20-ton and 1/2-ton High Explosive Cratering Experiments in Basalt Rock: Final Report, August 1962 (open access)

20-ton and 1/2-ton High Explosive Cratering Experiments in Basalt Rock: Final Report, August 1962

This report describes the Sandia Corporation participation and results related to Project Buckboard: the detonation of three 40,000-pound and ten 1000-pound high-explosive charges in basalt rock to establish depth -of-burst curves.
Date: August 1962
Creator: Vortman, L. J.; MacDougall, H. R. & Rauber, D. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of the Sandia High-Altitude Sampler Rocket System (HAS) (open access)

Design of the Sandia High-Altitude Sampler Rocket System (HAS)

Abstract: "This report presents the characteristics incorporated in the design of a ballistic rocket system that is capable of carrying recoverable payloads varying in weight from 75 to 200 pounds to altitudes of 600,000 to 1,000,000 feet (msl)."
Date: August 1961
Creator: Bustamante, A. C. & Walker, W. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Method for Performing a Human-Factors Reliability Analysis (open access)

A Method for Performing a Human-Factors Reliability Analysis

Foreword: There has been relatively little work reported on deriving quantitative estimates of the degradation to a man-machine system resulting from human errors. One approach, used in the Reliability Department of Sandia Corporation, is presented here as an example of how such estimating can be done.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Swain, Alan D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on Magnetogasdynamic Aspects (open access)

Preliminary Report on Magnetogasdynamic Aspects

Report describing studies on magnetogasdynamic aspects, presented in three sections: a summary of relevant magnetofluidmechanic fundamentals; a review of relevant literature on flow modification in magnetofluidmechnics; and the results of analytical investigations on highly restricted magnetofluidmechanic flows.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Chenoweth, D. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Pulse Ammeter (open access)

A Pulse Ammeter

A quantizing pulse ammeter has been designed which brackets an input pulse current peak between two preset current levels. These levels are easily selected by calibration circuits contained on the chassis. Readout is presented in the form of a Nixie visual display as well as an output which is suitable for automatic data recording.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Newman, J. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stress Pulse-Trains from Multiple Reflection at a Zone of Many Discontinuities: a Notation for Machine Solution (open access)

Stress Pulse-Trains from Multiple Reflection at a Zone of Many Discontinuities: a Notation for Machine Solution

Abstract: "Presented in this report is a numerical method by which may be calculated the amplitudes of the trains of pulses that result when a single simple stress pulse encounters a zone of many abrupt discontinuities in a slender rod. The notational scheme employed enables the system of multitudes of individual progagating waves to be studied in terms of analogous number sets which may be mechanically generated. The notational concept and related operational rules, described in this report, have been used to program the problem for solution with the IBM 704 computer. The program is briefly discussed. Illustrative examples were computed for rods of two to ten discontinuities. These were compared with a pulse reflected in a rod of an unlimited number of steps."
Date: August 1962
Creator: Reed, R. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vapor Pressures of the Rare Earths (open access)

Vapor Pressures of the Rare Earths

Abstract: This report presents the vapor pressures versus temperature data graphically for the rare earth elements, yttrium and scandium.
Date: August 2, 1960
Creator: Beavis, L. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library