Battling

Laser-based profilometry systems have also been applied for nondestructive testing and measurement of both smooth-bore and rifled gun tubes. Working through Small Business Innovation Research program, the U.S. Army has developed laser-based profilometry systems for the inspection of the 120mm cannon used on the MI-Al Abrams main battle tank. Systems have also been built to measure the erosion of 25 mm and 155 mm rifled gun tubes. 

Preskill J 1999 Battling decoherence the fault-tolerant quantum computer P/rys. Today June... 

Flame Throwers and Projectors. One advance ia flame throwers siace World War II was a mechanized flame thrower kit for a variety of armored vehicles other than the main battle tank. The multishot, lightweight, shoulder-fired, four-tube flame system capable of firing one to four flame rounds semiautomaticaHy is replacing the portable flame thrower. Indeed the mechanized flame thrower is expected to become obsolete because of the family of large-cahber flame rounds. 

Andrew Keller (1925-1999) who in 1957 found that the polymer polyethylene, in unbranched form, could be crystallised from solution, and at once recognised that the length of the average polymer molecule was much greater than the observed crystal thickness. He concluded that the polymer chains must fold back upon themselves, and because others refused to accept this plain necessity, Keller unwittingly launched one of the most bitter battles in the history of materials science. This is further treated in Chapter 8, Section 8.4.2. 

The 32-year interval between 1879 and 1911 saw a classic instance of challenge and response, in the battle between electric and gas lighting, and between two rival... 

Al the Ooishi shrine of Ako in Japan, a geodesic dome made of bamboo with three golden balls, which was the symbol called Uraajirushi used by a general named Mori Mis-aemon nojyo Yoshinari at the battle of Okehazama in 1560, has been kept in custody. (See ref. [4]). 

Battle, R.E., and D. J. Campbell, Reliability of Emergency AC Power Systems at Nuclear Power Plants, July 1983... 

ConcL-nrratc d ait jets General Radmtive InliMted Convective Active, e.g., tan coils Passive, e.g., ceiling battles... 

Corrosion allowance Tube diameters Square pitch cleaning lane Mm. shell thickness Transverse baffle and support plate thickness Min. thickness longitudinal battles... 

Only a few incidents started with the sudden failure of a major component. Most started with a flaw in a minor component, an instrument that was out of order or not believed, a poor procedure, or a failure to follow procedures or good engineering practice. For want of a nail, the battle was lost. 

Contact Ronald E. Battle, Oak Ridge National Laboratory... 

M. L. Lee, E. J. Yang and K. D. Battle, Column teclinology, in Open Tubular Column Gas Chromatography. Theory and Practice, John Wiley Sons, New York, Ch. 3, pp. 50-99(1984). 

D. Tong, K. D. Battle, A. A. Clifford and R. E. Robinson, Unified chromatograph for gas cliromatography, supercritical fluid cliromatography and micro-liquid chromatography, Analyst 120 2461 (1995). 

D. Tong and K. D. Battle, Band broadening during mobile phase change in unified cliromtography (GC-SEC) , 7. Microcolumn Sep. 5 237-243 (1993). 

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