Titanium Aluminides - An Overview

1984 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry A. Lipsitt
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Intermetallic Compounds ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Titanium Aluminide ◽  
Titanium Aluminides ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Engine Testing

The object of this paper is to describe a coordinated research and development program which has been pursued by an Air Force-Industry-University team for more than twelve years. The focus of our attention has been on the development, processing, and engine testing of alloys based on intermetallic compounds, specifically on the aluminides of titanium, iron, and nickel. The titanium aluminides, Ti3Al and TiAl, are the materials with which we have been working the longest and on which development has proceeded the furthest. This Symposium has provided the first opportunity to review the progress of the titanium aluminide development programs sponsored by the Air Force and some of the engine testing efforts undertaken by the engine manufacturers.

scholarly journals DOME PETROLEUM'S OIL SPILL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR THE ARCTIC

1981 ◽  
Vol 1981 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-181
Author(s):  
W. M. Pistruzak
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Oil Well ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Future Production

ABSTRACT Canadian Marine Drilling (Canmar), a wholly owned subsidiary of Dome Petroleum Ltd., is conducting exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea with the objective of on-stream production by the mid-1980s. If a major oil well blow-out should occur, and the probability of such an occurrence is very small, (Bercha, 1977), oil would be released to the surface of the sea until a relief well could be drilled or the well sealed itself. The relief well could be drilled during the same drill season, or, in the worst case, it might not be completed until the following year. Therefore, Dome could be faced with the problem of cleaning up an oil spill during open-water, freeze-up, and winter or spring break-up conditions. To this end, Dome has developed a contingency plan, based on, and updated according to, its ongoing research and development programs to deal with an oil spill during each of the above-mentioned periods of time. To date, Dome has invested approximately $10 million in its research and development programs. This paper deals with Dome's research and development in oil spill countermeasures for its present ongoing exploration activities and its future production and transportation systems.

scholarly journals Development of a New Construction Research Model for Saudi Arabia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Yasir Alhammadi ◽  
Dean Kashiwagi ◽  
Jacob Kashiwagi ◽  
Kenneth Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Construction ◽  
Management Project

The Saudi Arabian construction industry has had poor performance for the past thirty years. There have been many publications identifying the problem and potential causes. There have been no publications identifying what the source of the problem is, how to mitigate the problem, and actual testing to validate the proposed solution. This paper discusses why this problem exists, what is a potential solution, and an action plan that mirrors the most successful (construction management, risk management, project management and procurement delivery) research and development program in the world (22 years, $16M, +1750 tests, six different countries, 31 states in the U.S. and 98% customer satisfaction). The solution proposed in this paper is unique to the strengths and weaknesses of the research and development programs at universities in the Saudi Arabian kingdom.

scholarly journals Covering our Bases: A Military 4-H Youth Development Program

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
Joanne Roueche ◽  
Debra A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Development Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Land Grant Universities ◽  
Military Installation ◽  
Army Air Force ◽  
The Military

Land-grant universities, through the 4-H program, have offered support and partnership to the military since World War I. More recently, the U. S. Army, Air Force, and 4-H have partnered to provide military installation youth programs involving over 7,000 youth in 4-H clubs in the United States and abroad. Military youth and families, not affiliated with Base or Post installations, were extended similar support as an aftermath of September 11, 2001. All youth involved through military outreach are enrolled as 4-H members through their respective counties integrating them into local, state, regional, and national 4-H activities and events. Authors share their experience developing relationships with their Air Force partner in implementing positive youth development programs, and explain how these actions resulted in successful funding for increased outreach.

People and Projects

1951 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-38
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Strategic Intelligence ◽  
Psychological Warfare

The Department of the Air Force has recently established a new social science research agency at Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. This agency, the Human Resources Research Institute, was authorized in July, 1949, and is under the direction of a civilian social scientist, Dr. Raymond V. Bowers, former Executive Director of the Committee on Human Resources, Research and Development Board, Department of Defense. One of three Air Force research agencies in the field of human resources, the Institute has been assigned a broad mission, focussed on the educational, social psychological, and sociological problems of the Air Force. This mission includes research problems of (a) officer education and personnel, (b) military management and manpower utilization, and (c) strategic intelligence and psychological warfare. The research interests of the Institute in these three areas encompass such varied problems of personnel operations as leadership, morale, officer career guidance, manpower utilization, group motivation, organizational analysis and air-base community structure; and such problems of strategic intelligence and psychological warfare operations as relate to the social and psychological vulnerabilities of foreign nations. Being a part of the research and development program of the Air Force, the Institute has Air Force-wide research responsibilities, and is responsible for developing an integrated long-range program to accomplish its mission.

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