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The design of turbomachinery components is a complex process requiring many steps and hundreds of minute decisions in an iterative process. The design proceeds from engine cycle performance and meanline design through 3D viscous flow calculations (CFD) and finite element structural analysis (FEA). Design studies may traverse this process many times, with routine tasks performed by engineers in a ...

The overall technical objective is to develop the information systems technology necessary to implement a Materials Knowledge Base. This object-based data repository will allow the acquisition and storage of experimental materials analysis data,regardless of its origin or format. The mechanism is also provided for investigators to access and utilize that data in other experiments, analyses, or si ...

We propose to develop an earth penetrator with improved shape for trajectory stability during high-speed penetration. Several promising penetrator shaping concepts have been identified in Phase I. Through further analysis, one or two of these will be selected for further development. Penetrator designs will be formulated and optimized, then tested through gun firings of scale-model penetrators int ...

Ribbon Mills and its subcontractor Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) propose a Phase II program, to continue the research into advanced complex performs concepts utilizing weaving technology applied to state-of-the-art composites to enhance the revolutionary low frequency, conformal load-bearing antenna structures (CLAS) foliage penetration ground/air moving target indicator (FOPEN GMTI/AMTI) rad ...

52 A Simple Process to Manufacture Grain Aligned Permanent Magnets--Advanced Materials Corporation, 700 Technology Drive, P.O. Box 2950, Pittsburgh, PA 15230-2950; (412) 268-5649 Mr. Vijay K. Chandhok, Principal Investigator Dr. S.G. Sankar, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-97ER82313 Amount: $74,840 Electromechanical devices that incorporate permanent magnets are inherently superior i ...

51 A Novel Technique for the Enhancement of Coercivity in High Energy Permanent Magnets--Advanced Materials Corporation, 700 Technology Drive, P.O. Box 2950, Pittsburgh, PA 15219-3124; (412) 268-5649 Dr. S.G. Sankar, Principal Investigator Dr. S.G. Sankar, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-97ER82314 Amount: $73,130 Improvements in the properties of permanent magnets are important to ena ...

The design of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s) is a complex process of creating a reliable system of reasonable cost that can survive in hostile environments. Although UAV’s have unique aspects to them, similar goals can be found in almost any complex, competitive product. One aspect of the design of these systems that tends to be both difficult and poorly supported with available computer ...

The evolution of materials in advanced aircraft continues and there is emerging interest from the U.S. Air Force to move titanium alloys into heat exchangers for advanced aircraft. Titanium substitution will lower the weight of nickel base alloy heatexchangers by over 30%, leading to increased fuel economies and performance. The proposed Phase II effort will select a typical aircraft stainless ste ...

14 A Fully Automated 96-Capillary Array DNA Sequencer-SpectruMedix Corp., 2124 Old Gatesbury Rd., State College, PA 16803-220; (814) 867-4502 Dr. Quingbo Li, Principal Investigator Mr. Bernard Sonnenschein, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-97ER82461 Amount: $75,000 The identification and sequencing of the Human Genome is a continuing worldwide scientific goal in which the Department of ...

70261B02-II Methacrylic acid (MAA) and its ester derivatives are important building blocks for many large- volume polymers and resins. By 1999, the U.S. annual production of the single methyl ester derivative, methyl methacrylate, reached 1.7 billion pounds. The current commercial route for making MAA and its ester derivatives is the acetone cyanohydrin (ACH) route, a multiple-step preparatio ...