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The Specific Radioactivity And Ratio Of Hafnium To Zirconium In Ores From Different Continents And The Preliminary Design Of A Process For Producing Hafnium, Arliss V. Martin

Masters Theses

"An investigation of the weight ratio of hafnium to zirconium in ores from widely separated regions of the world was undertaken to extend knowledge on this ratio obtained by modern means and to compare with the results of previous investigators. This type of information is of interest in geochemical considerations and the value of some similar information in the literature has been vitiated by the relatively recent finding that past methods of analysis are not satisfactory. The specific radioactivity of the original ores was determined in an attempt to check the proposition originated by Hevesy and apparently generally held by …

A Study Of Radio Frequency Converters And Mixers, James J. Skiles

Masters Theses

"This thesis will present a detailed discussion of the principles of frequency conversion and the problems attendant to the design of converter stages. The topic of harmonic conversion has been singled out for a more extended treatment than is now available in the literature. This topic is the subject of the experimental investigation portion of this thesis. Harmonic conversion has applications in U-H-F receivers as well as in "Double Superheterodyne Receivers".

The discussion given to the frequency converter in the first section of this thesis will be without regard to any applications. General theory will be stressed, and most of …

Economic Analysis Of Secondary Distribution Networks, Charles F. Cromer

Masters Theses

"In the early history of commercial electricity in heavy load density areas, the d.c. Edison Network was developed extensively. As far as reliability is concerned it is exceeded by no system. At the present time it has been developed to the extent of automatic and non-automatic converters, motor-generator sets, booster sets and storage battery reserve capacity.

This type of network is fed from several substations in the area at utilization voltage.

As load densities have increased, the large amounts of copper required, the cost of substation sites and large rotating conversion equipment have made the expansion of the d.c. Network …

Stress Analysis Of Thin Bedded Mine Roofs Subjected To Evenly Distributed Lateral Load And Supported By Barrier Pillars, Sahap Sakip Aybat

Masters Theses

“Theoretical stress analysis in mine structures begins with the assumption that the structural elements are homogeneous, isotropic and perfectly elastic. It is this writers belief that stresses in a mine roof supported by barrier pillars may be compared to those stresses which may be found in a thin plate supported and restrained in the manner similar to such a mine roof. Therefore the stress and moment equations developed for plates are herein applied to mine roofs of limited thickness.

A thin roof bed which is stressed with evenly distributed lateral load and supported with barrier pillars will be regarded as …

The Effect Of A Uniform Layer Of Insulation On The Temperature Amplitude In Periodic Heat Flow, Ralph E. Schowalter

Masters Theses

"The object of this thesis is to determine by analytical methods the temperature at any time within a homogeneous semi-infinite solid protected by a uniform layer of insulation, while its one and only one plane face is subjected to a periodically fluctuating temperature. The temperature at an infinite distance within the solid is to remain constant, and the heat flow in the other two directions is to be considered negligible.

Periodically fluctuating temperatures are frequent in both nature and engineering. The surface of the earth is subjected to temperature changes which are very nearly periodic, and these changes are made …

The Effect Of Inlet Air Temperature On The Efficiency Of A Spark Ignition Engine, John B. Toomey Jr.

Masters Theses

"The object of this thesis is to determine the effect of inlet air temperature on the efficiency of an internal combustion engine. In most text books the subject is dismissed with mentioning the negative effect of warm air on the maximum output of the engine. This fact is recognized but since most engines are run at maximum output only a small percentage of the time, it would be possible to control the air temperature as the situation demanded. With the assumption that cold air could be used when full power is desired, it was decided to determine the effect of …

A Method Of Mining The Kumtepe Lignite Deposit Of Turkey, Hilmi Dokuzoglu

Masters Theses

"The Agacle lignite deposit, as a potential source of fuel, near Istanbul, Turkey has been used in this study to apply the principles of strip mining operations. The details of the deposit upon which this thesis is predicated will be presented later in this paper.

