of preparing the inclusion
complexes of CDs with ACA by a solid phase “high-speed vibration milling” technique, the average
inclusion rates of the obtained water-soluble complexes were calculated as 88±13% (β-CD), 70±1%(Meβ-CD) and 63±2% (HPβ-CD), respectively, by 1H NMR analysis. To characterize the structures of the
CD·ACA complexes, 2,3,6-trimethyl-β-CD (TMeβ-CD)·ACA complex was prepared as a model compound(inclusion rate: 40%). As a result of 2D ROESY experiments, it was considered that the aromatic ring of
ACA is located in the narrow side of the hydrophobic cavity of the TMeβ-CD and both 1’- and 4-acetoxy
groups of ACA positioned in the vicinity of the secondary and primary methoxy groups of TMeβ-CD,
respectively. Furthermore, we examined the apoptogenic activity of CD·ACA complexes to evaluate whether
or not the bioactivities of ACA were affected by their inclusion. Although the cytotoxicity of all CD·ACA
complexes in human epithelial carcinoma HeLa cells and murine adenocarcinoma colon26 cells were
diminished as compared with the ACA alone, only HPβ-CD·ACA maintained high levels of activity. In
addition, HPβ-CD·ACA and Meβ-CD·ACA showed suppressive effect for the transcription factor NF-κB
activation on LPS-activated murine macrophage RAW264.7 cells and the former was more active complex.
Furthermore, HPβ-CD·ACA inhibited the in vivo tumor growth of tumor-bearing mice, although the activity
was slightly weak compared with that of free ACA. These results indicate that HPβ-CD is the best hostmolecule for ACA to form a water-soluble complex with the similar biological activity of free ACA.
Controlled release of antibiotics from HA used in bone cement with HA (IBBC) as prevention of
infection in joint replacement
Hiroyuki OONISHI Jr., Tomonori ARITA, Akira TACHIBANA, Toshizumi TANABE, Shigekazu
MIZOKAWA and Hironobu OONISHI
The 23rd Annual Congress of the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty, 2010, Dubai UAE
Controlled release of antibiotics from β-TCP used in bone cement with β-TCP and HA (IBBC) as
prevention of infection in joint replacement
Hiroyuki OONISHI Jr., Tomonori ARITA, Akira TACHIBANA, Toshizumi TANABE, Shigekazu
MIZOKAWA and Hironobu OONISHI
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Controlled release of antibiotics from bone filling materials
Hiroyuki OONISHI Jr., Tomonori ARITA, Akira TACHIBANA, Toshizumi TANABE, Shigekazu
MIZOKAWA and Hironobu OONISHI
Combined Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Societies, 2010, Kyoto Japan
Characterization of acyl-coenzyme A: diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) enzyme of human small
intestine
Yasushi. HIRAMINE and Toshizumi TANABE
J. Physiol. Biochem., Vol. 67, pp. 259-264 (2011).
Acyl-coenzyme A:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) plays a significant role in dietary triacylglycerol(TAG) absorption in the small intestine. However, the characteristics of human intestinal DGAT enzyme
have not been examined in detail. The aim of our study was to characterize the human intestinal DGAT
enzyme by examining acyl-CoA specificity, temperature dependency, and selectivity for 1,2-diacylglycerol(DAG) or 1,3-DAG. We detected DGAT activity of human intestinal microsome and found that the acyl-CoA
specificity and temperature-dependency of intestinal DGAT coincided with those of recombinant human
DGAT1. To elucidate the specificity of human intestinal DGAT to 1,2-DAG or 1,3-DAG, we conductedacyl-coenzyme A:monoacylglycerol acyltransferase assays using 1- or 2-monoacylglycerol (MAG) as
substrates. When 2-MAG was used as acyl-acceptor, both 1,2-DAG and TAG were generated; however,when 1-MAG was used, 1,3-DAG was predominantly observed and little TAG was detected. These findings
suggest that human small intestinal DGAT, which is mainly encoded by DGAT1, utilizes 1,2-DAG as thesubstrate to form TAG. This study will contribute to understand the lipid absorption profile in the small
intestine.
Cross talk between distinct nuclear import pathways enables efficient nuclear import of E47 inconjunction with its partner transcription factors
Rashid MEHOOD, Noriko YASUHARA, Masahiro FUKUMOTO, Souichi OE, Taro TACHIBANA andYoshihiro YONEDA
Mol. Biol. Cell, in press.
Nuclear import of karyophilic proteins is carried out by a variety of mechanisms. We have previously shownthat two basic helix-loop-helix proteins, NeuroD1 and E47 synergistically affect each other's nuclear import.
In this study, we dissected the molecular pathways underlying nuclear import of the NeuroD1/E47
heterodimer. In vitro nuclear import assays indicated that importin α family members are the major nuclear
import receptors for E47. However, inhibition of importin α resulted in cytoplasmic retention of E47 that
could be rescued by its binding partner, NeuroD1, through heterodimerization. Additionally, nuclear importof NeuroD1 was importin α-independent but importin β1-dependent. In primary neurons, localization ofendogenous E47 was not affected by importin α inhibition, suggesting that neuronal E47 could be imported
into the nucleus as a heterodimer with NeuroD1 by utilizing importin β1 alone. We also found that E47 had
similar nuclear import characteristics in C2C12 cells, where E47 heterodimerized with MyoD, anotherhelix-loop-helix protein, suggesting functional conservation within the same family transcription factors.
Collectively, our data reveal that E47 is imported into the nucleus via multiple pathways depending on themolecular binding mode, establishing a previously uncharacterized cross talk between two distinct nuclear
import pathways.
Enzymatic actions of Pasteurella multocida toxin detected by monoclonal antibody recognizing thedeamidated alpha subunit of the heterotrimeric GTPase Gq
Shigeki KAMITANI, Shinpei AO, Hirono TOSHIMA, Taro TACHIBANA, Makiko HASHIMOTO, Kengo
KITADOKORO, Aya FUKUI-MIYAZAKI, Hiroyuki ABE and Yasuhiro HORIGUCHIFEBS Journal, Vol. 278, pp. 2702-2712 (2011).

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Pasteurella multocida toxin (PMT) is a virulence factor responsible for the pathogenesis of some
Pasteurellosis. PMT exerts its toxic effects through the activation of heterotrimeric GTPase (G(q), G(12/13)
and G(i))-dependent pathways, by deamidating a glutamine residue in the α subunit of these GTPases.
However, the enzymatic characteristics of PMT are yet to be analyzed in detail because the deamidation has
only been observed in cell-based assays. In the present study, we developed rat monoclonal antibodies,
specifically recognizing the deamidated Gα(q), to detect the actions of PMT by immunological techniquessuch as western blotting. Using the monoclonal antibodies, we found that the toxin deamidated Gα(q) only
under reducing conditions. The C-terminal region of PMT, C-PMT, was more active than the full-length
PMT. The C3 domain possessing the enzyme core catalyzed the deamidation in vitro without any otherdomains. These results not only support previous observations on toxicity, but also provide insights into the
enzymatic nature of PMT. In addition, we present several lines of evidence that Gα(11), as well as Gα(q),could be a substrate for PMT.
Steroidogenic Factor 1 (NR5A1) resides in centrosomes and maintains genomic stability by controlling
centrosome homeostasis
LAI PY, WANG CY, CHEN WY, KAO YH, TSAI HM, TACHIBANA T, CHANG WC and CHUNG BC.
Cell Death Differ. in press.
SF-1 (Steroidogenic Factor 1, NR5A1) is a tissue-specific transcription factor critical for the growth,development and differentiation of steroidogenic and a few other endocrine tissues. But how SF-1 regulates
cell growth is not entirely clear. Here we found that SF-1 was localized to the centrosome in addition to the
nucleus, and SF-1 depletion by shRNA caused centrosome over-duplication, aberrant mitosis and genomic
instability, leading to a reduction of cell number. Centrosome amplification defect was rescued by bothwild-type SF-1 and transcription-defective SF-1-G35E, suggesting a non-genomic activity of SF-1 involvedin centrosome homeostasis. In addition, we identified in SF-1 a centrosome localization signal, whose
overexpression led to reduced localization of both SF-1 and γ-tubulin to the centrosome. Our results uncovera novel role of SF-1 in the control of centrosome homeostasis and genomic stability.
Mitochondrial prohibitins and septin 9 are implicated in the onset of rat hepatocarcinogenesis
Anna KAKEHASHI, Naomi ISHII, Takeshi SHIBAT, Min WEI, Etsuko OKAZAKI, Taro TACHIBANA,
Shoji FUKUSHIM and Hideki WANIBUCHI
Toxicol Sci. Vol.119, pp. 61-72 (2011).
In the present study, protein lysates from microdissected glutathione S-transferase placental-form-positive(GST-P(+)) foci and hepatocellular carcinomas from livers of rats treated with N-diethylnitrosamine
followed by phenobarbital at doses of 0 and 500 ppm in the diet for 10 and 33 weeks were analyzed using
QSTAR Elite liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry and iTRAQ technology. Among 75
proteins, a total of 27 and 50 proteins displaying significant quantitative changes comparing with adjacentnormal-appearing liver tissue were identified in GST-P(+) foci of initiation control and promotion groups,
respectively, which are related to transcription, protein folding, cytoskeleton filaments reorganization, cell
cycle control, nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (NRF2)-mediated oxidative stress responses, lipid
metabolism, glutathione metabolism, oxidative phosphorylation, and signal transduction. Furthermore,
Ingenuity Pathway and bioinformatic analyses revealed that expression changes of genes encoding proteins
with altered expression detected in GST-P(+) foci are likely to be controlled by c-myc, NRF2, arylhydrocarbon receptor, nuclear factor kappa B, and hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 transcriptional factors.
Coordinated overexpression of mitochondrial chaperons prohibitin (PHB) and prohibitin 2 (PHB2), septin 9(SEPT9), neurabin 1, and other cytoskeletal and functional proteins in areas of GST-P(+) foci duringinitiation and/or promotion stages of rat hepatocarcinogenesis was associated with induction of cellproliferation and might be responsible for the neoplastic transformation of rat liver preneoplastic lesions.
Newly discovered elevation of PHB, PHB2, and SEPT9 in GST-P(+) foci and tumors, imply that they might－ 116 －

play important role in the onset of liver cancer and be of potential values in the studies ofhepatocarcinogenesis.
Specific Monoclonal Antibody Against the Nuclear Pore Complex Protein, Nup96
Chiaki MIZUGUCHI, Masahiro OKA, Tetsuji MORIYAMA, Taro TACHIBANA and Yoshihiro YONEDA
Hybridoma, Vol. 29, pp. 551-553 (2010).
Nup96 is a component of the Nup107-160 complex, the largest subunit of the nuclear pore complex. Nup96
is generated as a precursor protein with Nup98. However, the mechanism by which Nup96 contributes to cellfunction is not clear. We report here on the preparation of a monoclonal antibody (MAb) directed againstmouse Nup96. The antibody was produced by the hybridization of mouse myeloma cells with lymph nodecells from an immunized rat. The antibody, MAb 4H5, specifically recognized Nup96, as evidenced byimmunoblotting using the whole cell lysates. In immunostaining using MAb 4H5, a nuclear rim staining
pattern was observed. This antibody will be useful in immunoblotting and immunolocalization experiments,
as well as further analyses of the biological function and cellular dynamics of this protein.

