Abstract: The U.S. Air Force is the world’s largest and most technologically advanced air force. It comprises hundreds of thousands of members, all with different personalities that need to work together to ensure our national ...

Abstract: In response to problems of cumbersome regulations and understaffed public agencies, governments have worked to simplify procurement statutes and streamline processes. One of the most widely used simplified processes in the ...

Abstract: Experimental results for corrosion fatigue crack growth in several different ferritic pressure vessel steels including A533-B and A508-III exposed to simulated PWR primary water at 288°C are ...

Abstract: Public sector procurement policies are traditionally designed to encourage open competition to ensure a fair price. Yet many public agencies also deliberately use procurement strategies, such as contract types, delivery ...

Abstract: Magnetic bearings are subject to performance limits which are quite different from those of conventional bearings. These are due in part to the inherent nonlinearity of the device and in part ...

Abstract: Treatment and reuse of wastewater is a key constraint to increased aquaculture development worldwide. Constructed treatment wetlands have significant advantages over conventional and other natural systems technologies. The ...

Abstract: The recognition that time-dependent effects of aqueous corrosion can have a large influence on fatigue failure in carbon and low alloy steels for nuclear reactor pressure vessels is having an ...

Abstract: We introduce a partial differential equation model for rechargeable lithium-metal battery (LMB) cells whose parameter values are fully identifiable from cell-level experiments. From this model, we formulate a computationally ...