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Flight data pertinent to buffeting and maximum normal-force coefficient of the Douglas X-3 research airplane

Description: Report presenting the X-3 airplane, which has a straight 4.5-percent-thick wing of modified hexagonal section, which has been flown to maximum wing normal-force coefficients in the Mach number range from 0.7 to 1.1 at an average altitude of 30,000 feet. Measurements were made of airplane and wing-panel maximum normal-force coefficients and of some buffeting characteristics.
Date: November 20, 1957
Creator: Baker, Thomas F.; Martin, James A. & Scott, Betty J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Equation of State and Heat Content of Uranium

Description: Report issued by the APDA regarting studies conducted on the state of uranium at different temperature and pressure. Calculations are presented for the differing pressures of uranium; it includes tables.
Date: February 20, 1957
Creator: Brout, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transonic Wind-Tunnel Tests of the Launch, Jettison, and Longitudinal Characteristics of an Airplane and Missile Model Combination

Description: Report presenting tests of an airplane model equipped with missiles to investigate the capability of that combination to achieve satisfactory launching and jettisoning of the missiles. Information about pylon modifications, missiles in launch positions, missile trajectory, and missiles in jettison positions is provided.
Date: November 20, 1957
Creator: Cleary, Joseph W.; Frank, Joseph L. & Dewey, C. Forbes, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigation of translating-double-cone axisymmetric inlets with cowl projected areas 40 and 20 percent of maximum at Mach numbers from 3.0 to 2.0

Description: Report presenting the performance of two translating-double-cone inlets with contrasting rates of turning on the spike shoulder and corresponding cowl projected frontal areas of 40 and 20 percent of maximum compared over a range of Mach numbers. Results regarding internal-flow performance, external-flow performance, inlet airflow patterns, and propulsive-thrust comparison are provided.
Date: May 20, 1957
Creator: Connors, James F.; Wise, George A. & Lovell, J. Calvin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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OMR NUCLEAR PARAMETER SURVEY

Description: A parameter survey was conducted on the Organic Moderated Reactor (OMR) to determine the nuclear effect of temperature, enrichment, fuel to moderator volume ratio, fuel element size, ard fuel element container variation. Temperatures ranged from 300 to700 deg F; enrichments from 1.5 to 1.9%; and fuel to moderator volume ratios from 0.1333 to 0.545. Fuel element sizes of 3.75, 4.5, and 5.5 in. were considered. The stainless steel fuel element container thickness was varied from 20 to 80 mils, an… more
Date: August 20, 1957
Creator: Davis, W.W. & Leggett, W.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Critical-Assembly Experiments on a Reflector Control System for a Boiling Reactor

Description: Research directed toward an evaluation of a reflector control scheme for a small boiling heterogeneous reactor is reported. The control method uses the ambient reactor steam pressure to adjust the height of a radial water reflector. Critical-assembly experiments were conducted to measure the reflector worth and the effect of nonhomogeneous voids. The critical-assembly core approximated a right circular cylinder 24 in. high and 21 in. in diameter. The core was made up of polyethylene strips to s… more
Date: December 20, 1957
Creator: Dingee, David A.; Hogan, William S.; Wilson, Robert G.; Ballowe, William C.; Jankowski, Francis J. & Chastain, Joel W.
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Survey of microstructures and mechanical properties of over-temperatured S-816 turbine buckets from J47 engines

Description: Report presenting an extensive metallographic examination of a group of buckets overtemperatured in service. Most of the buckets showed an overaged microstructure. Results regarding the metallographic survey and stress-rupture tests are provided.
Date: March 20, 1957
Creator: Floreen, S. & Signorelli, R. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Drying of Charcoal Used for Adsorption of Gaseous Fission Products from Homogeneous Reactors

Description: In homogeneous nuclear reactors significant quantities of radioactive inert gaseous fission products must be separated from the fuel solution for disposal. The present disposal scheme, which is employed on the HRT, is to pass the mixture of fission product gases and oxygen through a charcoal adsorption bed. the oxygen passes through the bed relatively un-adsorbed, but the radioactive inert gases are adsorbed and are displaced from the bed bed very slowly giving the gases a much greater residenc… more
Date: December 20, 1957
Creator: Funderburg, J. M. & Moss, L. I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Graded Plate Cartridge for Purex A-Type Extraction Column

Description: Graded nonuniform cartridges are described which have plates with larger holes, greater free area, and/or greater plate spacing. These plates were developed and specified for the Purex Plant A-type columns. Use of the cartridges eliminated cyclic local flooding and increased the complete flooding frequency by 10 and 25 cycles/min at volume velocities of 530 and 1060 gal/hr/ sq ft, respectively, and exhibited satisfactory extraction efficiency over a wide range of frequencies and throughputs. (a… more
Date: March 20, 1957
Creator: Geier, R. G. & Hesson, G. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A critical review of alternate methods of Purex solvent treatment

