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Journal of the American Ceramic SocietyVolume 58, Issue 3-4 p. 149-149 Creep of Polycrystalline Mullite P. A. LESSING, P. A. LESSING P. A. Lessing and R. S. Gordon are with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; K. S. Mazdiyasni is with the United States Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433.Search for more papers by this authorR. S. GORDON, R. S. GORDON P. A. Lessing and R. S. Gordon are with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; K. S. Mazdiyasni is with the United States Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433.Search for more papers by this authorK. S. MAZDIYASNI, K. S. MAZDIYASNI P. A. Lessing and R. S. Gordon are with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; K. S. Mazdiyasni is with the United States Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433.Search for more papers by this author P. A. LESSING, P. A. LESSING P. A. Lessing and R. S. Gordon are with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; K. S. Mazdiyasni is with the United States Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433.Search for more papers by this authorR. S. GORDON, R. S. GORDON P. A. Lessing and R. S. Gordon are with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; K. S. Mazdiyasni is with the United States Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433.Search for more papers by this authorK. S. MAZDIYASNI, K. S. MAZDIYASNI P. A. Lessing and R. S. Gordon are with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; K. S. Mazdiyasni is with the United States Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433.Search for more papers by this author First published: March 1975 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1151-2916.1975.tb19585.xCitations: 105 Supported by the United States Atomic Energy Commission under Contract No. AT (11-1) 1591. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume58, Issue3-4March 1975Pages 149-149 RelatedInformation

Launchlog '84: NASA Embarks on Its Busiest Year

In an interview aired over the Public Broadcasting System in 1980 , aircraft manufacturer John K. Northrop made a stunning charge. Referring to the Air Force's 1949 cancellation of his Flying Wing aircraft, Mr. Northrop alleged that the cancellation was not the result of any valid concerns about the aircraft itself, but rather was a retaliation for his refusal to agree to an improper demand by the Air Force . Specifically, Mr. Northrop charged that then-Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington ordered him to merge his firm with Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation, and that when he refused, an 88 million dollar contract for the Flying Wings was cancelled. Mr. Northrop also admitted that in 1949 testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, he had perjured himself by denying that Mr . Symington had ever threatened or retaliated against Northrop Aircraft, Incorporated . This dissertation began as a study of ethics and decision- making in the military procurement process. However, in-depth research revealed no improprieties in the Air Force ' s Flying Wing acquisition program. Research techniques included careful study of voluminous Air Force records , most housed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and at the Air Force Historical Research Center in Montgomery , Alabama . These documents, once secret but now declassified, showed that military decision- makers were never satisfied with the Northrop plane, and regularly made their position clear to Northrop . The author's document searches were augmented by a series of interviews held with as many of the surviving participants as possible: Senator Symington, who vehemently denied any impropriety; Gen. Curtis E . LeMay, then Commander of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), who readily admitted that he never wanted the Northrop plane and argued against it (and for the competing B-36 bomber) before a board of senior Air Force officers just before the cancellation; Gen. Lauris O. Norstad, the sole surviving member of that senior officer's board, who vigorously rejected any suggestion of improper behavior by Senator Symington in this or any other procurement decision. An interview with the current Chairman of the Board of Northrop corporation, Thomas V. Jones, generally supported Senator Symington, and clarified the stand of today's Northrop management . In addition, the author interviewed and corresponded with the two Air Force chief test pilots on the Flying Wing; both men gave valuable insights into the technical performance of the Northrop aircraft. If political

The sound source for the ASD Sonic Test Facility now under construction consists of two banks of independently controlled sirens designed to give sinusoidal output over a range of operating pressures. The main fixed bank of sirens (frequency range 50 to 2000 cps) employs 25 sirens, each using a 24-in. rotor; a second movable bank (frequency 500 to 10 000 cps) employs nine sirens each using a 12-in. rotor. Each siren employs a modulator which permits random or coherent amplitude modulation of the acoustic output at modulation frequencies from 0 to 25 cps for the large sirens and from 0 to 50 cps for the smaller sirens. Maximum acoustic power output of the fixed bank of sirens is expected to exceed 106 w in the midfrequency region from 200 to 800 cps. Finite amplitude limitations will be discussed. (Sponsored by Aeronautical Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command, U. S. Air Force.)

