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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.
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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
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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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