Some lessons learned in clean room design
Clean room design problems concerning dampers, high pressure blowers, humidifiers, filters, etc
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Clean room design problems concerning dampers, high pressure blowers, humidifiers, filters, etc
Q spoiled laser bombardment to obtain atomically clean surfaces in vacuum, noting damages
Electromagnetic torsion balance measurement of forces exerted on clean Au surfaces by monoenergetic steady state Ar and Kr beams, calculating thermal accommodation coefficients
Clean iron /011/ surfaces, determining sulfur, oxygen and hydrogen sulfide films effects on adhesion behavior
Noise cleaning in binary-valued digital pictures using propagation processes
Adhesion of single crystal metals to clean iron surface studied by emission spectroscopy
Laminar airflow and airborne contamination control concepts with clean room specifications and laminar flow facility designs
Clean room fire caused by gas heating element thermostat failure in liquid nitrogen system
Specifications for cleaning, fusion welding, and postheating tantalum and niobium alloys
Plasma cleaning technique for removing contaminants from optical surfaces in spacecraft
Development of gas plasma cleaning technique for removing contaminants from optical surfaces in space environments
Glow discharge cleaning for surface contaminants removal from hydrodynamic gas bearing components, discussing equipment application to thin film lubricant vapor deposition
Testing was conducted to develop a technique of providing clean holes in process piping or in a metal surface accessible from one side only without disassembling the system. The method was performed on sample pieces of piping and worked successfully with no contaminants being found on the inside of the pipe. The materials tested were Inconel 600, 304 stainless steel, Hastelloy X, and ASTM-A53 black steel. The technique was developed such that it could be done in the field with hand-held power tools and a portable tungsten inert gas welding machine.
Hot press butt welds were made in 0.5 in. diameter bar, and roll lap welds were made in 0.060 in. thick sheet of Ti-6A1-4V. For hot press welds made after auto-vacuum cleaning at 1800 F for 2 hours, weld strength and ductility equaled the parent metal properties. Only 5 minutes of pressing time were needed at 1800 F and 200 psi to make the hot press welds. Roll welds were made in sheet at 1750 F with only 10 percent deformation. The welds in the bar and sheet were metallurgically indistinguishable from the parent material.
Contact resistance has been used to characterize the processes of physical contact in metallic systems with ultra clean surfaces. The contact resistance versus load curves of iron and two cobalt alloys were used to demonstrate the existence of surface work hardening and interfacial creep during contact as well as the fracture characteristics of an interfacial junction as the load is removed. The presence of an adsorbed film of hydrogen or hydrogen ions on iron completely changes the contact process. A comparison of the contact resistance versus load data for ultra pure iron, an iron-cobalt alloy and a cobalt molybdenum-chromium was used to illustrate the effect of substrate mechanical properties on static adhesion and the ability to convert these data for the estimation of the dynamic coefficient of friction under the particular experimental conditions.
The Cr2O3 content of powder metallurgy nickel-20 chromium-3 thoria was reduced with atmospheres consisting of hydrogen plus hydrogen chloride (HCl) or hydrogen bromide (HBr). The nonthoria oxygen content or 'oxygen excess' was reduced from an initial amount of greater than 50,000 ppm to less than 100 ppm. Low temperatures were effective, but lowest oxygen levels were achieved with the highest cleaning temperature of 1200 C.
It is shown that when a clean polycrystalline silver surface is subjected to sulfur dioxide at a pressure of 1 nanotorr, sulfur is chemisorbed to the silver. Heating the contaminated silver leads to an estimation of the minimum heat of desorption of 59 kcal/mol. Sulfur Auger peak height and relative function measurements of the surface during exposure show that adsorption occurs during 6 microtorr/sec exposure at 1 nanotorr.
Digital processing system phase locks on received ranging signal and creates clean replica of received ranging code. System is broadly applicable to variety of terrestrial ranging problems, including oceanic navigation.