A cantilever beam of 2024-T3 aluminum sheet (3.25 in.×1.00 in. × 0.063 in.) was shaken mechanically at its clamped end, the force being applied parallel to the thickness dimension. A 0.125-in.-diam hole near the clamp afforded points of strain concentration. Both pure tone and broadly filtered random forces were used to excite resonant response in the fundamental mode, at about 185 cps. The rms surface strain in a cross section containing the hole ε was monitored and held constant. Life N to first visible appearance of a fatigue crack was measured; lifetimes ranged from about 1×105 to 6×105 cycles. The pure-tone data agree very closely with previous measurements on a riveted cantilever excited by sound. In comparison with available fatigue data for reversed bending in a specimen with small concentration factor, these data yield a fatigue strain concentration factor of 1.6, in good agreement with theory. The measured ratio of rms pure-tone strain to rms random strain yielding the same life-time ranged from 1.5 to 1.6 (3.6 to 4.3 db). The ratio calculated from assumptions of (a) Rayleigh distribution of peak strains, (b) noninteracting accumulation of damage, and (c) Nε8.25 = const, is 1.4 (3.1 db). (Research sponsored by Aeronautical Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command, U. S. Air Force.)

This document is being prepared to document that a No Further Action Decision (NFAD) document is appropriate for the Hg-1 site at Shemya Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska, under the Air Force Installation Restoration Program (IRP). The IRP is a Department of Defense (DOD) program established to identify and remediate hazardous waste problems on DOD property that result from past practices. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) draft document [open quotes]No Further Action Criteria for DOD Military/FUD Sites[close quotes] has been used as a guide in preparing this document. Air Force personnel have stated that the Hg-1 site may have been used to store mercury and PCB-contaminated material. The site was added to the IRP in 1987, and later that year a field investigation was conducted at the site. Soil samples were collected and analyzed for mercury, EP toxicity, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and dioxin. All concentrations of contaminants found in Area Hg-1 are below regulatory action levels for PCBs (40 CFR 761) and mercury (55 FR 30798) or below detection levels for dioxin/furans. Therefore, leaving these soils in place is acceptable.

Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Airborne Laser Program at Kirtland Air Force Base (AFB) and White Sands Missile Range/Holloman AFB, NM, and Edwards AFB and Vandenberg AFB, CA

Development and evaluation of a finite element model of the THOR for occupant protection of spaceflight crewmembers

This paper presents results from an Air Force program being conducted by researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU) Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), and Pratt and Whitney (P&W). This study is part of a comprehensive effort being supported by the Aero Propulsion and Power Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and Pratt and Whitney in which simple and complex diffusion flames are being studied to understand better the fundamentals of gas turbine combustion near lean blowout. The program’s long-term goal is to improve the design methodology of gas turbine combustors. This paper focuses on four areas of investigation: (1) digitized images from still film photographs to document the observed flame structures as fuel equivalence ratio was varied, (2) sets of LDA data to quantify the velocity flow fields existing in the burner (3) CARS measurements of gas temperature to determine the temperature field in the combustion zone, and to evaluate the magnitude of peak temperature, and (4) two-dimensional images of OH radical concentrations using PLIF to document the instantaneous location of the flame reaction zones.

: The United States Air Force Graduate Student Research Program (USAF- GSRP) is conducted under the United States Air Force Summer Faculty Research Program. This is accomplished by the students being selected on a nationally advertised competitive basis for a ten-week assignment during the summer intersession period to perform research at Air Force laboratories/centers. Each assignment is in a subject area and at an Air Force facility mutually agreed upon by the students and the Air Force. In addition to compensation, travel and cost of living allowances are also paid. The USAF-GSRP is sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air force, and is conducted by Universal Energy Systems, Inc. The specific objectives of the 1988 USAF-GSRP are: (1) To provide a productive means for the graduate students to participate in research at the Air Force Laboratories/ Centers; (2) To stimulate continuing professional association among the Graduate Students and their professional peers in the Air Force; (3) To further the research objectives of the United States Air Force; (4) To enhance the research productivity and capabilities of the graduate students especially as these relate to Air Force technical interests.

