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Sulfur removal in advanced two stage pressurized fluidized bed combustion. Technical report, September 1--November 30, 1994 (open access)

Sulfur removal in advanced two stage pressurized fluidized bed combustion. Technical report, September 1--November 30, 1994

The objective of this study is to obtain data on the rates and the extent of sulfation reactions involving partially sulfided calcium-based sorbents, and oxygen as well as sulfur dioxide, at operating conditions closely simulating those prevailing in the second stage (combustor) of Advanced Two-Stage Pressurized Fluidized-Bed Combustors (PFBC). In these systems the CO{sub 2} partial pressure generally exceeds the equilibrium value for calcium carbonate decomposition. Therefore, calcium sulfate is produced through the reactions between SO{sub 2} and calcium carbonate as well as the reaction between calcium sulfide and oxygen. To achieve this objective, the rates of reaction involving SO{sub 2} and oxygen (gaseous reactant); and calcium sulfide and calcium carbonate (solid reactants), will be determined by conducting tests in a pressurized thermogravimetric analyzer (HPTGA) unit. The effects of sorbent type, sorbent particle size, reactor temperature and pressure; and O{sub 2} as well as SO{sub 2} partial pressures on the sulfation reactions rate will be determined. During this quarter, samples of the selected limestone and dolomite were sulfided in the fluidized-bed reactor. These tests were conducted in both calcining and non-calcining operating conditions to produce partially-sulfided sorbents containing calcium oxide and calcium carbonate, respectively. These samples which represent the carbonizer …
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Abbasian, Javad; Hill, Andy; Wangerow, James R. & Honea, Franklin I.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Silicon heat pipes for cooling electronics (open access)

Silicon heat pipes for cooling electronics

The increasing power density of integrated circuits (ICs) is creating the need for improvements in systems for transferring heat away from the chip. In earlier investigations, diamond films were used to conduct heat from ICs and spread the energy across a heat sink. The authors` investigation has indicated that a 635 {mu}m (25 mil) thick silicon substrate with embedded heat pipes could perform this task better than a diamond film. From their study, it appears that the development of a heat-pipe heat-spreading system is both technically and commercially feasible. The major challenge for this heat-spreading system is to develop an effective wick structure to transport liquid to the heated area beneath the chip. This paper discusses the crucial design parameters for this heat-pipe system, such as the required wick properties, the material compatibility issues, and the thermal characteristics of the system. The paper also provides results from some recent experimental activities at Sandia to develop these heat-pipe heat spreader systems.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Adkins, D. R.; Shen, D. S.; Palmer, D. W. & Tuck, M. R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Structural characterization of a polymer substituted fullerene (flagellene) by small angle neutron scattering (open access)

Structural characterization of a polymer substituted fullerene (flagellene) by small angle neutron scattering

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) can structurally characterize fullerenes in solvents with strong SANS contrast (e.g. CS{sub 2}). Deuterated solvents (e.g. toluene-d{sub 8}) have a high scattering length density (SLD), which is close to that of C{sub 60} and C{sub 70} moieties. Hence, there is virtually no SANS contrast with the solvent and these particles are practically ``invisible`` in such media. On the other hand, the negative scattering length of hydrogen means that the SLD of H{sup 1}-containing materials is much lower, so they have strong contrast with toluene-d{sub 8}. Thus, SANS makes it possible to study the size and shapes of modified buckyballs such as the polymer-substituted fullerenes, or flagellenes. These consist of C{sub 60} cores to which 1-4 polystryene chains (with a molecular weight, MW {approx_equal} 2000) are attached. The extrapolated cross section at zero angle of scatter [d{Sigma}/d{Omega}(0)] is a function of the number of pendant chains, so SANS can be used to assess the number of ``arms`` which are covalently attached to the fullerene ``sphere.`` Close agreement ({plus_minus}4%) between measured and calculated values of d{Sigma}/d{Omega}(0) along with independent estimates of the radius of gyration (R{sub g}) and second virial coefficient (A{sub 2}) for a calibration linear polystyrene …
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Affholter, K. A.; Bunick, G. J.; Wignall, G. D.; Desimone, J. M.; Hunt, M. O., Jr.; Menceloglu, Y. Z. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Microwave processing of silicon carbide (open access)