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Architecture and Building Engineering
Relation between Load-Carrying Capacity and Seismic Motion Level of Dynamic Collapse for LatticeArch and Cylindrical Roof
Yoshiya TANIGUCHI and Risa FUKUSHIMA
Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering (Transactions of AIJ), Vol.75, No.658, pp.2189-2196, 2010.
(in Japanese)
Lattice structures consisting of various mesh patterns show different static buckling and post-buckling behaviors
even if the compression members have the same slenderness ratios. There are not sufficient studies in theliterature to finding document to know the effect of these static characteristics on the seismic resistant capacity.
In this paper as for plane lattice arches and double-layer cylindrical lattice roofs, the relation between dynamic
collapse behavior and static collapse behavior, under excessive vertical loads, is numerically investigated topresent a prediction method for the load level of dynamic collapse. The prediction method can be done with theinformation of load-deformation curves, natural periods and velocity response spectrum of seismic motions. The
value predicted may be modified with the information of the elastic and plastic strain energies at a limit state ofstructures.
Seismic Motion Level of Dynamic Collapse or Limit State Deformation for Lattice Arch and Cylindrical
Roof
Yoshiya TANIGUCHI
Abstract Book and CD-ROM of Structural Engineers World Congress, Como, Italy, 2011, p.176.
Lattice structures consisting of various mesh patterns show different static buckling and post-buckling behaviors
even if the compressive members have the same slenderness ratios. There are not sufficient studies in theliterature to finding document to know the effect of these static characteristics on the seismic resistant capacity.
In this paper as for plane lattice arches and double-layer cylindrical lattice roofs, the relation between dynamic
collapse behavior and static collapse behavior, under excessive vertical loads, is numerically investigated topresent a prediction method for the load level of dynamic collapse. The prediction method can be done with theinformation of load-deformation curves, natural periods and velocity response spectrum of seismic motions. The
predicted value is modified with the information of the elastic and plastic strain energies at a limit state ofstructures.
Vibration Test of TMD with Initial Displacement under Impulse Loading
Susumu YOSHINAKA, Shuji NISHIYAMA and Yoshiya TANIGUCHI
Proceedings of IABSE-IASS2011 , London, UK, September 20-23, CD-ROM 0175 (pp.1-8) (2011)
We propose TMDs with initial displacement to effectively control transient responses. The initial displacementof a TMD can change the phases of beat envelope curves resulting from superposition of two vibration modes
with closely spaced natural frequencies. In this paper, we describe a vibration test under impulse loading toverify the effect of the proposed system experimentally and show that an experimental model of the TMD withinitial displacement works. Firstly, we study analytically the effect of vibration control using the proposed
method with a plate model. Then, we explain the experimental results. Finally, we compare the experimental
results with the analytical results.
Experimental Form-Finding Using Thermoplastic Resin
Sho WATANABE, Kouichi WADA, Susumu YOSHINAKA and Yoshiya TANIGUCHI
Proceedings of IABSE-IASS2011 , London, UK, September 20-23, CD-ROM 0430 (pp.1-6) (2011)
In this study, in order to make the finding shape easy without the expert technique and knowledge, we extend theexperimental handing method by using acrylic materials. The acrylic material changes its material property inthe hot state and becomes with in-plane stress state when it is hanged, that is we can introduce stretch ofmaterials in finding a shape. We describe the experimental method using the heating acrylic plate in detail. Then,we explain about analytical results using coordinates measured from shapes obtained by experimental results.
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simulating the experimental hanging method without stretch of materials from the view of shapes and thedifference of the stress distribution. The method using moore-penrose generalized inverse matrix is the analyticalform finding method in the equilibrium state with unstable link structures.
Limit State of Double-layer Lattice Domes of Different Member Layouts
Chongbing YAN, Yoshiya TANIGUCHI and Susumu YOSHINAKA
Proceedings of IABSE-IASS2011 , London, UK, September 20-23, CD-ROM 0767 (pp.1-7) (2011)
To consider safety of double-layer lattice structures, it is important to determine the load carrying capacity andthe deformation performance in the ultimate state. The initial yield load and the maximum load may be evaluatedby post-buckling behavior or elastic-plastic behavior. Therefore, in this paper the effect of member layouts on
the post-buckling behavior and limit state load is investigated for double layer lattice domes. Analytical models
are 6 double-layer lattice domes whose half span angle is 30 degrees. The joints of the models are treated as
rigid-joints under the assumption that the strength and stiffness of the joints are sufficiently large. The analyticalmodels are subjected to two loading cases, which are the uniform vertically distributed load and the asymmetricvertically distributed load respectively. The ultimate states of six latticed patterns are investigated with thecoefficient β, which is the ratio of the limit state load against the initial yield load. The limit state load estimatedwith the load-deformation relationship obtained by push-over analyses. The study shows that the structuralcharacteristics of lattice structures depend upon mesh patterns and member layout. In addition, the usefulness ofthe method to estimate the effective strength by the segment consisting of 3 × 3 structural units is discussed.
Evaluation of elementary school lawn grounds in Osaka urban regions
Noriko Umemiya, Akemi Nakanaga, Yuta Sakurai, Ryota Matsui, Toshiki Naotsuka, Takayuki Harada and Ryoji
Okura
Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Building and Urban Environmental Engineering, Seoul,
pp.111-116, 2010.
A survey related to school ground lawn planting was administered to elementary school maintenance managers
in Osaka city. From all 297 elementary schools in Osaka city, 100 responses were received. Comparison of theanswers of respondents from schools where lawn grounds had been ‘completed’, ‘planned’, and ‘not-planned’
revealed the following: 1) ‘completed’ schools have larger grounds and fewer children; 2) ‘not-planned’ schools
have lower PTA and exchange activity levels between the school and the local community; 3) ‘planned’ schools
are more anxious about efforts at maintaining a lawn; and 4) ‘not-completed’ schools expect lawn planting to
mitigate the thermal environment in summer, but ‘completed’ schools do not regard those effects as important.
Sky factors and sunshine duration at the summer and winter solstice and the equinox were estimated for 36
schools. 5) Only 35.3% of the schools satisfy the condition of sunshine duration for raising a lawn. 6) Subjective
evaluation of sunshine and contentment with school grounds strongly relate to sky factors and sunshine duration.
7) The sunshine duration is shorter and sky factors are less for ‘completed’ schools.
Effects of weather conditions on thermal control use in apartments during summer–autumn
Noriko Umemiya and Koichi Taniguchi
Proceedings of the International Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre Conference on low energy andsustainable ventilation technologies for green buildings, 6A-3, pp.1-13, 2010.
Air conditioner use and window opening were recorded in Osaka during summer–autumn. The measured period
was divided into four seasons according to the change of ratio of air conditioner use. In the former questionnaire
survey of the reasons for opening and closing windows, ‘fine weather’ or ‘rain’ were ranked highly. This study
investigated effects of weather conditions on the relation between temperature and humidity and thermal control
use. Cloud cover was used as indices of weather conditions. Results showed that the ratio of opening was higher
1) for fine weather during the natural ventilation season for equivalent outdoor temperatures, 2) for cloudy
weather in the late cooling season for equivalent indoor temperatures, 3) for cloudy weather in the late coolingseason for equivalent outdoor humidity, and 4) for fine weather in the cooling season and for cloudy weather inthe late cooling season for equivalent indoor humidity.
Seasonal and regional differences in neutral temperatures in Nepalese traditional vernacular houses
Hom B. Rijal (Tokyo city university), Harunori Yoshida (Okayama university of science) and Noriko Umemiya－ 120 －

Building and Environment, 45, pp.2743-2753, 2010.
Two surveys of the thermal environment and thermal sensations were conducted in the indoor and the semi-open
spaces of traditional houses, during both summer and winter, in five districts of Nepal: Banke, Bhaktapur,
Dhading, Kaski and Solukhumbu. The surveys were carried out for 40 days, gathering a total of 7116 thermal
sensations from 103 subjects. The results show that residents are highly satisfied with the thermal condition of
their houses, since they adjust well to the thermal conditions. The residents have higher neutral temperatures insemi-open spaces such as verandas than in indoor spaces. The findings reveal that people in the regions studied
adapt well to the natural environment, as a result of which neutral temperatures are different in different climates.
They are lowest in the cool climate, medium in the temperate climate and highest in the sub-tropical climate.
Numerical Study on Buckling Behavior of Single Layer Two-way Grid Dome with Tension Member as
Diagonals
M. FUJIMOTO, S. KUSHIMA(Takenaka Corporation), K. IMAI(Osaka University), S. KATO(Toyohashi
University of Technology),and T. OGAWA(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Proceedings of IASS Symposium 2010, Shanghai, Nov. 8- 12, pp. 326-337 (2010)
The purpose of this study is to obtain the anti-buckling data on single layer two-way grid dome with tension
member as diagonals by the numerical calculation. The tension member is used to stiffen the in-plane rigidity of
two-way grid as diagonals. Circular hollow tubes are used as two-way grid members and PC bars as tension
members. The numerical parameters of this study are installation of tension member, initial axial forces oftension members, loading patterns, half open angle of dome and so on. As a result, it is confirmed that thebuckling load of two-way grid dome increases effectively by the attachment of tension members and theintroduction of the initial axial forces to them. Then the comparison between the numerical results andcontinuum treatment method is shown.
Effect of Tension Member on Buckling and Strength Behavior of Single Layer Two-way Grid Cylindrical
Shell Roof
Z. ZHANG and M. FUJIMOTO
Proceedings of IASS Symposium 2010, Shanghai, Nov. 8- 12, pp. 2178-2187 (2010)
This paper addresses the buckling behavior of a single layer two-way grid cylindrical shell roof with tension
members to stiffen the rigidity of the two-way grid. The effect of tension member arrangement pattern on thebuckling load and strength of a single layer grid shell is discussed by the numerical calculations. The numericalcalculation parameters are number of units in the grid cylindrical shell roof, half open angle, aspect ratio and thearrangement pattern of tension member. It is confirmed that the tension member arrangement in a single layer
two-way grid cylindrical shell roof caused increases in buckling load and strength. In linear buckling analysis,
tension member arrangement with strut is the most effective pattern. In nonlinear analysis, four tension member
arranged in each two-way grid is more effective pattern.

