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Column and plate compressive strengths of aircraft structural materials: 17S-T aluminum-alloy sheet

Description: From Summary: "Column and plate compressive strengths of 17S-T aluminum-alloy sheet were determined both within and beyond the elastic range from tests of thin-strip columns and from local-instability tests of formed Z- and channel-section columns. These tests are part of an extensive research investigation to provide data on the structural strengths of various aircraft materials. Results are presented in the form of curves and charts that may be used in the design and analysis of aircraft stru… more
Date: June 1945
Creator: Heimerl, George J. & Roy, J. Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Column and Plate Compressive Strengths of Aircraft Structural Materials: 24S-T Aluminum-Alloy Sheet

Description: "Column and plate compressive strengths of 24S-T aluminum-alloy sheet were determined both within and beyond the elastic range from tests of thin-strip columns and from local-instability tests of formed Z-end channel-section columns. These tests are the first of a series in an extensive research investigation to provide data on the structural strength of various aircraft materials. The results, which are presented in the form of curves and charts that may be used in the design and analysis of a… more
Date: June 1945
Creator: Lundquist, Eugene E.; Schuette, Evan H.; Heimerl, George J. & Roy, J. Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Column and Plate Compressive Strengths of Aircraft Structural Materials: Extruded 14S-T Aluminum Alloy

Description: "Column and plate compressive strengths of extruded 14S-T aluminum alloy were determined both within and beyond the elastic range from tests of flat-end H-section columns and from local-instability tests of H-, Z-, and channel-section columns. These tests are part of an extensive research investigation to provide data on the structural strength of various aircraft materials. The results are presented in the form of curves and charts that are suitable for use in the design and analysis of aircra… more
Date: May 1946
Creator: Heimerl, George J. & Niles, Donald E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Column and plate compressive strengths of aircraft structural materials: extruded 24S-T aluminum alloy

Description: Report presenting column and plate compressive strengths of extruded 24S-T aluminum alloy determined both within and beyond the elastic range from tests of thin-strip columns and local-instability tests of H-, Z-, and channel-section columns. The tests are part of a research investigation to provide data on the structural strength of various aircraft materials. Results regarding compressive stress-strain curves and column and plate compressive strengths are provided.
Date: July 1945
Creator: Heimerl, George J. & Roy, J. Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Column and Plate Compressive Strengths of Aircraft Structural Materials: Extruded 24S-T Aluminum Alloy

Description: Column and plate compressive strengths of extruded 24S-T aluminum alloy were determined both within and beyond the elastic range from tests of thin-strip columns and local-instability tests of H-, Z-,and channel-section columns. These tests are part of an extensive research investigation to provide data on the' structural strength of various aircraft materials. The results are presented in the form of curves and charts that are suitable for use in the design and analysis of aircraft structures.
Date: July 1945
Creator: Heimerl, George J. & Roy, J. Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Column and plate compressive strengths of aircraft structural materials: extruded 75S-T aluminum alloy

Description: Report presenting column and plate compressive strengths of extruded 75S-T aluminum alloy both within and beyond the elastic range from tests of thin-strip columns and local-instability tests of H-, Z-, and channel-section columns. The tests are part of an extensive research investigation to provide data on the structural strength of various aircraft materials. Results regarding compressive stress-strain curves and column and plate compressive strengths are provided.
Date: July 1945
Creator: Heimerl, George J. & Roy, J. Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Column and Plate Compressive Strengths of Aircraft Structural Materials: Extruded R303-T Aluminum Alloy

Description: "Column and plate compressive strengths of extruded R303-T aluminum alloy were determined both within and beyond the elastic range form tests of thin-strip columns and local-instability tests of H-, Z-, and channel-section columns. These tests are part of an extensive research investigation to provide data on the structural strength of various aircraft materials. The results are presented in the form of curves and charts that are suitable for use in the design and analysis of aircraft structure… more
Date: October 1945
Creator: Heimerl, George J. & Fay, Douglas P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparative Cooling of Cylinders of Nonuniform Fin Width With Tight-Fitting Baffles and With Baffles That Provide Constant Flow-Path Areas

