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The objectives of this proposal are to develop an animal surrogate finite element (FE) model and environment that can be used as a tool to investigate injury mechanisms and mitigation of traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to blast overpressure. A rat head model with a high degree of anatomical detail will be refined for used within an FE blast environment. To avoid the use of unnecessarily costly ...

Currnet Ni-based metallic turbine shrouds, coated with ceramic abradable materials, are limited to temperatures not exceeding 2,100 F. Integrated High Performance Turbine Engine Technology (IHPTET) demands gas turbine hot sections with operational temperatures up to 2,500 F (1,370 C). Ceramic fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) such as SiC/RBSN are candidate materials for these hig ...

A reliable 20-year shelf life power source is needed to activate advanced smaller munitions. Most of the current batteries and other power sources do not have such a long shelf life and reliability. The only battery chemistry proven for such a long life and reliability has been used only for very low power applications due to limited ionic conductivity of the electrolyte. Materials & Systems Re ...

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TO CONSTRUCT AN EMULATION CAPABILITY FOR EXISTING OR PLANNED ROBOTIC COMMAND CENTERS (RCCS) WE PROPOSE TO APPLY TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED FOR SIMULATION AND CONTROL OF TELEOPERATED SERVICING ROBOTIC SYSTEMS TO THE PROBLEM. AS PART OF A COLLABORATION WITH IN THE CENTER FOR AUTONOMOUS AND MAN-CONTROLLED ROBOTIC AND SENSING SYSTEMS, A NASA SPONSORED CENTER FOR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF SPACE AUTOMATION AN ...

A very capable team composed of a small business, ThermoAnalytics, with support from a major aerospacecompany, Boeing, and a long time TACOM contractor, MTU/KRC, will develop a Hybrid Electric Vehicle design tool. This team will pursue the research required to develop a practical and useful design tool for the HEV designer. The development of the prototype software will begin in Phase I resulting ...

M-Vision Inc., along with the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, proposes to develop a new and novel solution to the problem of target detection and discrimination in a complex scene. This solution is obtained by innovatively combining Gabor wavelets and scale space inference. The result is a computational model of human perception that resembles the human visual system in its ...

This proposal describes a computational model of human observers, DYTA(dynamic Target analysis), for dynamic target detection, depth and velocity estimation DYTA will be developed based on human perception knowledge as well as physics of moving vehicles. The computational model consists of two levels of processes, early and cognitive visual processes. At the early visual processes level, DYTA has ...

CONFIRMING THE ACCURAY OF LIFE-PROTECTING INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE TEST EQUIPMENT OR SIMULATING MILITARY ENVIRONMENTS OFTEN REQUIRES SOPHISTICATED AND CUMBERSOME TEST CHAMBERS DEPENDENT ON COMPLICATED CALCULATIONS. THE CALIBRATION OF SUCH TEST EQUIPMENT MAY BE EASILY COMPROMISED BY OPERATOR ERROR WHERE INVOLVED CALCULATIONS ARE USED AND COMPLICATED INTERCONNECTIONS AND VALVES ARE EMPLOYED. WE PROPOSE TO ...