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Simulation of vehicular impacts with safety-shaped barrier
(1987)
In the research described here, a vehicle/barrier crush model was developed and combined with a vehicle model to simulate impacts with the concrete safety-shaped barriers (CSSB). The crush model accounts for the effects ...
The linkage between the government and farm sectors : an analysis of the effect of farm policy on the U.S. economy
(1987)
The objective of this study was to specify the linkage between the federal government and the farm sector in the U.S. economy. The farm sector is the recipient of federal monies under legislated price and income support ...
The roles of perceived inhibitors and perceived facilitators in the pleasure travel destination choice process
(1987)
The purpose of this study was to identify perceived inhibitors and perceived facilitators in the pleasure travel destination choice process. A two stage travel destination choice model was developed based on the concept ...
Parameters to describe the growth of male cattle
(1987)
Parameters were estimated for nonlinear growth curves for bulls of five straightbred and 20 crossbred breedtypes produced in two generations of a diallel. The primary intent of this study was to use the estimates obtained ...
Procedures for quantitative sensitivity and performance validation studies of a deterministic fire safety model
(1987)
The increasing number of users of fire models demands their validation by a third party team to investigate the reliability of the models with respect to concerns of potential users. Due to insufficient documentation of ...
Observed and estimated (ERHYM-II model) water budgets for South Texas rangelands
(1987)
A three-part study was conducted at the La Copita Research Area, 20 km southwest of Alice, in the eastern Rio Grande Plain of Texas. The research tested the hypothesis that honey mesquite-dominated shrub clusters have ...
Finite control volume modeling of the turbulent motion of air in an enclosure
(1987)
The FCVM has been used to solve both open flow problems and turbulent flow problems. The particular problems chosen for consideration were the flow between infinite parallel plates and the buoyant flow in a square enclosure. ...
Optimal preventive repair policy for a semi-Markov deterioration shock model
(1987)
Most maintenance models for stochastically deteriorating systems consider to replace or not to replace as the only two actions that can be taken at any deterioration stage. In this research a preventive repair model that ...
An interaction theory for multi-layered bonded composite beam systems with shear deformation effects
(1987)
An approximate partial interaction theory is presented for the analysis of multi-layered composite beams connected by means of adhesion. The formulation includes the effects of elastic slip, differential deflection, ...
An investigation of the effects of the propeller slipstream on a wing boundary layer
(1987)
The behavior of a wing boundary layer immersed in a propeller slipstream has been studied experimentally in wind tunnel tests and in flight. Airfoil surface static pressure measurements were made for time-averaged effects, ...