Microwave processing of silicon carbide

Reaction-bonded silicon carbide ({alpha}-SiC) armor tiles were annealed at 2100{degree}C using microwave radiation at 2.45 GHz. Ultrasonic velocity measurements showed that the longitudinal and shear velocities, acoustic impedances, and acoustic moduli of the post-annealed tiles were statistically higher than for the unannealed tiles. However, the exposed surfaces of the annealed tiles experienced slight degradation, which was attributed to the high annealing temperatures.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Akerman, M. A.; Baity, F. W., Jr.; Caughman, J. B.; Forrester, S. C.; Morrow, M. S.; Holcombe, C. E., Jr. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
High energy bursts from a solid state laser operated in the heat capacity limited regime (open access)

High energy bursts from a solid state laser operated in the heat capacity limited regime

Solid state laser technology is a very well developed field and numerous embodiments and modes of operation have been demonstrated. A more recent development has been the pumping of a solid state laser active medium with an array of diode lasers (diode pumping, for short). These diode pump packages have previously been developed to pump solid state lasers with good efficiency, but low average power. This invention is a method and the resulting apparatus for operating a solid state laser in the heat capacity mode. Instead of cooling the laser, the active medium will heat up until it reaches some maximum acceptable temperature. The waste heat is stored in the active medium itself.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Albrecht, G.; George, E.V. & Krupke, W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
The geometry of weak solutions of certain integrable nonlinar PDE`s (open access)

The geometry of weak solutions of certain integrable nonlinar PDE`s

We investigate the geometry of new classes of soliton-like weak solutions for integrable nonlinear equations. One example is the class of peakons introduced by Camassa and Holm [1993] for their integrable shallow water equation. Alber, Camassa, Holm and Marsden [1994a] put this shallow water equation into the framework of complex integrable Hamiltonian systems on Riemann surfaces and use special limiting procedures to obtain new solutions such as quasiperiodic solutions, n-solitons, solitons with quasiperiodic background, billiard, and n-peakon solutions and complex angle representations for them. They also obtain explicit formulas for phase shifts of interacting soliton solutions using the method of asymptotic reduction of the corresponding angle representations. The method they use for the shallow water equation also leads to a link between one of the members of the Dym hierarchy and geodesic flow on N-dimensional quadrics. Amongst these geodesics, particularly interesting ones are the umbilic geodesics, which generate the class of umbilic soliton solutions. Umbilic solitons have the property that as the space variable x tends to infinity, the solution tends to a periodic wave, and as x tends to minus infinity, it tends to the same periodic wave with a phase shift. Elliptic billiards may be obtained from the …
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Alder, M. S.; Camassa, R.; Holm, D. D. & Marsden, J. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 31, 1994 (open access)

The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 31, 1994

Weekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 31, 1994
Creator: Aldridge, Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fracture toughness measurements with subsize disk compact specimens (open access)

Fracture toughness measurements with subsize disk compact specimens

Special fixtures and test methods have been developed for testing small disk compact specimens (1.25 mm diam by 4.6 mm thick). Specimens of European type 316L austenitic stainless steel were irradiated to damage levels of about 3 dpa at nominal irradiation temperatures of either 90 or 250 C and tested over a temperature range from 20 to 250 C. Results show that irradiation to this dose level at these temperatures reduces the fracture toughness but the toughness remains quite high. The toughness decreases as the test temperature increases. Irradiation at 250 C is more damaging than at 90 C, causing larger decreases in the fracture toughness. The testing shows that it is possible to generate useful fracture toughness data with a small disk compact specimens.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Alexander, D.J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fracture toughness of irradiated candidate materials for ITER first wall/blanket structures (open access)

Fracture toughness of irradiated candidate materials for ITER first wall/blanket structures

