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ABSTRACT:A chip carrier for high power density electronics made from low CTE materials and embedded with an oscillating heat pipe will be applied to a real world satellite electronics device to transform high heat flux (e.g. 100-300W/cm2) at the device package to a lower heat flux at the heat sink areas - and do so with minimal thermal resistance. Deliverables at conclusion of two-year effort will ...

ABSTRACT:Innovative Technology Applications Company, LLC proposes the development of an analytical tool that predicts jet noise and engine performance for current and future generations of supersonic two- and three-stream engines. The goal is to provide robust and reliable noise predictions in minutes that can be used for design optimization. The physics-based approach will be capable of addressin ...

ABSTRACT:A cooperative small business and university research and development program is proposed to begin development of a robust, non-contacting, digital image correlation based, full-field strain measurement system for high temperature applications. The Phase I studies will demonstrate that a robust high temperature digital image correlation system (HTDICS) can be developed that is capable of a ...

ABSTRACT:The proposed research effort will develop passive Oscillating Heat Pipe (OHP) structural heat spreaders to attach to small, ultra-high heat flux devices (e.g., GaN power amplifiers) and dissipate their heat loads uniformly across the spreaders' relatively large heat sinking surfaces - and do so with minimal thermal resistance. The research team will design, model, fabricate, test, and ana ...

We will evaluate a novel warming method, developed by our collaborator John Bischof, that promises solution of one of the remaining barriers for banking of large organs and vascularized composite tissues. The method involves radiofrequency and magnetic nanoparticles to obtain rapid uniform electromagnetic rewarming of biological materials instead of warming from the outer boundary using convection ...

The long term goal of the proposed research is to develop improved methods for cryopreservation of complex tissues at extreme low temperature. An innovative approach is taken in the proposed line of research, where synthetic ice modulators (SIMs) are combined with established cryoprotective agent (CPA) cocktails to create more favorable conditions for cryopreservation in a process known as vitrifi ...

ABSTRACT:Increasing emphasis on affordability of military systems has led to a number of advances in airframe production. For example, high speed machining (HSM) has made it possible to fabricate thin structures that provide improved performance. However, near-surface plastic strains induced by HSM or surface treatments can lead to excessive component distortion such that the component requires re ...

ABSTRACT:This Phase II project will include the research, development, implementation and deployment of a method, new image quality indicators (IQIs) and software algorithms to automatically assist in the verification of computed radiography (CR) image quality for nondestructive testing (NDT) of military airframes.Compared to existing IQIs and methods, the new approaches will more comprehensively, ...