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Neutrons dive deep to help protect US nuclear submarines

America's national security relies in part on the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered submarines, which can operate more than 800 ...
IEEE

Development of a Finite Element Model of Glass Balustrade Under Soft Body Impact Test

Abstract: This paper presents a finite element (FE) model developed to analyze the behavior of glass balustrades under soft body impact test to simulate the human impact loads. The LS-DYNA explicit FE ...
IEEE

Life Prediction of Ground-Wall Insulation Material in Electric Motors Based on Accelerated Degradation Test under Different Failure Mechanisms

Abstract: The aging and breakdown of ground-wall (GW) insulation in electric motors may lead to serious faults and safety accidents, so predicting the life of GW insulation materials is important. In ...
SpaceNews

MetaSeismic material mitigates vibration and shock in NASA Marshall testing

In recent tests at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, a launch vehicle battery was mounted on a thin layer of MetaSeismic material before being subjected to intensive vibration. Credit: ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

LANL researchers assess new way to test illegal nuclear material

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. In 2009, a raid of a drug lab in Australia turned up another illicit substance law enforcement didn’t expect: a ...