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The Computer-Aided Generation Of Flow-Tables For Asynchronous Sequential Circuits, Ronald Lee Altman

Masters Theses

"One step in the synthesis of asynchronous sequential circuits is the construction of a flow table. This paper discusses the requirements of a computer program to allow on-line generation of flow tables for asynchronous sequential circuits. Such topics as the form of the data entered into the program, the type of terminal required, the routines necessary for the designer to enter and correct data, and the internal data structure are discussed. An algorithm for the generation of these flow tables is also presented"--Abstract, page ii.

The Compressibility Of Preconsolidated Till, William H. Koechlein

Masters Theses

"Preconsolidated glacial till was tested "in-situ" with the Geoprobe and in the laboratory on undisturbed soil samples. The two soil testing methods were compared and three tests; consolidation, "thin-cake", and Geoprobe were analyzed to see if a more rapid method for determining the preconsolidation stress of soil could be developed. When comparing Geoprobe results to laboratory results for foundation conditions, it was found the two methods agreed on bearing capacity but differed significantly on settlement. The three tests analyzed for determining the preconsolidation stress indicated they are a function of preconsolidation stress even though there was variation in the test …

Standards For Greater Safety On The Highways, Robert E. Johnson

Kentucky's Annual Forum on Transportation

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Research Methods In Projects In Industrial Arts, Loren Seebach, Jim Sherman

Graduate Research Papers

The writers agreed that the basic problem of this study was to determine methods and procedures which are best suited and most valuable to the student pursuing the required work involved in the successful completion of the Projects course, Industrial Arts 33:270. It is hoped that these methods will prove to be of value to all research work in the Industrial Arts field. More specifically, the following questions should be kept in mind while reading this study:

1. What are the research methods and procedures used in the successful completion of the work required in Industrial Arts 33:270?

2. Of …

Field Manual Fm 5-30, Engineer Intelligence, September 1967 (With Change 1, 1 October 1971), Robert Bolin , Depositor

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

(1) According to FM 21-205, 18 Jan 1944, "Field Manuals constitute the primary means of promulgating the basic doctrines of military training and operations."

(2) This manual supersedes FM 5-30, 1959.

(3) This manual is much different from the manual it superseded because before 1962 Engineer Intelligence was defined as intelligence about foreign military equipment and on military organizations analogous to the US Army Corps of Engineers. In addition, two civil organizations within the Corps of Engineers, the Board of engineers for Rivers and Harbors and the Beach Erosion Board, produced intelligence about foreign harbors and potential landing beaches of …

Existence Of Two Types Of Drag Reduction In Pipe Flow Of Dilute Polymer Solutions, Harry C. Hershey, Jacques L. Zakin

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Drag reduction in the pipe flow of polymer solutions is shown to be of two types which apparently occur by two separate mechanisms. In turbulent flow, drag reduction is probably caused by viscoelastic effects. The critical solvent Reynolds number at the onset of drag reduction is proportional to about the first power of the diameter. Thus, the critical velocity is independent of tube diameter. Polymers dissolved in good solvents show more drag reduction than in poor solvents. The other type of drag reduction occurs when the laminar region is extended to high Reynolds numbers. It is followed by a transition …

Linear And Adaptive Delta Modulation, John Edward Abate

Dissertations

New results are presented offering insight into the performance and optimization of linear and adaptive delta modulation, together with a comparison with pulse code modulation. The results are applied to three cases of practical importance: television, speech, and broadband signals.

The results presented can be grouped into the following three categories. First, a performance characterization of linear delta modulation (DM) is given. With the aid of certain empirical observations made from computer simulations, closed form expressions are found for granular noise, overload noise, and minimum quantization noise powers. These results permit the prediction of the optimum performance obtainable from DM …

Effects Of Partial Coherence On Holography, Michael Jay Lurie

Dissertations

The theory of two-beam holography is generalized to include quasi-monochromatic radiation of any degree of spatial coherence. It is shown that a clear, undistorted reconstruction can be obtained provided the reference beam is highly coherent. The effect of the partial coherence of the illumination is only to make the reconstructed image darker. Specifically, the amplitude of the radiation at any point of the image is proportional to the amplitude of the radiation leaving the corresponding point on the object during the exposure, times the magnitude of the coherence between the latter radiation and the reference beam. Holograms made using either …

Development Of A Drainage Function For The Transient Case, And A Two-Dimensional Ground-Water Mound Study To Evaluate Aquifer Parameters, Seid Abdollah Jenab

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A drainage function, D (u_n), is developed to describe the rate of fall and the shape of the water table between drains for an infinite series of parallel drains. The drainage function is evaluated and presented graphically for design purposes. The solution of the drainage function is compared with the solution of Glover's transient state drainage equation. The two equations agreed very well, but the agreement was not as good for very high values of √(4αt)/ L.

