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An anisotropic creep model is formulated for metallic composites with strong fibers and low to moderate fiber volume...  Read More >>

Past planetary quarantine requirements were reviewed in the light of present Viking data to determine the steps...  Read More >>

This paper on nickel hydrogen batteries is an overview of the various nickel hydrogen battery design options, technical...  Read More >>

The notion of controller partitioning is described. Conditions are developed under which the input/output behavior...  Read More >>

The purpose of this report is to characterize the process of Human-Rating as employed by NASA for human spaceflight....  Read More >>

Techniques for determining heat capacities and other properties of molten metals were investigated and critically...  Read More >>

A far-wing theory in which the validity of the detailed balance principle is maintained in each step of the derivation...  Read More >>

The signal-to-noise ratio performance of the Hadamard imaging technique is analyzed and an experimental evaluation...  Read More >>

Automated systems that can operate in unrestricted real-world domains are still well beyond current computational...  Read More >>

The goal of the Formalized Software Development (FSD) project was to demonstrate improvements productivity of software...  Read More >>

The purpose of a group management scheme is to enable its associated transfer layer protocol to be responsive to...  Read More >>

A gas chromatograph (GC)/mass spectrometer (MS) system that allows the speciation of unburnt hydrocarbons in the...  Read More >>

A helicopter flight test experiment was conducted at the NASA Ames Research Center to obtain a database consisting...  Read More >>

A closed-form mathematical solution to the classical photogrammetric problem is presented. Although quite general,...  Read More >>

Plane compressible Poiseuille flow with uniform pressure (Couette flow with stationary boundaries) is revisited...  Read More >>

Most existing software design systems (SDSS) support the use of only a single design methodology. A good SDSS should...  Read More >>

The growth of single crystals of organic compounds by the Czochralski method is reviewed. From the literature it...  Read More >>

An intelligent control system for reusable space propulsion systems for future launch vehicles is described. The...  Read More >>

The overall structure and capabilities of an expert system designed to evaluate rocket engine performance are described....  Read More >>

An interactive FORTRAN computer comparison program designed to automatically locate regions of incongruity between...  Read More >>

The aerodynamic performance of a 0.5 aspect ratio turbine vane configuration with coolant flow ejection was experimentally...  Read More >>

A new algorithm for five-hole probe calibration and data reduction using a non-nulling method is developed. The...  Read More >>

A formulation of the longitudinal glideslope tracking of a transport-class aircraft in severe wind shear and turbulence...  Read More >>

The purpose was to investigate efficiency as related to the work transmission and the metabolic cost of various...  Read More >>

A new, nonoscillatory upwind scheme is developed for the multidimensional convection equation. The scheme consists...  Read More >>