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Metal- and Nonmetal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1942 (Excluding Coal Mines)

Description: Report published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines regarding accidents at mines located in the United States for all operations except coal mines. The report includes statistics about the number and kinds of accidents as well as information about the mining operations (i.e., number of persons employed, average amount of work performed per person, etc.).
Date: 1945
Creator: Adams, William W. & Kennedy, F. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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United States Earthquakes, 1945

Description: Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1945. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1945
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flight Investigation of Boundary-Layer and Profile-Drag Characteristics of Smooth Wing Sections of a P-47D Airplane

Description: Report presenting a flight investigation made of boundary-layer and profile-drag characteristics of smooth wing sections of a P-47D airplane. Measurements were made at three stations on the wing: boundary-layer measurements, pressure-distribution measurements, and wake surveys. The results indicated that a minimum profile-drag coefficient of 0.0062 for the smooth section at 63 percent semispan was obtained.
Date: October 1945
Creator: Zalovcik, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flight Investigation of Boundary-Layer Transition and Profile Drag of an Experimental Low-Drag Wing Installed on a Figher-Type Airplane

Description: Report presenting a boundary-layer-transition and profile-drag investigation conducted on an experimental low-drag wing installed on a P-47 airplane designated the XP-47F. Measurements were made at a section outside the propeller slipstream with smooth and with standard camouflage surfaces and on the upper surface of a section in the propeller slipstream with the surface smoothed. Results regarding the right wing section outside the slipstream and left wing section in the propeller slipstream a… more
Date: April 1945
Creator: Zalovcik, John A. & Skoog, Richard B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Table of Interplanar Spacings for Crystal-Structure Determinations by X-Ray Diffraction With Molybdenum, Copper, Cobalt, Iron, and Chromium Radiations

Description: "For a simple diffraction pattern, the time required to calculate interplanar distances from measurements of the pattern is not excessive. If more than a few lines are present, however, or if several patterns are to be studied, it is very advantageous to have available a table giving interplanar spacings directly in terms of the linear measurements made on the film of the lines appearing on the diffraction pattern. The preparation of the table given here was undertaken when the expansion of res… more
Date: October 1945
Creator: Kittel, J. Howard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Photoelectric Hygrometer

Description: Note presenting an instrument that measures small absolute humidity changes by photoelectric examination of the 9440 angstrom units absorption band of water vapor. The instrument consists of a small source of light which sends its radiation over an air path of less than 1.5 meters to a dispersing system.
Date: May 1945
Creator: Hamermesh, Bernard; Reines, Frederick & Korff, Serge A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bearing strengths of 24S-T aluminum alloy plate

Description: Report presenting a series of tests to determine the bearing yield and ultimate strengths of samples of 1/4- and 2-inch-thick plate of aluminum alloy 24S-T and to establish nominal ratios of bearing-to-tensile properties for the commercial range of plate thicknesses. Results regarding individual bearing testing, ratios of average bearing to tensile properties, and ratios of bearing yield strength to tensile yield strength are provided.
Date: June 1945
Creator: Moore, R. L. & Wescoat, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Strength of Semielliptical Cylinders Subjected to Combined Loadings

Description: "The present report covers tests made on elliptical cylinders with a center support which were subjected to various simple and combined loadings. The tests yielded a series of interaction curves for combined loadings on such cylinders which should be useful in wing nose section analysis" (p. 1).
Date: February 1945
Creator: Sechler, E. E. & Frederick, J. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Studies of Blade Shank and Pitch Distribution for Constant-Speed Propellers

Description: Note presenting an experimental investigation of the influences of blade shank form and pitch distribution on the aerodynamic characteristics of constant-speed propellers. The results indicated that the replacement of round blade shanks by faired ones produced substantial improvements of efficiency which increased with the advance ratio. Results regarding blade shank form, pitch distribution, and influences of blade loading and number of blades are provided.
Date: January 1945
Creator: Reid, Elliott G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Shear Elastic Properties of Some High Strength Nonferrous Metals as Affected by Plastic Deformation and by Heat Treatment

Description: Note presenting a study of the shear elastic properties of monel, nickel, Inconel, and aluminum-model tubing, as influenced by extension of annealed specimens, by cold reduction during manufacture, and by stress-relief annealing of cold-reduced materials. With slight extension of annealed tubing, the shear proof stresses generally decrease, owing to induced internal stress.
Date: January 1945
Creator: Mebs, R. W. & McAdam, D. J., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Strength of Wing Beams Under Axial and Transverse Loads