Disk compact specimens of candidate materials for first wall/blanket structures in ITER have been irradiated to damage levels of about 3 dpa at nominal irradiation temperatures of either 90 or 250{degrees}C. These specimens have been tested over a temperature range from 20 to 250{degrees}C to determine J-integral values and tearing moduli. The results show that irradiation at these temperatures reduces the fracture toughness of austenitic stainless steels, but the toughness remains quite high. The toughness decreases as the test temperature increases. Irradiation at 250{degrees}C is more damaging than at 90{degrees}C, causing larger decreases in the fracture toughness. Ferritic-martensitic steels are embrittled by the irradiation, and show the lowest toughness at room temperature.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Alexander, D.J.; Pawel, J.E.; Grossbeck, M.L.; Rowcliffe, A.F. & Shiba, Kiyoyuki
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The interactions of high-energy, highly charged Xe ions with buckyballs (open access)

The interactions of high-energy, highly charged Xe ions with buckyballs

Ionization and fragmentation have been measured for C{sub 60} molecules bombarded by highly charged (up to 35+) xenon ions with energies ranging up to 625 MeV. The observed mass distribution of positively charged fragments is explained in terms of a theoretical model indicating that the total interaction cross section contains roughly equal contributions from (a) excitation of the giant plasmon resonance, and (b) large-energy-transfer processes that lead to multiple fragmentation of the molecule. Preliminary results of measurements on VUV photons emitted in these interactions are also presented.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Ali, R.; Berry, H. G. & Cheng, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oak Ridge 25URC Tandem Accelerator 1994 SNEAP Lab Report (open access)

Oak Ridge 25URC Tandem Accelerator 1994 SNEAP Lab Report

The 25URC tandem accelerator is still in shut-down mode until the facility is reconfigured to produce radioactive ion beams (RIBs). Again, the authors have operated approximately 200 hours for ion implantation studies in support of RIB development. Operation of the accelerator has been generally very reliable with most problems being associated with power supplies and components located outside the accelerator. The major operational problem this year was the development of internal shorts in the coils of the energy-analyzing magnet which caused beam instability. The major development activity for the tandem accelerator was the replacement of the corona-point voltage-grading system with resistors. Several milestones for the RIB project have been met since SNEAP 1993. The high-voltage platforms have been built and tested at the required 300 kV. Most equipment has been installed on the platforms so that the first beam can be developed using the Mark I target-ion source. This ion source was characterized on the ion source test facility before moving it to the platform. The second-stage mass-separator magnets have been specified and the contract has been awarded to Sigma Phi. The final optics design for the beam line from the second-stage separator to the tandem accelerator is being completed …
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Alton, G. D.; Dinehart, M. R. & Dowling, D. T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simulation of airborne electromagnetic measurements in three dimensional environments (open access)

Simulation of airborne electromagnetic measurements in three dimensional environments

A 3-D frequency domain EM modeling code has been implemented for helicopter electromagnetic (HEM) simulations. A vector Helmholtz formulation for the electric fields is employed to avoid problems associated with the first order Maxwell`s equations numerically decoupling in the air. Additional stability is introduced by formulating the problem in terms of the scattered electric fields which replaces an impressed dipole source with an equivalent source that possesses a much smoother spatial dependence and is easier to model. In older to compute this equivalent source, a primary field arising from dipole sources in a whole space must be calculated where ever the conductivity is different than that of the background. The Helmholtz equation is approximated using finite differences on a staggered grid. After finite differencing, a complex-symmetric matrix system of equations is assembled and preconditioned using Jacobi scaling before it is solved using the quasi-minimum residual (QMR) method. In order to both speed up the solution and allow for larger, more realistic models to be simulated, the scheme has been modified to run on massively parallel architectures. The solution has been compared against other I-D and 3-D numerical models and is found to produce results in good agreement. The versatility of …
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Alumbaugh, D.L. & Newman, G.A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ionizing radiation-induced mutation of human cells with different DNA repair capacities (open access)

Ionizing radiation-induced mutation of human cells with different DNA repair capacities

