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Interference of unburned and activated carbon in fly ash with air-entraining admixtures (AEA’s) in fresh concrete mixtures is a major concern in the concrete industry. Therefore, a rapid and accurate measurement of adsorption capacity of fly ash is of great interest to this industry. In this project, a new method is suggested, which can qualitatively and quantitatively measure different surfact ...

As the human population grows, it is critical to decrease consumption materials from the planet and its ecosphere. The world adds 70 million people annually. The UN expects the population to grow to over 9 billion 2050. Climate change, soil degradation, ...

In the Phase I SBIR, the SpaceWorks team proved the technical feasibility of a modular persistent platform in GEO based on the assembly of individual spacecraft each sized to the DARPA POD form factor. The team also determined that such a platform would ...

Fairmount Technologies (FT) has demonstrated that ExtruMach is a disruptive technology for drilling curved extrusions and proposes to further develop this during Phase II for milling extrusions. ExtruMach-PoCM (proof of concept machine) is a flow-type multi-axis CNC machine with a small footprint, which is more capable than existing machines in that it has no limit on the length of parts it can ha ...

This proposal provides a detailed account of the Teams work through Phase 1 of the Magnetic Braking and Electric Taxiing SBIR as well as provides a pathway for building and testing a brake system in Phase 2. Having competed the effort of designing the magnetic braking and electric taxiing system in Phase 1, the Team is able to look back and take account the Program goals, accomplishments, and nece ...

Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) for flight systems (interceptors, airborne platforms, and space assets) are constrained by limits on size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C). These IMUs are also exposed to severe shock and vibration during storage, transport, launch, staging, deployment and engagement. This Phase II effort will continue research from the Phase I and achieve three main objectives 1 ...

The proposed system will be capable of being tube mounted on the 60/81/120mm mortar tubes for the measuring of the barrel elevation and cant angles and will provide a firing solution, elevation and azimuth angle, required to impact the target at the range input by the user. The range to the target can be directly entered by the user, read from a fielded laser range finder (VECTOR, PLRF, etc), or c ...

We propose a methodology for modeling and computationally optimizing anodic metal-filled primers using extensions of approaches that we already employ for corrosion analysis. Modeling will be developed using Star CCM+, a Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) platform from CD-Adapco. We presently use this for corrosion analysis when we need to incorporate computational fluid dynamics to take the variab ...

We will develop a simple, lightweight, compact, robust, and inexpensive instrument package that will report essentially all ultrashort-laser-pulse characteristics. It will yield, on a single shot, the pedestal power and complete pulse spatiotemporal field, E(x,y,z,t)i.e. all possible pulse information, including pulse-shape stability, even if multi-shot operation is required. It will include user- ...

Wireless sensors are an extremely effective means of communication on the modern battlefield, however current battery technologies have limited the full realization of these essential tools. A robust, high efficiency, light weight, flexible power source is thus critical for effective deployment of modern technologies. Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites (OIHPs) are the ideal candidates for use in ...