Research & information: general books

The lunar surface is covered by a thick blanket of fine dust. This dust may be readily suspended from the surface...  Read More >>

In this study involving advanced fluid flow codes, an incremental iterative formulation (also known as the delta...  Read More >>

A review of the Norfolk ship jumping incident  Read More >>

The combustion of a uniform, quiescent cloud of 30-micron fuel particles in a flame tube was proposed as a space-based,...  Read More >>

Microstructural evolution was studied in samples of wrought and vacuum plasma sprayed (VPS) NARloy-Z exposed to...  Read More >>

Passive and active control of swirling turbulent jets is experimentally investigated. Initial swirl distribution...  Read More >>

The Rodon model-based diagnosis shell was applied to a breadboard test-bed, modeling an automated power distribution...  Read More >>

This final report describes the work performed by a consortium of Industry and Government to develop low cost cryocoolers....  Read More >>

The Rolling Element Bearing Analysis System (REBANS) extends the capability available with traditional quasi-static...  Read More >>

Our group was assigned the responsibility of designing the wheel and wheel drive system for a proof-of-concept model...  Read More >>

A general three-field variational principle is obtained for the motion of an acoustic fluid enclosed in a rigid...  Read More >>

Simple mixed finite element models and a computational precedure are presented for the solution of frictionless...  Read More >>

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In order to achieve adequate low-frequency vibration isolation for certain space experiments an active control is...  Read More >>

The indicial response approach, a modeling approach originally used for studying nonlinear problems in flight dynamics...  Read More >>

The Extra-Vehicular Activity Control System (EVACS) Simulation with Nested Transactions, a recent effort of the...  Read More >>

Using BFS, a new semiempirical method for alloys, we study the surface structure of fcc ordered binary alloys. We...  Read More >>

Compared to the current instrument landing system, the microwave landing system (MLS), which is in the advanced...  Read More >>

The Modal Identification Experiment (MIE) will monitor the structure of the Space Station Freedom (SSF), and measure...  Read More >>

The dynamic characteristics of instrumented and production UH-60A Black Hawk main rotor blades were measured, and...  Read More >>

Room temperature tensile strengths of as-received Hi-Nicalon fibers and those having BN/SiC, p-BN/SiC, and p-B(Si)N/SiC...  Read More >>

The geomagnetic control of the Earth's atmosphere is well understood. In the F-region and the topside ionosphere,...  Read More >>

Recent work was performed on development optical technology to provide real time monitoring of shaft speed, shaft...  Read More >>

The flow of an incompressible fluid over an obstacle will produce an oscillation in which buoyancy is the restoring...  Read More >>

Flight experiments were conducted to evaluate various aerodynamic characteristics of the Quiet Short-Haul Research...  Read More >>