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Anisotropic Elastic Scattering of Neutrons

Description: In an elastic collision the neutron loses part of its kinetic energy to the nucleus with both the kinetic and momentum of the system being conserved. However, for many elements the scattering is not isotropic in the center-of-mass system at the higher neutron energies. Many of the present reactor multigroup codes include anisotropic scattering at the high neutron energies, while many others assume isotropic scattering at all energies. In order to consider some of the effects of including anisot… more
Date: March 21, 1957
Creator: Copenhaver, C. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of a Windshield-Display System to the Low-Altitude Bombing Problem

Description: From Introduction: "The design and flight evaluation of an airborne target simulator for use in tracking studies of fighter-type airplanes equipped with optical gunsights have recently been reported (ref. 1). In this equipment the target airplane was represented by a movable dot of light projected on the windshield of the test airplane."
Date: January 4, 1957
Creator: Barnett, Robert M.; Kauffman, William M. & Fulcher, Elmer C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The application of matrix methods to coordinate transformations occurring in systems studies involving large motions of aircraft

Description: Report presenting the method and advantages of matrix algebra in setting up the geometric aspects of problems of airplane motion. The paper is divided into two parts. The first is about the aspects of matrix algebra required for use in orthogonal transformations and the other shows how to use orthogonal transformations in matrix form by applying them in several examples.
Date: May 1957
Creator: Doolin, Brian F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of obliquely mounted strain gage to measurement of residual stresses in disks

Description: Report presenting a method by which the residual stress distribution in a disk can be determined with the aid of the obliquely mounted strain gage when the directions of the principal stresses are radial and tangential. The strain gages are mounted in such a way as to make them sensitive only to the tangential stresses in the disk. Results regarding cutting procedure, accuracy of the method, and an independent check of the method are required.
Date: September 1957
Creator: Hirschberg, M. H.; Kemp, R. H. & Manson, S. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Application of Pulsed Neutron Sources to Criticality Measurements

Description: Abstract: Experimentally measured promp-neutron decay constants for sub-critical systems are of considerable value as normalization data for calculations of prompt-neutron time constants. A method of measuring these decay constants with a pulsed neutron source, neutron detector and multi-channel time-delay analyzer has been developed and used on a number of fast-spectrum subcritical systems. An analysis of this method based on the one-energy group, one-delayed-neutron group reactor kinetic equa… more
Date: January 30, 1957
Creator: Passell, Lawrence; Bengston, Joel & Blair, Donald C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Applications of power spectral analysis methods to maneuver loads obtained on jet fighter airplanes during service operations

Description: Report presenting power spectral densities of normal load factor obtained for two service operational training flights of a Republic F-84G airplane and three service operational training flights of a North American F-86A airplane in order to indicate the load-factor frequency content and possible uses of power spectral methods in analyzing maneuver load data. Results regarding the spectra of the two different planes, an analytical representation of maneuver load spectrum, and probability distri… more
Date: January 15, 1957
Creator: Mayer, John P. & Hamer, Harold A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Applied Health Physics Semi-Annual Report : July 1956 - December 1956

Description: This semi-annual report of the Applied Health Physics Section of the Health Physics Division provides both narrative and quantitative descriptions of area air monitoring activities, fallout activity, rain water analyses, Clinch River and White Oak Creek analyses, background radiation monitoring, and monitoring of the work and protective garments laundry. Measurements for gamma and beta activity are reported in millicuries/cubic centimeter. The report does not provide information on specific rad… more
Date: 1957
Creator: Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Health Physics Division
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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APPR-1 Type Absorber Rod Irradiation Test -- Irradiation Request ORNL MTR-29

Description: In order to evaluate the behavior of an APPR type absorber rod, an irradiation test program has been established. Approximately 21 more samples are planned for testing under this request. The request proposes testing a full size APPR-1 type control rod in the MTR. The objective of the test is to better evaluate the neutron absorbing material proposed for the APPR-1 control rod.
Date: January 4, 1957
Creator: Gross, E. E. & Schaffter, L. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Appraisal of the Hazards of Friction-Spark Ignition of Aircraft Crash Fires

Description: Note presenting a study to determine if common aircraft metals produce friction sparks capable of igniting combustibles that might be spilled in an airplane crash. Samples of aluminum, titanium, magnesium, chrome-molybdenum steel, and stainless steel were dragged over concrete and asphalt runways while a combustible mixture of gasoline, JP-4 fuel, kerosene, or preheated oil was sprayed around the sample.
Date: May 1957
Creator: Campbell, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Approximate analysis of effects of large deflections and initial twist on torsional stiffness of a cantilever plate subjected to thermal stresses