The fuel requirement of the city of Istanbul with a population of nearly a million is considerably greater then can easily be met. Some of the fuel needs are accommodated by electrical energy by producer gas, by bituminous coal brought from Zonguldak (about 200 miles from the city), by charcoal, and by fuel wood. During …

A Study Of An Industrial Waste Produced In The Manufacture Of Titanox, Kurt H. Frank

Masters Theses

"The problem involved in this thesis is definitely of an industrial nature in that it deals specifically with waste from a plant that is primarily concerned with the manufacture of pigment.

….the plant does have a method of recovering the soluble titanium by returning the overflow from the Dorr thickener to the digestion tanks to dilute (cut) the digestions. However, in the underflow (sewer) there is a tremendous amount of sludge that is sent directly into the nearest stream because of failure to realize something economical to do with it. This sludge contains roughly 30 per cent solids of the …

Problems In Theatre Lighting And Pre-Selective Elctronic Lighting Control, Hasan Orhan Aker

Masters Theses

"Until the recent years, because of the lack in technical know-how of play producers and on the other hand the limited knowledge of the engineers about stage technique, all the advantages provided by efficient stage lighting could not be exploited. Especially, the different problems encountered from the point of view of lighting control, could not be solved for a long time.

It has been proven from theatres built lately, that the stage lighting designs made without a thorough study of the various stage conditions and requirements lead to a tremendous increase in cost and also inefficient operation of the whole …

Bauxite Versus Diaspore Clay In High Alumina (70%) Refractory Brick, Bhikhubhai Mahadeo Sedalia

Masters Theses

"The last twenty five years have seen a remarkable change in the character and types of refractories for furnace construction. Not much more than a few years ago, the production of refractories consisted almost solely of fireclay and silica shapes. A few high alumina bricks were made from Missouri diaspore clays or from bauxite and fire clays. At a later date, although little used, high alumina refractories were available which were made from alumina of a higher degree of purity, by the fusion process. Today refractories covering the entire range of composition from about 98% SiO₂ to 99 1/2% …

The Design Of An Apparatus For The Study Of Fast And Slow Chemical Reactions Involving Gases And A Kinetic Investigation Of The Catalytic Decomposition Of Silver Oxide, Hilbert Walter Crocker

Masters Theses

"An outstanding chemical engineer has stated that chemical kinetics is at present in a state similar to that of thermodynamics thirty years ago. The current situation with respect to thermodynamics and chemical engineering appears to be that a fair number of engineers understand the theory and appreciate the practical value of thermodynamics but are frequently handicapped in its use by a lack of data. This is especially true where data on material at extreme temperatures and pressures are required as in nuclear energy and jet propulsion development. The current situation with respect to chemical kinetics and chemical engineering is that …

Study Of Relay Behaviour Under System Oscillations And Out Of Step Conditions, Emil D. Grigoriadis

Masters Theses

"The recent developments in harnessing electrical power have opened a new field in the improvement and betterment of the existing types of relays and the development of new types. Thus about 1930 the manufacturers introduced the high speed circuit breaker with operating times of the order of 8 cycles and the engineers awoke to the possibilities of high speed or one-cycle relays.

Many developments took place since that time which gave us the improved forms of Instantaneous Overcurrent Protective schemes, the Distance Relay Protection, the Carrier Current Protection and many others. Later, because of the war time problems of increased …

Oil Field Corrosion, Edwin Harry Barsachs

Masters Theses

"The corrosion of metals in the petroleum industry has become an important engineering problem. The rapid increase during recent years in costs of steel has caused the industry to intensify its efforts to minimize corrosion losses in pipe lines and well casings. An industry-wide research program has resulted in the development of improved methods of controlling corrosion of such equipment.

The purpose of this paper is to assemble and correlate the information concerning the different causes, the detection, and the mitigation of corrosion of metals used in the oil fields of the world. The causes that are presented in this …

Design Of A Steam Power Plant To Be Erected In Mudanya, Turkey, Vahram Ogretmenoglu

Masters Theses

"The power plant, the design of which is submitted herewith, is to be erected in Turkey, at the center of the town of Kestik, in the district of Mudanya along the shores of the Marmora Sea. Mudanya is the harbor of the state of Brusa, and like most of the big cities, it is entirely electrified. However, electrification in Turkey has begun in the late twenty's; consequently, it has not yet been possible to bring electricity to the numerous small towns and villages. Several big projects have been undertaken for purposes of rural electrification, one of them being the erection …

Relationship Of The Overall Transfer Coefficient To The Factor In Ammonia Absorption, Ivan Lee Gray

Masters Theses

"Gas absorption has an important role in chemical and allied industries. It is used to separate one of a group of constituents from a gas stream. Poisonous or obnoxious gases may be removed from the gaseous waste products of chemical plants by absorbing them in suitable solvents.

