3-D Experimental Fracture Analysis at High Temperature (open access)

3-D Experimental Fracture Analysis at High Temperature

T*e, which is an elastic-plastic fracture parameter based on incremental theory of plasticity, was determined numerically and experimentally. The T*e integral of a tunneling crack in 2024-T3 aluminum, three point bend specimen was obtained through a hybrid analysis of moire interferometry and 3-D elastic-plastic finite element analysis. The results were verified by the good agreement between the experimentally and numerically determined T*e on the specimen surface.
Date: September 14, 2001
Creator: Jackson, John H. & Kobayashi, Albert S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
3-D Microprobe Metrology (open access)

3-D Microprobe Metrology

This report documents the results of a project undertaken to develop an ultra-high-accuracy measurement capability, which is necessary to address a rising trend toward miniaturized mechanical products exhibiting dramatically reduced product tolerances. A significant improvement in measurement capability is therefore required to insure that a 4:1 ratio can be maintained between product tolerances and measurement uncertainty.
Date: October 14, 2008
Creator: Swallow, Kevin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
3-D Seismic Methods for Geothermal Reservoir Exploration and Assessment--Summary (open access)

3-D Seismic Methods for Geothermal Reservoir Exploration and Assessment--Summary

A wide variety of seismic methods covering the spectrum from DC to kilohertz have been employed at one time or the other in geothermal environments. The reasons have varied from exploration for a heat source to attempting to find individual fractures producing hot fluids. For the purposes here we will assume that overall objective of seismic imaging is for siting wells for successful location of permeable pathways (often fracture permeability) that are controlling flow and transport in naturally fractured reservoirs. The application could be for exploration of new resources or for in-fill/step-out drilling in existing fields. In most geothermal environments the challenge has been to separate the ''background'' natural complexity and heterogeneity of the matrix from the fracture/fault heterogeneity controlling the fluid flow. Ideally one not only wants to find the fractures, but the fractures that are controlling the flow of the fluids. Evaluated in this work is current state-of-the-art surface (seismic reflection) and borehole seismic methods (Vertical Seismic Profiling (VSP), Crosswell and Single Well) to locate and quantify geothermal reservoir characteristics. The focus is on active methods; the assumption being that accuracy is needed for successful well siting. Passive methods are useful for exploration and detailed monitoring for in-fill …
Date: July 14, 2003
Creator: Majer, E. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #4, October 14, 2003, Part 1 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #4, October 14, 2003, Part 1

Recording of the fourth public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on October 14, 2003 at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The Commission heard testimony from two sets of witnesses on leadership of U.S. intelligence, intelligence and national security policy, and the effectiveness of warning against transnational threats. This section includes the opening statement from Chairman Kean, and the panels on leadership of U.S. intelligence, and intelligence and the national security policy.
Date: October 14, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #4,October 14, 2003, Part 2 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #4,October 14, 2003, Part 2

Recording of the fourth public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on October 14, 2003 at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The Commission heard testimony from two sets of witnesses on leadership of U.S. intelligence, intelligence and national security policy, and the effectiveness of warning against transnational threats This section includes the third panel on warning of transnational threats, with testimony from Richard Kerr, Mary O. McCarthy, and John Gannon.
Date: October 14, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #10, April 14, 2004, Part 1 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #10, April 14, 2004, Part 1

Recording of the tenth public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on April 14, 2004 in Washington, D.C. The two-day hearing examined the performance of law enforcement and the Intelligence Community prior to September 11 and evaluated post-9/11 reforms in these areas. In addition to witness testimony, four staff statements were delivered during the course of the proceedings. This section includes the staff statement on the performance of the intelligence community in addition to the panel on Summer 2001 with testimony from George J. Tenet.
Date: April 14, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #10, April 14, 2004, Part 2 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #10, April 14, 2004, Part 2