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Development of a Numerical Model for Predicting Flow Induced by Sediment Dumped into a Vertical
Pipe
T. HIRANO, T. SHIGEMATSU, Tsuyoshi KANAZAWA
Journal of JSCE, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 66, pp. 751-755 (2010) (in Japanese)
In order to predict fluid motion induced by sediment dumped into a vertical pipe, a numerical model isdeveloped. The numerical model is based on fundamental equation of incompressible fluid with the Boussinesq
approximation and the Volume Of Fluid method is applied to trace water surface in a vertical pipe. According tocomparison with laboratory experimental results, calculated results reasonably agree with experimental ones inqualitatively. The estimation results by the developed model on thickness and progressive velocity of turbidity
mass on the bottom are presented with maximum ambient fluid velocity.
Numerical Simulation of Fluid Force acting on Solids placed in Unidirectional Flow
Y. TAKEOKA, T. SHIGEMATSU, S. NAKAJOJournal of JSCE, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 66, pp. 761-765 (2010) (in Japanese)
There is few research on fluid force acting on solids and turbulent flow in a pore of porous media because of the
difficulty of measurement in experiments. In order to get fundamental knowledge of them, 2-D unidirectional
fluid flow is investigated numerically using the Immersed Boundary method, which rigorously satisfies with theboundary condition on the solid surface with Cartesian grid and Lagrangian grid. Calculation results on pressure
drop through circular cylinders reasonably agree with experimental formula by Ergun. In addition, fluid force
acting on each cylinder, which varies markedly in time and space, is also presented.
A Fundamental Study on the Nonlinear Turbulent Modeling Based on Results of Image Velocimetry for
the Flow Passing Through a Porous MediaS. NAKAJO and T. SHIGEMATSU
Journal of JSCE, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 66, pp. 771-775 (2010) (in Japanese)
The modeling of turbulence for the flow passing through a porous media is analyzed experimentally by using apriori tests. Velocity field inside and around a porous media is obtained with PTV. Two turbulence models,linear eddy viscosity model and nonlinear model, are tested on different Reynolds number conditions. There is ahigh correlation in the turbulent stress and the nonlinear velocity gradient. The applicability of the latter model ishigher than the former. The model coefficient doesn't depend on the Reynolds number and the size of the spatial
average area.
A Study on Remediation Index of Sea Bottom Environment and Its Estimation Method by Field
Investigation
T. SHIGEMATSU, K. MIZUTA, T. ENDO
Journal of JSCE, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 66, pp. 1031-1035 (2010) (in Japanese)
Oxygen consumption by bottom sediment in a eutrophied port and harbor is modeled based on field investigation.
The model consists of factors of biological contribution and chemical-physical contribution. It is presented thatthese factors can be estimated by water temperature and dissolved oxygen above the sea bottom. Throughmodeling sediment oxygen consumption it is found that a penetration depth of oxygen is a useful parameter torepresent sea bottom environment as a remediation. Further, estimation method of penetration depth of oxygen is
improved to take into the change of the dissolved oxygen above sea bottom consideration.
Numerical Simulations of Urban Heat Release into Osaka Bay Considering Meteorological Data
N. MORI, Y. SACHI, T. SHIGEMATSU, M. NAKAO, S. YAMOCHI, H. MASE
Journal of JSCE, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 66, pp. 1296-1300 (2010) (in Japanese)
The stratification of upper layer of coastal water can be regarded as an unused energy source in summer. The
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and water. The estimated urban heat over Sumiyoshi ward in Osaka is equivalent to 10 m3/s warm water if weallow 7 degree water temperature increase from stagnant environment. The numerical simulation of the urban
heat release into coastal zone is performed. The larger warm water discharge gives absorption effect of shortwave radiation from the atmosphere to the ocean due to enhancement of vertical mixing at the upper ocean.
Estimation Method of Oxygen Penetration Depth into the Bottom Sediment at Strongly-Enclosed Sea
Area
T. SHIGEMATSU and T. ENDO
Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 64, pp. 1633-1637 (2011)
Oxygen consumption by bottom sediment is modeled based on field investigation in a eutrophied port and harborthrough a whole year. Based on measured sediment oxygen consumption flux using a chamber and a dark bottlewith fluorescence type oxygen sensors, biological and physical-chemical oxygen consumption processes aremodeled with water temperature and dissolved oxygen concentration near the sea bottom. It is presented thatthese factors can be estimated by water temperature and dissolved oxygen above the sea bottom. Throughmodeling sediment oxygen penetration depth is a useful parameter to represent sea bottom environment as a
remediation. Further, estimation method of oxygen penetration depth is improved to take into the change of the
dissolved oxygen above sea bottom consideration.
Numerical Simulation of Fluid Force acting on Circular Cylinders in Unidirectional Flow
S. NAKAJO, Y. TAKEOKA, and T. SHIGEMATSU
Proc. of 7th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (2011)
There is few research on turbulent flow in a pore of porous media and fluid force acting on solids because of the
difficulty of measurement in experiments. In this paper, in order to get fundamental knowledge of them, 2-D
unidirectional flow passing through circular cylinders is investigated numerically using the Immersed Boundary
Method with Physical Virtual Model, which rigorously satisfies with the boundary condition on the solid surface
with Cartesian grid and Lagrangian grid. Calculation results on pressure drop through circular cylinders
reasonably agree with experimental formula by Ergun. Transition of flow pattern with increase in the Reynolds
number is presented. In addition, fluid force acting on each cylinder, which varies markedly in time and space, isalso presented.
Experimental Verification of Turbulence Modeling for the Flow through a Porous Media by Using PTV
S. NAKAJO and T. SHIGEMATSU
Proc. of 7th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (2011)
Most of existing turbulence models for porous media flow which many researchers have proposed were
macroscopic models based on the knowledge of pressure drop along a porous media. Therefore they can notpresent distribution of turbulent properties in a porous media at all. In the present study, we validated a linear
and a nonlinear turbulence models by a priori testing based on the measurement data of velocity inside a porous
media using a high resolution PTV with the refractive index matching method. As a result, it was cleared that anonlinear turbulence model with nonlinear velocity gradient agree to the experimental results much better than alinear turbulence model for the flow through a a porous media. Moreover, it was presented that the coefficient in
the nonlinear model is constant and independent with the Reynolds number and spatial averaging area size.
Strain softening behavior of reinforced concrete member under axial load
Wataru KURAMOTO, Yohei KOTANI, Yuki TAKAI, Hiroaki KITOH, Hajime OHUCHI
Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.57A, pp.916-925 (2011) (in Japanese)
For deformation capacity improvement of reinforced concrete members, it is significant to increase ductility ofcompressive concrete with providing effective lateral confinement. The purpose of the present study is to predicta strain softening behavior of the confined concrete based on an uniaxial compressive loading test of thereinforced concrete column models with lateral hoops. The present study has been conducted in the following
approach; (1) axial compressive forces acted on longitudinal reinforcement and on cover concrete section are－ 124 －

respectively estimated and then, (2) axial force on confined concrete section is identified. (3) stress-strain
relationship of confined concrete is predicted up to strain softening region, which is compared with the design
equation proposed in the existing specification.
Strengthening Technique of the Marine Pier Beam by DFRCC
Tetsuya OGASAWARA, Chunri JIN, Yuji INOKI, Hisao TSUNOKAKE, Hajime OHUCHI
Structural Engineers World Congress 2011, 8pages, (CD-ROM) (2011)
Ductile Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composite (DFRCC) can be expected as plastic tensile material. It has
high performances that can prevent chloride penetration by the multiple crack characteristic, and also that can beapplied to repair combined seismic retrofit. In the present study, focusing on ordinal pier beam member
classified into deep beam as a proto type model, monotonic loading tests has been conducted into two programs,
i.e. 1) flexural strengthening and 2) shear strengthening.
Shear Test of Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Short Columns with Thin Walled Cross Section
Hisao TSUNOKAKE,Yoshihiro YAMADA, Tetsu SUGANUMA and Hajime OHUCHI
Proceedings of the Japan Concrete Institute, JCI, Vol.33, pp.1141-1146, (CD-ROM) (2011)(in Japanese)
Fundamental Study to Pier Beam on Effect of Thickening Bending Reinforcement by DFRCC
Tetsuya OGASAWARA, Yuji INOKI, Hisao TSUNOKAKE and Hajime OHUCHI
Proceedings of the Japan Concrete Institute, JCI, Vol.33, pp.1255-1392, (CD-ROM)(2011) (in Japanese)
Experimental Study on Strengthening Method of Lower Flange Plate of I Shaped Steel Girder with Bolted
Connection by High Modulus CFRP Strips
Nobuhito OCHI (Akashi National College of Technology), Masahide MATSUMURA and Nobuhiro HISABE(Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.)
Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.55A, JSCE, pp. 43- 51 (2009) (in Japanese)
The installation of CFRP strips of high modulus can be effective for strengthening a superannuated existing steel
I girder with regard to improving its load carrying capacity. Here, shear plates of the bolted connections become
obstacles in installing the CFRP strips onto the lower flange plate of I shaped steel girder. Then, experimentallyinvestigated in this study is the strengthening effect of the methods to prevent the CFRP strips of high modulus
from debonding in the vicinity of the bolted connection of lower flange plate of I shaped steel girder through abending test. It is concluded that the proposed methods are effective to prevent debonding of the CFRP strips
and further investigations are needed to develop more effective methods.
Bending and Shear Behavior of a Steel I-Shaped Girder with a Transversely Profiled Steel Web Plate
Kunitaro HASHIMOTO (Kyoto University), Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Kosuke OTSUKA (Kyoto University),
Kunitomo SUGIURA (Kyoto University), Yasuo SUZUKI (Utsunomiya University) and Takuji KUMANO(JFE Engineering Corp.)
Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.55A, JSCE, pp. 144- 153 (2009) (in Japanese)
Steel plates with varied thickness have a potential for rationalization of steel bridge design. For example,
longitudinally profiled steel plates already have been adapted to flanges of an I-shaped girder / a box girder toreduce the weight of the bridge and the process of bridge construction. Recently, the analytical study on themechanical behavior of steel girders with a transversely profiled web plate has been carried out, and it has beenconcluded that there exists the preferable cross sectional shape of steel plate from the viewpoint of the load
carrying capacity and ductility. In this paper, the static loading tests for I-shaped girders with a profiled web
plate in thickness are carried out. It is found that the web plate whose thickness is larger at the middle height of
the girder has superiority for shear buckling strength; on the other hand, that the web plate whose thickness islarger at the close to flange plate has superiority for bending strength.

