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Kyle Blond, Thomas O?Brien, Nathaniel Thompson, David Piotrowski and Anne Clark
The KC-46A Pegasus, a Boeing 767 (B767) commercial derivative aircraft (CDA), is a key part of the United States Air Force?s (USAF) efforts to modernize their aging tanker fleet. The Department of Defense (DoD) and the USAF have heavily emphasized the de...
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Kyle Blond, Austin Himschoot, Eric Klein, Steven Conley and Anne Clark
This paper presents how the Inspection Development Framework?s (IDF) novel maintenance scheduling technique increased aircraft utilization and availability in a sample of the United States Air Force?s (USAF) C-5M Super Galaxy fleet. The hypothesis tested...
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Rhys Jones, Ramesh Chandwani, Chris Timbrell, Anthony J. Kinloch and Daren Peng
Adhesively bonded doublers and adhesively bonded repairs are extensively used to extend the operational life of metallic aircraft structures. Consequently, this paper focuses on the tools needed to address sustainment issues associated with both adhesive...
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Soon Hock Ng, Vijayakumar Anand, Molong Han, Daniel Smith, Jovan Maksimovic, Tomas Katkus, Annaleise Klein, Keith Bambery, Mark J. Tobin, Jitraporn Vongsvivut and Saulius Juodkazis
The Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy (FTIRm) system of the Australian Synchrotron has a unique optical configuration with a peculiar beam profile consisting of two parallel lines. The beam is tightly focused using a 36× Schwarzschild objectiv...
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Claudio Bruno, Antonella Ingenito and Domenico Simone
A human Mars mission is more challenging to astronauts than the Apollo mission because of travel time, life support requirements, and the space environment. Although plans for Mars exploration by NASA and SpaceX based on conventional rockets have been pr...
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Ruigeng Hu, Hongjun Liu, Hao Leng, Peng Yu and Xiuhai Wang
A series of numerical simulation were conducted to study the local scour around umbrella suction anchor foundation (USAF) under random waves. In this study, the validation was carried out firstly to verify the accuracy of the present model. Furthermore, ...
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