The reactions of metals with gases at high temperatures.

At head of title: U. S. Navy, Office of Naval Research, Research Contract N7-onr-329, Task Order II.

Oscillatory phenomena in spark discharges

At head of title: Office of Naval Research. Contract N6 onr 243. Task order IV. Technical report no. 2.

On the variational principles of plasticity.

At head of title: Office of Naval Research, Contract N7onr-358 T.O.1 NR-041-032.

The diffraction of electrons by thin films.

At head of title: Office of Naval Research. Contract Nonr-401(06), Project no. NR 356-296. Final technical report.

The moving striations in argon glow discharges

Office of Naval Research. Contract N6 onr-243. Task order IV. Technical report no. 3.

Oscillatory phenomena in direct current glow discharges

Office of Naval Research. Contract ONR 243. Task order V. Technical report no. 1.

The Cornell Bev synchrotron (December 1956)

"Office of Naval Research Contract Nonr401(26). Superseded N6onr264-03 as of March 1, 1956."

The shock layer concept and three-dimensional hypersonic boundary layers.

"This report is based on research sponsored by the U.S. Navy through the Office of Naval Research, Contract Nonr-2653(00)"

The Cornell 300-Mev synchrotron /

"Office of Naval Research. Contract N6onr-264, task order III."

On the inviscid stability of the boundary layer on a flexible wall,

"This report is based on research sponsored by the U.S. Navy through the Office of Naval Research, Contract Nonr-2653(00)"

Nonlinear differential equations and nonlinear oscillations : final report /

At head of title: Office of Naval Research, Contract NONR-1858(04), Project NRO43-942.

Federal port policy in the United States /

Prepared under University research contract no. DOT-TST-0S-40004 for Office of University Research, Dept. of Transportation.

An administrative history of NASA, 1958-1963 /

"The study was prepared in accordance with NASA research contract NASr-148 between the University of Minnesota and NASA"--p.ix.

Evaluation and development of drainage and pipeline construction processes

In 1974 Dr D M Bramwell published his research work at the University of Aston a part of which was the establishment of an elemental work study data base covering drainage construction. The Transport and Road Research Laboratory decided to, extend that work as part of their continuing research programme into the design and construction of buried pipelines by placing a research contract with Bryant Construction. This research may be considered under two broad categories. In the first, site studies were undertaken to validate and extend the data base. The studies showed good agreement with the existing data with the exception of the excavation trench shoring and pipelaying data which was amended to incorporate new construction plant and methods. An inter-active on-line computer system for drainage estimating was developed. This system stores the elemental data, synthesizes the standard time of each drainage operation and is used to determine the required resources and construction method of the total drainage activity. The remainder of the research was into the general topic of construction efficiency. An on-line command driven computer system was produced. This system uses a stochastic simulation technique, based on distributions of site efficiency measurements to evaluate the effects of varying performance levels. The analysis of this performance data quantities the variability inherent in construction and demonstrates how some of this variability can be reconciled by considering the characteristics of a contract. A long term trend of decreasing efficiency with contract duration was also identified. The results obtained from the simulation suite were compared to site records collected from current contracts. This showed that this approach will give comparable answers, but these are greatly affected by the site performance parameters.

Approximation Classes for Adaptive Methods

* This work has been supported by the Office of Naval Research Contract Nr. N0014-91-J1343, the Army Research Office Contract Nr. DAAD 19-02-1-0028, the National Science Foundation grants DMS-0221642 and DMS-0200665, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant SFB 401, the IHP Network “Breaking Complexity” funded by the European Commission and the Alexan- der von Humboldt Foundation.