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Seismic Performance Evaluation of a Viaduct Supported by Steel Bridge Piers with EPS
Masahide MATSUMURA, Satoshi UCHIDA (NEWJEC Inc.) and Toshiyuki KITADA
Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.55A, JSCE, pp. 653- 661 (2009) (in Japanese)
Embedded Plastic Segment (EPS), which has been developed as a seismic retrofitting technique for existing steel
bridge piers, can enhance the ductility with less increment in the ultimate strength of the column members. In
this paper, the seismic performance of a viaduct of the total length 200m with 5 spans supported by the steel
bridge piers with the EPS is analytically investigated. The effectiveness of the steel bridge piers with the EPS isrevealed in comparison with a viaduct supported by concrete filled steel bridge piers. It is concluded that the
EPS enables the reduction of the construction cost of piles and footing concrete and the enhancement of
redundancy of the viaduct.
Measurements of Initial Imperfections of Longitudinally Profiled Steel Plates and Their Applied Box
Cross Section
Takuji KUMANO (JFE Engineering Corp.), Yasuo SUZUKI (Utsunomiya University), Takeshi KITAHARA(Kanto Gakuin University), Kunitomo SUGIURA (Kyoto University) and Takashi YAMAGUCHI
Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.55A, JSCE, pp. 977- 984 (2009) (in Japanese)
Recently, various kinds of high-performance steel have been developed in order to reduce construction costs andimprove structural performances. LP steel plate is applied to flange plates of steel girders with a view to
reduction of process for fabrication and simplifying structures. On the other hands, it is generally known that
initial imperfections of steel plates affect on the characteristics of strength and deformation of steel girders.
Therefore, in this study, the fabrication error of plate thickness and the residual stress distribution subjected tometal rolling and welding are measured for the actual LP plate and box cross section in order to correct the basic
information of initial imperfections of LP steel plates.
Analytical Study on Mechanical Behavior of the High Strength Bolted Friction Joints with F18T Grade
Super High Strength Bolts Subjected to Compression
Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Toshiyuki KITADA, Takayuki IKEDA (NTT Data Corp.) and Natsuki YOSHIOKA
Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.55A, JSCE, pp. 1005- 1013 (2009) (in Japanese)
Recent years, rationalization of the joint structures is required from the viewpoint of reduction of the total cost of
steel structures. As one of such effective solutions, adoption of super high strength bolts for friction type joints,
which strength is more than 1,600 MPa is considered in order to be a compact joint section with a few bolts andlines. However, the mechanical behavior of such joints, especially the behavior under compressive load, is notclear. Therefore, in this study, the mechanical behavior of the friction type joints with super/normal high strength
bolts subjected to compressive load is discussed based on the FE analytical results paying attention to the
maximum spacing of the bolts and contact between joint surfaces.
Experimental Study on the Strengthening of Bolted Tensile Joints with a Deformable Filler Plate
Yasuo SUZUKI (Utsunomiya University), Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Akinori NAKAJIMA (Utsunomiya
University) and Takahiro SHIMIZU (Utsunomiya University)
Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.55A, JSCE, pp. 1014- 1023 (2009) (in Japanese)In the split tee joints, the prying force occurs due to the deformation of the tee flange plates, and the prying force
reduces the strength of the joint. Therefore, it is very important for this type of joints to suppress the prying force.
In order to make it possible to reduce the prying force of split tee joints easily, we propose to apply the sealantnamed as deformable filler plate for the split tee joints consists of soft rubber and steel rings. In this study, themechanical behavior of split tee joints with the deformable filler plate is investigated experimentally.
Particularly the influence of the sealant and shapes of the tee flange plates on strength and deformation of thesejoints are mainly discussed.
Dynamic Response of Isolated Bridge System Considering Knocking-off of Side Block as Displacement
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Masahide MATSUMURA, Nobuhito OCHI (Akashi National College of Technology), Masahiko YOSHIDA(Kawaguchi Metal Industries Co., Ltd), Minoru SAKAIDA (Sakaida Bridge Engineering & Consulting) andToshiyuki KITADA
German-Japanese Bridge Symposium, Munich, (7 pages, CD-ROM) (2009)
Displacement restrainer of the superstructure in the transverse direction of the isolated bridge, like side block, is
usually installed to protect expansion joints from damage during earthquake. Here, a more rational response of
the isolated bridge to mitigate damage to bridge pier and/or base structure and to enhance redundancy against astrong earthquake like the Level 2 Earthquake can be considered to be that the displacement of the superstructure
against a small and a moderate earthquake like the Level 1 Earthquake is restraint and the displacement against
the Level 2 Earthquake is released. For instance, steel side block, improved to have a knock-off function, will
provide these responses. This study presents the outline of the side block with the knock-off function, which isthe side block with a slit and developed by the authors to control the breaking load accurately, reveals theeffectiveness of the knocking-off in the isolated bridge system through dynamic loading test using a small-size
shaking table and verifies the influences of the breaking characteristics of the side block with the knock-off
function through the dynamic response analysis of the system.
Experimental Study on Static Mechanical Properties of Glass Plate Materials for Use as Structural
Members
Yugo NAGAMACHI, Toshiyuki KITADA, Takashi YAMAGUCHI and Masahide MATSUMURA
German-Japanese Bridge Symposium, Munich, (4 pages, CD-ROM) (2009)
Developments of the glass technology and fundamental researches for the structural use of the glass enable theapplications of the glass plate to structures. The glass plate has been widely used in architectural structures bothas structural and non-structural members and the use of the glass plate as structural members creates more
attractive and functional structures. On the other hand, the use of the glass to structures in civil engineering field
is not so popular, because the cost-effectiveness may be first priority in the structural design and planning. Herethe use of the glass plate for structures in civil engineering field, for instance, for principal structural members ofbridge can be considered to create more attractive and fascinating bridge and construction, which will bring adrastic change to images of the bridge. In the study, fundamental material properties of the glass plate areclarified through material tests. Then, a new type of glass plate beam with a joint is proposed through numericalcalculations based on the material test results. Here, SGP foils is used for the joint in the beam.
Inspection and Damages of Bridge Expansion Joints in Urban High Way in Japan
Masahide MATSUMURA, Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Yoshihiko TAKADA (Hanshin Expressway Management
Technology Center) and Toshiyuki KITADA
German-Japanese Bridge Symposium, Munich, (7 pages, CD-ROM) (2009)
Bridge expansion joints, installed at the edges of the girders and subjected to the impact loading of moving
vehicles, take important roles in providing smooth running of the vehicles. A proper type of the expansion joint,
which can secure enough interspaces between the girders, should be selected to prevent their interaction against
expansion movements with the changes in temperature and during the earthquake. Adoption of the finger joint isa general solution when larger interspaces between the girders are required. However, the finger joint is designed
only against the static vertical design load corresponding to the truck live load according to the present design
method in the Japanese Specification of Highway Bridges (JSHB), however some damages of the finger joint arereported. Presented in this paper are the outlines of inspection results and damages of the expansion joints, whichis carried out by Hanshin Expressway Corp., and the discussion based on the test results of the two kinds of the
field test passing the vehicles over the joints. It is concluded that the impact loading derived from the vehicle
passing and enlarged by the faulting between the joints is not negligible in the design of the finger joint.
Slip Behavior of High Strength Bolted Friction Joints for Composite Girders Subjected to Bending
Natsuki YOSHIOKA, Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Masatsugu NAGAI (Nagaoka University of Technology) andTakeshi MIYASHITA (Nagaoka University of Technology)－ 127 －

German-Japanese Bridge Symposium, Munich, (8 pages, CD-ROM) (2009)
In recent years in Japan, various studies on rational design of steel bridges focusing on cost reduction, such as
consideration of plastic behavior for ultimate state are performed. In Euro Code, AASHTO-LRFD, plastic
moment is already adopted to the ultimate strength for the positive bending state of the composite girder.
However, in Japan, there are a few researches about it and as a result, plastic moment is not allowed to theultimate strength in the design specifications. Accordingly, in this study, in order to collect basic information for
design of composite girder connection, FE analyses were executed referring to the experiment which has been
carried out by authors. Finally, based on these analytical results, the evaluation method of ultimate bending
strength of the composite girder with high strength bolted friction joints are proposed and desirable designconcept of the friction type joints for composite girder bridges are summarized.
Analytical Study on Residual Load Carrying Capacity of Damaged Steel Bridge with Large Crack
Takashi YAMAGUCHI, In ho KIM (Miyaji Iron Works Co., Lid.), Toshiyuki KITADA and Kazuyuki
MURAMOTO (Japan Bridge Engineering Center)
Steel Construction Engineering, Vol.16, No.63, JSSC, pp. 15- 25 (2009) (in Japanese)
In recent, much damage has been detected in superannuated bridges. Especially, the fatigue problems of aged
steel bridges become serious in the maintenance of bridges. Recently, the serious and large crack ofapproximately 1.1m length was detected. In the web plate of interior main girder at the intersection of the main
girder and the transverse girder, and at the location near the interior support in the center span of a three-spancontinuous girder bridge. If such a large crack occurs, the load carrying system of bridge should be changed andits capacity will be decreased. Accordingly, it is important to evaluate the residual load carrying capacity ofdamaged bridges with a large crack from the viewpoint of the management of the bridge system. The objectiveof this study is to investigate analytically change of the load carrying system of the various damaged three-spancontinuous girder bridges with four main girders.
Friction Test for High-Strength Bolted Joints with Long-Exposed Weathering SteelMinoru SAKAIDA (SAKAIDA Bridge Engineering & Consulting), Kunitomo SUGIURA (Kyoto University),
Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Shigeyuki MURAKAMI (Gifu University) and Kunitaro HASHIMOTO (Kyoto
University)
Steel Construction Engineering, Vol.16, No.63, JSSC, pp. 37- 48 (2009) (in Japanese)Strength and slip factor of high strength bolted friction joints were obtained through loading tests. Specimens
were assembled from weathering steel base members and blasted splicing members. Weathering steel plates
were cut out from lower flange plate of a bridge that was exposed for 8 years in open inland field, and it has been
generated protective rust on its surface. Base members were treated in some levels of rust removing. Applied
treatments are blasting, disk sanding, powered wire brushing, manual wire brushing and cloth wiping. Protective
rust decreases the slip factor, and thin crystalloid rust increases it, but thick rust over 100 μm decreases it.
Assessment on Fatigue Cracks in Orthotropic Steel Decks
Kunitomo SUGIURA (Kyoto University), Kunitaro HASHIMOTO (Kyoto University), Yoshinobu OSHIMA(Kyoto University) and Takashi YAMAGUCHI
Steel Construction, Vol.2, No.3, Ernst & Sohn, pp. 175- 180 (2009)
In this study, proposed is the new health evaluation system for fatigue cracks of orthotropic steel bridge decks bymeasuring strain changes of the asphalt pavement on steel plate decks. In order to consider applicability of thissystem, carried out are parametric FE analyses in which the type of cracks, their position, and their length arevaried. From these analytical results, it is found that strain changes of the asphalt pavement on steel plate decks
by the length and the positions of cracks can be significant enough to be detected.
Experimental Study on Vibration Control of Pole Type Steel Structures on Bridges by Using Damping
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Tomohiko ISHIBASHI (Nasu Denki-Tekko Co., Ltd.), Takashi YAMAGUCHI and Kazuyuki HENMI (Nasu
Denki-Tekko Co., Ltd.)
Journal of Constructional Steel, Vol.17, JSSC, pp. 247- 254 (2009) (in Japanese)
Recently, it is pointed out that the bridge vibration due to traffic may cause fatigue damages to pole type steel
structures like a lighting pole or a marker pole on bridges. As such damage tends to cause severe accidents, thevibration damage is to be eliminated as soon as possible. It is important to avoid resonance phenomenon and toincrease damping effect of the steel poles with possible fatigue damages by economical techniques, because thenumber of pole type steel structures on bridges is large. Authors suggest two vibration controlling techniques forthese steel poles, by using wire ropes and by using chloroprene rubber plates underneath the lower end plate of
the steel pole. It is verified through a vibration experiment that both techniques are effective and the response
displacement of the pole can be reduced substantially.
Fundamental Study on Characteristics of Extremely Low Cycle Fatigue Crack of Steel Members in
Bridges
Shigeharu YAMANE (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Bridge & Structures Engineering Co,. Ltd.), Toshiyuki
KITADA, Takashi YAMAGUCHI and Masahide MATSUMURA
Journal of Constructional Steel, Vol.17, JSSC, pp. 289- 294 (2009) (in Japanese)
Extremely low cycle fatigue crack phenomenon is not yet clarified enough. In this paper, crack initiation
mechanism in a range of the repetition number of several times to 20 is clarified by the extremely low cycle
fatigue experiment focusing on strain at crack initiation point and fractography of the crack fracture. It is
concluded that the crack is not brittle but ductile in the case of the extremely low cycle experiment using thespecimens with welding part and notches at their central part.
A Fundamental Experiment on Mechanical Behavior of Panel Point of Steel Truss Bridges
Shinsuke YOSHIDA (Kyoto University), Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Kunitaro HASHIMOTO (Kyoto University)and Kunitomo SUGIURA (Kyoto University)
Journal of Constructional Steel, Vol.17, JSSC, pp. 391- 398 (2009) (in Japanese)In this study, in order to clear the mechanical behavior of panel point of steel bridges using high strength bolted
frictional connection, tensile loading experiment is carried out. In the experiment, two specimens modeled thepanel points of steel truss bridges which the gusset plate and the diagonal member are connected by highstrength bolts are prepared. One has the ordinal gusset plate whose thickness is 9 mm, and the other has thin (6mm) gusset plate in which is considered the decrease of the thickness due to corrosion. From the result of thisexperiment, it is found the collapse behavior of panel points of steel truss bridges and it is suggested the
optimum calculating method for yielding strength of such panel point.
Study on Methods for Effectively Using Down-Sized Vibration Table to Evaluate Seismic Performance ofBridge Structures
Yasuyuki NAKANISHI (NEWJEC Inc.), Masahide MATSUMURA, Toshiyuki KITADA and Takashi
YAMAGUCHI
Journal of Constructional Steel, Vol.17, JSSC, pp. 415- 420 (2009) (in Japanese)
Dynamic response analysis requires many idealizations regarding the unknown factors, such as dumping
coefficient, dynamic characteristics of material, etc, but simulates the dynamic behavior the idealized ofstructure, although it’s unknown whether the predicted behavior is exact. While shaking table test without
idealizations shows dynamic response. Using a down-sized specimen, the dimensional reduction from a fullscale is same question as to the realization of exact behavior, but the cost effectiveness will be much attractive.
Then the shaking table test using down-sized specimens are carried out in this study to examine the advantages
and disadvantages. Also the experimental results are compared with the numerical ones using the idealized
analytical models. Effectiveness of using down-sized specimen in the small shaking table in evaluating seismic
performance of steel structures is discussed comparing experimental and analytical results.

