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Recent studies by the PI and the Co-PI of this STTR effort have shown that aluminum alloys and stainless steel in Low Cycle Fatigue (LCF) fail upon reaching a critical entropy; claimed to be an intrinsic material property. The critical entropy has been used as damage metric for prediction of remaining useful life (RUL). Also, similar entropic concept has previously been applied to LCF of composite ...

The low density of magnesium makes it of interest for the development of advanced materials having high specific strength and stiffness. Current Mg applications, however, are limited by the performance and cost/quality relationships of existing Mg-alloy systems. One approach to obtain improved Mg alloys is through the development of new alloys and/or Mg-based composite materials that are enabled t ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Introduction The Strength and BALance SABAL program targets reduction of fall risk in older adults through fun meaningful and motivating games that incorporate evidence based exercises and automatic generation of fall risk metrics The product consisting of virtual world based gaming software and an off the shelf KinectTM sensor will be used in senior ce ...

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has been supporting research of energetic materials and incendiaries as payloads for weapons to defeat targets containing chemical and biological agents. Several universities and Navy labs have been involved in this research, and have narrowed down on a few material formulations that are efficient biocides. These formulations contain a chemical ingredient ...

With missions surrounding counterproliferation, nonproliferation and WMD reduction, the stakes for DTRA are incredibly high. Effectively conducting this work involves cooperation and coordination across a wide range of military and government organizations throughout the United States and the world. The decentralization of threats has led to an explosion in the sources and types of data needed to ...

Swabs are routinely used by crime scene investigators and forensic scientists for the collection of a wide range of evidence types for later analysis. The swab device most commonly used is the sterile cotton swab due to its ease of use, low cost, and ability to collect a wide variety of biological materials on multiple substrates. However, standard cotton swabs are known for their low efficiency o ...

This effort is focused on the development of a system called Situational Awareness via Mixed-initiative Universal Recognition, Analysis, and Inference (SAMURAI). SAMURAI will provide a single cloud-enabled end-to-end workflow covering the full range of data analysis from data ingest to situational assessment and decision support. As part of this workflow SAMURAI will provide the ability for automa ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Zansors is a biosensor company with several research and product areas to commercialize evidence based healthcare solutions This proposed research is aimed at achieving objective assessment of blood alcohol concentration BAC by offering a wearable real time alcohol bio sensing device based on a bendable and stretchable lab on a patch platform invented by par ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The Knee Biofeedback Rehabilitation Interface for Game based Home Therapy andquot KneeBRIGHTandquot system combines electromyography EMG biofeedback with video game therapy VGT to provide knee osteoarthritis OA patients with an engaging effective tool for conducting rehabilitation exercises at home KneeBRIGHT aims to motivate patients with knee OA to ...

Barron Associates, Inc. proposes to develop the Automated Deployable Robust Training (ADROIT) System, an automated and comprehensive environment to train and deploy vertebrates to detect and mark landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) quickly and accurately. The ADROIT system will be designed to be cost-effective and robust, with a focus on training efficiency. The ADROIT system will incorporate ...