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This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will develop an innovative thermal solution to cool underwater acoustic projectors. More efficient cooling of the acoustic projectors will allow the devices to run at longer duty cycles, higher output powers and with longer service life. Current acoustic projectors use thermal conduction through the transducer parts to dissipate the waste hea ...

Aluminum alloys are known to suffer from Stress Corrosion Cracking(SCC). SCC of high strength alloys can proceed rapidly, and can lead to devastating structural failures. However, a solid understanding of combined interactions of metallurgical, environmental and mechanical factors surrounding the crack tip during SCC is still elusive. Therefore, Al alloy developement for high corrosion resistance ...

Blade-to-blade variations in frequencies lead to the phenomenon of mistuning. Even very small amounts of mistuning can cause some blades to vibrate much more than others. Mistuning can cause an amplification of resonant response by up to 400 percent, and has been identified as a primary factor in HCF failures. One issue in setting blend limits is whether or not the blending operation will exacerba ...

The objective of this Phase I application is the focused development of an advanced bioinformatic based wearable critical care monitor to enhance warfighter medical care. This will be accomplished by building upon an existing advanced sensor, hardware and software platform developed by BodyMedia Advanced Development combined with additional computational and clinical expertise provided by Virgini ...

The overall goal of this STTR program is to develop an efficient, high-fidelity, CFD-based design tool for the simulation of ship-board flight testing of autonomous UAV systems. In Phase I, an overall flight simulation framework that employs a modular approach to the flight simulation problem was developed. The effort was successful in demonstrating a lower-cost aerodynamic modeling approach tha ...

The inlet section of a high speed supersonic (Mach 2 to 5+) missile captures and compresses the free stream flow, slowing it down to subsonic speeds (through a normal shock) where it is fed into the combustor section. Through the use of design optimization and high-fidelity CFD analysis, CRAFT Tech and University of Minnesota are developing a new tool for high-speed inlet design that will evaluate ...

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in males. Treatment with androgen ablation therapy after radical prostatectomy (RP) eventually leads to relapse and development of androgen-independent disease. Patients with androgen independent prostate cancer experience high morbidity and morality. At present, the ability to monit ...

KCF Technologies will develop compact Power Harvesting devices to enable Navy distributed wireless sensor systems. The power harvester will be developed as an enabling component in RLW Inc.’s S5NAPTM wireless sensor. The target application, in collaboration with JCI/YNS, is Condition Based Maintenance of AC plants on Navy ships and submarines. Follow-on applications will expand the deployment ...

This Phase II project will develop a system for the perioperative management of head trauma patients that is compliant with the proposed Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) standard. Device interoperability will be implemented using a microprocessor-based adapter that translates communication protocols of specific legacy medical devices into a standard protocol readable by an open-source API. T ...

An innovative science-based approach is needed to develop ultra-high strength steels that resist corrosion and associated hydrogen cracking in the severe maritime operating environment, specifically to reduce life-cycle cost and improve mission reliability for Navy aircraft components such as the landing gear and drive mechanism. This Phase I proposal integrates a fundamentally based experimental ...