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More that 52% of the U.S. highway congestion in urban areas is a direct result of highway incidents. Federal and State transportation authorities are searching for quick, low-cost and efficient highway incident detection and warning systems. Several solutions have been proposed but none could meet the requirements of transportation authorities. Central Signal, funded by federal agencies, has done ...

Highly-efficient physical-modeling software for use on large scale supercomputers is very important to the reduction of development costs of the proposed Advanced Exotic Beam Laboratory (AEBL) project at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Although massively parallel hardware can provide for rapid and accurate design iteration at high levels of detail, a robust analysis software that can run effici ...

Radio-frequency (RF) breakdowns is an important barrier to obtaining higher field gradients in modern accelerators. Unfortunately, there are presently no simulation tools that allow understanding and quantitative estimation of the damage produced by RF breakdown in realistic accelerating structures and RF components. This project will develop a new computational tool for the analysis of RF breakdo ...

Active-control systems are playing increasingly important roles within magnetic confinement fusion programs. The growing demand for RF power applications on small and large machines demonstrates a clear need for the hardware, software, and electronic components of real-time control. These components must be implemented with a moderate amount of effort in a cost-effective fashion. This project i ...

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Extensive research (Ukraine) has shown that high strength continuous fibers of basalt can be produced. These fibers are inexpensive and have exceptionally high strength, stiffness and corrosion resistance. Basalt is a naturally occurring volcanic mineral, consisting a variety concentration of oxides. The product envisioned is a low-cost, corrosion resistant replacement for steel bar in reinforc ...

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