Structural characteristics of high temperature composites

A progress report is presented for research carried from March 1984 through February 1985. A tensile test method has been developed which should give tensile and simulated shear (+ or - 45 deg) data for fiber composites up to 1000 C. Longitudinal and some transverse stress-strain data have been obtained for a glass matrix/Nicalon fiber system up to the matrix limiting temperature of 600 C. This demonstrates the functioning of the test method and the high temperature test facility which has been established on this grant. Transverse and longitudinal compression tests have been run, mostly in an end loaded configuration. A more satisfactory compression test is still required, and is under development

Surface interactions and high-voltage current collection

Spacecraft of the future will be larger and have higher power requirements than any flown to date. For several reasons, it is desirable to operate a high power system at high voltage. While the optimal voltages for many future missions are in the range 500 to 5000 volts, the highest voltage yet flown is approximately 100 volts. The NASCAP/LEO code is being developed to embody the phenomenology needed to model the environmental interactions of high voltage spacecraft. Some plasma environment are discussed. The treatment of the surface conductivity associated with emitted electrons and some simulations by NASCAP/LEO of ground based high voltage interaction experiments are described

The strong K\"unneth theorem for topological periodic cyclic homology

Topological periodic cyclic homology (i.e., $\mathbb{T}$-Tate of $THH$) has the structure of a strong symmetric monoidal functor of smooth and proper dg categories over a perfect field of finite characteristic

A Comparison of CDMA and Frequency Hopping in a Cellular Environment

This paper compares the performances of direct sequence code division multiple access (CDMA) and frequency hopping (FH) schemes in a cellular multiuser environment. The multiuser channel model incorporates the effects of propagation, frequency selective fading, and interference among users in the presence of a constrained system bandwidth. This channel model is applicable for cellular mobile communications, as well as other forms of personal communications. The CDMA and FH systems are compared using BPSK modulation. The main point of contrast between these systems is that the orthogonal hopping patterns in a FH system result in a decreased additive interference power, however the frequency spreading nature of CDMA results in the ability to combat fading. An information theoretic analysis is presented, which shows that system capacities are far above the performances achieved using simple coding scheme

Algebraic K-theory and abstract homotopy theory

We decompose the K-theory space of a Waldhausen category in terms of its Dwyer-Kan simplicial localization. This leads to a criterion for functors to induce equivalences of K-theory spectra that generalizes and explains many of the criteria appearing in the literature. We show that under mild hypotheses, a weakly exact functor that induces an equivalence of homotopy categories induces an equivalence of K-theory spectra.Comment: Final versio