Drop Tube Publications

1. Robinson, M.B., "Radiative and Gas Cooling of Falling Molten Drops," NASA TM-78189, 1978.

2. Lacy, L.L. et al, "Containerless Undercooling and Solidification in Drop Tubes," J. Crys. Growth, 51, 47(1981).

3. Lacy, L.L. et al, "Solidification Studies of Nb-Ge Alloys at Large Degrees of Supercooling," Materials Research Society Symposium, Boston, MA, 1981.

4. Wallace, D.B., "Heat Loss and Drag of Spherical Drop Tube Samples", Internal Publication MSFC, 1981.

5. Steinberg, J. et al, "Production of Bulk Amorphous Pd77.5-Si16.5-Cu6 in a Containerless Low-Gravity Environment," Appl. Phys. Lett., 38(3), 135(1981).

6. Robinson, M.B., "Undercooling Measurement in a Low Gravity Containerless Environment," NASA TM-82423, May 1981.

7. Lacy, L.L. et al, "Containerless Undercooling and Solidification of Bulk Metastable NbGe Alloys," J. Appl. Phy., 53(1), 682(1982).

8. Curreri, P.A. and Lacy, L.L., "Results of the Technical Exchange Agreement Between NASA and DuPont on the Containerless Drop Tube Solidification of NiAl," NASA TM-86473, 1984.

9. Robinson, M.B. and Lacy, L.L., "A High Temperature Containerless Calorimeter," Rev. Sci. Instrum., 56(3), 430(1985).

10. Hofmeister, W.H. et al, "Undercooling of Niobium-Germanium Alloys in a 100m Drop Tube," Rapidly Quenched Metals(Eds. S. Steeb and H. Warlimont, 1985), 59.

11. Hofmeister, W.H. et al, "Undercooling of Pure Metals in a Containerless, Microgravity Environment," Appl. Phys. Lett., 49(20), 1342(1986).

12. Bayuzick, R.J. et al, "Metastable Structures in Drop Tube Processed Niobium Based Alloys," Advanced Space Research, 6(5), 1986.

13. Evans, N.D. et al., "Solidification of Nb-Ge Alloys in Long Drop Tubes," Met. Trans., 17A, 973(1986).

14. Bayuzick, R. J., et al, "Review on Long Drop Towers and Long Drop Tubes," Undercooled Alloy Phases(Eds. Collins and Koch), 207(1986).

15. Hofmeister, W.H. et al, "Microstructures of Niobium-Germanium Alloys Processed in Inert Gas in the 100 Meter Drop Tube," Met. Trans., 17A, 1421(1986).

16. Ethridge, E.C. and Kaukler, W.F., "Surface Film Effects on Drop Tube Undercooling Studies," NASA TM-86547, April 1986.

17. Hofmeister, W.H. et al, "Undercooling of Bulk High Temperature Metals in the 100 Meter Drop Tube," Materials Research Symposium Proceedings, 87, 149(1987).

18. Hofmeister, W.H., "The Undercooling of Bulk High Melting Temperature Pure Metals in a Containerless Microgravity Environment", Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1987.

19. Robinson, M. B., "The Effect of Undercooling on the Niobium-Platinum and Niobium-Silicon Alloy System", Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1988.

20. Anderson, C.O. et al., "A Microstructural Examination of Ti-50Al and Other Binary Ti-Al Alloys that have been Splat-Quenched after Bulk Undercooling," The Proceedings of the International Materials Conference, 1988.

21. Robinson, M.B. et al., "Undercooling Studies on Nb-Pt and Nb-Si Alloys using the 105 Meter Drop Tube," Adv. Space Res., 8(12), 321(1988).

22. Kegley, D.R. et al., "Effect of Bulk Undercooling on the Structure of Rapidly Solidified Titanium-4% wt. Cerium," The Proceedings of the International Materials Conference, 1988.

23. Hofmeister, W.H. et al, "Noncontact Temperature Measurement of a Falling Drop," Int. J. Thermophysics, 10(1), 279(1989).

24. Rathz, T.J. and Robinson, M.B., "The NASA/Marshal Space Flight Center Drop Tube User's Manual", NASA TM-100392, March 1990.

25. Rathz, T.J., et. al., "The Marshall Space Flight Center Drop Tube Facility", Rev. Sci. Instrum., 61(12), 3846(1990).

26. Munitz, A. and Abbaschian, R., "Two-Melt Separation in a Supercooled Cu-Co Alloys Solidifying in a Drop Tube", J. Mat. Sci., 26, 6458(1991).

27. C.W. Morton, et. al., "A Statistical Approach to Understanding Nucleation Phenomena", Mat. Sci. Eng., A178, 209(1994).

28. L.N. Brush, R.N. Grugel, and T.J. Rathz, "Analysis of Heat flow and Microstructural Development in Composite Spheres Processed in a Low-gravity Environment",35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 6-9 Jan 1997, Reno, NV.

29. L.N. Brush, R.N. Grugel, and T.J. Rathz, "Analysis of Solidification in Metallic Spheres Processed in the MSFC Drop Tube", 9th International Symposium on Experimental Methods for Microgravity Science, 11-14 May 1997, Montreal, Canada.

• Cochrane, R.F., et. al., "Containerless Solidification of Alloys in a Drop Tube", Mat. Sci. Eng., 98, 99(1988).

• Xu, Y. and Wang, W., "Undercooling and Formation of Bulk Metallic Glass of Pd-Ni-P in a Containerless Environment", J. Mat. Sci., 26, 1677(1991).

• Vinet, B., et. al., "Highly Undercooled W and Re Drops in an Ultra-high Vacuum Drop Tube", Appl. Phys. Lett., 58(1), 97(1991).

• Sharma, S.C. and Herlach, D.M., "Salient Features of Microstructural Development in Drop-tube Processed Al-3.6 wt% Fe Droplets", Microgravity Sci. Technol., 3, 145(1992).

• Chassay, R., and Carswell, B., "Processing Materials in Space: The History and the Future," AIAA 25th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 12-15, 1987.

• Furniss, T., "Quest for Microgravity," Space, 4(2), 1988.

• Rosenthal, B.R. et al, "Research Opportunities in Microgravity Science and Applications During Shuttle Hiatus," NASA TM-88964, 1987.