1. Preface

   • Fumihiro Ashida

   EditorialNotes 04 June 2010 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Thermal stresses in a viscoelastic trimaterial

   • C. K. Chao

   OriginalPaper 22 April 2010 Pages: 3 - 15

3. Tatara and the Japanese sword: the science and technology

   • Tatsuo Inoue

   OriginalPaper 05 June 2010 Pages: 17 - 30

4. Efficient modeling of smart piezoelectric composite laminates: a review

   • S. Kapuria
   • P. Kumari
   • J. K. Nath

   OriginalPaper 22 April 2010 Pages: 31 - 48

5. Phase field simulations of low-dimensional ferroelectrics

   • Jie Wang
   • Marc Kamlah
   • Tong-Yi Zhang

   OriginalPaper 23 April 2010 Pages: 49 - 59

6. Mixture law including particle-size effect on fracture toughness of nano- and micro-spherical particle-filled composites

   • Tadaharu Adachi
   • Wakako Araki
   • Masahiro Higuchi

   OriginalPaper 13 April 2010 Pages: 61 - 69

7. An analytical method for thermal stresses of a functionally graded material cylindrical shell under a thermal shock

   • Li-cheng Guo
   • Naotake Noda

   OriginalPaper 20 April 2010 Pages: 71 - 78

8. Elastic wave and energy propagation in angled beams

   • Y. B. Guo
   • V. P. W. Shim
   • A. Y. L. Yeo

   OriginalPaper 23 April 2010 Pages: 79 - 94

9. Interface corners in piezoelectric materials

   • Chyanbin Hwu
   • Tai-Liang Kuo

   OriginalPaper 21 April 2010 Pages: 95 - 110

10. Evaluation of thermo-viscoelastic property of CFRP laminate based on a homogenization theory

    • Ko-hei Kaku
    • Masahiro Arai
    • Tetsuya Matsuda

    OriginalPaper 30 April 2010 Pages: 111 - 121

11. Efficient finite element with physical and electric nodes for transient analysis of smart piezoelectric sandwich plates

    • S. Kapuria
    • S. D. Kulkarni

    OriginalPaper 20 April 2010 Pages: 123 - 131

12. Mathematical analysis of flexural vibrations of inhomogeneous rectangular plates and beams subjected to cyclic loadings of temperature change and external force

    • Ryuusuke Kawamura
    • Hiroshi Fujita
    • Hiroyuki Kinoshita

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2010 Pages: 133 - 144

13. Magneto-thermo-elastic problem of a conducting rectangular cylinder subjected to sinusoidal change in time of magnetic field

    • Ryuusuke Kawamura
    • Koji Sano
    • Hiroyuki Kinoshita

    OriginalPaper 13 April 2010 Pages: 145 - 158

14. High-speed thermal stress cleaving by moving heat with mist cooling

    • Shinichi Kubota
    • Akihide Saimoto
    • Yasufumi Imai

    OriginalPaper 19 June 2010 Pages: 159 - 167

15. A comprehensive analysis for the shakedown of a Bree plate made of functionally graded materials

    • X. Peng
    • N. Hu
    • C. Fang

    OriginalPaper 17 April 2010 Pages: 169 - 184

16. Versatile analysis of limited plasticity by body force method

    • Akihide Saimoto
    • Yasufumi Imai

    OriginalPaper 04 June 2010 Pages: 185 - 194

17. On the fatigue fracture at adsorption/desorption of water in/from liquid-repellent nanoporous silica

    • Claudiu Valentin Suciu
    • Shingo Tani
    • Kazuhiko Yaguchi

    OriginalPaper 22 April 2010 Pages: 195 - 203

18. Thermoelectroelastic response of a functionally graded piezoelectric strip with two parallel axisymmetric cracks

    • Sei Ueda
    • Toru Iogawa
    • Hironori Kondo

    OriginalPaper 27 April 2010 Pages: 205 - 224