The drainage function, D (u_n ), was solved for the point midway between drains and the solution was presented graphically …

Carburizing Of Steel Using "Cracked" Methane, Robert Alvin Hesse

Theses

An attempt was made to carburize steel using cracked methane, industrial terminology for methane burned in air over a catalyst to give carbon monoxide and hydrogen, as the carburizing agent. Initial tests in a laboratory scale furnace using steel in chip form showed that, the feasibility of this method was excellent. These tests also indicated that a good method of control of the carburizing would be by a system that could measure the dew point of the gases introduced into the furnace. The next step was to apply the method of carburizing to small production size lots of bearing components. …

The Effects Of Solar Magnetic Activity On Electric Power Systems, John C. Slothower, Vernon D. Albertson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Disturbances an large electric power transmission systems have been attributed to magnetic storms following solar flares. It can be shown that these magnetic disturbances are of the proper nature and magnitude to produce the documented effects on these electric systems. It is anticipated that these effects may become more serious with the greater and greater geographical spread of interconnected systems. More research and information on causal relationships is needed.

A Shunt-Feed Antenna System On A Small Supersonic Aircraft, Larry Joseph Nanney

Masters Theses

"A technique was developed which successfully predicted the reactance of a shunt cavity exciting the air frame of a small supersonic aircraft as an antenna. This was possible by the use of the wire above a ground place approximation which closely defined the characteristic impedance of the shunt fed cavity. A correlation was made between the maximum values of parallel resistance of the shunt fed cavity and the length of the air frame or portions of the air frame, which at this point were found to be a quarter wavelength in length. Measurements of the impedance of the shunt-feed system …

Reviews Of Books And Papers In The Computer Field, James H. Tracey

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

The Realization And Application Of Parallel Linear Feedback Shift Registers, Ross K. Heitzmann

Masters Theses

"Two methods for serial-to-parallel transformation of linear feedback shift registers are briefly discussed. A third method for transformation is rigorously developed using a next-state and output equation representation of the linear feedback shift register. An algorithm is developed for simplifying the parallel machine resulting from serial-to-parallel transformation, where simplification is defined as reduction in the required number of modulo 2 adders. A computer program incorporating serial-to-parallel transformation and the simplification algorithm is provided "--Abstract, page ii.

Characteristic Impedance Of Open Microstrip Transmission Lines Having Finite Thickness And Multiple Dielectric, Philip Julian Carter

Masters Theses

"A computer program is provided for determining the characteristic impedance of microstrip transmission lines having finite thickness. Infinite and finite ground planes are incorporated into the program. The programmer need only supply information in the form of a data card. This procedure is clearly outlined.

Graphical solutions of characteristic impedance for multiple dielectric microstrip transmission line problems are obtained using a discrete resistive analogue. Computer network analysis programs are viewed as having several advantages not possessed by the physical resistive analogue"--Abstract, page 2.

Tordon - 2,4-D Dimethylsulfoxide Combination Herbicides For Use In Roadside Development, D. James Morré

JTRP Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Engineering For The Human Environment, Frank E. Moss

Reports

President's Introduction: The environment of man has been the subject of intensive studies in recent years as the dangers of pollution became increasingly evident. The atmostphere we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, all are endangered by defilement. Thre resolution of the conflict can came only through a asystematic reordering of the national way of life so that man himself will not fall victim to the wastes of his civilization. For forty years Utah State University has been vitally concerned with the problems of pollution. Utah State surveys and studies have revealed the effects of pollutants on …

Groundwater Development In Arid Basins, Dean F. Peterson Jr., Harold E. Thomas, J H. Feth, P. H. Mcgauhey, James H. Milligan, Wayne D. Criddle, Judge Lewis Jones, Dallin W. Jensen, Calvin G. Clyde, Bartell C. Jensen, C. E. Jacob, Jay R. Bingham, E. O. Larson

Reports

Summary: Groundwater development frequently provides a means whereby tremendous new economic opportunities are opened up. If supplies are overdrawn (mined) the ensuing regional economy may be able to affort replacements from more costly sources. In the United States the Salt River Valley of Arizona and the valleys of California provide examples. Two cases are treated in this paper, Israel and West Pakistan. In Israel, besides furnishing more than half of the basic source of water suppply, groundwater development provides opportunity for both quantity and quality management, which makes possible use of surface supplies and reclaimed sewage as firm rather than …

Design Of A Nonparametric Detector For Fm Signals, James Charles Fowler

Masters Theses

"The communication engineer has in the past treated the detection problem from a parametric point of view. That is, the signal has been assumed to be of a known deterministic form and the noise of a known statistical form. This approach has proved valuable in many cases, but it is subject to severe limitations, e.g., if either the noise or signal change form, a new detector must be designed. Because of these limitations there is a need to find a more general form of detector.