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Repairing Design of Stiffeners on the Support of a Plate Girder for Highway Bridges
Kennichi SATO (New Structural Engineering, Ltd.), Yukiko MITSUGI (New Structural Engineering, Ltd.),
Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Kunitaro HASHIMOTO (Kyoto University) and Kunitomo SUGIURA (Kyoto
University)
Journal of Constructional Steel, Vol.17, JSSC, pp. 673- 680 (2009) (in Japanese)In this paper, the repairing design of stiffeners on the support of a plate girder for Highway Bridges is studiedreferring the literature and executing simple calculation. We treated the stiffener on the support, whose effective
sectional area is decreased by corrosion at is the end of the bottom portion. From the viewpoint of theperformance based design, we considered the role of the each member/element that consists of the girder on the
support. The mechanics of resistance and the limit states of them are discussed. In the case that the thickness ofthe plate at the bottom end is decreased by the corrosion, the bearing limit state of the bottom-end is dominant.
Fatigue Failure Assessment Considering Actual-working Load and Running Position of Orthotropic Steel
Deck by Using BWIM
Yoshihiko TAKADA (Hanshin Expressway Management Technology Center) and Takashi YAMAGUCHI
Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Osaka City University, Vol.50, pp. 55- 61 (2009)
Recent considerable increase in traffic intensity and wheel loads causes fatigue cracks in orthotropic steel decks
in Hanshin Expressway. From results of the periodic inspection, fatigue cracks are detected by 167 spans in 1347
spans in orthotropic steel decks as of April, 2009. Under traffic loading, in particular the effect of local wheelloads, longitudinal welds between deck plate and trough are subjected to local transverse bending moments andare susceptible to fatigue cracks. The stress in trough to deck plate welds is strongly influenced byactual-working load and run position .Then, in orthotropic steel decks in Kobe route of Hanshin Expressway,
measurement of the load of actual-working traffic and generating stress is performed by
Bridge-Weigh-In-Motion. This paper presents the outline of fatigue failure in orthotropic steel decks. Next,
Fatigue failure assessment based on this measurement results are described.
A Consideration on Seismic Response Analysis Result of Steel Truss Bridge by Focusing on Modeling
Method of Connections in Steel Truss Bridge
Hiroaki TANIUE (Osaka University), Kiyoshi ONO (Osaka University), Masahide MATSUMURA and Takao
MIYOSHI (Osaka University)
Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Ductility Design Method for Bridges, JSCE, 8 pages (2010) (in Japanese)
Elasto-plastic and finite element analysis of a steel truss bridge is carried out by focusing on modeling method of
connections, which are designed as pinned connections so that only axial forces are subjected to the chords
members in a steel truss bridge. That is, the influences of flexural rigidity of the connections on the ultimate
strength of the truss bridge and on the working stress against the Level 2 Earthquake defined in theSpecifications for Highway Bridges in Japan are investigated through the FEM analysis.
Ultimate Strength and Repairing Design Method for Stiffeners on the Support of a Plate Girder End forHighway Bridges
Makoto USUKURA (Tokyo Consultants Co., Ltd.), Akihisa KONDO (Sogo Engineering Inc.), Takashi
YAMAGUCHI, Akira HATANAKA, Yukiko MITSUGI (New Structural Engineering, Ltd.), Kunitaro
HASHIMOTO (Kyoto University) and Kunitomo SUGIURA (Kyoto University)
Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.56A, JSCE, pp. 722- 732 (2010) (in Japanese)In this paper, the ultimate strength of the girder end with corrosion of a plate girder for Highway Bridges isstudied by FEM analysis. We have dealt with the stiffener or web on the support, whose effective sectional area
is lost by corrosion at the end of the bottom portion. The vertical stiffener on the support is designed as a column
subjected to compression. But in the case that the thickness of the plate at the bottom end is decreased by the
corrosion, it is considered that the limit state of the bottom-end is dominant. Finally, the design concept of thestiffener is also discussed.

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Study on Mechanical Behavior of Single-Riveted Joint Damaged by Corrosion
Kunitaro HASHIMOTO (Kyoto University), Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Yukiko MITSUGI (New StructuralEngineering, Ltd.) and Kunitomo SUGIURA (Kyoto University)
Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.56A, JSCE, pp. 756- 765 (2010) (in Japanese)In this study, in order to clarify the mechanical behavior, and the relationship between corrosion and residual
strength of single-riveted joint damaged by corrosion, experimental and analytical studies are carried out. In theexperiment, are used the specimens, which cut from the demolished steel bridge members. Two types of thespecimens, light and the heavy corroded joints, are prepared and tensile tests are executed. In FE analysis,
corroded condition of rivet head is varied and parametric analysis is carried out. From the result, it is found that
there is the influence to strength when a rivet head is corroded heavy, in case of the single riveted joint.
Stress Analysis of Existing Orthotropic Steel Deck for Evaluation of Fatigue Cracks Originating from
Root of Weld
Yoshihiko TAKADA (Hanshin Expressway Management Technology Center), Akiko TABATA (Hanshin
Expressway Corp.), Kunitaro HASHIMOTO (Kyoto University), Kunitomo SUGIURA (Kyoto University) and
Takashi YAMAGUCHI
Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.56A, JSCE, pp. 766- 778 (2010) (in Japanese)
Significant increases in traffic intensity and wheel loads are causing fatigue cracks in orthotropic steel decks.
Under traffic loading, in particular the local effect of wheel loads, longitudinal welds between deck plate andtrough rib are subjected to local transverse bending moments and are susceptible to fatigue cracks. For the
purpose of evaluation of crack originating from root of weld, FEM analysis modeling the full-scale orthotropic
steel deck of two span continuous box girder bridge is carried out. The stress of welds which originates in a
deformation of large range in deck plate is calculated. From these analytical results, it became clear that the stateof the stress under different loading location affects fatigue cracks.
Application Effect of Rapture Controllable Steel Side Blocks for Viaduct with Isolation Bearings
Masahide MATSUMURA, Nobuhito OCHI (Akashi National College of Technology) and Masahiko YOSHIDA(Kawakin Core-Tech Co.,Ltd.)
Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.56A, JSCE, pp. 554- 563 (2010) (in Japanese)
Steel side blocks are set besides the seismically isolating bearings of a viaduct and are designed as a joint
protector against the Level 1 earthquake. The authors suggested the CSB as rapture controllable steel side blockwith knock-off function and as a trigger to provide isolation effect not only in the direction of the bridge axis but
also in the transverse direction against the Level 2 earthquake. In this study, the knock-off effect of the CSB in a
vibration system consisting of bridge pier-rubber bearing-mass is investigated through shaking table test. Also
the installation effect of the CSB is verified through seismic response analysis of a viaduct with isolating
bearings.
Experimental Study on the Mechanical Behavior of High Strength Bolted Friction Type Joints with
Extremely Thick Plates and Many Bolts in a Line
Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Xue PENG, Yasuo SUZUKI (Utsunomiya University) and Syuhei MIYAO
Steel Construction Engineering, Vol.17, No.66, JSSC, pp. 23- 33 (2010) (in Japanese)
Resent years, from the viewpoint of rational fabrication of the steel bridges, there are some applications using
extremely thick plates which thickness is more than 75mm for primary members of bridge structures. In case of
joining such thick plates by using high strength bolted friction type joints, the number of bolts in a line along themember axis might be more than 10. However, the mechanical behavior of such multiple joints is not clear. In
this study, the experiment for such joints has been carried out to understand the mechanical behavior of them.
Discussed herein is the mechanical behavior of such joints based on the experimental results.
Seismic Devices for Isolated Bridge
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Proceedings of the 3rd Taiwan-Japan Workshop on Bridge Engineering, pp.36-40, NCREE (2010)
Several types of seismic devices of isolated bridges in Japan are introduced and explained in this paper.
Thorough the discussions it is concluded that seismic retrofit scheme for bridge structures are graduallychanging by assembling some advanced features and seismic devices. Then the combination use of several
seismic devices for damage control enables seismic retrofit of existing bridge structures to satisfy the design
requirements. Also development and widespread uses of seismic response analysis and experimental approach toassure the performance of seismic devices surely help in evaluating the seismic safety of bridge structures.
Experimental Study on Vibration Control of Pole Type Steel Structures on Bridges
Tomohiko ISHIBASHI (Nasu Denki-Tekko Co., Ltd.), Takashi YAMAGUCHI and Daisuke OKAZAKI (Nasu
Denki-Tekko Co., Ltd.)
Steel Construction Engineering, Vol.17, No.66, JSSC, pp. 35- 44 (2010) (in Japanese)
Recently, it becomes a large problem that bridge vibration induced by vehicles causes damages to not only thebridge but also a pole type steel structures, such as lighting poles, marker poles on the elevated bridge. Sincesuch damage tends to cause more severe damage, the vibration problem should be solved. As a number of suchpoles is large enough, it is important to improve damping performance of the steel pole with cheap cost. Thenthe authors suggested a vibration controlling technique for a steel pole by using wire ropes. It was found throughthe vibration experiment that the technique functions effectively and the vibrations of the pole can be reduced.
Study on Bending Strength Evaluation of Non-Composite and Composite I Girders by Reliability Analysis
Kunitaro HASHIMOTO (Kyoto University) and Takashi YAMAGUCHI
5th International ASRANet Conference, 14-16 June, Edinburgh, UK (8pages, CD-ROM)
In this study, in order to evaluate bending strengths of non-composite and composite I girders, sensitivity
analysis by FE analysis and reliability analysis by RSM are carried out. At First, sensitivity analysis is carriedout for non-composite and composite I girders by using FE analysis because there are many uncertain factors
relating to their bending strengths. Next, reliability analysis is carried out by RSM. In RSM, two randomvariables are determined by the results of the sensitivity analysis. From the results of these analyses, it is foundthat reliability index and fracture probability are almost same values for composite girders of two models in thisstudy. And it is also cleared that reliability indexes and fracture probability are different values between
non-composite and composite girders.
Study on Probabilistic Fatigue Assessment of Existing Orthotropic Steel Decks
Yoshihiko TAKADA (Hanshin Expressway Management Technology Center), Masaki OCHI, Takashi
YAMAGUCHI and Masahide MATSUMURA
5th International ASRANet Conference, 14-16 June, Edinburgh, UK (8pages, CD-ROM)
Recent considerable increase in traffic intensity and wheel loads are causing fatigue cracks in orthotropic steel
decks in urban expressway in Japan. Under traffic loading, longitudinal welds between deck plate and trough rib
are subjected to local transverse bending moments due to local wheel loads, and are susceptible to fatigue cracks.
The stress occurred in trough rib to deck plate welds is strongly influenced by actual-working load and run
position of vehicles. In order to evaluate the remaining fatigue life and fatigue durability of existing orthotropic
steel decks rationally, probabilistic fatigue evaluation should be needed. At first, weight distributions of various
vehicles are modeled by log normal distribution based on the Live load simulation results., And FE analysis foran orthotropic steel deck of the actual steel bridge is performed to estimate the stress ranges due to runningvehicles Secondary, The stress range and frequency by various vehicles are clarified by Reign flow method
considering running position along the transverse direction of the vehicles. Finally, probabilistic fatigue
assessment of existing orthotropic steel decks is carried out by using obtained results.
On Method for Reducing Earthquake Force of the Pier Foundation Using Energy Absorption Connectors
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In this paper, the energy absorption performance of the steel bellows as one of the energy absorbing bridge
girder connectors is examined for reducing earthquake force of the pier foundation by means of a non-linear
time-history analysis. The effectiveness of the steel bellows on the seismic response is verified using athree-span girder bridge model supported on lead lubber bearings.
Dynamic Response of Bridge System with Knocking-off Members
Masahide MATSUMURA, Masahiko YOSHIDA (Kawakin Core-Tech Co.,Ltd.) and Nobuhito OCHI (Akashi
National College of Technology)
IABSE Symposium Venice 2010, Vol.97, pp.344-345, Venice (2010)
Displacement restrainer restraints transverse movement of superstructure of isolated bridges to protect expansion
joints from damage during earthquake. Here to mitigate damage of bridge pier and/or its foundation and toenhance redundancy of the isolated viaducts in a strong earthquake, it can be considered that the displacement of
the superstructure against a small and moderate earthquake is restraint and the displacement against a strong
earthquake is freed to shift to isolated condition. Knock-off members will provide these responses of thevibration system. This study presents the outline of some of displacement restrainers having the knock-off
function and reveals the effectiveness of the knock-off in the isolated bridge system through dynamic loading
test using small-size shaking table. It is also analytically verified the influences of the breaking characteristics onseismic response of the system.
Technical Front of Steel Bridges in Japan
Toshiyuki KITADA, Takashi YAMAGUCHI and Masahide MATSUMURA
Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingbert Mangerig, pp.255-262, UniBwM-BKI, ISSN
1431-5122 (2010)
Described in this paper is the technical front on the design method, design load, seismic design, bucklingstability, connection and maintenance of steel bridges in Japan. That is to say, shown is what has been clarified,in particular, what is not still clarified in the behavior and design of steel bridge structures, and what should be
developed in the future, in order to hand down the information on the technical front of the steel bridge
engineering from the generation who constructed many laborious steel bridges such as the Akashi Strait Bridge,
the longest suspension bridge in the world to the next generation. Also included in the paper are items which thefirst author could not achieve in Osaka City University until his retirement for the age limit. The technical front
on the wind-resistance design, fabrication method and erection method is out of the subject of the paper, becauseof a little knowledge of the authors in these fields.
Repair Design for Fatigue Crack by Adding Steel Plates with High Strength Bolts
Yukiko MITSUGI (New Structural Engineering, Ltd.), Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Akihisa KONDO (Sogo
Engineering Inc.) and Kunitaro HASHIMOTO (Kyoto University)
Journal of Constructional Steel, Vol.17, JSSC, pp. 507- 514 (2010) (in Japanese)
In case of adding steel plates for repairing a fatigue crack, fit bolts are generally used considering high loadtransferring capacity compared with high strength bolted frictional joints. But it is reported that execution of thisrepairing method is difficult from the viewpoint of constructability. In this paper, repairing method for fatigue
cracks by adding steel plates with high strength bolted joints are discussed. First of all, the required performanceof this method is summarized. Secondary, considering such required performance, applicability of adding
method with high strength bolted frictional and bearing joints is discussed based on the mechanical behavior ofthis type of joints by using actual application examples.
Consideration on Seismic Design Method of Viaduct with Steel Bellows as Semi-rigid Girder Connectors
Hiroshi ZUI (Setsunan University), Kentaro TANAKA (Kanto Gakuin University), Masahide MATSUMURA
and Masahiko YOSHIDA (Kawakin Core-Tech Co.,Ltd.)
Journal of Constructional Steel, Vol.18, JSSC, pp. 413- 418 (2010) (in Japanese)－ 133 －

