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Thermal stress analysis of space shuttle orbiter wing skin panel and thermal protection system
Preflight thermal stress analysis of the space shuttle orbiter wing skin panel and the thermal protection system (TPS) was performed. The heated skin panel analyzed was rectangular in shape and contained a small square cool region at its center. The wing skin immediately outside the cool region was found to be close to the state of elastic instability in the chordwise direction based on the conservative temperature distribution. The wing skin was found to be quite stable in the spanwise direction. The potential wing skin thermal instability was not severe enough to tear apart the strain isolation pad (SIP) layer. Also, the preflight thermal stress analysis was performed on the TPS tile under the most severe temperature gradient during the simulated reentry heating. The tensile thermal stress induced in the TPS tile was found to be much lower than the tensile strength of the TPS material. The thermal bending of the TPS tile was not severe enough to cause tearing of the SIP layer
(2317) meson production at RHIC
Production of (2317) mesons in relativistic heavy ion collisions at
RHIC is studied. Using the quark coalescence model, we first determine the
initial number of (2317) mesons produced during hadronization of
created quark-gluon plasma. The predicted (2317) abundance depends
sensitively on the quark structure of the (2317) meson. An
order-of-magnitude larger yield is obtained for a conventional two-quark than
for an exotic four-quark (2317) meson. To include the hadronic effect
on the (2317) meson yield, we have evaluated the absorption cross
sections of the (2317) meson by pion, rho, anti-kaon, and vector
anti-kaon in a phenomenological hadronic model. Taking into consideration the
absorption and production of (2317) mesons during the hadronic stage of
heavy ion collisions via a kinetic model, we find that the final yield of
(2317) mesons remains sensitive to its initial number produced from the
quark-gluon plasma, providing thus the possibility of studying the quark
structure of the (2317) meson and its production mechanism in
relativistic heavy ion collisions.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Dirichlet Process Hidden Markov Multiple Change-point Model
This paper proposes a new Bayesian multiple change-point model which is based
on the hidden Markov approach. The Dirichlet process hidden Markov model does
not require the specification of the number of change-points a priori. Hence
our model is robust to model specification in contrast to the fully parametric
Bayesian model. We propose a general Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm which
only needs to sample the states around change-points. Simulations for a normal
mean-shift model with known and unknown variance demonstrate advantages of our
approach. Two applications, namely the coal-mining disaster data and the real
United States Gross Domestic Product growth, are provided. We detect a single
change-point for both the disaster data and US GDP growth. All the change-point
locations and posterior inferences of the two applications are in line with
existing methods.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-BA910 in the Bayesian
Analysis (http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ba) by the International Society of
Bayesian Analysis (http://bayesian.org/
Lower Paleozoic Rocks around Today´s Arctic Ocean: Two Ancestral Continents and Associated Plates; Alaskan Rotation Unnecessary and Unlikely
Compression panel studies for supersonic cruise vehicles
Results of analytical and experimental studies are summarized for titanium, boron fiber reinforced aluminum matrix composite, Borsic fiber reinforced aluminum matrix composite, and titanium sheathed Borsic fiber reinforced aluminum matrix composite stiffened panels. The results indicate that stiffened panels with continuous joints (i.e., brazed, diffusion bonded or adhesive bonded joints) are more structurally efficient than geometrically similar panels with discrete joints (i.e., spotwelded or bolted joints). In addition, results for various types of fiber reinforced aluminum matrix stiffened panels indicate that titanium sheathed Borsic fiber reinforced aluminum matrix composite panels are the most structurally efficient. Analytical results are also presented for graphite fiber reinforced polyimide matrix composite stiffened panels and superplastically formed and diffusion bonded titanium sandwich panels
Partonic effects on anisotropic flows at RHIC
We report recent results from a multiphase transport (AMPT) model on the
azimuthal anisotropies of particle momentum distributions in heavy ion
collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. These include higher-order
anisotropic flows and their scaling, the rapidity dependence of anisotropic
flows, and the elliptic flow of charm quarks.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, talk given at "Hot Quarks 2004", July 18-24,
2004, Taos Valley, NM, US
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