A conceptual model is developed for the three-dimensional temperature history of a multipass, filled weldment. Property variations with temperature and phase change are included. A mathematical model and finite difference equations are derived from the conceptual model and a solution procedure for the equations is presented.

The follow up on the Susanville geothermal energy project workshop is described. A post-conference survey was conducted and pertinent reports collected. Copies of available pertinent letter reports are included in the appendices. A proposed preliminary draft of a local ordinance structured for the protection of the resource is included in an appendix. The City Council of Susanville adopted a preliminary city of Susanville Geothermal policy. A copy of the objectives, guidelines, and criteria are included.

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Employment status of teacher employed by the Texas Youth Council.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Disabled veterans employment preference.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether certain university groups are required to hold open meetings.

The Seeded Growth Furnace was completed and operated extensively during the third quarter. Optimum thermal geometry, gas flows, and withdrawal rates are being determined. Surface growth was obtained having growth velocity as high as 5 to 6 mm/min. The surface growth has generally taken the form of interlocking crystals and is thin enough to follow the liquid surface. Its thickness has been determined in one case to be 20 microns. A molybdenum susceptor has been made for the seeded growth furnace. It is anticipated that this new design will eliminate the problems caused by films on the melt and seed crystal and lead to improved crystal structure in the silicon growth. A series of experiments were performed in order to determine whether the reactor gas streams were sources of contamination. Nitrogen reacts with silicon at 1100/sup 0/C to coat its surface with a film 30 to 150A thick. Silicon heated in hydrogen at temperatures between 1000 and 1200/sup 0/C maintains a very clean, film-free surface.

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The government, AIRPHX, AIRLA, and contractor BIPS program coordination efforts are discussed. These coordination efforts are essential for defining program objectives, and achieving these objectives in an efficient manner. The IPP outlines a long range effort intended to: (a) develop end product confidence; (b) identify government and contractor activities pertinent and contributory to BIPS development; (c) recommend government and contractor activities required to ensure BIPS program success; (d) establish activity priorities based on program cost and schedule impacts, and achievement of technical objectives; (e) coordinate the efforts of contributing agencies; (f) provide general information and, to a limited extent, BIPS program-related development activity status to interested individuals and agencies; and (g) provide contractor team program planning guidance.

Field demonstrations of chemical explosive fracturing stimulation were conducted on 3 noncommercial gas wells. The three gas wells had previously been treated by acid and hydraulic fracturing. They were then subjected to further hydraulic fracturing and following this, approximately 20,000 pounds of PTC-4 explosive was manufactured by pumping in 1370 gallons of oxidizer and 430.4 gallons of fuel. After the explosions, the wells were cleaned out and retested. Some improvement was obtained but the wells were still not commercial. Additional tests in other types of formations are recommended, with the additional objective of evaluating cost effectiveness. A detailed hazards study was required by the contract and the actual operations were conducted safely with only minor incidents. (LTN)

Present efforts in Study 3, entitled ''Evaluation of Test Methods and Properties of Candidate Encapsulation Materials,'' are concerned primarily with evaluation of the properties of candidate encapsulation materials and processes which have been identified. Specifically, cover materials for modules, and adhesives for bonding cells to cover materials and for bonding cover materials to other encapsulation-system components, are being screened in environments including UV radiation, temperature cycling, and high relative humidity. Results of the evaluations to date are described. These efforts include investigations of both polymeric and glass encapsulation materials. Efforts this quarter in Study 4, entitled ''Development of Accelerated and Abbreviated Testing Methods for Predicting Performance of Encapsulation Materials Over a 20-Year Lifetime,'' were concerned primarily with analyzing methods for discrimination among test methods with regard to precision, sensitivity, and cost. The background and procedures for such discrimination are discussed and examples are given.

A series of experiments was conducted to determine the amount of tritium needed in the spectrometer cell to obtain the infrared spectrum of HTO in the 1 to 5 ..mu..m region. Experiments using HDO as a surrogate indicated that 400 mCi of tritium would be required. Test loading experiments with HTO were performed and monitored with an ionization chamber. Adsorption of water on the surfaces was found to be a serious problem in obtaining quantitative material balances in the system. Improved real-time tritium monitoring systems were installed in the Tritium Control Laboratory to monitor stack effluents, room air, and process streams. Design and layout of components were completed and procurement was begun for a tritium handling and gas recirculation system which will permit calibration of all types of tritium monitors, performance evaluation of monitoring components, and the study of the effect of various monitoring conditions.

