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Webbing is strong, woven material that is used to secure cargo as well as for safety equipment such as seat belts, harnesses, and parachute rigging. Due to its extensive use in Military applications, the strength of the webbing is a key component of equipment design, especially in the case of safety gear that protects soldiers, as lives may be dependent on the strength and proper performance of th ...

Illinois Rocstar LLC (IR) will develop a robust methodology and software for automated decomposition and hexahedral mesh generation to address the U.S. Navy modeling and simulation (M&S) needs. Extending the Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) CUBIT package and the IR Nuclear Energy Modeling System (NEMoSys) meshing software, the proposed automated hex-meshing software, offered as an extension module ...

Silicon Q-PICs provide a miniature, stable, and scalable platform for developing future light-based quantum technologies, including sensors, secure communications, and information processors. This is due in large part to leveraging existing semiconductor manufacturing capabilities and the dense integration that the high index contrast of silicon can achieve. In order to fully implement quantum arc ...

Deposit-induced degradation of alloys and ceramic coatings in turbine engines is regarded as one of the core challenges preventing further gains in performance and efficiency. Emerging evidence suggests that synergistic effects in complex (mixed) deposits containing sulfates and silicate mixtures threaten material durability outside of classically-defined temperature ranges of CMAS degradation and ...

High-average current and high-brightness electron beams are needed in advance applications such as ultra-high power Free-Electron Lasers (FELs) and electron accelerators. The technologically important material properties of diamond are of significant interest for development of electron emission, detector, and wide-bandgap semiconductor applications, including radiation-hard devices. A diamond amp ...

Thermopile arrays manufactured using integrated process compatible materials and micro-machining will provide high performance with low manufacturing cost. Black Forest Engineering (BFE) teamed with Case Western Reserve University will design thermopiles using silicon based semiconductors and compare performance. Low cost thermopiles, differentially coupled with advanced BFE CMOS readout, will pr ...

Multifunctional materials would alleviate longstanding problems in composite structures associated with multiple types of damage mechanisms such as mechanical/thermal fatigue, microcracking, and impact. CU Aerospace (CUA) proposes an innovative hybrid self-healing composite consisting of a two-part healing agent that is stored in microcapsules and hollow glass fibers (HGF), which are released when ...

The Navy is developing an electromagnetic (EM) launcher for long-range naval surface-fire-support. Severe operating conditions of the EM system place stringent requirements for materials, including high current and magnetic fields, high temperatures, contact with liquid metals, high stress/gouging from balloting contacts and high-speed-sliding electrical-contact with an Al armature. Engineered Coa ...

Present thermoelectric devices operate at about 10% of the Carnot efficiency, whereas the efficiency of compressor-based refrigerators is larger than 30%. An increase in the thermoelectric figure of merit ZT above 3 is needed before thermoelectric technology can replace current air conditioning technologies in many applications. Recent models have predicted that ZT can reach 6 in metal/HgCdTe supe ...

The capability to reliably and remotely detect, identify and track biological aerosols is a critical need for the United States military. EPIR Technologies proposes to improve this capability by making use of the infrared signatures from biological aerosol broadband Mie scattering, comprising both mid and long wavelength infrared (MW/LWIR) components, as well as a potential polarization component. ...