Mutual interactions like contacts and collisions between superstructures and devices attached at the ends of thesuperstructures influences on seismic response of a viaduct with some seismic isolation devices. Preferably
recommended is to adopt an analysis model, which can consider their interactions, in order to ensure seismic
safety of the viaduct in the seismic design. Then, focused on in this study is a combination use of steel bellows
and 2 types of the expansion joints, which have different allowable displacement, and the steel bellows aredesigned to have different load-displacement relationships to prevent their contacts and collisions. The
effectiveness of the combined use of them is investigated and clarified through seismic response analysis.
A Consideration of Seismic Response of a Viaduct Considering Collisions of Expansion Joints andKnocking-off Effect of Mounting High Strength Bolts of Them
Masahide MATSUMURA, Kazuyuki ISHIHARA, Toshiyuki KITADA and Takashi YAMAGUCHI
Journal of Constructional Steel, Vol.18, JSSC, pp. 419- 424 (2010) (in Japanese)
Expansion joints may disturb an isolating function of a viaduct when the transverse displacement of thesuperstructures is influenced by the collision of the expansion joints during a strong earthquake. In this paper,
seismic response of a viaduct is clarified on condition that the expansion joints limit the transverse displacementof the superstructures during a strong earthquake and the necessity of the expansion joints with knock-off
function is described. Then, the high strength bolts installed a slit is considered to provide the knock-off functionof the expansion joints and the breaking characteristics of them are verified through static breaking test.
Experimental Study on Installation Effect of Longitudinal Stiffener Bolted to Steel Bridge Piers
Masahide MATSUMURA, Toshiyuki KITADA and Yoshihiko TAKADA (Hanshin Expressway Public
Corporation)
Journals of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. A1 (SE/EE), Vol.66, No.1, pp.216-223 (2010) (in Japanese)
Stiffener strengthening technique, adding additional stiffeners and strengthening flange plates, is adopted toenhance ductility and buckling strength of existing stiffened plate in an existing steel bridge pier. However, in
this technique, the additional stiffeners are welded and the flange plates are bolted. That is, quality assurance of
the welded part and workability in a narrow space in the steel bridge pier are to be improved to suggest more
economical and rational strengthening technique for retrofitting the existing stiffened plate. Then focused on inthis study is a strengthening technique using L-shaped strengthening member joined with high strengthening
bolts to the plate panel between the existing stiffeners. The effectiveness of this technique against cyclic load isinvestigated through cyclic loading test. It is concluded that the L-shaped and bolted stiffener effectively works
in changing the buckling mode of the plate panel and shows a sound strengthening effect as in the case of thewelded stiffeners.
Effects of Information Provision to Encourage Public Involved Consciousness Toward Sustainable Bus
Service
Noboru ISE and Yasuo HINO
Osaka City University, Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Vol. 51, pp. 11-19 (2010)
Recently, the public involved approach has been introduced to local public transportation planning, because theoperation of bus service based on taxes was not sustainable. However, it seems that public involved approachhas not yet fully generated, and much more still remains to be improved, such as information provision,
components of approach and division of roles. This study focused on the effectiveness of information provisionin cooperative activities to encourage the public involved consciousness. As a result, it was revealed that it was
important to provide information for understanding the future situation of individual and area through thecooperative activities, in order to realize the sustainable bus transportation services
Information Provision via Traceability for Civil Structures
Hirokazu MATSUMOTO and Takashi UCHIDA
Osaka City University, Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Vol. 51, pp. 19-26 (2010)
Recently, public administration is increasingly required to disclose information. Now, therefore, the law related
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However, citizens rarely access that information, partly because of the procedural time and effort necessary. It is
important that people be able to know information about civil structures easily, especially that which is closely
associated with daily life. We propose a “Traceability System for Civil Structures” as one information service
system. This paper shows a process to produce the system and experimentation using a prototype system. The
results show citizens’ high interest in administrative information and the feasibility of the system.
Quantify Benefits of Cycling Space Development in Jakarta
Muhammad ZULKIFLI，Yasuo HINO，AM PATTINAJA，Indra TJAHJANIJournal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies，Vol.9，in press (2011)
This study aims to quantify the benefit of cycling space development in Jakarta. There are very few studies
which evaluate benefits of cycling, especially if cyclist’s conditions including road facilities are improved.
Improvements on health, accidents, air pollution, travel time, saving on parking costs, vehicle cost andsecurity-enjoyments were considered as benefits in this study. As quantifying was done without established data
and value available, the Contingent Valuation Methods (CVM) including Willingness to Pay (WTP) andWillingness to Use with considerations and realistic assumptions were introduced as methodology. The results
show that development of cycling space is valuable measures, especially on saving of user cost. This is because
the higher interest to cycling among the large number of motorized vehicles in Jakarta. This study is designed to
discuss the framework of methodology, therefore the finding could be developed to be more comprehensive
quantifying for the further research.
New Measure of the Level of Service for Basic Expressway Segments Incorporating Customer Satisfaction
Takashi Sakai, Kiko Yamada-Kawai, Hirokazu Matsumoto and Takashi Uchida
ISHC2011, Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol.16, pp.57-68 (2011)
Using an empirical approach, we produced a level of service (LOS) measure that is consistent with a driver’s
subjective evaluation from the viewpoint of customer satisfaction (CS). The study consists of (1) analysis of thecausal relation between the level of CS and drivers’ perceptions related to traffic flow conditions using
individual response data obtained through in laboratory experiments with video images, (2) construction ofpractical driver satisfaction models segmented by the number of lanes of which independent variables are
selected among ordinary indices of traffic flow considering results of the analysis.
An Experimental Study on Measure of Speed Separation to Improve Road Safety on Bicycle Way
Tomota SANO, Yasuo HINO, Nagahiro YOSHIDA, Akinori TATUMIJapan Society of Traffic Engineers, Papers on Traffic Engineering, No. 31，pp. 409-412 (2011) (in Japanese)
Recently，although many bicycle ways have been constructed，various problems came into existence because
they were kept within the limited road space. Especially，the difference between higher speed and lower speed
may become dangerous among cyclists and pedestrians. In this study，the video survey and questionnaire survey
were executed on the sections where both the bicycle lane and side walk with bicycle way were provided. As aresult，some major findings came out of these surveys as follows. 1) the dangerous conditions which low speed
use by mainly aged people used the bicycle lane，on the other hand，higher speed by younger people used theside walk were revealed，2) the speed of bicycles was relatively high at peek time. Then we tried to introduce thesignboards to separate the users according to speed. Some major results show that the speed of bicycles became
reduced and this system was evaluated as a high valuation. As a result，these results may be able to provide theimportant information in order to operate safely the bicycle ways.
Important Issues in Future based on Comparison Analysis of BRT Systems in China
Li HAN HAN and Yasuo HINO
Japan Society of Traffic Engineers, Papers on Traffic Engineering, No. 31，pp. 477-480 (2011) (in Japanese)
Recently，some BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) systems were introduced as a major public transport or thecomplement system of rail way systems，in China. However，there are some cases which the BRT system could
not fulfill its function，because the placement of BRT system was not clear in the transport system. In this paper，
BRT systems in China were classified into 3 types according the level of rail way system，and some importantconditions such as traffic condition before introducing BRT system，purpose and characteristics of BRT systemand system evaluation through the before-after analysis，were investigated based on 4 typical systems according－ 135 －