This study looks at a specific statistic (the Cramér-von Mises statistic) and designs a detector …

A Study Of Probability Of Error Calculations For Baseband Multi-Level Digital Transmission Systems Using The Fixed Threshold Decision Rule, Don J. Popp

Masters Theses

"This study is an investigation into analytical techniques used in deriving probability of error expressions for baseband multi-level digital transmission systems. A fixed-level decision rule is used to solve this statistical detection problem together with some simple concepts from probability theory. To illustrate these techniques, probability of error expressions are derived for the general uncoded system, a simple coded system, and a complex coded system. Curves of probability of error versus signal-to-noise ratio are plotted for the various systems considered"--Abstract, page ii.

The Effect Of Concentration On The Viscosities Of Solutions Of Linear Flexible High Polymers, Lung Yu Chou, Jacques L. Zakin

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Viscosity-concentration results in the moderately concentrated range for four samples of polyisobutylene (molecular weights of 1.3 x 104 to 1.0 x 106) in cyclohexane (concentrations up to 4.7 g./dl.) and in benzene (concentrations up to 7.0 g./dl.) at 24°C. (a theta solvent) showed molecular weight and goodness of solvent dependencies similar to those reported earlier for three other polymers. For polyisobutylene, polystyrene, and a copolymer of styrene and methyl methaerylate in good solvents, viscosity-concentration data plotted as ηsp. C[η] vs. k′[η]C fit a single curve. The linear region of this curve suggests that the Huggins equation is useful to C[η] …

The Effect Of Concentration On The Viscosity Of Dilute And Moderately Concentrated Polymer Solutions, Hwa Luh

Masters Theses

"The effect of concentration on the viscosity of dilute and moderately concentrated polymer solutions was studied for eight narrow molecular weight polystyrene samples (900

Construction Of A Laboratory Type, Convertible Excitation Argon Laser, Arthur P. Reckinger

Masters Theses

"The purpose of this thesis is to describe the construction of a general purpose, convertable [sic] excitation, laboratory type, argon laser. Quartz tubing was used in the final model while attempts to use alumina were made during earlier work. The final model has total optical power output of 230 mw at a discharge current of 29 amperes in the dc excitation mode. Provision was also made to utilize RF or pulsed excitation. The device is built so that several values of optical transmittance are available with a wide range of mirror placement"--Abstract, page ii.

Shutdown Reactivity Worth Of Reactor Control Rods By A Subcritical Multiplication Method, Leslie Roger Conner

Masters Theses

"Two modified subcritical multiplication methods for measuring the reactivity worth of control elements were developed and investigated. The first involved the calibration of a subcritical count interval by the asymptotic period method. The second involved the calibration of a subcritical count interval by a rod interchange with the reactor regulating rod which had previously been calibrated by the asymptotic period method. The accuracy of these methods is relatively poor. this inaccuracy is due to shadowing effects and to the spatial harmonics which exist in the core. An investigation of the spatial harmonics to determine the best location for the neutron …

Handlos And Baron Model: Short Contact Times, J. Patel, Robert M. Wellek

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Learning In Adaptive Systems., In Ku Kang

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

The purpose of this study is to investigate the structures of learning processes and their applications to adaptive systems. The learning processes in this study are based on Bayes learning model, which well describes the nature of learning and also is a natural choice from the viewpoint of statistical decision theory.

On The Application Of Bayesian Learning In Discrete Communication Systems., Chien Fong Chao

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

It is the requirement of many communication systems that the transmission of information should not only be reliable, but also efficient with respect to the capacity of the communi­cation channel used.

Fm 30-16, Technical Intelligence, August 1966, Robert Bolin , Depositor

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

This is the first edition of FM 30-16, Technical Intelligence, since the massive reorganization of Army intelligence in 1962. The Army Intelligence Production Elements discussed include the Army Foreign Science and Technology Center and the Missile Intelligence Directorate of the Army Missile Command. In Change 1, the Medical Intelligence Office within the Office of The Surgeon General is discussed as well.

The manual explains the Army Technical Intelligence program, discusses procedures for collecting foreign materiel and information about foreign materiel in the field, and the responsibilities of the Army Intelligence Production Elements and the Defense Intelligence Agency in the continental …

Ammonium Nitrate Blasting Agent (Anfo) For Land Clearing, G A. Greaves

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

The introduction of "prilled" AN has revolutionised explosives practice and made possible safer and cheaper methods of blasting.

This article outlines the methods of handling and using ANFO blasting agent for land clearing.

Determining The Best Computational Method For Simulation, Neil Hertenstein

Masters Theses

"Two related problems are treated in the discussion. First, what is the best computational means to be used to simulate a given system? Second, if hybrid is chosen, how do we assign the problem to the different computers to realize the fullest advantage of the hybrid simulation? Most of the available information in the literature is presented in light of the above questions. It is found that, despite the lack of a precise theoretical solution, much insight can be gained into the problem. A proposed procedure for hybrid assignment and a sample problem using this procedure completes the discussion"--Abstract, page …