In April 1990, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), initiated an investigation to evaluate a potential Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) removal action to prevent, to the extent practicable, the offsite migration of contaminated ground water from WPAFB. WPAFB retained the services of the Environmental Management Operations (EMO) and its principle subcontractor, International Technology Corporation (IT) to complete Phase 1 of the environmental investigation of ground-water contamination at WPAFB. Phase 1 of the investigation involves the short-term evaluation and potential design for a program to remove ground-water contamination that appears to be migrating across the western boundary of Area C, and across the northern boundary of Area B along Springfield Pike. Primarily, Task 4 of Phase 1 focuses on collection of information at the Area C and Springfield Pike boundaries of WPAFB. This Sampling and Analysis Plan (SAP) has been prepared to assist in completion of the Task 4 field investigation and is comprised of the Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) and the Field Sampling Plan (FSP).

: The U.S. Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator (AFEWES) is a world class, secure, government-owned, contractor-operated, electronic warfare test facility located in Air Force Plant #4, Fort Worth, Texas. AFEWES is managed by the Electronic Warfare Group, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California. The AFEWES mission is to perform effectiveness testing of DoD and allied electronic countermeasure techniques to enhance aircraft survivability in combat. This paper will focus on four tri-service projects, led by AFEWES, which provide a common standard across test and evaluation resources; from digital models, through hardware-in-the-loop facilities to open air ranges. One effort is complete; the second is nearing completion; the third and forth are anticipated to being in 2008. The four projects involve surface-to-air and air-to-air infrared seeking missiles, as well as surface-to-air radio frequency seeking missiles. The paper will discuss the process and tools used to gather and communicate requirements to the intelligence centers tasked to integrate portions of Threat Modeling and Analysis Program (TMAP) models for missile flyout models (FOMs) suitable for integration by Air Force, Army, and Navy (tri-service) TE (2) the lessons learned during the execution of the first two efforts; (3) recommendations for other test capability providers.

: Environmental Assessment for Bulk Fuel Storage Facility Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Currently, Department of Defense (DoD) aviation refueling requirements at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) are supported directly from Patrick Air Force Base (PAFB). The annual average Air Force (AF) JP-8 requirement at CCAFS is 600,000 gallons, but there is no fixed, permanent JP-8 storage at CCAFS. The United States Air Force (USAF) proposes to eliminate the need for transport of fuels from PAFB, an approximate distance of 21 to 32 miles depending on Force Protection conditions. The Proposed Action would enhance fueling services for AF, Navy, and National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) activities at CCAFS and achieve several goals:

: Substance abuse in the military has become an issue of steadily increasing interest and concern to military leaders. This paper endeavors to identify the degree to which the Air Force Alcohol Deglamorization Program is supported by the alcohol-use norms at Air Command and Staff College (ACSC), an Air Force Intermediate Service School located at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. The ACSC setting is also compared (via survey results) to the previous duty assignment of the survey respondents. This paper outlines from the literature some of the problems associated with alcohol use in the military (degraded job performance, alcohol related crimes, incidents of poor judgement). Some of the benefits attributed in the literature to alcohol use are also noted (increased military morale, cohesion, and camaraderie). Literature suggesting that military members should adhere to a moral standard that is higher than the typical American citizen is noted. Results suggest that those surveyed perceived the ACSC setting to be generally supportive of the Alcohol Deglamorization Program, with several notable exceptions. Specifically, survey results suggested that the officers surveyed agreed that attention is often focused on alcohol, that there is an emphasis on bringing the beer to social activities, and they only slightly agreed that alcohol use during the workday is unacceptable. Results also suggested that while treatment for alcohol abuse was likely to be supported in either setting, treatment was viewed as less likely to be supported at ACSC. Additional results suggested that Rated officers (those trained as pilots/navigators) and Nonrated officers differed based on their view of the alcohol use norms at ACSC. Recommendations for future study and ideas for strengthening Alcohol Deglamorization at ACSC are offered.