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• Stability -- Congresses
• Stability -- Mathematical models
• Stability -- Periodicals
• Bifurcation theory
• Flame stability
• Frequency stability
• Gas-lubricated journal bearings -- Stability
• Hazardous wastes -- Stabilization
• Lateral stability
• Lyapunov stability
• Nuclear reactors -- Stability
• Plasma stability
• Rock slopes -- Stability
• Slopes (Soil mechanics) -- Stability
• Soil stabilization
• Structural stability
• Transition flow
• Aerodynamics -- Stability
• Airplanes -- Control surfaces -- Stability
• Airplanes -- Models -- Stability
• Airplanes -- Tail surfaces -- Stability
• Airplanes -- Wings, Cruciform -- Stability
• Airplanes -- Wings, Swept-back -- Stability
• Airplanes -- Wings, Trapezoidal -- Stability
• Artificial satellites -- Stability
• Atmospherics -- Stability
• Automobiles -- Stability
• Axial flow compressors -- Stability
• Beryllium -- Stability
• Beryllium compounds -- Stability
• Boilers -- Stability
• Boiling water reactors -- Stability
• Boundary layer (Meteorology) -- Stability
• Boundary layer -- Stability
• Breakwaters -- Stability
• Combustion chambers -- Stability
• Concrete blocks -- Stability
• Concrete dams -- Stability
• Cylinders -- Stability
• Dams -- United States -- Stability
• Delay differential equations -- Stability
• Delta wing airplanes -- Stability
• EA-6 (Electronic warfare aircraft) -- Stability
• Earth dams -- Stability
• Electric arc -- Stability
• Electric power systems -- Stability
• Emergency vehicles -- Stability
• Fighter planes -- Stability
• Flame -- Stability
• Freight cars -- Stability
• Gallium alloys -- Stability
• Geostationary satellites -- Stability
• Gliders (Aeronautics) -- Stability
• Guided missiles -- Stability
• Hypersonic planes -- Stability
• Ionic solutions -- Stability
• Journal bearings -- Stability
• Laminar boundary layer -- Stability
• Landforms -- Stability
• Lasers -- Resonators -- Stability
• Launch vehicles (Astronautics) -- Stability
• Linear systems -- Stability
• Liquid propellant rockets -- Stability
• Liquid propellants -- Stability
• Metal ores -- Stability
• Military helicopters -- Stability
• Nickel alloys -- Stability
• Nuclear facilities -- Stability
• Optical instruments -- Stability
• Orbiting astronomical observatories -- Stability
• Parachutes -- Stability
• Particles -- Stability
• Piggyback aircraft -- Stability
• Propellers, Aerial -- Stability
• Railroad cars -- Stability
• Roads -- Slopes -- Stability
• Rocket engines -- Stability
• Rockets (Aeronautics) -- Combustion -- Stability
• Rotating space stations -- Stability
• Rotors (Helicopters) -- Stability
• Rubble mound breakwaters -- Stability
• Ruthenium -- Stability
• SR-71 Blackbird (Jet reconnaissance plane) -- Stability
• Sand -- Stability
• Saturn launch vehicles -- Stability
• Shells (Engineering) -- Stability
• Short take-off and landing aircraft -- Stability
• Silicones -- Stability
• Slings and hitches -- Stability
• Slopes (Physical geography) -- Stability
• Solid propellant rockets -- Stability
• Space shuttles -- Stability
• Space vehicles -- Atmospheric entry -- Stability
• Space vehicles -- Landing -- Stability
• Space vehicles -- Models -- Stability
• Spectrum, Solar -- Measurement -- Equipment and supplies -- Stability
• Sport utility vehicles -- Stability
• Supersonic transport planes -- Stability
• Survival and emergency equipment -- Stability
• Telescopes -- Outer space -- Stability
• Tethered satellites -- Stability
• Thin-walled structures -- Stability
• Tidal currents -- Stability
• Transport planes -- Stability
• Tributyl phosphate -- Stability
• Vans -- United States -- Stability
• Vertically rising aircraft -- Stability
• Winged spacecraft -- Stability

• Introduction to Structural Stability Theory (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1962), by George Gerard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hopf Bifurcation and Its Applications (1976), by Jerrold E. Marsden and Marjorie McCracken (PDF files at Caltech)
• Stability and equilibrium of floating bodies (D. Van Nostrand co., 1914), by Bernard C. Laws (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory of stability of motion. (United States Atomic Energy Commission, Office of Technical Information, 1958), by I. G. Malkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the stability of a given state of motion, particularly steady motion. Being the essay to which the Adams prize was adjudged in 1877, in the University of Cambridge. (Macmillan and co., 1877), by Edward John Routh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stability and equilibrium of floating bodies (Constable and Company Limited, 1914), by Bernard Courtney Laws (page images at HathiTrust)
• A survey of the theory of the boundedness, stability, and asymptotic behavior of solutions of linear and non-linear differential and difference equations (Washington, D.C. : Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy, 1949., 1949), by Richard Bellman and United States. Office of Naval Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• The operator approach to problems of stability and convergence of solutions of difference equations and the convergence of various iteration procedures. (Scripta Mathematica, Yeshiva University, 1957), by Arnold N. Lowan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soil mechanics, its principles and structural applications. (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1947), by Dimitri Pavlovitch Krynine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preliminary procedure on jacking systems - passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles, and trucks and buses of 