Report presenting the results of an investigation of the static longitudinal stability and control characteristics of a canard airplane configuration without analysis for a range of Mach numbers. The configuration had an unswept wing, an unswept canard, a low aspect ratio vertical tail, and a Sears-Haack body. Data are presented for various combinations of the canard, wing, and vertical tail for a range of angles of attack and canard deflection angles.

Monthly journal about library issues in Texas including collection development, programming and activities, managements, and other topics of interest.

Report discussing heat-transfer and pressure measurements obtained from flight testing of a model of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile up to a specified Mach and Reynolds number. The heat-transfer coefficients were compared to theoretical results and a discrepancy was found during the accelerating portions of flight. Drag coefficients were obtained for a range of Mach numbers.

Report presenting heat-transfer and pressure measurements obtained from flight tests of a model of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile. Turbulent flow was observed over the model throughout the flight with the exception of one station on the nose. Results regarding pressure measurements, heat transfer, and drag measurements are required.

Report summarizing strontium 90 analyses collected throughout the world in order to determine the relationship between precipitation and nuclear fallout.

Purified, degassed samples of cis- and trans-1,2dichloroethylene were irradiated in glass cells with 48Mev helium ions at energy inputs up to 10/sup 21/ ev/cc. The principal volatile radiolysis products are acetylene, hydrogen chloride, chloroacetylene, vinyl chloride, hydrogen, and dichloroacetylene, in order of decreasing yield. The use of a mass spectrometer in conjunction with gas chromatography made possible the identification of several higher-boiling, or ''polymer,'' products as tetrachloroethane, tetrachlorobutene, and pentachlorobutene isomers. However, about half of the higher-boiling material proved to have too low a vapor pressure (b.p.> 300 deg ) at the highest praticable column temperature for these techniques to yield any clues to its nature. Hence these products were characterized only by yield, average molecular weight, and average composition. The effect on product yields of the variation of certain kinetic parameters --total dose, density of initial excitation, and temperature --was determined in survey experiments. These included irradiation with helium ions at 80 deg and at room temperature, irradiation with electrons of differing energy distribution provided by a microwave linear accelerator and by a Van de Graaff machine and irradiation with Co/sup 60/ gamma rays. There are no significant differences in the radiolytic behavior of the cis- and trans- isomers …

The masses of the isotopes of the heaviest elements have been calculated from known decay data in the region, extended by means of decay energies calculated from closed decay-energy cycles and estimated from the systematics of alpha and beta decay energies. The absolute values of the masses are based on the mass-spectrometrically determined mass of Pb{sup 208} and a few measured neutron binding energies. The half-life systematics of alpha decay and spontaneous fission are also presented, and some predictions of the properties of as yet undiscovered nuclides are made.

Report presenting wing loads and load distributions obtained by differential-pressure measurements between the upper and lower surfaces of the wing of the Douglas X-3 research airplane with various leading-edge-flap deflections. The load and hinge-moment characteristics of the leading-edge flap are presented for a range of Mach numbers with and without flap deflection. Results regarding chordwise load distributions, wing-section and wing-panel characteristics, span load and pitching-moment distributions, leading-edge-flap characteristics, and a comparison with wind-tunnel data are provided.

Report presenting over 1000 measured convective heat-transfer coefficients for normal cylinders in subsonic slip flow that have been correlated by using Nusselt number as a function of Reynolds and Knudsen (or Mach) numbers. A complicated nonlinear dependence of the heat-transfer coefficient to the difference between cylinder and recovery temperature is reported. The application of these results to hot-wire anemometry is also discussed.

Report issued by the Atomic Energy Commission over environmental effects from the fallout of nuclear weapons tests. The long-term effects of nuclear fallout on the environment, and human life are discussed. This report includes tables, and illustrations.

Report detailing the results of several yttrium oxide analyses. Four different institutions were given 50 grams of yttrium oxide to analyze following the Yttrium Analytical Conference on November 7th and 8th, 1956. This report details the results of those four different institutions.

Note presenting the results of an investigation made to obtain the wetted areas, three components of planing forces, and the three components of moments acting on a 0 degree and a 20 degree dead-rise surface in high-speed, unsymmetrical planing conditions. The collected test data are presented in summary plots which are readily applicable for use in determining the lift, drag, side force, pitching moment, rolling moment, and yawing moment.

Note presenting a method for solving problems associated with Laplace and Poisson equations which, in general, requires considerably fewer equations than the usual methods and which gives a convergent solution by the method of successive approximations.

Compressibility factors and fugacity coefficients for hydrogen, niftrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane, and helium were calculated by use of the Beattie-Bridgeman equation of state. The results are tabulated for various pressures up to several hundred atmospheres, and temperatures up to several hundred degrees, at sufficiently close intervals to allow for easy interpolation. A comparison is made of the calculated compressibility factors with the experimental values over those ranges of temperatures and pressure where the latter are available. From this comparison an attempt is made to indicate the probable reliability of the fugacity coefficients by the number of significant figures shown. (auth)

