The Thermal Ram: A New Concept for Load Application

Abstract

The report describes how thermal expansion of a block of material can be adapted to produce a versatile machine for instability studies. It indicates novel approaches to the creation of boundary conditions and nonuniform loading actions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0857311

Entities

People

  • Stanley C. Bailey
  • Strether Smith
  • Wilfred H. Horton

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Army Aviation
  • Boundaries
  • Control Systems
  • Diameters
  • Geometry
  • Heat Transfer
  • Instability
  • Instrumentation
  • Machines
  • Measurement
  • Metals
  • Nonuniform
  • Silicon Controlled Rectifiers
  • Standards
  • Stresses
  • Thermal Expansion

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design