10,000 pounds or less gross vehicle weight rating. Final report. (1970) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthropomorphic dummy positioning repeatability, and stability tests. Final report. (1975), by C. Bonelli and E. Enserink (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of a portable video detection system for counting turning vehicles at intersections. (2002), by Andrew P. Tarko and R. W. Lyles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Structural stability and oxidation resistance of substitute alloys with various Cr and Mn levels (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1989), by Je M. Oh and M. L. Glenn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resin efficiency and dimensional stability of flakeboards (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 1973), by W. F. Lehmann and F. V. Hefty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of three classic problems in hydrodynamic stability. (Columbia University, Hudson Laboratories, 1960), by Donald H. Koppel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short-time stability in linear time-varying systems. (Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Microwave Research Institute], 1961), by Peter Dorato (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operating stability of the apollo fuel-cell condenser (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1965), by Michael B. Weinstein and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Performance of a 26-meter-diameter ringsail parachute in a simulated Martian environment (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1967), by Charles H. Whitlock, Lucille C. Coltrane, Richard J. Bendura, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mikhailov stability criterion for time-dalayed systems (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ;, 1979), by L. Keith Barker, Langley Research Center, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regions of attraction and ultimate boundedness for linear quadratic regulators with nonlinearities (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ;, 1984), by Suresh M. Joshi and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transonic static and dynamic stability characteristics of a finned projectile configuration (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ;, 1978), by Richmond P. Boyden, Edwin E. Davenport, Cuyler W. Brooks, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aerodynamic characteristics of a series of twin-inlet air-breathing missile configurations (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ;, 1983), by Clyde Hayes and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emissivity coatings for low-temperature space radiators (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1969), by G. R. Cunnington, F. J. Smith, J. R. Grammer, Lewis Research Center, and Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dynamics and stability of mechanical systems with follower forces (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1971), by George Herrmann, United States. National Aeronautical and Space Administration, and Stanford University (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effects of nonuniform swash-plate stiffness on coupled blade-control system dynamics and stability. Part II, Computer program listing (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1971), by Vincent J. Piarulli, Langley Research Center, and inc Rochester Applied Science Associates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stability of multirate sampled-data systems (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1975), by David P. Stanford, Alper K. Caglayan, Langley Research Center, and College of William and Mary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spoked wheels to deploy large surfaces in space : weight estimates for solar arrays (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1975), by R. F. Crawford, Peter R. Preiswerk, John M. Hedgepeth, Ames Research Center, and Astro Research Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vaporization response of evaporating drops with finite thermal conductivity (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1975), by Vito D. Agosta, Sanford Samuel Hammer, Lewis Research Center, and Inc Propulsion Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advanced stability theory analyses for laminar flow control (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ;, 1980), by Steven A. Orszag, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Application of Lyapunov stability theory to some nonlinear problems in hydrodynamics (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1967), by Gabe R. Buis, William G. Vogt, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and University of Pittsburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analytical method for determining the stability of linear retarded sytems with two delays (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1975), by L. Keith Barker, J. L. Whitesides, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stability and oscillation of elastic systems: modern concepts, paradoxes and errors (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1973), by I︠A︡. G. Panovko and Iskra Ivanovna Gubanova (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• NASA TN D-2089 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1963), by Philip R. Nachtsheim, Lewis Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stability theory of multistep methods (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1967), by S.M. Keathley, T.J. Aird, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free-flight