HC Deb 20 January 1988 vol 125 cc765-6W
Mr. Gareth Wardell

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish in theOfficial Report research projects currently under way in Welsh university colleges that are funded by his Department.

Mr. Sainsbury

Yes. The list is as follows:

Serial Title
1. Synthesis and reactions of boron alkyls.
2. Fundamental studies into the influence of rotation on heat transfer in flow geometries appropriate to the coding of gas turbine rotor blades.
3. Prediction of stress corrosion crack propagation in welded aluminium alloys.
4. Mixed layer dynamics at ocean weather ship Lima.
5. Short fatigue cracks in near-alpha-titanium.
6. Creep strain and creep life prediction for commercial aluminium alloys.
7. A novel numerical technique for the calculation on electromagnetic coupling to structures at high frequencies.
8. Review of elastic-plastic finite element analysis of welds.
9. Mathematical modelling of the circulation in the Tamar.
10. Numerical modelling of shallow oceans and supporting measurements.
11. Improved/novel techniques for atmospheric ion production—Phase II.
12. Special resource requirements of a fielded network.
13. IR emission from combustion products of pyrotechnic propellants.
14. Improved digitial terrain models.
15. Practicality of tool support interfaces for the APSE.
16. Electromagnetic energy coupling into gaseous detonation waves.
17. Provision of ophthalmological services.
18. Human information processing under high work load.
19. Confidence band estimation for distributions used in probabilistic design.
20. The prediction of percutaneous absorption.
21. Automatic natural language generation.
22. Vicon/Pasco "development".
23. Thermo-dynamic equilibria for metal complex reactions.
24. Flow cytometry and cell sorting of micro-organisms.
25. Investigation into ferrite loaded lines for sub-nanosecond pulse sharpening application.
26. Invitro assessment of toxicity.
27. Surface examination of fine metal powders and alloys.
28. Verification of computer code grult.
29. Micro structural characterisation of commercial aluminium lithium alloys.
30. Ultimate load of aluminium alloys.
31. Protease mutants in yeast cloning systems.
32. Semiconductor-semiconductor interfaces.
33. Cytotoxicity of alkylating agents.
34. Catalysis of co-oxidisation reactions on platinum.