Many investigations have been carried out and references too numerous to list have appeared in the literature on the general subject of absorption.

In all of this work one of the usual methods of reporting results has been to express the capacity of a piece of absorption equipment as an overall capacity coefficient …

Investigation To Improve Recovery Of Copper And Gold From A Refractory Ore, Raymond Franklin Cathcart

Masters Theses

"Results of tests presented in this paper indicate that the Santa Maria del Oro ores might be processed by a method which should yield a gold recovery of 96 to 98 percent and a copper recovery of about 78 percent, both figures subject to an increase with further work and study of the problem.

In the method of processing outlined in Figure IX, the ores, mixed as under present operating procedure, would be crushed to minus 20-mesh and roasted with ten pounds of sodium chloride per ton of feed in a multiple-hearth, down-draft roaster at temperatures varying to a maximum …

Precise Lattice Parameter Determinations Of Diamond Silicon And Germanium By The Asymmetric Method, Esrefettin Zeki Aka

Doctoral Dissertations

"The construction of the apparatus for production of powder patterns at a definite temperature and the technique for evaluation of x-ray powder patterns by the asymmetric method are described in detail, and the mode of error elimination is discussed.

A new scanning device is designed for use in x-ray diffraction work.

A modified method is described for the determination of densities of solids, which eliminates some of the difficulties interfering with other similar methods thus far proposed. Formulae are derived for the calculation of density as well as for reduction of density at a desired temperature.

The following conclusion are …

An Experimental Evaluation Of Explosives In Blasting Limestone And Granite, Harve Preston Nelson

Doctoral Dissertations

"The purpose of this study was the evaluation of military and commercial explosives. A standardized index of effectiveness was used as the basis of comparison.

Testing was conducted at the Experimental Mine of Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy at Rolla, Missouri, and at Graniteville, Missouri. At the school mine, 16 drift rounds, 8 slab rounds and 70 quarry tests were made in the dolomitic limestone. This rock, known locally as the Quarry Ledge of the Jefferson City formation, is of Ordovician Age"--Abstract, page ii.

The Underground Electrocarbonization And Gasification Of Mineral Fuels, Erich Sarapuu

Doctoral Dissertations

"The development of underground gasification methods for recovering mineral fuels is comparatively recent and several methods have been evolved for treating the various source materials. The problem of recovering solid and liquid fuels by underground gasification in gaseous form was primarily approached by means of opening underground entries which created the required fire-drift for starting the gasification in place.

Increasing knowledge of the whole problem of gasification in situ led to the evolution of new improvements in the underground gasification technique and, in the course of progressive research the preparations required for starting the gasification were accomplished from the surface. …

The Relationship Of Regional Structural Geology To The Ore Deposits In The Southeastern Missouri Mining District, Jack Alexander James

Doctoral Dissertations

"The lead deposits in the Southeastern Missouri mining district have been examined by numerous geologists and mining engineers since the original discovery about 1720. A list of the men who have reported on them includes some of the outstanding students of ore deposits.

The regional geology in the mining district either was unknown or only vaguely known when most of the early examinations were made, and the discussions of the structural geology are restricted in scope owing to the lack of detailed information. The reports based on these examinations, although excellent for their time, are incomplete in view of the …

Analysis Of Conductor Vibration, Robert H. Nau

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Considerable attention has been given to conductor vibration of suspended transmission lines during the past 25 years. Even so, the engineers of the public utilities feel that they have only started to get a solution to the vibration problems. Extensive research programs are being conducted at the present time by manufacturers of conductor cable and ground wires and by numerous public utilities themselves.

Aeolian vibrations are the chief concern because they occur whenever a steady wind, of from one mile per hour to hurricane velocity, blows across the suspended line. Thus, millions of flexures, however small or large in amplitude, …

Four Papers On The Performance Of Thin Walled Steel Structures, George Winter, Warner Lansing, R. B. Mccalley Jr.