We have observed significant differences in the response to ionizing radiation of two closely related human cell lines, and now compare the effects on these lines of both low and intermediate LET radiation. Compared to TK6, WTK1 has an enhanced X-ray survival, and is also more resistant to cell killing by {alpha}-particles. The hprt locus is more mutable in WTK1 than in TK6 by both X-rays and {alpha}-particles. WTK1 is also more mutable by {alpha}-particles than by X-rays at the hprt locus. X-ray-induced mutation at the heterozygous tk locus in WTK1 is about 25 fold higher than in TK6, while {alpha}-particle-induced mutation is nearly 50 fold higher at this locus. Also, the slowly growing tk- mutants, which comprise the majority of spontaneous and X-ray-induced tk- mutants of TK6, were not induced significantly by {alpha}-particles. Previously, we showed that TK6 has a reduced capacity for recombination compared with WTK1, and therefore, these results indicate that recombinational repair may contribute to both cell survival and mutation-induction following exposure to ionizing radiation. Such a mechanism may aid cell survival, but could also result in increased deleterious effects such as the unmasking of recessive mutations in cancer suppresser genes.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Amundson, S. A. & Chen, D. J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of defects in deuterium-implanted beryllium (open access)

Characterization of defects in deuterium-implanted beryllium

This work investigated surface material modifications in high-purity beryllium foils resulting from 1-keV deuterium ion implantation into specimens for which the anneal temperatures and implantation temperatures were varied. Defects in unimplanted and in deuterium-implanted beryllium were characterized principally by positron-beam depth-profile analyses. Depth-profiles of the defect distributions in the specimens were made by stepping the energy of the positron beam from 0.055 keV to 40 keV, accompanied by measurements of the Doppler-broadened annihilation radiation line shape at each positron energy. These analyses identified a varying defect structure in beryllium, dependent on the previous anneal history of the material and on the temperature of the material during implantation with energetic deuterium ions. For specimens implanted at room temperature with 1-keV/D ions, the beam-induced defect structure had a profile that was peaked near the mean. range of the implanting deuterium and that extended beyond the implantation zone. Isochronal step-thermal anneal experiments revealed that deuterium was released from these defects at a temperature of about 400K, indicative of shallow traps, and that the defect structure annealed at temperatures above 623K. The beam-induced vacancy-defect complexes were estimated to be 1-nm voids for 1-keV/D implantation into Be at room temperature. For beryllium implanted at temperatures …
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Anderl, R. A.; Denison, A. B.; Szpala, S.; Asoka-Kumar, P.; Lynn, K. G. & Nielsen, B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defect characterization of electronic conducting pseudo-perovskite systems. Final report (open access)

Defect characterization of electronic conducting pseudo-perovskite systems. Final report

The goal of the program has been to study the interrelationships between electrical conductivity, oxidation-reduction kinetics, defect structure, and composition of n- and p-type binary and ternary transition metal oxides. The stimulus for making these studies was the observation that both conducting n and p type oxides displayed a dependence on oxygen activity that was not predicted by the defect chemistry of their majority defects. The project has focused primarily on the understanding of electronic and ionic conduction in the REBO{sub 3} oxides, where RE is a rare earth ion and B is a transition metal ion. This is being done by studying the interrelationships between the electronic and ionic conductivity, the electronic structure of the B site transition metal ion, and the acceptor concentration. The dependence of these characteristics on the oxygen activity, the temperature, and the defect chemistry of the oxide system is being determined. Theoretical mechanisms and models are being developed from the body of experimental results to provide a predictive tool. The effect of dopants and impurities, processing, electrical and thermal stability as a function of oxygen activity and temperature and their relationship to defect chemistry of the perovskite type oxides have been studied extensively by …
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Anderson, H. U.; Nasrallah, M.; Sparlin, D. M. & Parris, P. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
AEM investigation of tetrahedrally coordinated Ti{sup 4+} in nickel-titanate spinel (open access)

AEM investigation of tetrahedrally coordinated Ti{sup 4+} in nickel-titanate spinel