Recording of the tenth public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on April 14, 2004 in Washington, D.C. The two-day hearing examined the performance of law enforcement and the Intelligence Community prior to September 11 and evaluated post-9/11 reforms in these areas. In addition to witness testimony, four staff statements were delivered during the course of the proceedings. This section includes the panel on preventing future attacks inside the United States, with testimony from John O. Brennan, Lieutenant General Patrick M. Hughes, John S. Pistole, and James L. Pavitt.
Date: April 14, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #10, April 14, 2004, Part 3 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #10, April 14, 2004, Part 3

Recording of the tenth public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on April 14, 2004 in Washington, D.C. The two-day hearing examined the performance of law enforcement and the Intelligence Community prior to September 11 and evaluated post-9/11 reforms in these areas. In addition to witness testimony, four staff statements were delivered during the course of the proceedings. This section includes the staff statement on reforming law enforcement, counterterrorism, and intelligence collection in the United States, in addition to the panel on FBI leadership and initiatives post 9/11 with testimony from Robert S. Muller.
Date: April 14, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
19-electron intermediates in the Ligand Substitution of CpW(CO)3with a Lewis Base (open access)

19-electron intermediates in the Ligand Substitution of CpW(CO)3with a Lewis Base

Odd electron species are important intermediates in organometallic chemistry, participating in a variety of catalytic and electron-transfer reactions which produce stable even-electron products. While electron deficient 17-electron (17e) radicals have been well characterized, the possible existence of short-lived 19-electron (19e) radicals has been a subject of continuing investigation. 19e radicals have been postulated as intermediates in the photochemical ligand substitution and disproportionation reactions of organometallic dimers containing a single metal-metal bond, yet the reactions of these intermediates on diffusion-limited time scales (ns-{micro}s) have never been directly observed. This study resolves the 19e dynamics in the ligand substitution of 17e radicals CpW(CO){sub 3}{sup {sm_bullet}} (Cp = C{sub 5}H{sub 5}) with the Lewis base P(OMe){sub 3}, providing the first complete description 19e reactivity.
Date: December 14, 2005
Creator: Cahoon, James F.; Kling, Matthias F.; Sawyer, Karma R.; Frei,Heinz & Harris, Charles B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
L-286 Acceptance Test Record (open access)

L-286 Acceptance Test Record

This document provides a detailed account of how the acceptance testing was conducted for Project L-286, ''200E Area Sanitary Water Plant Effluent Stream Reduction''. The testing of the L-286 instrumentation system was conducted under the direct supervision
Date: January 14, 2000
Creator: Harmon, B. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
401(k) Plans and Retirement Savings: Issues for Congress (open access)

401(k) Plans and Retirement Savings: Issues for Congress

Over the past 25 years, defined contribution (DC) plans - including 401(k) plans - have become the most prevalent form of employer-sponsored retirement plan in the United States. This report describes seven major policy issues with respect to defined contribution plans: 1) access to employer-sponsored retirement plans; 2) participation in employer-sponsored plans; 3) contribution rates; 4) investment choices; 5) fee disclosure; 6) leakage from retirement savings; and 7) converting retirement savings into income.
Date: July 14, 2009
Creator: Purcell, Patrick & Topoleski, John J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
S. 1893/H.R. 976: The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 (open access)

S. 1893/H.R. 976: The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007

This report tracks the Children's Health Reauthorization of Act of 2007 in both the Senate and the House, while also providing a summary of the bill. The report lists each title of the bill. what they do, and their implications. The report also examines costs by analyzing the immediate outlay and future outlay, starting at 28.6 billion and potentially increasing to 35.2 billion over time.
Date: August 14, 2007
Creator: Baumrucker, Evelyne; Fernandez, Bernadette; Grady, April; Herz, Elicia; Peterson, Chris & Rimkunas, Richard
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
1999 Annual Mixed Waste Management Facility Groundwater Correction - Action Report (Volumes I, II, and III) (open access)

