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The aerospace field is a broad one and has a complex history. A comprehensive review of structural adhesive applications on currently flying aerospace vehicles alone could fill its own book. Hence this chapter will concentrate on the aerospace commercial transport industry and its use of adhesives in structural applications, both metallic and composite. Both primary structure, that is structure which carries primary flight loads and failure of which could result in loss of vehicle, and secondary structure will be considered. Structural adhesives use and practice in the military aircraft and launch vehicle/spacecraft fields as well as non-structural adhesives used on commercial aircraft will be touched on briefly as well. 

An empirical equation is also used by Kelly to correlate the total holdup to the flights load per unit length. This relationship underestimates the true holdup value as it ignores the particles cascading through the gas. The equation can be written as... 

Provide structural mounting features to accommodate launch loads, flight loads, thermally-induced relative displacements, and deployment loads on Space Nuclear Power Plant equipment. 

The Project shall comply with the Prometheus Single Point Failure Policy as documented in the Prometheus Project Policies Document 982-00057. (Level 2 Requirement) Structure and thermal management subsystems must be designed with fault tolerant capacity. This would include features such as ability to react flight loads in presence of element failure (with reduced margin) and redundant heaters and temperature sensors. Micrometeoroid and orbital debris protection reduce the risk in areas where single point failure can not be eliminated, such as the pressure boundaries. 

Environmental factors such as severe hailstorms and human errors such as impact by aircraft service equipment also cause in-service damage to bonded assemblies. Bonded honeycomb sandwich assemblies are particularly prone to such damage because of their customary use as lightly loaded fairings and flight control surfaces and subsequent thin facesheets and relative fragility. 

Some nitric acid had to be flown from the U.S. to the UK. Several U.S. regulations were broken the acid was packed in glass bottles instead of metal ones and was surrounded by sawdust instead of nonflammable material, and the boxes containing the bottles were not labeled as hazardous or marked This Side Up. The boxes were therefore loaded into the cargo aircraft on their sides, and the bottles leaked. Smoke entered the flight deck, and the crew decided to land, but while doing so the plane crashed, probably as the result of poor visibility on the flight deck, and the crew was killed. It is not clear why a common material of commerce had to be flown across the Atlantic [5]. 

The fuel eell is a nineteenth eentuiy invention in the twentieth eentury it heeame the heart of an eleetroehemical power plant and power souree, whieh is now in a stage of advaneed technology development. Its first and only applieation since the early 1960s, has been as an auxiliary power souree for spaee flights by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). During the past decade, development for terrestrial (eivihan and defense) applieations has led to its commercialization and research on utilization in a variety of applications. Programs in the United States, Japan, Europe, and some other eoimtries are focused on the development of fuel cell power plant/power sources for (1) base-load,... 

The SP-ablator allows higher aerodynamic loads with lower surface/mass ratio for heat shields, and should be ideally suited for moon, mars, or other interplanetary return missions. These shields are also suitable for cost-effective flight models of winged reentry capsules. A large application potential can be seen for nozzles and combustion chambers or housings of rocket engines. Dornier plans to manufacture a heat shield for the Mirka capsule one meter in diameter. The C/SiC-cover will be fabricated in one piece. 

Release rates of acetate esters of (2S,3S,7S)-3,7-dimethylpentadecan-2-oll and (2S,3R,7R)-3,7-dimethyltridecan-2-ol 3 from polyethylene and cotton dispensers have been measured at different temperatures and loadings. Adjustment of the initial pheromone load on polyethylene for expected temperatures should permit the formulation of a constant release rate during the entire flight period. Successful field trapping trials for N. sertifer were carried out in Sweden, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Greece [29]. 

Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOE) mass spectrometry was carried out with a PerSeptive Biosystems Voyager-DE-RP MALDl-TOF mass spectrometer. A 337-nm UV nitrogen laser producing 3-ns pulses was used in the reflectron mode. The samples were prepared by mixing 10 pi of a 0.1 M HAc solution of the sample with 20 pi of a solution of 3 mg/1 a-cyano-4-hydroxy cinnamic acid in wafer. One pi of that solution was loaded on the gold-sample plate. 

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