The Ballalwn .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, July 19, 1956
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Parking Lots
Work is underway for the construction of a new parking-
lot behind Guion Hall for the use of students in Hart and
Bizzell Halls. This will enable the people working in Science,
Nagle and Goodwin Halls to park in the lot behind Hart.
Work is scheduled to begin soon enlarging the “Nava-
sota” Parking Lot behind the Band Dormitory.
It’s about time officials start trying to straighten out
the Day Student Parking Lot behind the Petroleum Building.
This lot is in the worst shape of all the parking areas. The
exits are noted for their hog-backed ridges and it is impossible
to leave the lot by way of Nagle Street without ruining a
muffler, tail-pipe or a rear bumper.
If some provision were made to grade the lot and mark
off parking spaces in some manner, it would be possible to
get quite a few more cars in the lot in a more orderly manner
and the students could see where they are supposed to park
and where not to park.
Why not hard-top the entrances to prevent more ruts
being cut in the ground like the ones there now. Woe be
unto the driver that tries to cross the ruts.
Highways Are Happy Ways?
Vacationing Texans are on the highways of our state
by the thousands this time of the year, and according to
Highway Department surveys, they are likely to find traffic
present in a volume never seen before in our history.
August is a month when accident rates jump sharply.
During the last five years rates have been higher in as much
as 27 percent during August as compared to July.
“People try to over-drive on a long vacation trip,” says
Assistant Chief C. G. Conner of the Highway Patrol. “Fa
tigue is one problem and speed is another.”
The fatigue is one thing the Highway Patrol cannot con
trol, but speed they can. The installation of radar devices
on the roads show speeding dropping off 21 to 15 percent
and deaths off 1.9 per cent. (November, 1954 figures)
Last year five Aggies were killed either in cars or as a
direct result of automobiles. Why not make the rest of the
year a record year and mark up no deaths or accidents due
to automobiles?
Silver Taps are impressive to all of us, but I would like
to go through the rest of my remaining year at A&M with
out having to attend another—wouldn’t you ?
Two Loans, Gifts Made to Ag Station
Two gifts and as many loans
have been made to the Texas Ag
ricultural Experiment Station and
will be used to further research
work at four different locations in
the state.
Station Director R. D. Lewis
said the gifts were made by Mrs.
Josephine Fox of El Paso and the
Leon C. Osborn Company, Inc. of
Harlingen. Mrs. Fox gave to the
Station the 1956 water allotment
from 176 acres of class one water
right land in the' Rio Grande Pi o-
joet. It will be used on the Ysleta
substation in connection with cot
ton breeding, cotton fertilization
and soils research programs.
A Chrisholm-Ryder bean
ping machine was the gift
smp-
from
the Harlingen concern. It will be
used by the Horticulture Depart
ment at College Station for pre
paring samples of green bea*s for
research and teaching in food pro
cessing work.
Mrs. Paulice M. Turner of Wes
laco has loaned the Station a
Charolaise bull for use in connec
tion with beef cattle improvement
work at the McGregor substation.
The New Idea Farm Equipment
Company - of Coldwater, Ohio, has
loaned a twine tie motor driven
hay baler and a 30 foot hay ele
vator to the Station for use on the
Lufkin substation.
Ben icimsey
CHANGING POWER SOURCE—Jack K. Gilbert is shown changing the iridium power
source on his Isotope Radiographic Camera in the Mechanical Engineering Welding
shop. The six foot handling tongs are necessary to get the handler as far from the
radioactive substance as is safe. The cha iging must be accomplished as quickly as
possible to keep from getting “too charged up.”
Welding Holds No Secrets
From New Isotope Camera
SMILE AT THE BIRDIE—
The acetylne tank can’t
smile however as it poses
for the Isotope Radiograph
ic Camera developed by
Jack K. Gilbert of the High
way Research Center. This
camera consists of three un
its, the head, (left) control
box (center) and negative
plates, taped on the lower
portion of the acetyln tank
at right.)
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By DAVE McREYNOLDS
Battalion Editor
A 27-year old graduate student
in mechanical engineering at A&M,
Jack K. Gilbert, has perfected an
easier and cheaper method of test
ing for welding flaws in welded
steel structures.
Working for the Highway Re
search Center under the direction
of Fred J. Benson, Gilbert has de
signed an Isotope Radiographic
Camera to be used primarily in
checking welds on Texas bridges.
Gilberts’ camera is a lightweight,
portable unit using an isotope of
Iridium 192 as a source of power
to take pictures of welds on struc
tural steel.
Designed originally for bridge
work for the Texas Highway De
partment, Gjlbei't says the camera
can be used on ajiy steel structure
from % inches-cto AVz inches in
thickness.
For a picture of a % inch plate
the camei'a requires 1% minutes
and 50 minutes for a 4% inch thick
plate. The camera will expos
those flaws in the weld and the
steel not seen by the naked eye.
This type of detection has been
known of and experimentation has
been carried on for some time.
Some work in this field was done
with radium as a source of power,
but due to its high cost and poor
Landrum Authors
Technical Article
Bobby L. Landrum, associate re
search technologist for the Texas
Petroleum Research Committee at
A&M is the author of a technical
article describing the effect of
horizontal fractures on production
capacity. The paper was presen
ted at the annual meeting of the
American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers in San
Antonio.
The article, which was publish
ed in the international publication,
World Oil, shows the beneficial ef
fects to be derived by fracturing
at various elevations in the pay.
results engineers soon turned to
X-Ray type cameras.
The X-Ray cameras are still used
extensively, but their big draw
back in bridge work is their bulk
and heavy weight.
“I started out working with X-
Ray type units myself,” Gilbert
said. “But when I started across
a beam lugging that heavy camera
high above the Houston Ship Chan
nel I decided there must be an
easier way.”
Gilberts’ camera is unique in the
fact that he has incorporated the
shielding qualities of lead together
with distance to protect the opera
tor from radiation injury.
The “head,” or business part of
the camei'a, houses the radioactive
isotope and is made with a fiber
glass shell encasing a lead ball with
the isotope in the lead housing.
This part of the unit is separate
from the control box and weighs
only 40 pounds. This is 20 feet
from the operator when in use.
The control box is connected to
e the head by an extension cord that
/Mean be plugged into the head. The
control box has an automatic tim
ing device in it that activates the
isotope, rotating it in the head to
where it extends out of its lead
shell and toward the steel weld to
be inspected.
As the timer is automatic it can
be set for any desired time, de
pending upon the thickness of steel
to be tested. It will shut itself
off and rotate the isotope back into
the lead hull, rendering it safe for
handling, after the picture is com
pleted.
A flashing neon light on the side
of the head denotes when the head
is “hot” and in use. When safe
the head has a surface radiation
of less than 100 milliroetgens and
can be handled without fear. When
the timer clicks off the camera can
be moved and films developed in
the usual manner.
The isotope itself is very small,
being only Vs x 1.8 inch circular
cylinder in size. It can handle a
20 Curie charge and has a half-
life of 75 days. Every 75 days it
will lose half its original charge.
Even though the isotope will re
main active indefinitely the expo
sure time required to take a good
picture is lengthened as the source
of power ages. Gilbert has found
it desirable to replace the iridium
at least twice a year.
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