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Behavior of S.I.R. Fuels Irradiated in Sodium: Final Report, Production Test 105-180-P (Special Request KAPL-79: The "Beta Experiment")

Description: Report describing the effects of pile irradiation on fuel materials and coil springs for the Submarine Intermediate Reactor. The investigation was called for by Hanford Irradiation Request No. 79. Results of investigation are detailed in the report.
Date: August 12, 1952
Creator: Lambert, J. B., 1929-
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Calibration of AWS instrument shelter in Langley 300 MPH 7- by 10-foot tunnel

Description: From Summary: "Tests and calibrations of an AWS instrument shelter were made in the Langley 300 MPH 7- by 10-foot tunnel for the Signal Corps, U.S. Army. The behavior of the wind vane, the 3-cup anemometer, and the shelter cover was determined in wind speeds up to 150 miles per hour. It was discovered that the rotational speed of the anenometer was greatly influenced by the location, with respect to the wind direction, of three spacer posts that held two upper bays of instruments above the anen… more
Date: May 12, 1952
Creator: McKee, John W.
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Calibration of strain-gage installations in aircraft structures for the measurement of flight loads

Description: "A general method has been developed for calibrating strain-gage installations in aircraft structures, which permits the measurement in flight of the shear or lift, the bending moment, and the torque or pitching moment on the principal lifting or control surfaces. Although the stress in structural members may not be a simple function of the three loads of interest, a straightforward procedure is given for numerically combining the outputs of several bridges in such a way that the loads may be o… more
Date: August 12, 1952
Creator: Skopinski, T. H.; Aiken, William S., Jr. & Huston, Wilber B.
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Downcomer for 105KW and KE project CA-512-R

Description: Sometime was available for development and improvement for future designs before K pile design was authorized. One of the objectives of this development program va was to improve upon downcomer design. It as evident that the proper approach to the problem lay not in duplication because of inadequate facilities as a means of circumventing the resultant effects of failure, but rather in the adoption of a more logical engineering approach -- analyze the cause of failure, profit from the past opera… more
Date: November 12, 1952
Creator: Robinson, T. F. & Marinos, D.
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The Effects of a Small Jet of Air Exhausting From the Nose of a Body of Revolution in Supersonic Flow

Description: Report presenting the results of an investigation to determine the effects of a small jet of air exhausting from the nose of an elliptical body of revolution upon boundary-layer transition and the viscous, pressure, and total drag of the forebody at three body stations at Mach number 1.62. The jet effects on body pressure, pressure variations, boundary-layer transition, and total drag are provided.
Date: November 12, 1952
Creator: Love, Eugene S.
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Heat Transfer and Pressure Loss in Tube Bundles for High Performance Heat Exchangers and Fuel Elements

Description: From introduction: "The tube arrangement covered in this report was proposed in June, 1950, as a means of halving the weight and volume required for the heat exchanger. Ideally, the pressure drop across this arrangement should be little more than that required to overcome the skin friction on the tube surfaces. If the pressure drop across the tube spacers and in the cross-flow regions can be kept low, this ideal can be approached. much of the test work covered in this report was devoted to this… more
Date: August 12, 1952
Creator: Cohen, G. H.; Fraas, A. P. & LaVerne, M. E.
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Influence of a canard-type control surface on the internal and external performance characteristics of nacelle-mounted supersonic diffusers (conical centerbody) at a rearward body station for a Mach number of 2.0

Description: Report presenting an investigation of the effects of the wake resulting from control-surface deflection on the internal performance of two supersonic diffusers and on the engine-body interference drag in the 8- by 6-foot supersonic wind tunnel at Mach number 2.0. Results regarding the internal-flow evaluation, high-pressure-recovery diffuser, and drag evaluation are provided.
Date: August 12, 1952
Creator: Obery, L. J. & Krasnow, H. S.
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Lateral and directional dynamic-response characteristics of a 35 degree swept-wing airplane as determined from flight measurements

Description: Report presenting lateral and directional dynamic response characteristics of a 35 degree swept-wing fighter-type airplane determined from flight measurements and compared with predictions based on theoretical studies and wind-tunnel testing. Results regarding the frequency responses, theoretical and experimental transfer functions, stability derivatives, aeroelastic effects, response at low frequency, and effects of minor derivatives, product of inertia, and flight-path angle are provided.
Date: December 12, 1952
Creator: Triplett, William C. & Brown, Stuart C.
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The longitudinal characteristics at Mach numbers up to 0.9 of a wing-fuselage-tail combination having a wing with 40 degrees of sweepback and an aspect ratio of 10

Description: Report presenting an investigation to evaluate the effects of an all-movable horizontal tail on the longitudinal characteristics of a sweptback wing and a fuselage of a type suitable for long-range high-speed airplanes. Tests were conducted at low speed and at high Mach numbers over a range of Reynolds numbers. Large reductions in longitudinal stability of the wing-fuselage-tail combination were found at lift coefficients well below the stall.
Date: December 12, 1952
Creator: Tinling, Bruce E.
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Longitudinal Stability, Trim, and Drag Characteristics of a Rocket-Propelled Model of an Airplane Configuration Having a 45 Degree Sweptback Wing and an Unswept Horizontal Tail

Description: Report discussing an investigation of the longitudinal stability, trim, and drag of a rocket-propelled model at low lift coefficients at a range of Mach numbers. the configuration included a wing and horizontal tail of aspect ratio 4 and thickness ratio in the streamwise direction of 6 percent.
Date: August 12, 1952
Creator: Parks, James H. & Kehlet, Alan B.
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Preliminary Air-Flow and Thrust Calibrations of Several Conical Cooling-Air Ejectors with a Primary to Secondary Temperature Ratio of 1.0, 2: Diameter Ratios of 1.06 and 1.40

Description: "An investigation was made of the performance of nine conical cooling-air ejectors at primary jet pressure ratios from 1 to 10, secondary pressure ratios to 4.0, and a temperature ratio of unity. This phase of the investigation was limited to conical ejectors having shroud exit to primary nozzle exit diameter ratios of 1.06 and 1.40, with several spacing ratios for each. The experimental results indicated that the pumping range and amount of cooling-air flow obtained with a 1.06 diameter ratio … more
Date: August 12, 1952
Creator: Greathouse, W. K. & Hollister, D. P.
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Preliminary investigation of effect of angle of attack on pressure recovery and stability characteristics for a vertical-wedge-nose inlet at Mach number of 1.90

Description: Report presenting a preliminary investigation of a wedge-type compression surface mounted vertically in a circular cowling conducted in the supersonic wind tunnel at a Mach number of 1.90 and range of angles of attack. With symmetrical cowling, the pressure recovery and stability characteristics comparable to a conical inlet were obtained, but twin-duct flow interaction was observed. Results regarding the pressure recovery and stability characteristics and effects of removing the lower cowl lip… more
Date: August 12, 1952
Creator: Leissler, L. Abbott & Hearth, Donald P.
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Separations P.E.S. report No. 11: Task 1, activation study, RMA Line 234-5 Building

Description: It was the purpose of this study to determine whether it will be more desirable when activatiing Task I of the RMA. Line to revise the existing remotely operated equipment or to remove existing equipment and install a manually operated facility. It was also the purpose of this study to provide sketches and cost estimates for each alternative which could be used as a guide for preparation of a Project Proposal. At present, the process to be used in Task I has not been established. This study, th… more
Date: May 12, 1952
Creator: Stark, B.M.
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