Abstract: Two Nuclear Safety Advisory Letters (NSALs), advise operators of PWRs that they may assume, in accident analyses, that certain safety and relief valves can open, relieve water, and then reseat properly. The NSALs claim ...

Abstract: It is shown that a damper applied to the spherical bearing at the ends of a rotating shaft to damp pitch and yaw motions of the journal bearing can markedly reduce the deflection caused ...

Abstract: Initial lack of flatness of the flanges of pipe connectors can result in leakage if the bolt loads are not sufficient to achieve positive gasket compression at all points on the circumference. ...

Abstract: Riserless drilling poses numerous operational challenges that adversely affect the efficiency of the drilling process. These challenges include increased torque and drag, buckling, increased vibration, poor hole cleaning, ...

Abstract: The probabilistic flow within capillary barrier models is evaluated by coupling a first-order reliability (probabilistic) model to a variably saturated flow model. The objective is to determine the most significant uncertain ...

Abstract: For the first time detailed ozone measurements were obtained in a hurricane. An instrumented U-2 airplane was flown into hurricane Ginny on 22 October 1963 off the South Carolina coast. The hurricane core was over-flown ...

Abstract: Temperature and ozone data obtained in hurricane Isbell on 14 October 1964 by an instrumented U-2 aircraft are used in conjunction with several radiosonde observations to reconstruct some features of the structure at ...

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Abstract: Data from an instrumented U-2 aircraft, an ozonesonde and standard radiosondes provided detailed meteorological and ozone data on 2 October 1963 in the vicinity of the tropopause over a stretch of several hundred miles. ...