Description: Report presenting an investigation using tight-fitting baffles on the cooling fins of several modern air-cooled engine cylinders in order to maintain a constant free-flow area from the front to the rear of each interfin air passage. Results regarding the effect of restriction in cooling-air flow paths on cylinder temperature and effect of restrictions in cooling-air flow paths on cooling-air mass flow are provided.
Date: April 1944
Creator: Schey, Oscar W.; Rollin, Vern G. & Buckner, Howard A., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Comparative Study of the Effect of Wing Flutter Shape on the Critical Flutter Speed

Description: Report presenting a comparison of the results of calculations of the critical flutter speeds of nine uniform rectangular wings without ailerons by two methods: one in which the effect of the wing flutter shape is introduced indirectly by choosing mean values for the wing parameters and one that introduces an additional degree of freedom in the wing-bending flutter mode.
Date: November 1943
Creator: Pinkel, I. Irving
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparison between calculated and measured loads on wing and horizontal tail in pull-up maneuvers

Description: Report presenting comparisons of measured and calculated loads on the wing and horizontal tail in pull-up maneuvers for six airplanes over a range of weights. Good agreement was obtained between calculated and measured loads under certain circumstances, but the agreement in some cases was only fair, which may be attributed to poor quantitative knowledge of the aerodynamic parameters or to violation of the assumptions on which the method is based.
Date: October 1945
Creator: Matheny, Cloyce E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparison of an approximate and an exact method of shear-lag analysis

Description: Report presenting comparisons between the approximate substitute single-stringer method of shear-lag analysis and the exact solutions, which indicate that for beams of practical proportions the approximate method yields a value for the maximum root stress that exceeds the value obtained by use of the exact solution by less than 10 percent.
Date: January 1944
Creator: Duberg, John E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A comparison of analytically and experimentally determined isothermal pressure losses in a heat-exchanger installation

Description: The results of this analysis indicate that isothermal pressure losses can be predicted analytically in the type of ducting system which may be broken down into the elementary forms of elbows, diffusers, and straight ducts for which pressure-loss data are published.
Date: May 1945
Creator: Hillendahl, Wesley H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparison of Intercooler Characteristics

Description: Report presenting a method of comparing the performance, weight, and general dimensional characteristics of intercoolers. The performance and dimensional characteristics covered in the comparisons include cooling effectiveness, pressure drops and weight flows of the charge and cooling air, power losses, volume, frontal area, and width.
Date: November 1942
Creator: Reuter, J. George & Valerino, Michael F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparison of Tail and Wing-Tip Spin-Recovery Parachutes as Determined by Tests in the Langley 20-Foot Free-Spinning Tunnel

Description: Report presenting tests of spin-recovery parachutes on six models of typical fighter and trainer airplanes conducted in the 20-foot free-spinning tunnel to obtain data for correlating model and full-scale results. Parachutes attached to the tail of the models, to the outer wing tip, to the inner wing tip, and to both wing tips were tested. Results regarding parachute construction, loading variations, effect of test altitude, and action of spin-recovery parachutes are provided.
Date: March 1946
Creator: Kamm, Robert W. & Malvestuto, Frank S., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Comparison of the Effects of Four-Blade Dual- and Single-Rotation Propellers on the Stability and Control Characteristics of a High-Powered Single-Engine Airplane

Description: Report presenting a scale powered model of the Douglas XSB2D-1 airplane tested with a four-blade dual-rotation propeller and a four-blade single-rotation propeller. To make the results more directly comparable, no other changes were made to the model. Results regarding longitudinal stability, directional characteristics, and lateral stability are provided.
Date: June 1944
Creator: Harper, Charles W. & Wick, Bradford H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Comparison of Two Flight-Test Procedures for the Determination of Aileron Control Capabilities of an Airplane