Description: This document is a HAPO report dated September 20, 1957. At the time of this report, there had been many different methods suggested for improving the Purex organic recovery system. Some of these suggestions been tried in the plant and others had not. Information concerning this system and, particularly, methods for improving it were wide spread. At the time of this report was no immediate source of information available on the proposed and investigated methods for improving the Purex solvent r… more
Date: September 20, 1957
Creator: Gordon, N. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Irradiation Processing Department monthly record report, August 1957

Description: This document details activities of the Irradiation Processing Department during the month of August, 1957. A general summary is included at the start of the report, after which the report is divided into the following sections: Research and engineering; operations; production and reactor operations; facilities engineering operation; employee relations operation; and financial operation.
Date: September 20, 1957
Creator: Greninger, A. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Test of HRT Recombiners

Description: Tests of the HRT fuel and blanket recombiners at several gas concentrations and steam rates disclosed satisfactory efficiency at approximately design conditions. At lower gas concentrations and steam fiow rates a small recombiner downstream from the condenser is necessary to maintain 100% recombination. It is recommended that the platinized catalyst in the fuel and blanket HRT recombiners not be replaced, and that a small recombiner be installed in the 1-in. off-gas line from each recombiner co… more
Date: September 20, 1957
Creator: Hannaford, B. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Stress Corrosion in the HRT Mockup

Description: Stress corrosion was found in 8 components of the HRT mockup; only of four of these actually shut down the loop. All of the failures have occurred in the high-pressure system of the loop.
Date: May 20, 1957
Creator: Harley, P. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experimental lift of low-aspect-ratio triangular wings at large angles of attack and supersonic speeds

Description: Report presenting testing of three wings of different aspect ratios at a range of angles of attack to provide information on the effects of large angles of attack on the lift and normal force on triangular wings in a specific Mach number range. Results regarding the comparisons with data from semispan tests, prediction of lift and normal force and comparison with the experiment, and maximum lift coefficient are provided.
Date: November 20, 1957
Creator: Hill, William A., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capillary Flowmeter

Description: The HRT leak detector system consists of four headers each of which are connected on one side to a common supply of pressurized water and on the other side by individual tubing to the ring grooves of approximately twenty flanges. There are two methods of detecting the loss of water that are particularly applicable to the HRT: (1) By the loss of pressure in a constant volume system; (2) By the measurement of flow from a constant pressure system. It was determined to investigate the second method… more
Date: February 20, 1957
Creator: Hise, E. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design and economic study of hot off-gas storage system

Description: From introduction: "One of the most important factors which must be considered in the chemical processing of spent fuel elements is the safe and economic disposal of gaseous radioactive fission product wastes given off in the fuel element dissolution operation. For this reason work is underway at ORNL to study the various gas disposal methods that might be used to handle the radioactive fission product gases, krypton, xenon, and iodine."
Date: December 20, 1957
Creator: Johnson, C. S. & Carter, T. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Southern Carrizo Mountains, Apache County, Arizona

Description: Purpose: A reconnaissance was conducted during parts of August and September, 1956, of an area about two miles square in the southern Carrizo Mountains where the Permian Cutler formation, including its DeChelly member, and the Triassic Shinarump member of the Chinle formation, are exposed. The purpose was to appraise the uranium potential of the area and to determine the cause of bleaching in the DeChelly. Extensive uranium mineralization in the Salt Wash member of the Morrison formation around… more
Date: February 20, 1957
Creator: Labrecque, Ronald A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigation of Ejection Releases of an MB-1 Rocket From a 0.04956-Scaled Model of the Convair F-106A Airplane at Mach Number 1.59

Description: Report presenting an investigation of the ejection release characteristics of the MB-1 rocket from the missile bay of a model of the Convair F-106A airplane with its fin tips retracted at a simulated altitude of 18,670 feet. Successful ejections of the rocket were made at supersonic speeds by applying a combination of ejection velocity and nose-down pitching moment at release.
Date: May 20, 1957
Creator: Lee, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigation of Ejection Releases of an MB-1 Rocket From a 0.04956-Scaled Model of the Convair F-106A Airplane at Mach Number 1.59

Description: Report presenting an investigation of the ejection release characteristics of the MB-1 rocket from the missile bay of a Convair F-106A airplane. Results regarding pitching moment, ejections, release conditions, and missile trajectory are provided.
Date: May 20, 1957
Creator: Lee, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigation of Ejection Releases of an MB-1 Rocket From a 0.04956-Scaled Model of the Convair F-106A Airplane at Mach Number 1.59 : Coord. No. AF-AM-57

Description: Memorandum presenting an investigation in the 27- by 27-inch preflight jet of the ejection release characteristics of the MB-1 rocket from the missile bay of a 0.04956-scaled model of the Convair F-106A. The MB-1 rocket was ejected with its fin tips retracted, for a simulated altitude of 18,670 feet at a Mach number of 1.59.
Date: May 20, 1957
Creator: Lee, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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