Description: Note presenting wing beams tested under axial compressive loads, transverse loads, and combined axial and transverse loads. Deflections and strains in the elastic range were in general agreement with those computed from the simple beam theory after taking account of the secondary bending moment produced by the axial load as the beam deflected under load.
Date: September 1945
Creator: Ramberg, Walter; McPherson, A. E. & Levy, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Survey of Adhesives and Adhesion

Description: Report presenting an investigation regarding the strengths of bonds between different chemical types of adhesives and adherends. Some of the topics explored include the theoretical aspects of adhesion and properties of adhesively bonded structures.
Date: August 1945
Creator: Rinker, R. C. & Kline, G. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance tests of wire strain gages 3: calibrations at high tensile strains

Description: Report presenting results of calibration in axial tension over the strain range 0 to 0.03 are presented for 15 types of single element, multistrand wire strain gages. Considerable nonlinearity was observed at strains between 0.0025 and 0.006. Fifty-eight percent of the gages failed by breaking of the strain-sensitive wire at strains less than 0.03.
Date: December 1945
Creator: Campbell, William R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Axial Fatigue Test at Two Stress Amplitudes of 0.032-Inch 24S-T Sheet Specimens With a Circular Hole

Description: Report presenting testing of the effect of applying a number of cycles of a high fatigue stress followed by a number of cycles of relatively low stress to failure has been investigated on 93 drilled specimens of a 24S-T sheet. The results indicated that any general formula for endurance must take sequence into consideration, which makes overly simple formulas inadequate to describe endurance over varying stress amplitudes.
Date: July 1945
Creator: Brueggeman, W. C.; Mayer, M., Jr. & Smith, W. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fatigue Tests on 1/8-inch Aluminum Alloy Rivets

Description: Note presenting an investigation of the fatigue characteristics of riveted joints in aluminum alloy sheet. The purpose of this report is to summarize all the results of fatigue tests that have been made to date in the Aluminum Research Laboratories of lap joints with 1/8-inch aluminum alloy rivets.
Date: February 1945
Creator: Andrews, H. J. & Holt, M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance tests of wire strain gages 2: calibration factors in compression

Description: Report presenting the results of calibrations in axial compression over the strain range 0 to 0.0021 for 15 types of single element multistrand wire strain gages. The majority of gages showed significant differences between the calibration factors for strain increasing and strain decreasing. The majority of the gages were found to have slightly lower factors in compression than in tension.
Date: September 1945
Creator: Campbell, William R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effect of Aging Aircraft Structures on Magnesium Parts

Description: Note presenting an analysis of a procedure for artificially aging assemblies and subassemblies to improve the strength properties of the wrought aluminum alloys comprising their principal structure. Information is given on the magnesium alloys which may be present. The forms in which magnesium alloys may be encountered are casings, extrusions, forgings, and sheet.
Date: April 1945
Creator: Winston, A. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bearing strengths of 75S-T aluminum-alloy sheet and extruded angle

Description: Report presenting an investigation to determine the bearing yield and ultimate strengths of 75S-T alloy in sheet form in both with- and across-grain directions and extruded angle in the longitudinal direction. Ratios of bearing to tensile properties were also determined.
Date: February 1945
Creator: Wescoat, C. & Moore, R. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nondestructive Measurement of Residual and Enforced Stresses by Means of X-Ray Diffraction 2: Some Applications to Aircraft Problems

Description: Note presenting tests on the use of x-ray diffraction methods for determining surface stress distributions in notched tensile bars and in the vicinity of a welded joint in aircraft steel tubing. Data on the effects of stress and degree of notching on the principal stresses and stress-concentration factors for flat notched tensile-test specimens were obtained.
Date: November 1945
Creator: Sachs, George; Smith, Charles S.; Lubahn, Jack D.; Davis, Gordon E. & Ebert, Lynn J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analytical study of transmission of load from skin to stiffeners and rings of pressurized cabin structure

Description: From Introduction: "The investigations in this paper were made to obtain more generalized mathematical analyses of monocoque structure subjected to internal pressure. It is also assumed that the principle of superposition can be applied, so that stress analysis of a structure with combined internal pressure and external load can be made without excessive complication."
Date: October 1945
Creator: Pian, Theodore Hsueh-Huang
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Column Strength of Extruded Magnesium Alloys AM-C58S and AM-C58S-T5

Description: "Tests have previously been made to determine the column strength of magnesium alloy AM-C58S-T5 extruded rod, but these few data were not considered a satisfactorily wide basis for establishing a general formula for the column strength of this alloy. It was therefore decided to make additional tests on a number of extruded sections of magnesium alloy AM-C58S-T5 with some tests on AM-C58S for comparison" (p. 1).
Date: December 1945
Creator: Leary, J. R. & Holt, Marshall
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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