The program of the Atomic Energy Commission on environmental contamination from weapons tests is designed for the overall evaluation of the hazard to humans from test operations. It is limited to studies of the deposition of activity at long range rather than the problems associated with immediate, close-in fallout. The program has largely been a study of Sr{sup 90}, since considerations based on experience and measurement indicate that it is the isotope of greatest potential hazard. Data are presented pertinent to the monitoring of long-range fallout, particularly Sr{sup 90} and Cs{sup 137}. Values are tabulated for the fallout deposition, air concentrations, water concentrations, and the amounts in foods and human bone. In addition, results are given for some experimental investigations. The report of these results is not interpretative although certain papers that do attempt to interpret the present situation with respect to Sr{sup 90} in particular are reprinted. Bibliographies are presented covering the period since the 1957 hearings before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy concerning the nature of radioactive fallout and its effects on man. A document list of submissions to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation is given to illustrate the work done …

Report discussing the aerodynamic loading characteristics of a 45 degree sweptback wing with leading-edge chord extensions, including the effects of a spoiler-slot-deflector aileron. The wing section loading, wing-panel loading, and chord-extension loading are described.

"Theoretical rocket performance for equilibrium composition during expansion was calculated for JP-4 fuel with several fluorine-oxygen mixtures for a range of pressure ratios and oxidant-fuel ratios. The parameters included are specific impulse, combustion-chamber temperature, nozzle-exit temperature, molecular weight, characteristic velocity, coefficient of thrust, ratio of nozzle-exit area to throat area, specific heat at constant pressure, isentropic exponent, viscosity, thermal conductivity, and equilibrium gas compositions. A correlation is given for the effect of chamber pressure on several of the parameters" (p. 1).

"Theoretical rocket performance for frozen composition during expansion was calculated for liquid methane with several fluorine-oxygen mixtures for a range of pressure ratios and oxidant-fuel ratios. The parameters included are specific impulse, combustion-chamber temperature, nozzle-exit temperature molecular weight, characteristic velocity, coefficient of thrust, ratio of nozzle-exit area to throat area, specific heat at constant pressure, isentropic exponent, viscosity, and thermal conductivity. The maximum calculated value of specific impulse for a chamber pressure of 600 pounds per square inch absolute (40.827atm) and an exit pressure of 1 atmosphere is 315.3 for 79.67 percent fluorine in the oxidant" (p. 1).

Correlations based upon empirical modified equations derived from kinetic theory were developed for the thermal conductivity and viscosity of gas mixtures. The conductivity equation was compared to 226 binary mixture conductivities in temperatures from 0 to 774 deg C from the literature and this work. The average deviation is 2.1%. In correlating conductivity data of mixtures of polyatomic molecules, the energy transport is considered in two parts, i.e., one protion transferred by collision and the other by diffusion. The proposed viscosity equation reproduces 103 binary data points with an average deviation of 1.3%. These equations are more consistent with experiment than existing correlations in the literature. the relation of the conductivity or viscosity to composition and temperature are discussed in the light of the proposed equations. It has been demonstrated that, at a given composition, the ratio of the measured conductivity to that calculated on the molar average basis for mixtures of most simple molecules and the ratio of the measured viscosity to that calculated on the molar average basis for mixtures of most gases should be nearly constant over a temperature range of 200 to 300 deg C. The thermal conductivity of ten gases and selected binary and ternary …

Report presenting a method for the rapid selection of a turbine design within specified aerodynamic limits. Tables are provided with the overall design parameters and velocity-diagram variables of each design. Detailed design information is also included for ranges of blade-speed parameter and exit radius ratio.

Report presenting a boundary-layer-control investigation to determine the longitudinal aerodynamic characteristics and chordwise load distribution on a thin, untapered, semispan wing with an aspect ratio of 3.33 and NACA 65A004 airfoil sections. The results are presented without discussion.

A survey of the effects of ternary and quaternary alloying on the stability and properties of uranium-zirconium, -- niobium, and -- molybdenum-base gammaphase alloys was conducted. The effects of ternary and quaternary additions of chromium, molybdenum, niobium, ruthenium, vanndium, and zirconium on transformation kinetics, transformation temperature, hot hardness, and corrosion resistance were investigated. Niobium or molybdenum additions to uranium-- zirconium-base alloys increased thermal stability and hot hardness of the gamma phase and lowered transformation temperatures. Those additions also generalty resulted in improved corrosion resistance. Zirconium increased the gamma-phase stability in uranium-niobium-base alloys, lowered transformation temperatures, and in some amounts increased hot hardness and improved corrosion resistance. Variable corrosion behavior of the uranium--niobium-- zirconium alloys is probably attributable to lack of homogeneity. Molybenum additions had either a negligible or detrimental effect on the thermal stability of the uranium-- niobium gamma phase, although molybdenum did lower the temperature at which alpha uranium begins to decompose on heating. The addition of 1 wt. % molybdenum to the 10 wt. % niobium alloy or 3 wt. % molybdenum to the 20 wt. % niobium alloy resulted in maximum hardness of the gamma phase at elevated temperatures, the hot hardness decreasing with larger aditions. Generally …

From Summary: "Numerical solutions are presented for two classes of similarity equations corresponding to a range of three-dimensional boundary-layer flows. Equations for limiting-flow deflection and equations for the calculation of boundary-layer streamlines are also presented."

Report presenting an investigation to determine the effect of modifications made in the propulsion system of a single-engine airplane to substantially reduce its external noise, and, thereby, to evaluate the significance of the external noise level of an airplane with regard to the problem of its detection by ground observers.