to the classification. As a result，not only the common problems but also each condition according to urban
characteristic was revealed. These results may be useful to consider the guide line to introduce BRT systems infuture.
Influences on Road Safety by Desert Weather in Uighur
Kelem ZULPIKAL and Yasuo HINO
Japan Society of Traffic Engineers, Papers on Traffic Engineering, No. 31，pp. 25-28 (2011) (in Japanese)
In Uighur，as the road construction has been extended to the desert area，the influences of desert weather to roadsafety have become important issues. However，the data of weather and accidents in Uighur were not enough.
Then in this study，two major issues were treated. At first，the actual conditions of desert weather in Aral-Hotandesert and Taklamakan desert were analyzed based on the existed data by the Meteorological Agency of Uighur.
Secondly，the conditions of occurrence of traffic accidents on main road in each desert area were also analyzed
based on the data of the research institute in Uighur. However，as their data were not enough，the questionnaire
survey was executed to bus drivers on these roads. As a result，it was clear that the influence of high temperature
to automobile tire and brake，the influence of sandstorm to the driving visibility，as well as the speed over anddesultory driving due to the long and straight road，may bring high risk of traffic accidents.
Actual Condition and Major Problems of School Education on Prevention of Traffic Accidents according
Bicycle Use
Yusuke KOTAKE, Yasuo HINO, Nagahiro YOSHIDA and Kazuyuki SHUNDO
Japan Society of Traffic Engineers, Papers on Traffic Engineering, No. 30, pp.137-140 (2010) (in Japanese)
Recently，the ratio of bicycle accidents involved children has become higher. Therefore，the safety education at
school and home must be important. However，the actual conditions are not revealed. In this study，the large
scale of questionnaire survey was executed to public school including primary school，junior high school andhigh school，in Hyogo Prefecture，Japan. As a result，some major findings came out as follows. 1) Although theexperience type education was introduced at many primary schools，there were few curriculums at junior highschools and high schools. 2) There was lack of staffs and teaching materials for road safety education. Thesefindings may be useful to deepen awareness of road safety and realize the cooperation of school and local
government including police office.
An Experimental Study on the Relationship between Visual Information and Behavior for Bicycle Facility
DesignTakanori OKAWA, Nagahiro YOSHIDA, Yasuo HINO and Takashi Uchida
Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Proceedings of Infrastructure Planning, No.43，4p (CD-ROM)(2011) (inJapanese)
Recently, it is spreading to prepare the cycle lane. However the standard of information presentation to control,
to lead and to direct bicycle is unclear. In a previous study, there are little case that treated both view user andbehavior of bicycle. Therefore, knowledge of promoting method of pavement marker, signage and road sign
based on there is a high degree of usability. In this study, we aimed to clarify the relationship between visual
information and behavior on cycle lane. We did experiment to measure visual information and behavior on cycle
lane in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, and confirmed the perception of pavement marker and so on by hearing.
We compared data by type of lane and by gazed object, and analyzed a relationship between visual information
and behavior on cycle lane and a perception of pavement marker and so on.
A Case Study on Evaluation and Major Problems of Bicycle Way on Sidewalk from Viewpoint ofPedestrians
Tomoya Sano，Yasuo HINO，Nagahiro YOSHIDA and Kazuyuki SHUNDO
Japan Society of Traffic Engineers, Papers on Traffic Engineering, No. 30, pp.325-328 (2010) (in Japanese)
In recent years，the promotion of bicycles utilization that，on the wide pavement has increased the separation ofpedestrian and bicycle maintenance. However，the problem that caused by the coexistence of pedestrians andcyclists are not obvious. In this study，we aimed to clarify the evaluation and improvement of bicycle ways
considering the use of pedestrians. Therefore，the experiment revealed by interviews with pedestrians on the
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the separation of pedestrian and bicycle ways. As a result，pedestrians are asked to avoid the conflicting
separation of bicycles. In addition，there's "run fast" and "run along" I feel very dangerous. Also，in the event is
not aware of the relative risks and their evaluation depends on age and whether or not bicycle. Therefore，in themixed space，pointed out that it is a pressing issue that the safety of the elderly do not use a bicycle.
A Study about Freedom of Information System to Aspire for Trust in Administrative Agency
Hirokazu MATSUMOTO and Takashi UCHIDA
Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Proceedings of Infrastructure Planning, No.42, 4p (CD-ROM)(2010) (inJapanese)
Trust for public administration has attracted attention in actual practice and conventional theory. Therefore wefocus on confidence-building by measures aiming stable and delayed effective like information disclosure. In
this paper，we consider the possibility based on a flow of citizens’ consciousness. And with relationships
between administrative activities and factors of trust，we consider concrete measures to develop a trusting
relationship. Hearing with local governments which have many advanced projects is conducted to investigate
their situation.
Quantifying Cost Benefit of Cycling and Walking Facilities Improvement; A Preliminary Study for
Methodology and Application in Jakarta,
Muhammad ZULKIFLI, Yasuo HINO and Indra TJAHJANIJapan Society of Civil Engineers, Proceedings of Infrastructure Planning, No.42, 4p (CD-ROM)(2010)
Cost benefit Analysis is used to evaluate the impacts of road improvement projects in Jakarta and many
Indonesia other cities. However, analysis was not yet used to assess the impacts on Non Motorized Transports(NMT) facilities improvements. The reason for this might be that the evaluation of impacts are very difficult tomake an adequate valuation, therefore the results of estimation will be uncertain. This study is designed to
discuss the framework of methodology, in order to quantify the cost and benefits of space developments for
cycling and walking, in case if they are improved in Jakarta. Several methods using Contingent Valuation
Methods (CVM) such as Willingness to Use, Willingness to Pay (WTP) were ex-pored as methodology. Somebenefits are particularly hard to be valued. On this condition, we have to use several consideration and realistic
assumptions with evaluating reliable indicators for Jakarta. The results come of net benefit show B/C ratio is 1:
22.2 for cycling space and 1: 4.1 for pedestrian developments, which vehicle cost saving hold the major share on
value benefits of approximately 60 percents on the total benefits. The results will be able to identify cycling andwalking as one profitable measure and optimal solution against the rapid increase of motor vehicle usage inJakarta. These findings are not only important in the context of the current promotion of NMT in Jakarta but also
become highlights of the need for further research.
Study on the process of bus service planning and its evaluation method based on public involved approach
Noboru ISE, Yasuo HINO, Koichi KAWASAKI and Yutaka TAWA
Traffic Science Society of Osaka, Proceedings of Traffic Science, Vol.40, No.2, pp.17-20 (2010) (in Japanese)In this paper，as one of practical stages of a series of studies for the sustainable bus service in Kawachi-nagano
City，the utility of public involved process was referred by using the new indicators concerned with public
involvement. As a result，the discussions by workshop procedure were effective to make agreement from wider
viewpoint of the lifestyle and urban transport problem in future. In addition，based on the introduction of new
indicators，both the possibility of the gradual evaluation of bus service and adequacy evaluation of subsidy fromlocal government，were referred.
A Traceability System for Civil Structures to Equalize Consciousness of Private and Public Sectors
Hirokazu MATSUMOTO and Takashi UCHIDA
Proceedings of Applied Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol.35, pp.5-8, (CD-ROM) (2010) (in Japanese)
Lots of information which public administration has stored in business affairs are not provided to citizens. For
civic society，information gap separating citizens and administrative officers should be solved. “Traceability
System for Civil Structures” which is proposed in this study is one information service systems for easy
information query. The implementation could ensure accountability and raise civil awareness. This paper shows
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using the system to know citizens’concern in administrative information is conducted. We reflect the results inthe system and describe future prospects.
Comparative Analysis on the Conflict between Left-Turning Vehicles and Bicycles at Various Type ofSignalized Intersection with Cycle Lane
Takuya IWAMI and Nagahiro YOSHIDA
Proceedings of Infrastructure Planning, No.41, 4p, (CD-ROM) (2010) (in Japanese)
In Japan，almost all of space for cycle is bicycle-pedestrian track. It has caused increasing accidents between
cycle and pedestrian recently. Road Traffic Act was revised in 2008,and it is spreading to promote cycle lane ona trial basis. However，there is little standard needed to consider how promote cycle lane in Japan. In this study，
conflict between left-turning car and cycle is important to safety at the signalized intersection with cycle lane，
and it aims to define features of each intersection with cycle lane by comparing the speed and distance by video
analysis. In Analysis，showing the features by conflicting behavior and vehicular swept path of each intersection，and analyzes the behavior in Copenhagen as an example.
Analysis of Driver’s Satisfaction of Basic Freeway Segments and Satisfaction Rating Model
Takashi SAKAI and Takashi UCHIDA
Infrastructure Planning Review, Vol.27, pp.595-604 (2010) (in Japanese)
The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between traffic conditions and driver’s satisfaction withlevel of services (LOS) for basic freeway segments. Driver's perception and satisfaction about the traffic
conditions has large difference among individuals, however, the aggregate satisfaction tends to constant. Then,by using the covariance structure analysis, causal relationships between drivers' satisfaction and both traffic
indices and perceptions of traffic condition. Finally, for each number of lanes, a satisfaction rating model withtraffic indices as independent variables is proposed.
A Method for Measuring Driver’s Mental Reactions by Using Near Infrared Sensor
Masataka IHARA and Takashi UCHIDA
Infrastructure Planning Review, Vol.27, pp.483-492 (2010) (in Japanese)
There are a lot of measures for the prevention of the traffic accident now. However, whether these measures
work effectively from respect of the psychological condition is not considered, because the method formeasuring driver's mental reactions has not been established. Then, the purpose of the study is to propose amethod for measuring driver's mental reactions by using Near Infrared Sensor. The sensor gives physiology
index that is an oxygen saturation of the hemoglobin. This paper shows the utility of the technique and stabilityof this method.
A Study of Pedestrian Flow Index for Grasping Pedestrian Space’s Features
Takashi UCHIDA, Kentaro MATANO, and Tomoka TSUJI
Infrastructure Planning Review, Vol.27, pp.743-750 (2010) (in Japanese)
Recently, the activation of the urban area is becoming a serious problem. As an example, open terraces are set up
to improve the usage of street spaces. The street spaces are evaluated by the index of flowing quantity of thespace density and the pedestrians, today. However, these indexes cannot be applied to the space where multiple
ways of flow exists. Therefore, it cannot be clarified whether or not if this is effective. So in order to clarify theeffect, it is important to understand the situation of the flow. The study proposes the index quantitatively
expresses the flow situation. And the utility was confirmed by the walking experiment that simplified the flow
situation. Also in an actual urban area that showed complex flow, it was shown that the index was able to be
applied. The influence of the analytical condition and the spatial condition on the index was examined by using
the walking experiment data.
A Study of Navigation System for Visually Handicapped to Support Town Walk - Media and Messages
for Guidance Takashi UCHIDA and Yoshiaki YOSHII
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Recently, navigation systems for pedestrian are widespread with advancing positional specific technology, e.g.
GPS. However, the accuracy of a positional specific technology is after low, and even audio guide is difficult forvisually handicapped people. In the study, a navigation system for the visually handicapped was experienced byusing the signal of sound and the verbal map in the condition similar to practical use. In this paper, theclassification of facilities intended for suburbs, a margin for error of timing , and the priority level of the elementof the verbal map are clarified from the experiment and hearing. Then, the proposal of the practical use of thenavigation is discussed.

