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The specific innovation is to use a single optical fiber sensor/signal processing technology to measure three parameters, (i.e., temperature, pressure, and flow) with resolution adequate for shipboard and industrial applications. The Navy needs an all-optical sensing systems in ships of the future to minimize the vulerability to electromagnetic interference. The project objectives are to: opti ...

The conversion of a commercially available motorcycle engine from standard fuels to JP8/Diesel Fuel is the technology addressed in this proposal. Current technology off-road motorcycles typically use gasoline powered two or four stroke engines which are not compatible with the future DoD mandated JP8 universal fuel requirement. Qualities required by the propulsion system are bot ...

The Navy's requirements for a high-bandwidth, sensitive transducer for measuring the dynamic force produced by combusting propellant samples will be addressed using a fiber optic design. The transducer proposed here is similar to pressure senso

We propose to demonstrate proof-of-concept of a novel two-stage chemical-electrochemical approach for the stripping of paint. This approach will result in the creation of paint flakes which are dispersed in the aqueous medium to be used for the stripping process. Thus, unlike chemical stripping procedures, collection and disposal of the process liquid will be considerable simpler and less expens ...

High strength steel alloys (300M) used in navel aircraft engine and landing gear components are found to be highly susceptible to fatigue cracking, induced by the cyclic loading these structures are subjected to in service. Stress-induced cracking is found to initiate due to improper grinding and machining of the parts during fabrication. There is critical need for nondestrucive techniques which c ...

This project will apply virtual reality (VR) technology, in the context of system engineering, to develop a more effective, convenient, and realistic virtual prototyping technology that will improve the capacity to develop and assess complex computer-based systems. An intermediate goal of this Phase I initiative is automatically generating executable VR-based simulation code from IDEF3 behav ...

Every year millions of pounds of expendable sensors are deployed in the oceans of the world. After they finish reporting their measurements they are left to either sink to the bottom or float on the surface until they wash up on some unknown shore. In either case, they are generally built from materials designed to operate reliably in the ocean environment, and as a consequence, persist in the env ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will establish the feasibility of integrating a small, light weight MAD sensor and signal processing technology with an UAV platform for shallow water and land surveillance. Polatomic's approach utilizes a miniature laser magnetometer concept and technology developed under SBIR contracts from NASA, NSF and the Navy. The laser magnetometer ...

The objective of this SBIR is to design, prototype and validate a Scarfing Tool for Automated Repair of Composites (STARC) system. Phase I will focus on determining the feasibility of such a system. Information will be gathered and documented through interviews with manufacturers of composite parts and commercial and military composite repair personnel. To maximize the probability for viable comme ...

In this research, we will investigate and develop a new class of mid-infrared (3-5 pm) diode lasers vVhich was first proposed by the PI. These lasers utilize interband transitions for photon emission in a staircase of Sb-based type-ll quantum wells. In this way, we retain the advantages of cascaded tunneling injection and wavelength tunability, while circumventing the fast phonon scattering loss e ...