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Thermal stress response of General Purpose Heat Source (GPHS) aeroshell material
A thermal stress test was conducted to determine the ability of the GPHS aeroshell 3 D FWPF material to maintain physical integrity when exposed to a severe heat flux such as would occur from prompt reentry of GPHS modules. The test was performed in the Giant Planetary Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center. Good agreement was obtained between the theoretical and experimental results for both temperature and strain time histories. No physical damage was observed in the test specimen. These results provide initial corroboration both of the analysis techniques and that the GPHS reentry member will survive the reentry thermal stress levels expected
The Constitution of Bilingual/ESL Education as a Disciplinary Practice: Genealogical Explorations
This article provides a cultural and political critique of the constitution of bilingual/English-as-a-second-language (ESL) education as a disciplinary practice in the case of New Mexico. Using genealogy and postcolonial, post-structural, and critical frameworks, this article claims that the directions advanced by the Chicano/Chicana movement were lost. Instead, what emerged was a field that nurtured a mix of symbolic colonization and docilization through the construction of a settlement that controls thought and behavior, perpetuating misrecognition in a Bourdieuian sense. Illusion, collusion, and delusion have enabled the dominance of psycholinguistic approaches. Problematizing the constitution of bilingual/ESL education within a cultural and political sphere could foster an emancipatory education for marginalized students
Predicting morphotropic phase boundary locations and transition temperatures in Pb- and Bi-based perovskite solid solutions from crystal chemical data and first-principles calculations
Using data obtained from first-principles calculations, we show that the
position of the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) and transition temperature at
MPB in ferroelectric perovskite solutions can be predicted with quantitative
accuracy from the properties of the constituent cations. We find that the mole
fraction of PbTiO at MPB in Pb(BB)O-PbTiO,
BiBO-PbTiO and Bi(BB)O-PbTiO exhibits a linear
dependence on the ionic size (tolerance factor) and the ionic displacements of
the B-cations as found by density functional theory calculations. This
dependence is due to competition between the local repulsion and A-cation
displacement alignment interactions. Inclusion of first-principles displacement
data also allows accurate prediction of transiton temperatures at the MPB. The
obtained structure-property correlations are used to predict morphotropic phase
boundaries and transition temperatures in as yet unsynthesized solid solutions.Comment: Accepted for publication in J. Appl. Phy
Degradation and reuse of radiative thermal protection system materials for the space shuttle
Three silicide coated columbium alloys and two cobalt alloys were subjected to identical simulated reentry profiling exposures in both static (controlled vacuum leak) and dynamic (hypersonic plasma shear) environments. Primary emphasis in the columbium alloy evaluation was on the Cb752 and C129Y alloys with a lesser amount on FS85. Commercial silicide coatings of the R512E and VH109 formulations were used. The coated specimens were intentionally defected to provide the types of coating flaws that are expected in service. Temperatures were profiled up to peak temperatures of either 2350 F or 2500 F for 15 minutes in each cycle
Photovoltage in curved 1D systems
Curvature of quantum wire results in intrasubband absorption of
IR radiation that induces stationary photovoltage in presence of circular
polarization. This effect is studied in ballistic (collisionless) and kinetic
regimes. The consideration is concentrated on quantum wires with curved central
part. It is shown, that if mean free path is shorter than length of the curved
part the photovoltage does not depend on the wire shape, but on the total angle
of rotation of wire tangent. It is not the case when mean free path is finite
or large. This situation was studied for three specific shapes of wires: "hard
angle", "open book" and "-like".Comment: 12 pages, 1 figur
IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Volume 9, Issue 1, Winter 2020
Explicitly established to foreground interdisciplinary teaching and learning, Impact also welcomes evidence and
discussion of experiential learning. Often the two – interdisciplinary teaching and experiential learning – co-exist. Yet
even when they do not, both practices model how to think in myriad ways and to notice how knowledge is constructed.
As our winter 2019 issue makes clear, interdisciplinary teaching and learning and experiential learning often begin with
questions. Why does it matter that students grapple directly with archival material? What happens when undergraduates
practice psychology by training dogs? Do students understand financial literacy? This issue also asks questions about
students’ reading habits and faculty expectations of them as readers
Long term variability of Cygnus X-1: VII. Orbital variability of the focussed wind in Cyg X-1 / HDE 226868 system
Binary systems with an accreting compact object are a unique chance to
investigate the strong, clumpy, line-driven winds of early type supergiants by
using the compact object's X-rays to probe the wind structure. We analyze the
two-component wind of HDE 226868, the O9.7Iab giant companion of the black hole
Cyg X-1 using 4.77 Ms of RXTE observations of the system taken over the course
of 16 years. Absorption changes strongly over the 5.6 d binary orbit, but also
shows a large scatter at a given orbital phase, especially at superior
conjunction. The orbital variability is most prominent when the black hole is
in the hard X-ray state. Our data are poorer for the intermediate and soft
state, but show signs for orbital variability of the absorption column in the
intermediate state. We quantitatively compare the data in the hard state to a
toy model of a focussed Castor-Abbott-Klein-wind: as it does not incorporate
clumping, the model does not describe the observations well. A qualitative
comparison to a simplified simulation of clumpy winds with spherical clumps
shows good agreement in the distribution of the equivalent hydrogen column
density for models with a porosity length on the order of the stellar radius at
inferior conjunction; we conjecture that the deviations between data and model
at superior conjunction could be either due to lack of a focussed wind
component in the model or a more complicated clump structure.Comment: proposed for acceptance in A&A, 11 pages, 11 figures (two in
appendix
Chandra X-ray spectroscopy of the focused wind in the Cygnus X-1 system III. Dipping in the low/hard state
We present an analysis of three Chandra High Energy Transmission Gratings
observations of the black hole binary Cyg X-1/HDE 226868 at different orbital
phases. The stellar wind that is powering the accretion in this system is
characterized by temperature and density inhomogeneities including structures,
or "clumps", of colder, more dense material embedded in the photoionized gas.
As these clumps pass our line of sight, absorption dips appear in the light
curve. We characterize the properties of the clumps through spectral changes
during various dip stages. Comparing the silicon and sulfur absorption line
regions (1.6-2.7 keV 7.7-4.6 {\AA}) in four levels of varying column
depth reveals the presence of lower ionization stages, i.e., colder or denser
material, in the deeper dip phases. The Doppler velocities of the lines are
roughly consistent within each observation, varying with the respective orbital
phase. This is consistent with the picture of a structure that consists of
differently ionized material, in which shells of material facing the black hole
shield the inner and back shells from the ionizing radiation. The variation of
the Doppler velocities compared to a toy model of the stellar wind, however,
does not allow us to pin down an exact location of the clump region in the
system. This result, as well as the asymmetric shape of the observed lines,
point at a picture of a complex wind structure.Comment: 19 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in A&
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