1999 Annual Mixed Waste Management Facility Groundwater Correction - Action Report (Volumes I, II, and III)

This Corrective Action Report (CAR) for the Mixed Waste Management Facility (MWMF) is being prepared to comply with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Permit Number SC1 890 008 989, dated October 31, 1999. This CAR compiles and presents all groundwater sampling and monitoring activities that are conducted at the MWMF. As set forth in previous agreements with South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), all groundwater associated with the Burial Ground Complex (BGC) (comprised of the MWMF, Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility, and Old Radioactive Waste Burial Ground) will be addressed under this RCRA Permit. This CAR is the first to be written for the MWMF and presents monitoring activities and results as an outcome of Interim Status and limited Permitted Status activities. All 1999 groundwater monitoring activities were conducted while the MWMF was operated during Interim Status. Changes to the groundwater monitoring program were made upon receipt of the RCRA Permit, where feasible. During 1999, 152 single-screened and six multi-screened groundwater monitoring wells at the BGC monitored groundwater quality in the uppermost aquifer as required by the South Carolina Hazardous Waste Management Regulations (SCHWMR), settlement agreements 87-52-SW and 91-51-SW, and RCRA Permit SC1 890 008 …
Date: June 14, 2000
Creator: Chase, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2000 Census: Coverage Evaluation Matching Implemented as Planned, but Census Bureau Should Evaluate Lessons Learned (open access)

2000 Census: Coverage Evaluation Matching Implemented as Planned, but Census Bureau Should Evaluate Lessons Learned

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. Census Bureau conducted the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (ACE) survey to estimate the number of people missed, counted more than once, or otherwise improperly counted in the 2000 Census. On the basis of uncertainty in the ACE results, the Bureau's acting director decided that the 2000 Census tabulations should not be adjusted in order to redraw the boundaries of congressional districts or to distribute billions of dollars in federal funding. Although ACE was generally implemented as planned, the Bureau found that it overstated census undercounts because of an error introduced during matching operations and other uncertainties. The Bureau concluded that additional review and analysis of these uncertainties would be needed before the data could be used. Matching more than 1.4 million census and ACE records involved the following four phases, each with its own matching procedures and multiple layers of review: computer matching, clerical matching, field follow-up, and clerical matching. The Bureau applied quality assurance procedures to each phase of person matching. Because the quality assurance procedures had failure rates of less than one percent, the Bureau reported that person matching quality assurance was …
Date: March 14, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2000 Census: Update on Essential Operations (open access)

2000 Census: Update on Essential Operations

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its recent reports on the status of key census taking operations, focusing on such essential activities as: (1) outreach and promotion; (2) field follow-up operations; and (3) data capture."
Date: March 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2004 Electron Donor Acceptor Interactions Gordon Conference - August 8-13, 2004 (open access)

2004 Electron Donor Acceptor Interactions Gordon Conference - August 8-13, 2004

The 2004 Gordon Conference on Donor/Acceptor Interactions will take place at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island on August 8-13, 2004. The conference will be devoted to the consequences of charge interaction and charge motion in molecular and materials systems.
Date: September 14, 2005
Creator: GUILFORD JONES BOSTON UNIVERSITY PHOTONICS CENTER 8 ST. MARY'S ST BOSTON, MA 02215
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
2005 AF Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC 2005) Site Survey Guidance (open access)

2005 AF Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC 2005) Site Survey Guidance

Memorandum from SAF/IEB stating its duties for site surveys for bases affected by BRAC 2005. The guidance will consist of validations of operational capability, terms and recomendations, roles and responsibilities, site surveys timelines, funding for surveys, documentation, presentations of findings, approval, and additional guidance.
Date: June 14, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2005 Applied and Environmental Microbiology Gordon Conference July 24-29, 2005 (open access)

2005 Applied and Environmental Microbiology Gordon Conference July 24-29, 2005

This report is about Applied and Environmental Microbiology on Gordon Conference
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Kenneth Nealson, Nancy Ryan Gray
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
2005 BRAC Implementation Guidance (open access)

