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The goal of this program is to develop and qualify a custom-designed alloy for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV), which experiences severe corrosive and abrasive environments, including seawater and sand. In particular, the spindles on this vehicle are mission critical components for operation on land and sea. The spindles are highly loaded and galvanically ...

Historically, the correlation between predicted failure and actual failure of composite aircraft structures has left much to be desired. Current analytical prediction methods often over estimate or under estimate the failure load by 25% or more. Compounding the problem is that the failure of composite structure has led to a lengthy and costly, test-based certification process. A relatively new ...

Development of compact ruggedized high-quality high-speed tunable laser-diode transmitter packaging is critical to WDM network in both military and commercial applications. The objective of this research project is to bring the basic low-profile & large operating temperature range packaging technology developed into a very compact tunable laser module that can withstand military avionic environmen ...

A new material, based on a thermally-stable amorphous aluminophosphate composition (Cerablak™), was investigated in Phase I, and demonstrated highly desirable dielectric properties suitable for next-generation hypersonic radomes. Cerablak™ is a low cost, solution derived material which has a unique glass structure that is resistant to crystallization even at elevated temperatures. Building o ...

This Phase II proposes to develop an innovative nanostructured coating, with a unique integration of hard phases and lubrication phases, for dry machining of austenite steels for the automotive and aerospace industries. This novel coating will be synthesized using a combination of electrostatic spray coating (ESC), chemical vapor infiltration (CVI), and plasma etching. W unique biomimetic inspir ...

Caviton has developed a novel technique for the continuous monitoring of trace metals emissions. This technique is based on a microdischarge light, which is collected by a spectrometer and analyzed. All metals tested to date can b detected and the focus of this Phase II project is to develop a sampling system, carry out laboratory tests, then move to field tests of sampling and analysis. Finall ...

The goal of this research project is to develop an innovative nanostructured coating, with a unique integration of hard phases and lubrication phases, for dry machining of austenite steels for the automotive and aerospace industries. This novel coating will be synthesized using a combination of electrostatic spray coating, chemical vapor infiltration, and plasma etching. Unique biomime ...

Caviton, Inc., developed a novel technique for the continuous monitoring of trace metals emissions. This technique is based on a microdischarge light, which is collected by a spectrometer and analyzed. All metals tested to date can be detected, and the focus of this Phase II research project is to develop a sampling system, carry out laboratory tests, and perform field tests of sampling and an ...