Vol.61, No.1 / Apr. 2011


INDEX

2	Tasks and Future Activities Related to Steel Wire Rod and Bar Products
		Noriaki HIRAGA

7	Overseas Deployment of Wire Rod and Bar Manufacturing and Wire Rod Secondary Processing
		Goro AKAISHI / Noriaki HIRAGA

11	Effective Boom Production System Using Three Continuous Casting Machines to Produce High Quality Steel
		Hiroaki SAKAI / Yasumasa YOSHIDA / Takeshi INOUE / Yoshio FUKUZAKI /   Kazuki SUMIDA

16	Overview of New Bar Conditioning Line
		Atsushi HASEGAWA / Satoshi TSUNO / Jou SUGANO

20	Outline of Renewal and Improvement of Billet Conditioning Line
		Satoru MAEDA / Katsuya TAKAOKA / Yoji MAEKAWA / Yasuhiro WASA

24	Improvement of Bloom Surface Quality in the Hot Scarfing Process
		Tomohide TAIRA / Masanori KOBAYASHI / Katsuya TAKAOKA / Shouji MIYAZAKI

29	Analysis of Surface Defect Generation Behavior and Decrease of Wire Rolling Defects
		Hitoshi KUSHIDA / Dr. Mikako TAKEDA / Shoji MIYAZAKI / Yoshihiko KUBOTA

34	Capacity Improvement of Special Steel Supply by Establishing a Compatible System for a Wire Rod Mill
		Goh SHIRANO / Yoshihiko KUBOTA / Hidenori SAKAI

39	History of Development of Wire Rods for Valve Springs
		Nao YOSHIHARA

43	High Strength Wire Rod with Low Nickel and Vanadium-free for Suspension Spring ACROS1950
		Tomotada MARUO / Nao YOSHIHARA

47	Delayed Fracture Evaluation of High Strength Steels by SSRT Testing
		Wataru URUSHIHARA / Takuya KOUCHI

52	Effect of Strain Rate on Deformation Resistance in Cold Forging Steels
		Dr. Tomokazu MASUDA / Takehiro TSUCHIDA / Dr. Masamichi CHIBA

57	Development Trends of Soft Magnetic Iron
		Dr. Masamichi CHIBA

62	Mechanism of Crack Initiation at Non-metallic Inclusion under Rolling Contact Fatigue in Bearing Steels
		Takehiro TSUCHIDA / Dr. Eiichi TAMURA

66	Influence of Ti Precipitate in Carburizing Steel Containing Boron
		Dr. Nariaki OKAMOTO / Yosuke SHINDO / Mutsuhisa NAGAHAMA

70	Simulation on Distortion of Carburized Gear
		Dr. Keisuke OKITA / Kazuhiro TSUTSUMI / Yosuke SHINDO / Manabu FUJITA /   Mutsuhisa NAGAHAMA / Katsuhiro IWASAKI

75	Low Alloy Steel for Fracture Splitting Connecting Rod
		Akihiro MATSUGASAKO

79	Strengthening and Functionally Grading Technology by VC Interphase Precipitation Control
		Dr. Toshio MURAKAMI / Elijah KAKIUCHI / Dr. Hitoshi HATANO /   Takeshi ARIKAWA / Dr. Hideki KAKIMOTO / Takashi CHODA

84	Cutting Simulation of Wire and Rod
		Dr. Katsuhiko OZAKI / Dr. Koichi AKAZAWA / Mutsuhisa NAGAHAMA

89	Production Technology of Wire Rod for High Tensile Strength Steel Cord
		Kazuhiko KIRIHARA

93	History of Development of Secondary Processing Technology
		Shigehiro YAMANE

98	Behavior of CaO Containing Inclusions during Ladle Refining of Ultraclean Bearing Steel
		Dr. Hiroki OHTA / Dr. Sei KIMURA / Tsuyoshi MIMURA / Hiroaki MATSUMOTO

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102	Papers on Advanced Technologies for Steel Wire Rod and Bar in R&D Kobe Steel Engineering Reports (Vol.50, No.1～Vol.60, No.2)