2005 BRAC Implementation Guidance

2005 BRAC Implementation Guidance during preliminary BRAC planning.
Date: June 14, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2005 Chemical Reactions at Surfaces (open access)

2005 Chemical Reactions at Surfaces

The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on 2005 Chemical Reactions at Surfaces was held at Ventura Beach Marriott, Ventura California from February 13, 2005 through February 18, 2005. The Conference was well-attended with 124 participants (attendees list attached). The attendees represented the spectrum of endeavor in this field coming from academia, industry, and government laboratories, both U.S. and foreign scientists, senior researchers, young investigators, and students. In designing the formal speakers program, emphasis was placed on current unpublished research and discussion of the future target areas in this field. There was a conscious effort to stimulate lively discussion about the key issues in the field today. Time for formal presentations was limited in the interest of group discussions. In order that more scientists could communicate their most recent results, poster presentation time was scheduled. Attached is a copy of the formal schedule and speaker program and the poster program. In addition to these formal interactions, 'free time' was scheduled to allow informal discussions. Such discussions are fostering new collaborations and joint efforts in the field.
Date: March 14, 2006
Creator: Friend, Cynthia M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
2006 Annual Operations Report for INTEC Operable Unit 3-13, Group 1, Tank Farm Interim Action (open access)

2006 Annual Operations Report for INTEC Operable Unit 3-13, Group 1, Tank Farm Interim Action

This annual operations report describes the requirements followed and activities conducted to inspect, monitor, and maintain the items installed during performance of the Waste Area Group 3, Operable Unit 3-13, Group 1, Tank Farm Interim Action, at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center. This report covers the time period from January 1 through December 31, 2006, and describes inspection and monitoring activities for the surface-sealed areas within the tank farm, concrete-lined ditches and culverts in and around the tank farm, the lift station, and the lined evaporation pond. These activities are intended to assure that the interim action is functioning adequately to meet the objectives stated in the Operable Unit 3-13, Record of Decision for the Group 1, Tank Farm Interim Action (DOE/ID-10660) as described in the Group 1 Remedial Design/Remedial Action Work Plan (DOE/ID-10772).
Date: February 14, 2007
Creator: Shanklin, D. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2006 Hanford Site Annual Illness and Injury Surveillance Report (open access)

2006 Hanford Site Annual Illness and Injury Surveillance Report

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) commitment to assuring the health and safety of its workers includes the conduct of illness and injury surveillance activities that provide an early warning system to detect health problems among workers. The Illness and Injury Surveillance Program monitors illnesses and health conditions that result in an absence, occupational injuries and illnesses, and disabilities and deaths among current workers.
Date: May 14, 2008
Creator: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Health, Safety, and Security.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2008 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Annual Illness and Injury Surveillance Report (open access)

2008 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Annual Illness and Injury Surveillance Report

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) commitment to assuring the health and safety of its workers includes the conduct of epidemiologic surveillance activities that provide an early warning system for health problems among workers. The Illness and Injury Surveillance Program monitors illnesses and health conditions that result in an absence of workdays, occupational injuries and illnesses, and disabilities and deaths among current workers.
Date: December 14, 2009
Creator: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Illness and Injury Prevention Programs.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2009 Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference (August 9 - 14, 2009) (open access)

2009 Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference (August 9 - 14, 2009)

Epigenetics refers to the study of heritable changes in genome function that occur without a change in primary DNA sequence. The 2009 Gordon Conference in Epigenetics will feature discussion of various epigenetic phenomena, emerging understanding of their underlying mechanisms, and the growing appreciation that human, animal, and plant health all depend on proper epigenetic control. Special emphasis will be placed on genome-environment interactions particularly as they relate to human disease. Towards improving knowledge of molecular mechanisms, the conference will feature international leaders studying the roles of higher order chromatin structure, noncoding RNA, repeat elements, nuclear organization, and morphogenic evolution. Traditional and new model organisms are selected from plants, fungi, and metazoans.
Date: August 14, 2009
Creator: Lee, Jeanie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library