Stoichiometry and site distribution of metastable nickel-titanate spinel was studied with AEM. Results of EDXS and EELS agree that the metastable spinel is nonstoichiometric and titanium-deficient relative to its hypothetical endmember composition, ``Ni{sub 2}TiO{sub 4}``. The titanium deficiency has been determined by EELS to be {Delta} = 0.025 {plus_minus} 0.005. Channeling-enhanced microanalysis and ELNES studies indicate that the Ti{sup 4+} and Ni{sup 2+} cations are in tetrahedral and octahedral coordination, respectively, so that the metastable spinel has the normal cation distribution: Ti{sub l-{Delta}}[Ni{sub 2(1+{Delta})}]O{sub 4}. This is consistent with neutron powder-diffraction studies and SiO{sub 2}-solubility measurements of similar equilibrated and quenched spinel-containing specimens. Metastable nickel-titanate spinel therefore contrasts with stable stoichiometric spinels which tend to the inverse cation distribution, Me[MeTi]O{sub 4}.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Anderson, I. M.; Bentley, J. & Carter, C. B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Micromachined Silicon Electrostatic Chuck (open access)

Micromachined Silicon Electrostatic Chuck

In the field of microelectronics, and in particular the fabrication of microelectronics during plasma etching processes, electrostatic chucks have been used to hold silicon wafers during the plasma etching process. Current electrostatic chucks that operate by the {open_quotes}Johnson-Rahbek Effect{close_quotes} consist of a metallic base plate that is typically coated with a thick layer of slightly conductive dielectric material. A silicon wafer of approximately the same size as the chuck is placed on top of the chuck and a potential difference of several hundred volts is applied between the silicon and the base plate of the electrostatic chuck. This causes an electrostatic attraction proportional to the square of the electric field in the gap between the silicon wafer and the chuck face. When the chuck is used in a plasma filled chamber the electric potential of the wafer tends to be fixed by the effective potential of the plasma. The purpose of the dielectric layer on the chuck is to prevent the silicon wafer from coming into direct electrical contact with the metallic part of the chuck and shorting out the potential difference. On the other hand, a small amount of conductivity appears to be desirable in the dielectric coating so …
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Anderson, R. A. & Seager, C. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Autonomous, teleoperated, and shared control of robot systems (open access)

Autonomous, teleoperated, and shared control of robot systems

This paper illustrates how different modes of operation such as bilateral teleoperation, autonomous control, and shared control can be described and implemented using combinations of modules in the SMART robot control architecture. Telerobotics modes are characterized by different ``grids`` of SMART icons, where each icon represents a portion of run-time code that implements a passive control law. By placing strict requirements on the module`s input-output behavior and using scattering theory to develop a passive sampling technique, a flexible, expandable telerobot architecture is achieved. An automatic code generation tool for generating SMART systems is also described.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Anderson, R.J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Felt-metal-wick heat-pipe solar receiver (open access)

Felt-metal-wick heat-pipe solar receiver

Reflux heat-pipe receivers have been identified as a desirable interface to couple a Stirling-cycle engine with a parabolic dish solar concentrator. The reflux receiver provides power nearly isothermally to the engine heater heads while decoupling the heater head design from the solar absorber surface design. The independent design of the receiver and engine heater head leads to higher system efficiency. Heat pipe reflux receivers have been demonstrated at approximately 65 kW{sub t} power throughput. Several 25 to 30-kW{sub e} Stirling-cycle engines are under development, and will soon be incorporated in commercial dish-Stirling systems. These engines will require reflux receivers with power throughput limits reaching 90-kW{sub t}. The extension of heat pipe technology from 60 kW{sub t} to 100 kW{sub t} is not trivial. Current heat pipe wick technology is pushed to its limits. It is necessary to develop and test advanced wick structure technologies to perform this task. Sandia has developed and begun testing a Bekaert Corporation felt metal wick structure fabricated by Porous Metal Products Inc. This wick is about 95% porous, and has liquid permeability a factor of 2 to 8 times higher than conventional technologies for a given maximum pore radius. The wick has been successfully demonstrated …
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Andraka, C. E.; Adkins, D. R.; Moss, T. A.; Cole, H. M. & Andreas, N. H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Portable gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (open access)

