We have recently witnessed the series of bomb blasts in Dilshuknagar, Hyderabad. Bombs killed many and left many injured. On Feb 22nd two explosions took place with in one hour. And left the world in shell shock and the Indians in terror. This situation is not limited to Hyderabad but it can happen any where and any time in the world. People think bomb blasts can’t be predicted before handled. ...

Abstract In this contribution we present the effect of several parameters that are critical for bonding standoffs onto surface spacecrafts’ panels with polymeric adhesives. Standoffs an integral part thermal management space satellites since they ensure MLI blankets mounted and maintained in correct position during whole mission duration, including launch. recent years, there have been de-bondi...

PURPOSE This study investigates the distortion of geometry of catheters and anatomy in acquired U/S images, caused by utilizing various stand-off materials for covering a transrectal bi-planar ultrasound probe in HDR and LDR prostate brachytherapy, biopsy and other interventional procedures. Furthermore, an evaluation of currently established water-bath based quality assurance (QA) procedures i...

Vehicles undergoing hypersonic speed experience extreme aerothermodynamic conditions. Real gas effects cannot be neglected, and thus internal degrees of freedom molecules being partially/fully excited must carefully predicted in order to accurately capture the physics flowfield. Within direct simulation Monte Carlo solvers, a harmonic oscillator (HO) model, where quantum levels are evenly space...

Blast wave overpressure has been associated with varying levels of traumatic brain injury in soldiers exposed to blast loading. In realistic blast loading scenarios, the mechanisms of primary blast injury are not well known due to the complex interactions of the blast wave with the human body, and the high acceleration experienced over very short time durations. The purpose of this study was to...

Combustion characteristics of isolated sub-millimeter sized methyl butanoate (MB) droplets are studied at low gravity (10 4 m/s) in a 1.2 s drop tower. In the experiments, droplets were grown and deployed onto the intersection of two 14 lm silicon carbide fibers in a cross-string arrangement and exposed to symmetrically placed spark ignition sources. The initial droplet diameter was fixed at 0....