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A PROGRAM IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP AN INFRARED THERMAL INSPECTION APPLICATION FOR THE EXAMINATION OF BARE AND COATED FIBERGLASS HULL STRUCTURES. PRIOR WORK HAS DEMONSTRATED THE APPLICABILITY OF THE INFRARED APPROACH TO THE INSPECTION OF THIS TYPE OF MATERIAL. SEVERAL TECHNIQUESWILL BE EVALUATED FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE THERMAL LOAD NEEDED TO PERFORM THE TEST. INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY OFFERS VERY RADI ...

THE OBJECT OF THIS WORK IS TO DEVELOP A PROOF OF CONCEPT PROTOTYPE BUOY PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SUPPLY DESIGN WHICH WILL BE A PART OF A SINGLE UNIT INSTALLED ON A BUOY'S STRUCTURE. THIS SYSTEM INTERFACES WITH A STATUS MONITORING SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF SYSTEM PARAMETERS TO REMOTE MONITORING STATIONS. DESIGN WORK WILL DEVELOP NEW APPROACHES TO THE UTILIZATION OF SOLAR CELL ARRAYS TO GENERATE ELECTRI ...

THE OBJECT OF THIS WORK IS TO DEVELOP A PROOF OF CONCEPT PROTOTYPE BUOY STATUS MONITOR AND REPORTING SYSTEM DESIGN WHICH WILL BE A PART OF A SINGLE UNIT INSTALLED ON A BUOY'S STRUCTURE. THIS SYSTEM INTERFACES WITH THE BUOY PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SUPPLY AND THE BUOY POSITION MONITORING SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION WITH REMOTE MONITORING STATIONS. THE SYSTEM WILL BE MODULAR AND EXTENDABLE ALLOWING MODULES S ...

THE OBJECT OF THIS WORK IS TO DEVELOP A PROOF OF CONCEPT PROTOTYPE BUOY POSITION MONITORING SYSTEM DESIGN WHICH WILL BE A PART OF A SINGLE UNIT INSTALLED ON A BUOY'S STRUCTURE. THIS SYSTEM INTERFACES WITH A STATUS MONITORING SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF SYSTEM PARAMETERS AND ALARMS TO REMOTE MONITORING STATIONS. THIS EFFORT WILL EVALUATE LORAN AND GPS POSITIONING SYSTEMS TO DETERMINE WHICH IS MOST ...

A KEY FACTOR IN THE ABILITY TO SAFELY OPERATE A TRAIN IS THEOPERATOR ALERTNESS. OPERATOR ALERTNESS CAN BE COMPROMISED AS A RESULT OF FATIGUE, SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS. A DEVICE THAT WOULD OBJECTIVELY REPORT A PERSONS STATE OF ALERTNESS COULD INDICATE THAT PERSONS FITNESS FOR DUTY, FOR EXAMPLE, AT THE BEGINNING OF A SHIFT. IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT ALERTNESS IS HIGHLY CORRELATED WITH VARIO ...

NEW MATERIALS ARE BEING DEVELOPED EVERYDAY AND ARE REVOLUTIONIZING PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES AT AN ASTOUNDING RATE. IN RECENT YEARS, THE ROADSIDE SAFETY APPURTENANCE FIELD HAS BEEN AFFECTED AS WELL, AS NEW MATERIALS HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO PRODUCE IMPROVED DESIGNS IN A VARIETY OF SITUATIONS. IN RECENT YEARS PLASTICS, CERAMICS, HIGH STRENGTH FIBERS AND COMPOSITES HAVE BECOME MORE WIDELY USED IN INDUSTRY ...

TO FACILITATE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OF ON-LINE INFORMATION CONCERNING FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION'S R&D PROGRAMS, AUTOMATIC METHODS OF INFORMATION INDEXING MUST BE EMPLOYED. THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH HUMAN RESOURCES TO ADEQUATELY GATHER AND CLASSIFY THIS ABUNDANCE OF DATA. IN ADDITION, AUTOMATEDMEANS OF INTERPRETING THE APPLICABILITY OF NEW TECHNOLOGY AND DETERMINING UNDER WHICH FAA PROGRAM THE TECHN ...

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