CCFSS Library (1939 - present)

“The investigations reported in the four papers were carried out under the auspices of the Engineering Experiment Station of Cornell University, Dean S. C. Hollister, Director, and in the School of Civil Engineering, Professor W. L. Malcolm, deceased, and Professor N. A. Christensen, Directors.

They are part of, or related to, an extensive investigation of thin-walled steel structures sponsored jointly by the American Iron and Steel Institute and Cornell University, of which Professor George Winter, Head, Department of Structural Engineering, is in active charge. On the part of the Steel Institute the work is directed by the technical subcommittee of …

A Theoretical And Experimental Analysis Of Delay Circuits, Shuh-Tuh Tsai

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

A delay circuit is a circuit which produces rectangular pulses of specified duration.

A rectangular pulse consists of three parts: first, a sudden rise of voltage; second, remaining a constant voltage during a certain time interval; and third, a sudden drop of voltage to its original value.

If the sudden rise of voltage at t, is produced by a certain sudden action of a circuit previous to the pulse circuit, the sudden drop of voltage at t₂ can cause another circuit to produce a sudden action. Thus, the second action is produced by the first action at a time …

An Experimental Investigation Of Multivibrators, Harry W. Gates

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

The object of this study is two-fold. The first part of the investigation is concerned with substantiating experimentally the mathematical analysis for the conventional multi-vibrator and to derive similar expressions for the grid return multi-vibrator. The second purpose of this investigation is to delve into several possible ways of improving the linearity and thereby the frequency division usefulness of the multi-vibrator.

A Study Of A Small Hydrofoil Boat With Airplane Type Controls, Allyn B. Hazard

Mechanical Engineering ETDs

The primary purpose of this study was to determine if the application of airplane type controls to the hydrofoil boat would produce a stable craft that would be safe to operate. The secondary purpose of this study was to determine if a human operator could respond to changes in the boat's attitude brought on by wave action or other factors in time to keep the craft running in a desirable operating condition. Finally, the commercial possibilities were to be determined by the performance of the prototype.

The Design And Control Of Hot Plant Mix Pavement, Thomas Gordon Brown

Civil Engineering ETDs

No abstract provided.

Address [1950], Robert B. Brooks

Kentucky's Annual Forum on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Field Resolution Tests With The Metrogon Lens, Robert Greig Livingston

Professional Degree Theses

"The first portion of this treatise is devoted to a compilation of general knowledge concerning photographic resolution testing - an explanation of certain optical terms; the drafting of resolution targets; methods for averaging resolution values, measured at various positions on the format, to obtain one over-all value for an exposure; and a description of the factors involved in conducting the photographic operations. In the second part of the paper, analyses of the results obtained from line-target resolutions are made with the purpose of determining those combinations of aperture, filter, and shutter speed which result in high photographic resolutions. This information …

Experimental Studies Of The Effect Of Moisture On Strength Of Mine Roof-Shales, Rolf W. Roley

Professional Degree Theses

"The mining and production of coal by underground mining operations has long been recognized as one of this nation's most hazardous industries. Tabulated data from the State of Illinois, for example, reveal that in that State between 1882 and 1945 there have been 7,789 men killed in coal mining accidents of one form or another. Further inspection of the data indicates that 3,711 of these men were killed underground by falls of roof or rock….

As previously stated, this experiment was designed to determine whether or not any appreciable change in strength as measured by Transverse Breakage would result from …

Development, Application And Operating Results Of The Center Peripheral Discharge Rod Mill, David Porter Hale

Professional Degree Theses

"The use of a rod mill for producing manufactured sand is not a recent application. A Marcy Open End Rod Mill has been operating at the plant of the Sun Sand Company, Thayer, West Virginia, since 1925. In early 1940 an 8' x 12' rod mill of the open end type was installed at Shasta. Dam, near Redding, California for sand production. In 1942 work began on Fontana Dam, a Tennessee Valley Authority Project on the Little Tennessee River. The flow sheet included two 9' x 12' high discharge rod mills driven by a single 800 H.P. motor. All of …