The concept of a prestressed cylindrical shell was investigated. In particular, a cylindrical shell constructed from coiled pressurized tubing was analyzed. This analysis was concentrated in two main areas, the first involved the failure modes of the prestressed cylinder. Both the buckling and yielding behavior of the tube walls was...
In 2006, NASA led a field campaign to investigate the factors that control the fate of African easterly waves (AEWs) moving westward into the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Aircraft and surface-based equipment were based on Cape Verde's islands, helping to fill some of the data void between Africa and the Caribbean....