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Systematics of Fission-Product Yields (open access)

Systematics of Fission-Product Yields

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Date: May 5, 2002
Creator: A.C.Wahl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Infiltration Heat Recovery in Building Walls: Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigations Results (open access)

Infiltration Heat Recovery in Building Walls: Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigations Results

Conventional calculations of heating (and cooling) loads for buildings assume that conduction heat loss (or gain) through walls is independent of air infiltration heat loss (or gain). During passage through the building envelope, infiltrating air substantially exchanges heat wall insulation leading to partial recovery of heat conducted through the wall. The Infiltration Heat Recovery (IHR) factor was introduced to quantify the heat recovery and correct the conventional calculations. In this study, Computational Fluid Dynamics was used to calculate infiltration heat recovery under a range of idealized conditions, specifically to understand factors that influence it, and assess its significance in building heat load calculations. This study shows for the first time the important effect of the external boundary layers on conduction and infiltration heat loads. Results show (under the idealized conditions studied here) that (1) the interior details of the wall encountered in the leakage pa th (i.e., insulated or empty walls) do not greatly influence the IHR, the overall relative location of the cracks (i.e., inlet and outlet locations on the wall) has the largest influence on the IHR magnitude, (2) external boundary layers on the walls substantially contribute to IHR and (3) the relative error in heat load calculations …
Date: August 5, 2002
Creator: Abadie, Marc O.; Finlayson, Elizabeth U. & Gadgil, Ashok J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electricity: The Road Toward Restructuring (open access)

Electricity: The Road Toward Restructuring

The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA) and the Federal Power Act (FPA) were enacted to eliminate unfair practices and other abuses by electricity and gas holding companies by requiring federal control and regulation of interstate public utility holding companies. Comprehensive energy legislation has passed the House and Senate. The House passed H.R. 6 on April 11, 2003. On July 31, 2003, the Senate suspended debate on S. 14, inserted the text of H.R. 4 (107th Congress) as a substitute, and passed H.R. 6. A conference agreement was reached November 17, 2003, and passed by the House the next day. H.R. 6 includes an electricity title that would, in part, repeal PUHCA, would prospectively repeal the mandatory purchase requirement under PURPA, and would create an electric reliability organization. On June 15, 2004, H.R. 4503, a comprehensive energy policy bill, passed the House.
Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Abel, Amy & Parker, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
John Abercrombie, Jazz Lecture Series, March 5, 2002 captions transcript

John Abercrombie, Jazz Lecture Series, March 5, 2002

Performances recorded the Recital Hall of the UNT Music Building.
Date: March 5, 2002
Creator: Abercrombie, John
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trade and the Americas (open access)

Trade and the Americas

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Date: March 5, 2002
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience (open access)

A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Article discussing metadata approaches to preservation of digital resources and the experiences of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: August 5, 2002
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hastings, Samantha Kelly & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radiation-induced segregation and the relationship to physical properties in irradiated austenitic alloys. (open access)

Radiation-induced segregation and the relationship to physical properties in irradiated austenitic alloys.

Radiation-induced changes in composition are studied because these changes can degrade failure of materials irradiated in nuclear reactors. In this work, the effect of alloy composition on radiation-induced segregation, hardening, and void swelling is presented. Five alloys, Fe-18Cr-8Ni, Fe-16Cr-13Ni, Fe-18Cr-40Ni, Fe-16Cr-13Ni+Mo, and Fe-16Cr-13Ni+Mo+P (all compositions in wt. %), were irradiated with 3.2 MeV protons at 400 C to a dose of 0.5 displacements per atom. The change in grain boundary composition was measured using field emission gun scanning transmission electron microscopy and the hardening was measured using Vickers indentation. Void swelling is calculated from the void size distribution measured using transmission electron microscopy. After irradiation, Cr depletes and Ni enriches at grain boundaries. Increasing bulk Ni concentration causes greater Cr depletion and Ni enrichment at grain boundaries. For alloys with 16 Cr, the addition of P reduces the Cr depletion and Ni enrichment. Hardening does not directly correlate with composition, but a framework for isolating the effect of hardening and segregation on cracking is suggested. The amount of void swelling in the irradiated material is shown to correspond inversely with segregation. Those alloys with greater segregation tend to swell less.
Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Allen, T. R.; Cole, J. I.; Was, G. S. & Kenik, E. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Properties of 20% cold-worked 316 stainless steel irradiated at low dose rate. (open access)

Properties of 20% cold-worked 316 stainless steel irradiated at low dose rate.