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Environmental Urban Engineering
A research on the inhibition factor to upward migration of juvenile Ayu Plecoglossus altivelis at
downstream of the Yamato River, Osaka – Effects on free ammonia on the survival of juvenile AyuHiromitsu ONCHI and Susumu YAMOCHI
Journal of Japan Society for Impact Assessment, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 62-68 (2010) (in Japanese)
Field surveys were conducted on the seaward drifting of larval Ayu Plecoglossus altivelis and their distributions
at the mouth of the Yamato River, central Japan from 2007 to 2009. Total numbers of drifting Ayu were
estimated to be about three million individuals in 2007, while no individuals of Ayu were observed in 2008.
This is partly due to the change of grain size distributions of the riverbed around the spawning site. 34
individuals of Ayu were caught at the most seaward reach of the river, while none of the juvenile Ayu wascollected at the upper areas of the river mouth. Values of ORP were low (min.-156mV) in sediments of theupper site of the river mouth when compared with its seaward sites. These findings indicate that thedeterioration of the bottom sediment may partly inhibit the upstream migration of the Ayu at seaward areas ofthe mouth of the Yamato River.
Outbreaks of Green Tide on the Artificial Salt Marsh along the Coast of Osaka Bay, Japan
Susumu YAMOCHIEMECS9: Managing for Results in our Coastal Seas, Abstract books, 166 p (2011)
Field surveys and indoor experiments were conducted to reduce the outbreak of green tide by Ulva pertusa at
Osaka Nanko bird sanctuary. Reduction of biomass of Ulva spp. was observed at stations where the exposure
rate to air was from 30 to 40%. In addition, the exposure rate of 30 to 40% to air showed no negative impacts
on the biomass of benthic microalgae, infauna and non-motile epibenthos. Laboratory experiments revealed thatphotosynthetic activity of Ulva pertusa decreased when exposed to air for 4 to 7 hours at 25-35C. Salinity
decrease from 30 to 25 or 20 psu in accompanied with exposure to air drastically inhibited the photosynthesis of
this species. These results suggest the possibility of controlling a green tide of Ulva pertusa without serious
physico-ecological damages to benthic microalgae, infauna and non-motile epibenthos by the combination of
exposure to air with low salinity.
Field investigation of oxygen consumption characteristic of sediment in hypoxic enclosed coastal sea
Toru ENDO, T. SHIGEMATSU and S. YAMOCHIEMECS9: Managing for Results in our Coastal Seas, Abstract books, 41 p (2011)
In this study, we found out the oxygen consumption characteristic of sediment that the oxygen consumption rate
becomes large during summer hypoxic season. Therefore, it is important to consider the effect of the oxygen
consumption potential of sediment when restoration technologies for promoting oxygen supply are applied in
hypoxic sea.
Research on Characteristics of the Organic Matter Degradation at the Artificial Tidal Flat –The North
Pond of Osaka Nanko Bird SanctuaryTetsuro FUJITA, Yuri OTANI and Susumu YAMOCHI
Proceedings of Japan Society for Impact Assessment, pp. 67-72 ( 2011) (in Japanese)
We measured carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from tidal-flat sediments using the chamber method to investigate
the characteristics of organic matter degradation at a tidal flat of Osaka Nanko bird sanctuary. In addition, we
determined concentrations of pCO2 in the underground water. The amount of organic matter degradation at low
tide in tidal-flat varies depending on season and also tidal variability of a day. CO2 emission is highest whenwater table is lowest and temperature is highest. Flux of CO2 shows a clear relation with temperature, water tablelevels and biomass.
An Experimental Study on Effect of Oxygen Supply to the Bottom of Hypoxic Sea on Oxygen
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Journal of JSCE, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 66, pp. 1031-1035 (2010) (in Japanese)
To understand oxygen consumption characteristics of sediment for the case of oxygen supply to the bottom of
sea under the hypoxic condition, we carried out a laboratory experiment by using sediment andartificial-seawater. It is found that the oxygen consumption pattern of sediment is changing while sedimentconsumes oxygen. Immediately after oxygen supplying, dissolved oxygen of seawater was consumed by thechemical reaction in the sediment. And then dissolved oxygen consumed by the biological reaction.
Adsorption Characteristics of Heavy Metals to Humic Acid
Mukedes ABDURISHIT, Yoshinori KANJO and Satoshi MIZUTANIJournal of Environmental conservation engineering, Vol.39, No.7, pp.30–36 (2010) (in Japanese)
Humic acid, which is widely distributed in the soil and natural water, has high complexation ability with various
kinds of heavy metals, and gives strong effects on the mobility and solubility of heavy metals. In this paper, we
focused on the adsorption characteristics of heavy metals to humic acids, which were extracted from different
soils based on the extraction method of International Humic Substance Society, compared with the results ofmolecular weight distributions of heavy metals absorbed to humic acid with gel filtration chromatography.
Judging from the results, lead was detected at the same points to the humic acid, and Zinc was absorbed to theorganic matter which molecular weight was more than 100,000. But copper was absorbed to wide range ofhumic acid. In addition, we could obtain that the absorbed amounts of heavy metals were correlated with theamounts of functional groups of humic acids.
Deconjugation Characteristics of Natural Estrogen Conjugates by Acid-catalyzed Solvolysis and its
Application for Wastewater Samples
Ze-hua LIU, Yoshinori KANJO and Satoshi MIZUTANIJournal of Environmental monitoring, Vol.12, pp.1594-1600 (2010)
Deconjugation reactions of natural estrogen conjugates were studied here by three different solutions of 1 M
hydrochloric acid (HCl) in methanol. Estrogen sulfates could be easily deconjugated even at low temperature,
while deconjugation conditions of estrogen glucuronides required a higher temperature and longer time. For 1 M
HCl in methanol with 8% water, the deconjugation efficiencies of the three studied estrogen glucuronides were
below 59.4% at 80°C for 360 min, while the corresponding deconjugation efficiencies were above 80.6% foranhydrous HCl methanol at 80 °C for 210 min, which suggested trace water in the solution of 1 M HCl methanol
retarded the deconjugation rates of estrogen glucuronides. On the other hand, their corresponding deconjugation
rates increased with the addition of ethyl acetate, and their corresponding deconjugation efficiencies were above
86.7% at 80 °C for 120 min. As water is a highly polar solution, and the polarity of ethyl acetate is lower thanthat of methanol, this may suggest that a low polar substance would favor the reaction, while a highly polar
solution would prohibit the reaction. All reactions were in pseudo first-order, and higher temperature increased
the reaction rate. Finally, a GC-MS method for simultaneous analysis of free estrogens and estrogen conjugatesin wastewater with acid-catalyzed solvolysis was developed, and satisfactory recovery efficiencies were obtainedby spiking the standard target chemicals into the influent and effluent of one municipal wastewater treatment
plant (WWTP), which demonstrated the feasibility of the developed method. Compared with enzymatichydrolysis, the acid-catalyzed solvolysis method developed here to deconjugate estrogen conjugates is costeffective and time-saving, giving it a greater potential for use with environmental samples.
Adsorption Behavior of Mercuric Compounds on Soils under Different pH Condition
Satoshi MIZUTANI, Kazushi KADOTANI and Yoshinori KANJO
Environmental Engineering Research, Japan Society of Civil Engineering, Vol.47, pp.267-272 (2010) (inJapanese)
pH dependency of the solubility and adsorptive behavior of HgSe, HgS, HgCl2, HgO on soils was studied. HgSe
was the most stable in the four compounds under all pH area and its solubility were 0.01 - 0.2 μg/L. Because thesolubility in the alkaline solution was higher than acidic one, the behavior at high pH should be paid attention to.

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Adsorption ability of seven kinds of soils for mercury was evaluated based on Freundlich type adsorption
isothermal line. Kurotuti-soil and Akadamado-soil, which are main soils in loamy layer of the Kanto region, andArakidado-soil showed high adsorption abilities. The interaction of mercury and humic materials in the soil arealso studied. They are extracted from Kurotuchi-soil and Arakidado-soil, and their solution with mercury was
fractionated based on the molecular weights by gel filtration chromatography. The mercury was detected in thefraction with humic materials, and it suggested that mercury adsorbed on them.
Development of Drainage Collection System for Early Stabilization of Sea-based Landfill Site
Mitsuyasu TAKATA(Osaka Bay Regional Offshore Environmental Improvement Center), Takayuki
SHIMAOKA(Kyushu Univ.), Yoshinori KANJO, Tamihiro NAKAMICHI(Kobe City), Yoshio YAGI and
Takuji NISHIDA(Japan Waste Research Foundation)
Journal of water and waste, Vol.52, No.11, pp.912-920 (2010) (in Japanese)
Simultaneous Analysis of Natural Free Estrogens and their Sulfate Conjugates in WastewaterZe-hua LIU Yoshinori KANJO and Satoshi MIZUTANI
Clean-soil, air, water, Vol.38, No.12, pp.1146-1151 (2010)
Natural estrogens from humans increasingly attract attention because of their strong endocrine disrupting
potency. The discharge of sewage water is considered as the most important source of these endocrine disrupting
chemicals (EDCs) in the environment. Therefore, a GC-MS method was developed for the simultaneous analysis
of six natural free estrogens and their sulfate conjugates in municipal wastewater, in which natural free estrogens
and sulfate conjugates were successfully separated from an Oasis HLB solid phase extraction (SPE) cartridgewith two different eluents, and the sulfate conjugates were then transformed to their corresponding free estrogens
by acid solvolysis. Before the analysis with GC-MS, samples were derivatized by N,O-bis (trimethylsilyl)
trifluoroacetamide (BSTFA) plus 1% trimethylchlorosilane (TMCS) at 80°C for 40 min. Satisfactory recoveries
ranging from 64 to 112% were obtained by spiking ultra-purified water, raw, and treated municipal wastewaterwith the six estrogens at 50, 100, and 50 ng/L, respectively. The method was successfully applied to wastewater
samples from one WWTP, which suggested that E1 was the dominant natural estrogens in effluent and E3-3S
was one of the conjugates possibly occurring in the effluent.
Removal of Natural Free Estrogens and their Conjugates in a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant
Ze-hua LIU Yoshinori KANJO and Satoshi MIZUTANI
Clean-soil, air, water, Vol.39, No.2, pp.128-135 (2011)
Removal of natural free estrogens and estrogen conjugates in a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)
was investigated and analyzed by GC-MS, in which estrogen conjugates were first transformed to theircorresponding free estrogens with an acid solvolysis procedure before their analysis. Natural free estrogens,E1-3-sulfate (E1-3S), and E3-3-sulfate (E3-3S) were detected with high concentrations in both the influent andeffluent of the primary settling tank (PS), while no estrogen glucuronides were detected in any of the monitored
wastewater samples. Regarding their removal efficiencies, all were almost completely removed, except for E1
with only a minor decrease. The estrogenic/androgenic removal of the same WWTP was also evaluated withestrogen receptor (androgen receptor) (ER (AR))-binding assays, in which the removal efficiencies for E2
equivalents (EEQ) or testosterone equivalents (TEQ) were 68.5 and 72.2%. In addition, the chemicallycalculated EEQ from natural estrogens were about 20.6–39.3% that of the ER-binding assay, in which E3
contributed the biggest proportion in both the influent and PS, while the calculated value of E1 increased fromonly 6.7% in the influent to as high as 20.6% in the effluent.
Recovery of Indium from Waste-LCD by Chemical Extraction Method
Satoshi MIZUTANI, Yoshinori KANJO and Hiroshi HASEGAWA(Kanazawa Univ.)
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management held in
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Indium is an important metal for our society. It is used for liquid crystal display (LCD) for portable computer,television, monitor etc. Although about 86 % of demand of the world is used in Japan, Japan imports almost allof the indium. Therefore indium recycling is very important. In this study, recovery of indium from waste-LCD
by solvent extraction followed with solid phase extraction is studied. Old laptop computer was taken to pieces,and only glass board containing ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) in LCD is taken off. It is crushed and pulverized byplanetary mill. Then the samples are extracted with some solvents. A variety concentration of hydrochloric acidand aqua regia are used as solvents. Higher liquid per solid ratio and higher concentration of acid raised therecovery rate of indium.

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