investigation of radio-controlled models with parawings (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1961), by Donald E. Hewes and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Estimation and prediction of the attitude of a passive gravity-stabilized satellite (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1969), by Bruce E. Tinling, Vernon K. Merrick, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-5361 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1969), by Joseph R. Chambers, Ernie L. Anglin, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Effects of canard planform and wing-leading-edge modification on low-speed longitudinal aerodynamic characteristics of a canard airplane configuration (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Bernard Spencer, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the stability and pointing of an attached double-gimbal experiment package (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1972), by Nelson J. Groom, John D. Shaughnessy, Vilas D. Nene, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-1822 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1963), by Robert E. Shanks, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some flight characteristics of a deflected slipstream V/STOL aircraft (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1963), by Howard L. Turner, Fred J. Drinkwater, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Determination of nonlinear pitching-moment characteristics of axially symmetric models from free-flight data (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1960), by Maurice L. Rasmussen and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transonic investigation of the effects of nose bluntness, fineness ratio, cone angle, and base shape on the static aerodynamic characteristics of short, blunt cones at angles of attack to 180⁰ (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1963), by Cuyler W. Brooks, Charles D. Trescot, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Full-scale wind-tunnel investigation of a flexible-wing manned test vehicle (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1963), by Joseph L. Johnson, James L. Hassell, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimental and analytical determination of stability parameters for a balloon tethered in a wind (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1973), by L. Tracy Redd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heat equation. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Technical Information Service Extension, 1952), by Richard Bellman, Princeton University, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der brückenbau : Lehr- und Nachschlagebuch für Studierende und Praktiker (A. Twietmeyer, 1900), by Michael Strukel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theoretical relations between the stability derivatives of a wing in direct and in reverse supersonic flow (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1949), by Sidney M. Harmon and United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aerodynamic characteristics of 0.187-scale model of a target missile at Mach 1.80 to 2.16 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1966), by William A. Corlett and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effects of wing inboard plan-form modifications on lift, drag, and longitudinal stability at Mach numbers from 1.0 to 2.3 of a rocket-propelled free-flight model with a 52.5 degree sweptback wing of aspect ratio 3 (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1957), by Allen B. Henning and United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sur la stabilité des systèmes liquides en lames minces. (M. Hayez, 1865), by Ernest Lamarle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of the stability of the laminar boundary layer in a compressible fluid (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ;, 1946), by Lester Lees, C. C. Lin, and United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods of A. M. Lyapunov and their application (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1961), by V. I. Zubov and A. M. Li︠a︡punov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the technical theory of stability of motion (Translation Division, Foreign Technology Division, 1965), by Konstantin Andreevich Karacharov and Anatoliĭ Grigorʹevich Piliutik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problème général de la stabilité du mouvement. (Princeton Univ. Press, 1907), by A. M. Li︠a︡punov (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stability of a simple baroclinic flow with horizontal shear (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Geophysics Research Directorate, Air Force Cambridge Research Center, 1955., 1955), by Leon S. Pocinki and Air Force Cambridge Research Center (U.S.). Geophysics Research Directorate (page images at HathiTrust)
• A review of dimensional instability in metals (Columbus, Ohio : Defense Metals Information Center, Battelle Memorial Institute, 1964., 1964), by F. C. Holden and Defense Metals Information Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of dimensional instability in metals (Columbus, Ohio : Defense Metals Information Center, Battelle Memorial Institute, 1966., 1966), by R. E. Maringer and Defense Metals Information Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Static stability measures in the atmosphere. (Defense Technical Information Center, 1960), by W Lawrence Gates and California Univ Los Angeles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stability of shear flow near the interface of two fluids (Berkeley :, 1964), by Torkild Johan Carstens and Berkeley. Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory University of California (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mass unbalance in a simplified autospin system (Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, 1962), by John M. Doyle, Redstone Arsenal, and University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (page images at HathiTrust)