To assess the effects of long-term, low-dose-rate neutron exposure, tensile, hardness, and fracture properties were measured and microstructural characterization performed on irradiated 20% cold-worked Type 316 stainless steel. Samples were prepared from reactor core components retrieved from the EBR-II reactor following final shutdown. Sample locations were chosen to cover a dose range of 1-56 dpa at temperatures from 371-390 C and dose rates from 0.8-3.3 x 10{sup -7} dpa/s. Irradiation caused hardening, with the ultimate tensile strength (UTS) reaching about 800 MPa near 20 dpa and appearing to saturate at higher doses. The yield strength (YS) follows approximately the same trend as the ultimate tensile strength. At higher dose, the difference between the UTS and YS decreases, suggesting the work-hardening capability of the material is decreasing with increasing dose. The hardness and yield strength increases occur roughly over the same range of dose. While the material retained respectable ductility at 20 dpa, the uniform and total elongation decreased to <1 and <3%, respectively, at 47 dpa. Fracture in the 30 dpa specimen is mainly ductile but with local regions of mixed-mode failure, consisting mainly of dimples and microvoids. The fracture surface of the higher-exposure 47 dpa specimen displays more brittle …
Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Allen, T. R.; Tsai, H.; Cole, J. I.; Ohta, J.; Dohi, K. & Kusanagi, H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 2002 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 2002

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: April 5, 2002
Creator: Baldwin, Alisha
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cesium-137 in the Sediments of Fourmile Creek (open access)

Cesium-137 in the Sediments of Fourmile Creek

The Nonproliferation Technology Section (NTS) was requested by the Environmental Restoration Division (ER) to aid in completing ground-truth measurements of aerial overflight data in support of the Integrator Operable Unit (IOU) program at the Savannah River Site (SRS). The IOU's at the SRS are under investigation as a possible pathway for the release of contamination from past SRS activities to off-unit receptors and the environment. The IOU's are defined as surface water bodies and associated wetlands, including the water, sediment and related biota. The objective of the IOU program is to: assess the risk to potential human and ecological receptors from IOU contamination; evaluate the impact of inactive and active waste units and operating facilities on the IOU quality; determine if IOU early actions, including reprioritization of operable units implementation schedules, are necessary; and complete the remedial investigation/feasibility study process, defining the nature and extent of IOU contamination, remedial action objectives, and final remediation goals.
Date: December 5, 2002
Creator: Beals, D.M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Streamlining Provisions in the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: Status of Implementation (open access)

Environmental Streamlining Provisions in the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: Status of Implementation

At the state and local level, many observers have expressed long-standing concerns over delays, duplication of effort, and additional costs frequently associated with the environmental review process for highway projects that must be completed under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA, P.L. 91-190). To address these concerns, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA21, P.L. 105-178), enacted in 1998, requires the Federal Highway Administration(FHWA) to streamline the environmental review process for highway projects.
Date: March 5, 2002
Creator: Bearden, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2002: Energy and Water Development (open access)

Appropriations for FY2002: Energy and Water Development

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Energy and Water.
Date: February 5, 2002
Creator: Behrens, Carl E. & Humphries, Marc
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Statistical Stability and Time-Reversal Imgaing in Random Media (open access)

Statistical Stability and Time-Reversal Imgaing in Random Media

Localization of targets imbedded in a heterogeneous background medium is a common problem in seismic, ultrasonic, and electromagnetic imaging problems. The best imaging techniques make direct use of the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the array response matrix, as recent work on time-reversal acoustics has shown. Of the various imaging functionals studied, one that is representative of a preferred class is a time-domain generalization of MUSIC (MUltiple Signal Classification), which is a well-known linear subspace method normally applied only in the frequency domain. Since statistical stability is not characteristic of the frequency domain, a transform back to the time domain after first diagonalizing the array data in the frequency domain takes optimum advantage of both the time-domain stability and the frequency-domain orthogonality of the relevant eigenfunctions.
Date: February 5, 2002
Creator: Berryman, J; Borcea, L; Papanicolaou, G & Tsogka, C
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Waste Repository Siting: Expedited Procedures for Congressional Approval (open access)

Nuclear Waste Repository Siting: Expedited Procedures for Congressional Approval

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Date: July 5, 2002
Creator: Beth, Richard S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Status of LOCA research in high burnup cladding performance program. (open access)

Status of LOCA research in high burnup cladding performance program.