Description: Report presenting an approximate analysis of the nonlinear effects of initial twist and large deflections on the torsional stiffness of a cantilever plate subjected to a nonuniform temperature distribution. The results show that the initial twist and applied moments can have significant effects on the changes in stiffness produced by nonuniform heating. Results regarding the general results of equations and comparison with experiment are provided.
Date: August 1957
Creator: Heldenfels, Richard R. & Vosteen, Louis F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Approximate analysis of effects of large deflections and initial twist on torsional stiffness of a cantilever plate subjected to thermal stresses

Description: From Summary: "An approximate analysis of the nonlinear effects of initial twist and large deflections on the torsional stiffness of a cantilever plate subjected to a nonuniform temperature distribution is presented. The Von Karman large-deflection equations are satisfied through the use of a variational principle. The results show that initial twist and applied moments can have significant effects on the changes in stiffness produced by nonuniform heating, particularly in the region of the buc… more
Date: May 15, 1957
Creator: Heldenfels, Richard R. & Vosteen, Louis F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Approximate Calculation of the Compressible Turbulent Boundary Layer With Heat Transfer and Arbitrary Pressure Gradient

Description: Note presenting an approximate method for the calculation of compressible turbulent boundary layer with heat transfer and arbitrary pressure gradient. The method involves the momentum integral and moment-of-momentum equations as simplified by using Stewartson's transformation.
Date: December 1957
Creator: Reshotko, Eli & Tucker, Maurice
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Approximate solution for streamlines about a lifting rotor having uniform loading and operating in hovering or low-speed vertical-ascent flight conditions

Description: Report presenting that the usual assumption of a uniform vortex cylinder for the wake vortex structure of a uniformly loaded, lifting rotor operating in the hovering or low-speed vertical-ascent flight conditions does not yield useful results for induced velocities in the region about the periphery of the rotor.
Date: February 1957
Creator: Castles, Walter, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aqueous Corrosion of Uranium Fuel-Element Cores Containing 0 to 20 w/o Zirconium

Description: Abstract: A description is given of the design and operation of a windowed autoclave system employed in the study of corrosion by pressurized hot water. The device has been used to obtain time-lapse motion pictures of the swelling and rupture of deliberately defected zirconium-clad uranium specimens. A method is described by which corrosion rates were calculated from pressure and temperature measurements. A typical set of pictures taken during a test is presented, and corrosion rates are report… more
Date: January 7, 1957
Creator: Grieser, Daniel R. & Simons, Eugene M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Arrangements of jet engine and airframe for increased range

Description: Report presenting an evaluation of a number of factors affecting engine-airframe arrangements in terms of range. Appropriate equations are developed and evaluated for a range of Mach numbers, ramjet and turbojet engines at several cycle temperatures, and two airplane lift-drag ratios. Some of the factors explored include inlet locations, jet cant for lift, engine moments for trim, a combination of the three factors, and the use of boundary layer in the engine.
Date: July 26, 1957
Creator: Luidens, Roger W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atmospheric temperature observations to 100,000 feet for several climatological regions of the Northern Hemisphere

Description: Report presenting radiosonde measurements of upper-air temperatures taken over a 5-year period at nine stations in the northern hemisphere are summarized in order to provide information on the temperatures likely to be encountered during airplane and missile operations up to 100,000 feet.
Date: November 1957
Creator: Tolefson, H. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atomic Energy Facts: a Summary of Atomic Activities of Interest to Industry

Description: Introduction: Atomic Energy Facts is designed to serve as an introduction to nuclear operations in the United States and as a handbook of related information for the use of industrial firms and other active or interested in atomic energy.
Date: September 1957
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Attenuation in a Shock Tube Due to Unsteady-Boundary-Layer Action

Description: "A method is presented for obtaining the attenuation of a shock wave in a shock tube due to the unsteady boundary layer along the shock-tube walls. It is assumed that the boundary layer is thin relative to the tube diameter and induces one-dimensional longitudinal pressure waves whose strength is proportional to the vertical velocity at the edge of the boundary layer. The contributions of the various regions in a shock tube to shock attenuation are indicated. The method is shown to be in reason… more
Date: 1957
Creator: Mirels, Harold
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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