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Thermal manikin experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of manikin surface temperature on the performance of a personal cooling system (PCS), more specifically, a liquid circulating garment (LCG). Three manikin temperatures were tested using a dry thermal manikin torso: 38, 34, and 30 degrees C. Mean environmental temperature during experiments was 23.5+/-1 degrees C. Results show that more heat was extracted from the thermal manikin by the PCS as the manikin surface temperature was increased. This is due to the larger difference in temperature between the manikin and the chilled fluid flowing in the PCS when the manikin temperature is high. Finally, it was demonstrated that if insulating garments that reduce heat losses to the environment were worn over the PCS, the PCS efficiency increased.

Mechanical metamaterials have attracted great interest due their ability to attain material properties outside the bounds of those found in natural materials. Many promising mechanical metamaterials have been designed, fabricated, and tested, however, these metamaterials have not been subjected to the rigorous requirements needed to certify their use in demanding industrial applications that require multifunctional behavior. This paper details an auxetic multifunctional metamaterial that has been optimized to outperform conventional designs for cooling systems commonly used in the space, the transportation, the energy and the nuclear industry. Experimental tests performed to certify this material for use in gas turbines have shown that in comparison to conventional designs, the metamaterial increases structural life by orders of magnitude while also providing more efficient cooling and maintaining similar acoustic damping characteristics. This metamaterial offers an agile and economical solution for the realization of next generation components.

The critical conditions for initiation of reaction by shock loading in various compositions that produce little or no gas upon reaction were investigated. Shock recovery experiments using Mn+S were first carried out in two different apparatus geometries and for two different initial sample densities. In one geometry, the sample was subjected to a planar shock followed by interactions with the confining walls. In the other geometry, a curved shock free of wall interactions was delivered to the sample. The low‐density (55 % TMD) Mn+S was found to be significantly more sensitive to the curved shock than to the planar shock with wall interactions. For high‐density (90 % TMD) Mn+S samples however, shock sensitivity was the same in both apparatuses. Next, the reaction onset temperature and the critical initiating shock pressure were determined for a number of powder mixtures using DTA and shock recovery (in the geometry producing planar shocks with interactions with the confinement walls), respectively. For the majority of the mixtures tested, the minimum shock energy required to cause the entire sample mixture to react was found to be much less than the enthalpy of the sample at its reaction onset temperature, with no significant correlation between these two parameters. The process of arrested ball‐milling, which results in a reduction of the reaction onset temperature of a mixture, may lead to an increase in shock sensitivity. Additionally, thermal sensitivity in the particular mixtures considered was not increased when they were first shock‐compacted by sub‐critical shocks.