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FEATS - Finite element thermal stress analysis of plane or axisymmetric solids
FEATS computer code uses finite element analysis to calculate steady state temperature and thermal stress fields for either axisymmetric or plane two-dimensional bodies with boundary conditions, including specified displacements, loads, and thermal boundary conditions
General series solution technique for bending of irregular laterally loaded flat plates
Computer program calculates the stresses and lateral deflections to a uniform thickness flat plate with a uniform pressure load. The plate to be analyzed may have several different boundary conditions. The program is written in FORTRAN 4 for use on the CDC 6600 computer
Extreme temperature requirements for spacecraft electronics parts FY 1971 the orbiter case
Determining temperature extremes in electronic components of spacecraft on interplanetary orbiter and flyby mission
Proximal ecological effects of the 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens
The diversity of ecosystems and volcanic processes involved in the 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens, southwest Washington, provide an excellent setting for examining effects of volcanic events on ecosystems. These eruptions included a lateral blast, debris avalanche, mudflows, pyroclastic flows, and airfall tephra. Affected ecosystems within 30 km of the vent were lakes, streams, upland and riparian forest, and meadows. Ecological disturbances imposed by the Mount St. Helens events were predominantly physical, rather than climatic or chemical which are the dominant classes of disturbances considered in analysis of global catastrophes. Analysis of ecosystem response to disturbance should be based on consideration of composition and structure of the predisturbance system in terms that represent potential survivability of organisms, mechanisms in the primary disturbance, initial survivors, secondary disturbances arising from the primary disturbance and the biological responses to secondary disturbances, invasion of the site by new propagules, interactions among secondary disturbance processes and surviving and invading organisms. Predicting ecosystem response to disturbance is enchanced by considering the mechanisms of disturbance rather than type of disturbance. In the 1980 Mount St. Helens events, the disturbance types, involved primarily the mechanisms of sedimentation, heating, and shear stress. Each disturbance type involved one or more mechanisms. Ecosystem response varied greatly across the landscape. Analysis of ecosystem response to disturbance, regardless of type, should include detailed consideration of the properties of individual species, primary and secondary disturbance mechanisms, and their distributions across landscapes
On the decoder error probability for Reed-Solomon codes
Upper bounds On the decoder error probability for Reed-Solomon codes are derived. By definition, "decoder error" occurs when the decoder finds a codeword other than the transitted codeword; this is in contrast to "decoder failure," which occurs when the decoder fails to find any codeword at all. These results imply, for example, that for a t error-correcting Reed-Solomon code of length q - 1 over GF(q), if more than t errors occur, the probability of decoder error is less than 1/t!
Measurement of minority carrier transport parameters in heavily doped n-type silicon
Measurement of minority transport parameters in heavily doped silicon is covered. The basic transport equations were used to define two independent parameters. Use of special vertical and lateral transistor test devices permitted the measurement of both parameters. Prior studies were normalized to show excellent agreement over the heavy doping region
Cosmological solutions of supercritical string theory
We study quintessence-driven, spatially flat, expanding FRW cosmologies that
arise naturally from string theory formulated in a supercritical number of
spacetime dimensions. The tree-level potential of the string theory produces an
equation of state at the threshold between accelerating and decelerating
cosmologies, and the resulting spacetime is globally conformally equivalent to
Minkowski space. We demonstrate that exact solutions exist with a condensate of
the closed-string tachyon, the simplest of which is a Liouville wall moving at
the speed of light. We rely on the existence of this solution to derive
constraints on the couplings of the tachyon to the dilaton and metric in the
string theory effective action. In particular, we show that the tachyon
dependence of the Einstein term must be nontrivial.Comment: v2: typos corrected and references added; v3: minor corrections; 35
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The stability of an air-maintained cavity behind a stationary object in flowing water
In studies made in the Free Surface Water Tunnel of a projectile running in an air-maintained cavity, the experimental relation between air entrainment rate and cavitation number was determined. The entrainment-rate coefficient CQ = Q/V0d^2, where Q is the air rate in cfs, V0 the free-stream velocity, and d the disk nose diameter, was plotted against cavitation parameter, K = (p0 - pk)/q0 where p0 is the free-stream pressure at the disk center line, pk the cavity pressure, and q0 the free-stream dynamic pressure. This experimental relationship for one single disc is shown for three different velocities in Fig. 1. The curves are similar in shape and each has a minimum value of entrainment coefficient which is designated by CQ^* at a value of K as designated as K^*
Node Synchronization for the Viterbi Decoder
Motivated by the needs of NASA's Voyager 2 mission, in this paper we describe an algorithm which detects and corrects losses of node synchronization in convolutionally encoded data. This algorithm, which would be implemented as a hardware device external to a Viterbi decoder, makes statistical decisions about node synch based on the hard-quantized undecoded data stream. We will show that in a worst-case Voyager environment, our method will detect and correct a true loss of synch (thought to be a very rare event) within several hundred bits; many of the resulting outages will be corrected by the outer Reed-Solomon code. At the same time, the mean time between false alarms is on the order of several years, independent of the signal-to-noise ratio
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