Large aperture, beryllium substrate-based mirrors have been used to focus high intensity pulsed laser beams. Finished surfaces have high reflectivity, low wavefront distortion, and high laser damage thresholds. This paper describes the development of a series of metallic coatings, surface finishing techniques, and dielectric overcoatings to meet specified performance requirements. Beryllium substrates were coated with copper, diamond-machined to within 5 micro-inches to final contour, nickel plated, and abrasively figured to final contour. Bond strengths for several bonding processes are presented. Dielectric overcoatings were deposited on finished multimetallic substrates to increase both reflectivity and the damage thresholds. Coatings were deposited using both high and low temperature processes which induce varying stresses in the finished coating substrate system. Data are presented to show the evolution of wavefront distortion, reflectivity, and damage thresholds throughout the many steps involved in fabrication.

The work reported includes studies of reactions between core materials and coolant impurities, basic fission product transport mechanisms, core graphite development and testing, the development and testing of recyclable fuel systems, and physics and fuel management studies. Materials studies include irradiation capsule tests of both fuel and graphite. Experimental procedures and results are discussed and the data are presented in tables, graphs, and photographs.

The objective of the BIPS program is to develop a closed gas turbine dynamic conversion system for space application. The baseline system is a 7-year life, 450 lb, 1300 W(e) unit using Brayton cycle hardware developed for the NASA LeRC and two 2400 W(t) Multi-Hundred Watt isotope heat sources developed for the ERDA. Phase I of the three-phase BIPS program is the conceptual design of the flight system, the design, development, and testing of a prototype Ground Demonstration System (GDS). The Mini-Brayton Rotating Unit (Mini-BRU), Mini-BRU Recuperator (MBR), and Heat Source Assembly (HSA) will be integrated into the ground demonstrator loop, and the system will be tested under simulated space conditions at the AiResearch Space Power Laboratory. Successful completion of the Phase I effort in mid 1978 is expected to lead to the Phase II and Phase III follow-on efforts. Phase II is a 24-month effort for the development and qualification of a flight system. Qualification will include testing with an isotope heat source. Phase III is a 12-month effort to fabricate flight-qualified hardware for delivery in April 1981.

Described here is a constitutive relation for the stress-volume strain states of Climax Stock granodiorite from the Nevada Test Site under nonhydrostatic loading conditions. By comparison with Nugget sandstone under similar loading conditions, for which this functional form fitted the data, we find no relationship for Climax Stock granodiorite between the fitting parameters and other system variables such as mean stress or confining pressure. Therefore this relation is not yet suitable for use in computer codes that attempt to predict the response of rocks to stress.

Eight sources of uranium of varying /sup 235/U enrichment were used to collect detailed ..gamma..-ray spectra with a GeLi detector over the energy range from 50 to 250 keV. The characteristic x rays of thorium and uranium were identified. Included in the spectra were ..gamma.. rays present in the decay of the 234, 235, and 238 uranium isotopes. The efficiency of the detector was determined and used to calculate both conversion coefficients for the /sup 234/U decay ..gamma.. rays and the abundance of the various x rays and ..gamma.. rays relative to their parent uranium isotope. It was anticipated that this information could be reasonably applied to in vivo monitoring for uranium isotopes.

The deformation model for non-elastic deformation in the grain matrix based on a mechanical equation of state was verified by comparing the predictions of the model with experimental data. The data of Type 316 stainless steel and nickel were used and were obtained in load relaxation and anelasticity tests. The same model was found to be successful in describing in-reactor creep and deformation. Work is in progress on the investigation of the driving force and the kinetics of stress induced cavity growth at the grain boundary.

An apparatus has been developed to react samples with hydrogen at pressures of up to 689.5 MPa (6805 atm) and temperatures of up to 200/sup 0/C. It is being used to determine whether RT/sub 5/ and RT/sub 3/ compounds (where R is a lanthanide element and T is a 3-d transition element, usually cobalt or nickel) ''fill up'' with hydrogen when subjected to high hydrogen pressures. Preliminary experiments with LaCo/sub 5/ in this apparatus showed a new (third) plateau at 126.7 MPa (1250 atm) in the PCT diagram; only two plateaus have previously been reported. There is an abrupt upturn at an H/LaCo/sub 5/ ratio of approximately 8.23. A second run showed an upturn at 8.76. The maximum loading is nine atoms of hydrogen.

A quasilinear model for the evolution of the 2XIIB mirror experiment is presented and shown to reproduce the time evolution of the experiment. From quasilinear theory it follows that the energy lifetime is the Spitzer electron drag time for T/sub e/ approximately less than 0.1T/sub i/. By computing the stability boundary of the DCLC mode, with warm plasma stabilization, the electron temperature is predicted as a function of radial scale length. In addition, the effect of finite length corrections to the Alfven cyclotron mode is assessed.