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The objective of this proposal is to examine the feasibility of defining and measuring key dimensions of an urban system to include its essential functions and networks, and whether they can be modelled in a computational framework for assessing robustness and resilience of DUTs (and their tipping points) under conditions of volatility and stress. This proposal will conduct a comprehensive review ...

Developing knowledge-driven nanoelectronics for military applications requires understanding the fundamental physics that governs the behavior of the underlying materials. Strongly correlated materials have very desirable properties such as interfacial superconductivity, ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism, and huge magnetoresistance, which make them an ideal set of candidates to integrate with semic ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) has a demand for out-of-production parts to maintain mission readiness of various weapons platforms. Additive manufacturing (AM) is an exciting and promising manufacturing technique that can make out-of-production parts and holds the potential to solve supply chain issues, such as high costs (i.e. for low-volume parts) and sole sourcing risks. The ability of AM to s ...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a modern and increasingly popular manufacturing process for metallic components, but suffers from well known problems of inconsistent quality of the finished product. Process monitoring and feedback control are therefore crucial research areas with a goal of solving this problem. To address this concern, X-wave Innovations, Inc. (XII) and the University of Dayton Res ...

Next Century Corporation will develop novel means to acquire data on patterns of exploration of web-based information. For the proposed effort, we will integrate fine-grained logging of activities across different search paths and develop new methods for extracting web content that provides and analyzes the broader context in which such activities take place. In addition, we will develop a robust ...

Hypersonic vehicles impose demanding thermal structural requirements on refractory C/C and CMC materials. The thermal and mechanical properties from small, standard test samples on which the design of specific hypersonic hot structure components are typically based are usually not duplicated in real flight structures. Manufacturing limitations in fabricating real structures versus thin, simple sh ...

Nanoscale imaging techniques are critical for progress in many disciplines, as we learn to master science and technology at the smallest dimensions — on the nanometer to atomic-scale. However, progress is becoming increasingly limited by the constraint...

Boulder Precision E-O will collaborate with Thomas Schibli at the University of Colorado to develop the GHz repetition rate comb for manufacturing and integration. SLS will integrate this comb for applications such as low phase noise microwave oscillators, and timing distribution.