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Date: March 5, 2002
Creator: Billone, M. C.; Strain, R. V. & Yan, Y.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.N. System Funding: Congressional Issues (open access)

U.N. System Funding: Congressional Issues

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Date: December 5, 2002
Creator: Bite, Vita
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
India-U.S. Relations (open access)

India-U.S. Relations

This report discusses the context of India - U.S. relationship, and its bilateral issues.
Date: February 5, 2002
Creator: Blood, Peter R
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of momentum conservation on the analysis of anisotropic flow (open access)

Effects of momentum conservation on the analysis of anisotropic flow

We present a general method for taking into account correlations due to momentum conservation in the analysis of anisotropic flow. Momentum conservation mostly affects the first harmonic in azimuthal distributions, i.e., directed flow. It also modifies higher harmonics, for instance elliptic flow, when they are measured with respect to a first harmonic event plane such as one determined with the standard transverse momentum method. Our method is illustrated by application to NA49 data on pion directed flow.
Date: February 5, 2002
Creator: Borghini, N.; Dinh, P. M.; Ollitrault, J. -Y.; Poskanzer, A. M. & Voloshin, S. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Post Waterflood CO2 Miscible Flood in Light Oil, Fluvial-Dominated Deltaic Reservoir (Pre-Work and Project Proposal - Appendix) (open access)

Post Waterflood CO2 Miscible Flood in Light Oil, Fluvial-Dominated Deltaic Reservoir (Pre-Work and Project Proposal - Appendix)

The main objective of the Port Neches Project was to determine the feasibility and producibility of CO2 miscible flooding techniques enhanced with horizontal drilling applied to a Fluvial Dominated Deltaic reservoir. The second was to disseminate the knowledge gained through established Technology Transfer mechanisms to support DOE's programmatic objectives of increasing domestic oil production and reducing abandonment of oil fields.
Date: February 5, 2002
Creator: Bou-Mikael, Sami
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Post Waterflood CO2 Miscible Flood in Light Oil, Fluvial-Dominated Deltaic Reservoir (Pre-Work and Project Proposal), Class I (open access)

Post Waterflood CO2 Miscible Flood in Light Oil, Fluvial-Dominated Deltaic Reservoir (Pre-Work and Project Proposal), Class I

This project outlines a proposal to improve the recovery of light oil from waterflooded fluvial dominated deltaic (FDD) reservoir through a miscible carbon dioxide (CO2) flood. The site is the Port Neches Field in Orange County, Texas. The field is well explored and well exploited. The project area is 270 acres within the Port Neches Field.
Date: February 5, 2002
Creator: Bou-Mikael, Sami
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bosnia: U.S. Military Operations (open access)

Bosnia: U.S. Military Operations

This report outlines U.S. military operations in Bosnia and discusses issues such as U.S. and Allied Participation in Bosnia Peacekeeping (IFOR/SFOR), duration, cost, arms control and military assistance. This report also includes most recent development, background analysis, and legislation.
Date: August 5, 2002
Creator: Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Weapons Convention: Issues for Congress (open access)

Chemical Weapons Convention: Issues for Congress

The CWC bans the development, production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons by members signatories. It also requires the destruction of all chemical weapons stockpiles and production facilities. Neither the United States nor Russia will be able to meet the original CWC’s deadlines for destruction of their CW stockpiles, and have been granted extensions to at least 2012. The Convention provides the most extensive and intrusive verification regime of any arms control treaty, extending its coverage to not only governmental but also civilian facilities. The Convention also requires export controls and reporting requirements on chemicals that can be used as warfare agents and their precursors. The CWC establishes the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to oversee the Convention’s implementation.
Date: August 5, 2002
Creator: Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kosovo and Macedonia: U.S. and Allied Military Operations (open access)

Kosovo and Macedonia: U.S. and Allied Military Operations

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Date: August 5, 2002
Creator: Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 2002 (open access)

The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Goldthwaite, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 5, 2002
Creator: Bridges, G. Frank & Bridges, Georgie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History