Portable gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer

A gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS) for use as a field portable organic chemical analysis instrument. The GC-MS is designed to be contained in a standard size suitcase, weighs less than 70 pounds, and requires less than 600 watts of electrical power at peak power (all systems on). The GC-MS includes: a conduction heated, forced air cooled small bore capillary gas chromatograph, a small injector assembly, a self-contained ion/sorption pump vacuum system, a hydrogen supply, a dual computer system used to control the hardware and acquire spectrum data, and operational software used to control the pumping system and the gas chromatograph. This instrument incorporates a modified commercial quadrupole mass spectrometer to achieve the instrument sensitivity and mass resolution characteristic of laboratory bench top units.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Andresen, Brian D.; Eckels, Joel D.; Kimmons, James F. & Myers, David W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational and experimental studies of hydrodynamic instabilities and turbulent mixing: Review of VNIIEF efforts. Summary report (open access)

Computational and experimental studies of hydrodynamic instabilities and turbulent mixing: Review of VNIIEF efforts. Summary report

The report presents the basic results of some calculations, theoretical and experimental efforts in the study of Rayleigh-Taylor, Kelvin-Helmholtz, Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities and the turbulent mixing which is caused by their evolution. Since the late forties the VNIIEF has been conducting these investigations. This report is based on the data which were published in different times in Russian and foreign journals. The first part of the report deals with calculations an theoretical techniques for the description of hydrodynamic instabilities applied currently, as well as with the results of several individual problems and their comparison with the experiment. These methods can be divided into two types: direct numerical simulation methods and phenomenological methods. The first type includes the regular 2D and 3D gasdynamical techniques as well as the techniques based on small perturbation approximation and on incompressible liquid approximation. The second type comprises the techniques based on various phenomenological turbulence models. The second part of the report describes the experimental methods and cites the experimental results of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meskov instability studies as well as of turbulent mixing. The applied methods were based on thin-film gaseous models, on jelly models and liquid layer models. The research was done for plane and cylindrical …
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Andronov, V. A.; Zhidov, I. G.; Meskov, E. E.; Nevmerzhitskii, N. V.; Nikiforov, V. V.; Razin, A. N. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Technology Information Environment with Industry (TIE-In): A mechanism for accessing laboratory solutions (open access)

The Technology Information Environment with Industry (TIE-In): A mechanism for accessing laboratory solutions

The Technology Information Environment with Industry (TIE-In) is a system that helps users obtain laboratory-developed technical solutions without requiring that they duplicate the technical resources (in people, hardware and software) at the national laboratories. TIE-In is based on providing users with controlled access to distributed laboratory resources that are packaged in intelligent user interfaces. These interfaces help users obtain technical solutions without requiring that the user have specialized technical and computer expertise. As a designated DOE Technology Deployment Center/User Facility, industry users can access a broad range of laboratory-developed technologies on a cost-recovery basis. TIE-In will also be used to share laboratory resources with partners in US industry that help the DOE meet future manufacturing needs for the stewardship of our nation`s nuclear weapons stockpile.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Ang, J. A.; Machin, G. D. & Marek, E. L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report on development of neutron passportisation method (open access)

Report on development of neutron passportisation method

In this report the results of development of spatial neutron passportisation method are described. The method is aimed on spatial configuration (including the number of sources) control of closed objects containing neutron sources. The possible areas of method application are: (1) the number of warheads control inside the missile heads for RF-US nuclear disarmament treaties verification; (2) control of SNM containers arrangement in storage vaults; (3) control of complicated assemblies with SNM (and other radioactive materials) to remain unchanged. For objects with complicated structure such as multiple reentry vehicles the direct interpretation of observed radiation field configuration is rather difficult task. The reconstruction of object structure on basis of radiation field configuration usually require use of external information and is often not obvious. Besides, while using such methods of direct reconstruction of object internal structure the contradiction arises between the requirement of defining sources arrangement (warheads in case of arms control) and requirement of information protection concerning the sources themselves. In this case there may be different limitations on possible spatial resolution of method, use of spectroscopy information, etc.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Antropov, G.P.; Babichev, Yu.B. & Blagin, S.V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fifth wheel installation, S97556, Issue H (open access)

Fifth wheel installation, S97556, Issue H

This report consists of one engineering drawing showing the design of the Fifth Wheel System for a semi-tractor trailer truck. Notes on the drawing give instructions for installation of some items, references to other drawings and instructions, and testing procedures.
Date: December 31, 1994
Creator: Arning, C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library