Compliance measurements of chevron notched four point bend specimen

The experimental stress intensity factors for various chevron notched four point bend specimens are presented. The experimental compliance is verified using the analytical solution for a straight through crack four point bend specimen and the boundary integral equation method for one chevron geometry. Excellent agreement is obtained between the experimental and analytical results. In this report, stress intensity factors, loading displacements and crack mouth opening displacements are reported for different crack lengths and different chevron geometries, under four point bend loading condition

Arctic Ocean Oil Rights: International Law and Sovereign Title

The Arctic Ocean has been identified as a region of potentially significant oil and gas reserves. It has significant political importance for its coastal states. These factors are complicated by its hostile geographical location and its extremely fragile and vulnerable environment. For an oil company to embark on exploration and exploitation in this region it must be assured of secure title to the oil it produces, and it is therefore this issue on which the analysis focusses. This thesis examines acquisition of title to petroleum in the Arctic region, analyses how secure such title is, and critiques the role international law plays in achieving security of tenure. It adopts a top down approach tracing title to petroleum in the Arctic from the international law level, through coastal states’ regimes, down to the oil company level. Analysing this chain of title, the study examines whether indigenous peoples of the Arctic have become stakeholders in Arctic offshore petroleum, whether international law with respect to indigenous peoples’ rights and self-determination has played any part in facilitating this development, and whether these rights have impacted, directly or indirectly, on title to offshore petroleum in the Arctic Ocean. The thesis also examines whether the other aspect of sustainable development of petroleum in the Arctic, environmental protection, affects either title to petroleum or its exercise. In examining the Arctic coastal states’ rights, the thesis identifies several new problematic legal areas, in particular in relation to the use of ice formations as loci for territorial sea basepoints, highly ambulatory coastlines causing issues for locating valid territorial sea baselines, and thawing subsea permafrost creating ‘ambulatory continental shelves’. Such issues, the study shows, may have serious implications for the validity of certain coastal states’ maritime delineations, with corollary implications for title to petroleum in specific offshore areas. The work also studies the national regimes and their licensing/leasing regimes and how title is conveyed in practice to the producing oil company. The study identifies the weaknesses in the international legal regime relevant to petroleum development and rights to petroleum in the Arctic Ocean. In particular, the relevant provisions of UNCLOS, which establish the basic legal framework of jurisdiction and sovereign rights of coastal states, are examined in detail and issues identified and analysed. Finally, the thesis reaches both specific and general conclusions and looks forward to the possible future resolution of some of the key issues identified by the analysis

0878: The Herald-Dispatch Archives

The collection consists of 4 “groupings” of materials that were donated by the Huntington Herald Dispatch when it moved from former offices in Huntington to its newer one in 2021. These groupings include the Herald Dispatch Subject Files, the Name Files, the Photograph Index Files, and the Office Materials (materials boxed up from individual offices in the Herald Dispatch). The first grouping of Subject Files came to the archive in 23 cabinets with 4 drawers each and contains approximately 16,000 folders of subject headings spanning the 1950s to the 2000s. The second grouping of Name Files is in 7 large horizontal filing cabinets with 3 drawers that contain approximately 8,700 files for individuals named in the Herald Dispatch from the same time range as the Subject Files. Both groupings have a folder level index provided below for ease of access. The third grouping in this collection, the Photograph Index Files, contains over a dozen individual plastic boxes and several metal filing cabinets worth of photo negatives taken by Herald Dispatch staff. This part of the selection is not inventoried and is unfortunately not organized into any pattern for locating materials. As such, this portion of the collection is at present not open to the public, but materials can be viewed if advanced notice is given so that archival staff can locate the photographs. The last section consists of all Office Materials found in the process of Special Collections staff gathering materials onsite after the initial collection pickup. These materials do not easily fit into the other classification sections, and are located separately from the rest of the materials. This section of materials includes a variety of sports memorabilia, photographs, sports programs, sports files, WV state documents, Cabell County Board of Education materials, materials relating to the University System of West Virginia, materials on Marshall University, Herald Dispatch administration files, loose articles and designs, VHSs, books, magazines, and other miscellaneous materials