We have constructed an automated routine to identify prominent bursts of tectonic tremor and locate their source region during time periods of raised amplitude in the tremor passband. This approach characterizes 62 episodes of tectonic tremor between 2005 and 2011, with tremor epicenters forming a narrow band spanning the entire...
Background: Multinucleon transfer reactions have recently attracted attention as a possible path to the synthesis of new neutron-rich heavy nuclei.
Purpose: We study transfer reactions involving massive nuclei with the intention of understanding if the semi-classical model GRAZING coupled to an evaporation and fission competition model can satisfactorily reproduce experimental...
Three trends are occurring today in the United States which inspired this research. First, America is growing increasingly urbanized. Today, more Americans are living in cities than in rural environments, and this pattern is predicted to continue for the foreseeable future. Urban living has benefits, but there are also challenges...
Lumber drying accounts for about 70 percent of sawmill energy
requirements. Significant recovery of energy used to dry lumber
would result in significant energy recovery for the mill. This is
desirable because of today's high cost of energy. The objective of
this study was to recover some of the energy...
The Oregon State University (OSU), Hydro Mechanical Fuel test Facility (HMFTF) is designed
to hydro-mechanically test prototypic plate type fuel. OSU’s fuel test program is a part of the
Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), formerly known as the Reduced Enrichment for
Research and Test Reactor program. One of the GTRI’s...
As computational power increases, so does the desire to use computational simulations while designing fuel plates. The downside is multi-physics simulations – or more specifically, fluid–structure interactions (FSI) as addressed herein – require a larger amount of computational resources. Current simulations of a single plate can take weeks on a...
Despite its widespread use, forest health is frequently used without a clear definition, making its application to forest management difficult. Where the term has been defined (McIntire 1988, Monnig and Byler 1992, USDA Forest Service 1992, USDA Forest Service I993a), alternative definitions and viewpoints of forest health have not been...
The arid soils of Oregon tend to be deficient in organic
matter and nitrogen. This deficiency has a marked effect on
the duty of water and the productiveness of such soils. Silt
barns, volcanic ash, and fine sandy barns are not so greatly
in need of this organic matter and...