• On stability questions for pendulum-type equations. (Washington D. C. : Office of Scientific Research, U.S. Air Force, 1955., 1955), by George Seifert, United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research, and University of Nebraska (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vibration and stability problems of beams treated by matrices (Washington D. C. : Mathematics Division, Office of Scientific Research, U.S. Air Force, 1954., 1954), by K. Marguerre, Mo.) Washington University (Saint Louis, and United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Low-drag bomb with freely spinning stabilizers (Silver Spring, Marlyand. : Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, 1973., 1973), by Frank J. Regan, J. F. Tanner, J. H. W. Shannon, and Md.) Naval Ordnance Laboratory (White Oak (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the kinetic theory of stable and weakly unstable plasma (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, 1967., 1967), by A. L. Rogister, Carl Oberman, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and Princeton University. Plasma Physics Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stability limitations for stellarators with sharp surfaces (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, 1969., 1969), by M. N. Rosenbluth, John M. Greene, K. E. Weimer, John L. Johnson, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and Princeton University. Plasma Physics Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stability and nonexplosive hydrogen fluoride production in atmospheric-pressure hydrogen-oxygen-fluorine mixtures (Los Alamos, New Mexico : Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1974., 1974), by Richard W. Getzinger, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operating experience with the sodium reactor experiment and its application to the Hallam nuclear power facility (Oak Ridge, Tennessee : USAEC Division of Technical Information Extension, 1961., 1961), by R. J. Beeley, J. E. Mahlmeister, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Technical Information Center, and North American Aviation. Atomics International Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Koiter-type method for finite element analysis of nonlinear structural behavior. Volume 2, User's manual for program BEHAVE (Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1970), by Raphael T. Haftka, W. Nachbar, R. H. Mallett, San Diego University of California, and Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Topics on flexible airplane dynamics (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : AF Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Aeronautical Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1963., 1963), by Julian Wolkovitch, R.K. Siskind, H.R. Pass, B. F. Pearce, United States. Air Force. Systems Command. Aeronautical Systems Division, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.), Inc Systems Technology, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An automated procedure for the optimization of practical aerospace structures. Volume 1, Theoretical development and user's information (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Air Force Flight Dynamicsl Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1971., 1971), by Walter J. Dwyer, Irving U. Ojalvo, Robert K. Emerton, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.), United States. Air Force. Systems Command, and Grumman Aerospace Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Koiter-type method for finite element analysis of nonlinear structural behavior. Volume 1, The Modified Structure method (Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1970), by Raphael T. Haftka, W. Nachbar, R. H. Mallett, San Diego University of California, and Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• MAGIC : n automated general purpose system for structural analysis. Volume 1, Engineer's manual (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1969., 1969), by Robert H. Mallett, Stephen Jordan, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.), and Bell Aerospace Textron (page images at HathiTrust)
• MAGIC : an automated general purpose system for structural analysis. Volume 2, User's manual (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1969., 1969), by Stephen Jordan, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.), Bell Aerospace Textron, Robert H. Mallett, and Gene E. Maddux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Structural response of a shallow spherical shell (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1970., 1970), by James L. Rudd, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.), and United States. Air Force. Systems Command (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dynamics of spinning bodies at large angle of attack (Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico : Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Directorate of Research Analyses, United States Air Force, 1962., 1962), by J. E. Brunk, R. W. Rakestraw, W. L. Davidson, and United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research (page images at HathiTrust)

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