Drop Tower Publications


o Simulation of a Facility for Zero and Low Gravity Environments. Chrysler Contract# NAS8-4016. May, 1967.

o Low-Gravity Fluid Mechanics Drop Tower Facility. NASA Report# 53817. Feb., 1969.

o Experimental Study of the Response of a Static Liquid-Vapor Interface after a Sudden Reduction in Acceleration. NASA TM# 53841, 1969.

o Free Suspension Processing Systems for Space Manufacturing General Electric. Contract# NAS8-26157. Oct., 1970.

o A Proposal for Preparation and Evaluation of Free-fall Ex periments. Convair Report# GDC PIN 71-654. Sept., 1971.

o Electromagnetic Levitation System Experiment Facility Description. General Electric. Contract# NAS8-29680. Feb., 1972.

o Experimental Development of Processes to Produce Homogenized Alloys of Immiscible Metals. TRW Systems Contract# NAS8-27805, 1972.

o A Review of Manufacturing in Space & Other Zero-g Experiments Being Conducted in MSFC's 89.6 Meter Drop Tower. Yost, Vaughn A. 1973.

o The Solidification Under Zero Gravity Conditions of Binary Alloys Exhibiting Solid State Immiscibility. Washington State University Contract# NAS8-29725. March, 1974.

o Containerless Processing System Using Electromagnetic Fields. General Electric Contract# NAS8-30797. Dec., 1974.

o Low-g Experiments for the Drawing of Metal Membranes. General Dynamics Report# CASD-NAS-75026. Contract# NAS8-28056. March, 1975.

o Drop Tower Experiment Report. General Electric. Contract# NAS8-30797. May, 1975.

o Electrical Resistivity of Gallium-Bismuth Solidified in Free Fall. AIAA Journal Volume 13 No. 2. 1975.

o Critical Point Wetting Drop Tower Experiment. Kaukler, W. F., L. M. Tcherneshoff & S. R. Straits. Second Symposium on Space Industrialization Feb., 1984. NASA Report# 2313. 1984.

o Review of Long Towers and Long Drop Tubes. Undercooled Alloy Phases, Collings and Koch, eds., 1986.

o Fluid Oscillation in the Drop Tower. Kaukler, W. F. Met. Trans. A, l9A. Nov., 1988.

o Fluid Oscillation in the Drop Tower. Kaukler, W. F. Experimental Methods for Microgravity Materials Science Research. R. A. Schiffman, ed. The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 1988.

EXPERIMENTS FOR WHICH PUBLICATION DATA IS UNKNOWN

o Liquid Hydrogen Interface o Liquid Hydrogen Drain o Liquid Hydrogen Impulse o Liquid Oxygen Interface o Liquid Oxygen Slosh

All NASA\MSFC Saturn V work 1965-68.

o Liquid Oxygen Impulse o Liquid Vapor Sensor o Dielectrophoresis o Boiling Heat Transfer

o Free Suspension Processing System. NASA 1971.

o Bubble Interface. General Dynamics 1972.

o Liquid Motion in Zero-G Skylab. NASA 1972.

o Zero-G Atmosphere Cloud Physics. NASA 1972.

o Gas Injection Foaming.

o Controlled Density Metal Processor. General Dynamics 1973.

o Direct Resistance Melting. Grumman 1973.

o Ultrasonic Mixer. 1973.

o Acoustic Positioning. JPL 1974.

o High Temperature Vacuum Furnace. M. Mohri, NASDA Japan 1988.