Three magnetic field sources were characterised. The sources are needed experiments investigating interactions between hot gases from a detonation and the magnetic field.

The models developed here are suitable for both conventional and more advanced optimal intelligent guidance, particularly those based on the 'game theory' guidance techniques.

This report presents examples of components from ADF aircraft that exhibited surface pitting which formed during the anodising pre-treatment process. In three of the examples, fatigue cracking had initiated from the surface pits leading to failure of the components.

This report examines the research conducted on 7050-T7451 and how corrosion pitting could influence the fatigue life of components in RAAF aircraft manufactured from this alloy. The report shows that corrosion pitting causes not only a reduction in time to failure at a certain stress but also up to a 50% reduction in the fatigue threshold.

This report describes the development of a Thermal Wave Interferometry (TWI) system for the characterisation of film thickness. The system was shown to resolve variations in paint thickness of less than 1.5 μm

General guidelines for the interpretation of published data on probability of detection (POD) for nondestructive testing.

The control-theoretic Ordered Upwind Methods (OUM) has been employed to solve a number of simple path planning problems.

Water tunnels have some definite advantages over wind tunnels for aerodynamic testing of models. Water tunnels are generally better suited to carrying out fundamental research than they are for applied aerodynamics testing.

Development of a Monte Carlo model of the fatigue life of corroded specimens of aluminium alloy 7010-T7651. The model simulates both the alloy’s metallurgical inclusions and corrosion pits using extreme value statistical distributions.

Retrogression and Re-ageing (RRA) technology is a two stage heat treatment of 7075-T6 aluminium alloy used to improve corrosion resistance while retaining MIL-HDBK-5J structural properties. Trials demonstrated that the RRA process as defined in the Stage III Process Specification had a reliability in excess of 95%.