Description: Report presenting a comparison of two flight-test procedures for the determination of the aileron control capabilities of an airplane. The procedures consist of performing rudder-fixed aileron rolls from straight unbanked flight and from steady turning flight. Results regarding rate of roll comparison and sideslip-angle comparison are provided.
Date: July 1945
Creator: Skoog, Richard B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparison of various methods for computing drag from wake surveys

Description: "The various equations for computing profile drag by the momentum method are examined, and the errors arising from complete or partial neglect of compressibility effects in the Jones equation and the Bicknell equation are evaluated. The integrating method of Silverstein and Katzoff is shown to be accurate over a wide range of Mach number and wake shapes" (p. 1).
Date: January 1943
Creator: Davis, Wallace F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparison of Wind-Tunnel and Flight Measurements of Stability and Control Characteristics of a Douglas A-26 Airplane

Description: Tests in Langley pressure tunnel of model XA-26 bomber were compared with those of A-26B (twin-engine attack bomber) and showed that static longitudinal stability, indicated by elevator-fixed neutral points, and variation of elevator deflection in straight and turning flight were good. Airplane possessed improved stability at low speeds which was attributed to pronounced stalling at root of production wing. At rudder-force reversal at speeds higher than those in flight tests, agreement in rudde… more
Date: March 1946
Creator: Kayten, Gerald G. & Koven, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparisons of Methods of Computing Bending Moments in Helicopter Rotor Blades in the Plane of Flapping

Description: Report presenting several methods of computing bending moments in helicopter rotor blades in the plane of flapping, and the results of a numerical example analyzed by four different methods are compared. The effect of computed bending moments of the tip-loss correction introduced by Wheatley is also considered.
Date: August 1945
Creator: Duberg, John E. & Luecker, Arthur R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Compressibility and Heating Effects on Pressure Loss and Cooling of a Baffled Cylinder Barrel

Description: Report presenting testing to obtain experimental confirmation of the effect of air compressibility on cooling and pressure loss of a baffled cylinder barrel and to evaluate various methods of analysis. Testing occurred over a wide range of air flows and density altitudes.
Date: July 1944
Creator: Goldstein, Arthur W. & Ellerbrock, Herman H., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Compressibility Effects on Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in Smooth Cylindrical Tubes

Description: "An analysis is made to simplify pressure-drop calculations for nonadiabatic and adiabatic friction flow of air in smooth cylindrical tubes when the density changes due to heat transfer and pressure drop are appreciable. Solutions of the equation of motion are obtained by the use of Reynolds' analogy between heat transfer and skin friction. Charts of the solutions are presented for making pressure-drop calculations" (p. 1).
Date: October 1944
Creator: Nielsen, Jack N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Compressible potential flow with circulation about a circular cylinder

Description: Report presenting the potential function for flow, with circulation, of a compressible fluid about a circular cylinder, which is obtained in series form including terms of the order of M(exp 4) where M is the Mach number of the free stream. The equations are used to obtain pressure coefficient as a function of Mach number at a point on the surface of the cylinder for different values of circulation.
Date: January 1944
Creator: Heaslet, Max A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Compressive Strength of Flat Panels with Z- and Hat-Section Stiffeners

Description: Compression tests were conducted on 247 panels with Z-section stiffeners and 304 panels with hat-section stiffeners. Specimens were constructed from artificially aged Alclad 24S aluminum alloy with minimum guaranteed yield strengths of 64 and 57 ksi for stiffeners and sheet materials, respectively. Height, thickness, and spacing of stiffeners, sheet thickness, and length of specimens were varied systematically to show effects of changes in these dimensions on panel strength. Results show averag… more
Date: June 1944
Creator: Kotanchik, Joseph N.; Weinberger, Robert A.; Zender, George W. & Neff, John, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Compressive Strength of Flat Panels With Z-Section Stiffeners

Description: Report presenting compression testing on several series of flat panels with Z-section stiffeners with varying relative dimensions. The data presented show the effect of dimension ratio on the buckling stress for the sheet and on average stress at maximum load.
Date: February 1944
Creator: Rossman, Carl A.; Bartone, Leonard M. & Dobrowski, Charles V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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