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Precision machining of steel decahedrons
Production of highly accurate decahedron prisms from hardened stainless steel is discussed. Prism is used to check angular alignment of mounting pads of strapdown inertial guidance system. Accuracies obtainable using recommended process and details of operation are described. Photographic illustration of production device is included
Computational fluid mechanics utilizing the variational principle of modeling damping seals
An analysis for modeling damping seals for use in Space Shuttle main engine turbomachinery is being produced. Development of a computational fluid mechanics code for turbulent, incompressible flow is required
Workshop on dimensional analysis for design, development, and research executives
The proceedings of a conference of research and development executives are presented. The purpose of the meeting was to develop an understanding of the conditions which are appropriate for the use of certain general management tools and those conditions which render these tools inappropriate. The verbatim statements of the participants are included to show the direction taken initially by the conference. Formal presentations of management techniques for research and development are developed
Phonon Density of States and Anharmonicity of UO2
Phonon density of states (PDOS) measurements have been performed on
polycrystalline UO2 at 295 and 1200 K using time-of-flight inelastic neutron
scattering to investigate the impact of anharmonicity on the vibrational
spectra and to benchmark ab initio PDOS simulations performed on this strongly
correlated Mott-insulator. Time-of-flight PDOS measurements include anharmonic
linewidth broadening inherently and the factor of ~ 7 enhancement of the oxygen
spectrum relative to the uranium component by the neutron weighting increases
sensitivity to the oxygen-dominated optical phonon modes. The first-principles
simulations of quasi-harmonic PDOS spectra were neutron-weighted and
anharmonicity was introduced in an approximate way by convolution with
wavevector-weighted averages over our previously measured phonon linewidths for
UO2 that are provided in numerical form. Comparisons between the PDOS
measurements and the simulations show reasonable agreement overall, but they
also reveal important areas of disagreement for both high and low temperatures.
The discrepancies stem largely from an ~ 10 meV compression in the overall
bandwidth (energy range) of the oxygen-dominated optical phonons in the
simulations. A similar linewidth-convoluted comparison performed with the PDOS
spectrum of Dolling et al. obtained by shell-model fitting to their historical
phonon dispersion measurements shows excellent agreement with the
time-of-flight PDOS measurements reported here. In contrast, we show by
comparisons of spectra in linewidth-convoluted form that recent
first-principles simulations for UO2 fail to account for the PDOS spectrum
determined from the measurements of Dolling et al. These results demonstrate
PDOS measurements to be stringent tests for ab initio simulations of phonon
physics in UO2 and they indicate further the need for advances in theory to
address lattice dynamics of UO2.Comment: Text slightly modified, results unchange
Neutron Scattering Measurements of Spatially Anisotropic Magnetic Exchange Interactions in Semiconducting K0.85Fe1.54Se2 (TN=280 K)
We use neutron scattering to study the spin excitations associated with the
stripe antiferromagnetic (AFM) order in semiconducting
KFeSe (= K). We show that the spin wave spectra
can be accurately described by an effective Heisenberg Hamiltonian with highly
anisotropic in-plane couplings at = K. At high temperature (=
K) above , short range magnetic correlation with anisotropic correlation
lengths are observed. Our results suggest that, despite the dramatic difference
in the Fermi surface topology, the in-plane anisotropic magnetic couplings are
a fundamental property of the iron based compounds; this implies that their
antiferromagnetism may originate from local strong correlation effects rather
than weak coupling Fermi surface nesting.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Effective One-Dimensional Coupling in the Highly-Frustrated Square-Lattice Itinerant Magnet CaCoAs
Inelastic neutron scattering measurements on the itinerant antiferromagnet
(AFM) CaCoAs at a temperature of 8 K reveal two
orthogonal planes of scattering perpendicular to the Co square lattice in
reciprocal space, demonstrating the presence of effective one-dimensional spin
interactions. These results are shown to arise from near-perfect bond
frustration within the - Heisenberg model on a square lattice with
ferromagnetic , and hence indicate that the extensive previous
experimental and theoretical study of the - Heisenberg model on
local-moment square spin lattices should be expanded to include itinerant spin
systems
Video Altimeter and Obstruction Detector for an Aircraft
Video-based altimetric and obstruction detection systems for aircraft have been partially developed. The hardware of a system of this type includes a downward-looking video camera, a video digitizer, a Global Positioning System receiver or other means of measuring the aircraft velocity relative to the ground, a gyroscope based or other attitude-determination subsystem, and a computer running altimetric and/or obstruction-detection software. From the digitized video data, the altimetric software computes the pixel velocity in an appropriate part of the video image and the corresponding angular relative motion of the ground within the field of view of the camera. Then by use of trigonometric relationships among the aircraft velocity, the attitude of the camera, the angular relative motion, and the altitude, the software computes the altitude. The obstruction-detection software performs somewhat similar calculations as part of a larger task in which it uses the pixel velocity data from the entire video image to compute a depth map, which can be correlated with a terrain map, showing locations of potential obstructions. The depth map can be used as real-time hazard display and/or to update an obstruction database
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