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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1970)
Ml 1 , i «I 1 1 * v, c."• June 17, li l &M receives lancial award CiS tam institute [he Moody Foundation has native'*«; Led Texas A&M $2,000 to "with the i port summer undergraduate and Busin fly in marine sciences at the versityofi versity’s Marine Laboratory g to Coll^ e. d a study )r - Sammy M. Ray, labora- y director, said the financial pa eras j g j ance f rom the Galveston 's and ffliii ndation has helped boost en- Iment to a record 60 students, 'j lading 26 graduate students. ir. Ray said the Moody Foun- ion funds help provide $250 ends for 10 students during six-week session of summer ool. Nine of the awards were ide for the first session. cipients are Tom Bonn, inny French, David McAden, mnie Stapleton and Robert ro, all wildlife science maj- ; Larry McKinney, and Ke- Kn Shaw, biology students; v leve Cashell, chemistry major Kenyon College, Gambier, do, and Dennis Selig, biology jor at Louisiana State Univer- y- The Moody Foundation, Dr. iy noted, has provided support (r numerous Texas A&M pro ms, including a $1 million nt for Texas Maritime Acad- y facilities at the university’s iw Mitchell Campus on Galves- m’s Pelican Island. TMA also part of the Moody Marine stitute. counselors :t to observe ionferences [High school counselors from ght major Texas cities arrive lere Wednesday afternoon to ob- lerve one of Texas A&M Univer- lity’s freshman orientation con- lerences, tour campus facilities |nd visit faculty members. Auston Kerley, director of Tex- s A&M’s Counseling and Testing lenter, said the group will include proximately 20 counselors from louston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San I intonio, Austin, Beaumont, Cor- is Christi and Waco. The counselors, along with their lusbands and wives, will be hon- ired at a Ramada Inn dinner Wednesday evening. Gen. A. R. ,uedecke, acting university pres- nt, will address the group. Thursday the counselors will join approximately 200 freshmen md their parents for one of the Iro-day orientation sessions being mducted this summer for stu- ients enrolling this fall. Kerley said the counselors’ risit is designed to help school lersonnel advise interested stu- lents about Texas A&M pro- frams and admissions data. The risitors also will be presented topies of the university’s new icunselor’s handbook. Billy Porter joins Al&M track team Assistant Track Coach Ted Kelson announced Monday the signing of Odessa College sprint- Billy Porter to a Texas A&M track scholarship. Porter, from Dawson, Tex., was second in the national junior follege meet 100-yard dash in 9.6 this year. His all-time best times have keen a 9.5 for the 100 and a 21.3 lor the 220. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHAPEL Sunday Services: 8:00 A. M. 9:15 A. M. Adult Class 10:20 A. M. Nursery and Kindergarten 9:15 A. M. Rector: Wm. R. Oxley Chaplain: W. M. Seeliger 846-6133 *■ • mm THE BATTALION Wednesday, June 17, 1970 College Station, Texas Page 7 Engineers making wrecks survivable Oil Spillage Containment—The top drawing shows an underwater view of air being re leased from a pipe to form the barrier. The second picture depicts the method in which the underwater system would circle and contain the oil. The bottom shot shows that a ship can cross the area with the system in operation. Bubbles effectively contain spillages at sea Running a car into a concrete wall will never be fun, but engi neers at the Texas Transportation Institute hope to make such a mishap at least survivable. The secret to success, the Tex as A&M researchers believe, is soft cellular concrete which col lapses during a crash, forming a “cushion” to protect the vehicle from the hard concrete of bridges and other rigid obstacles. TTI has conducted three such tests and planning more under a program sponsored by the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. Dr. Don L. Ivey, TTI associate research engineer, said the cellu lar concrete is molded into forms which are technically called “im pact attenuation devices.” The devices are placed at danger spots, such as gores on freeways. In earlier impact attenuation work sponsored by the Texas Highway Department, TTI devel oped a technique for banding to gether empty 55-gallon oil drums to slow vehicles crashing into sta tionary objects. Numerous such systems have been installed by THD in Houston and Dallas and have been credited with saving several lives. Ivey explained the newer crash cushion is composed of a one-to- seven mixture of vermiculite con crete with hollow cardboard tubes spaced throughout to provide the necessary voids. The tubes meas ure 23 inches in diameter. Light weight welded wire fabric is used as reinforcement for the concrete. Composed of tiny accordion-like aggregate particles, the vermic ulite concrete is a low-strength material often used as insulation. “The lightweight cellular con crete crash cushion has proved to be extremely effective in decel erating a vehicle for the head-on crash condition,” Ivey observed. Bubbles forming an underwater air barrier can be used effective ly to contain oil spillage at sea. Such a concept has been dem onstrated in wave tanks by A&M engineers in research conducted under a $285,000 contract award ed by the U. S. Coast Guard to Wilson Industries, Inc., an oil- oriented firm based in Houston. The pneumatic barrier is form ed by passing compressed air through a submerged perforated pipe, explained Dr. John B. Herb- ich, head of the Coastal and Ocean Engineering Division of A&M’s Civil Engineering Department. While rising to the surface, the air bubbles cause a vertical cur rent producing water circulation, Dr. Herbich added. Horizontal currents move away from the bar rier near the surface, leaving the oil inside the circle or loop form ed by the barrier. The compressor which pumps air into the pipes could be locat ed aboard ship or placed on a floating platform above the bar rier, the researcher noted. The pipes would be located approxi mately 25 feet below the surface. Dr. Herbich said the pneumatic barrier offers two advantages over other proposed containment systems: Located below the sur face, the significance of wave forces is reduced and ships can SBISA HALL DAILY SPECIAL $0.89 CHAR BROILED CHOPPED STEAK Choice of Any Vegetable Slice Tomato on Lettuce Hot Rolls and Oleo Tea, Punch or Coffee I’M GOING TO PLAY GAMES WITH MY DADDY ON FATHER’S DAY (Country Squire TOWNSHIRE / BRYAN. TEXAS 77S01 cross the area while the system is in operation. The pneumatic barrier can be installed permanently around off shore oil platforms but operated only when needed, Herbich noted. He emphasized the system also can be used in estuaries. It could be turned on during floodtide to prevent oil from penetrating into the area and turned off during ebb tide to permit oil or debris to float out. 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