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ADIABATICS, INC. IS PLEASED TO PROPOSE A RESEARCH PROGRAM TO DESIGN AN OPTIMUM PISTON FOR A HIGH TEMPERATURE MILITARY ENGINE. ADIABATICS, INC. HAS BEEN CONDUCTING A PROGRAM FOR TACOM TITLED "DEVELOPMENT OF TRIBOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND ADVANCED HIGH TEMPERATURE IN-CYLINDER COMPONENTS FOR ADVANCED HIGH TEMPERATURE DIESEL ENGINES" FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS. BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCE WITH DESIGNING COMPONENTS ...

NONLINEAR OPTICAL MATERIALS ARE REQUIRED FOR A VARIETY OF POTENTIAL AIR FORCE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING (SWITCHES, MODULATORS, AND GUIDED WAVE DEVICES), AND NEW LASER SOURCES (OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS AND HARMONIC GENERATORS). HOWEVER, PRESENTLY AVAILABLE MATERIALS ARE UNSATISFACTORY FOR MANY APPLICATIONS DUE TO SMALL NONLINEARITIES, POOR OPTICAL CLARITY, LONG RESPONSE ...

AN INNOVATIVE INTEGRAL DIELECTRIC HEAT SINK MATERIAL, DIAMOND/CARBON/CARBON COMPOSITE, IS PROPOSED IN THIS PHASE I RESEARCH FOR THE USE IN FUTURE ADVANCED ELECTRONIC DEVICES. CARBONE/CARBONE COMPOSITE HAS A HIGHER THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND LOWER DENSITY, AND THEREFORE A HIGHER SPECIFIC THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY, AS COMPARED TO METALS. HOWEVER, CARBON IS ALSO AN ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR. WE PROPOSE TO APPLY DI ...

PRESENT TURBOJET ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEMS, WHICH ARE COMPRISED OF: CONTROLLER, FUEL METERING DEVICE, SENSORS, CONNECTORS, AND HARNESSES ARE THE SINGLE MOST EXPENSIVE SUBSYSTEM ON EXPENDABLE TURBOJET ENGINES. THE SIZE AND COST OF EXPENDABLE TURBOJET ENGINES HAS STEADILY DECREASED. HOWEVER, THE ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEM COST HAS RE MAINED RELATIVELY CONSTANT. ELECTRONIC CONCEPTS PROPOSES TO DEMONSTRATE TH ...

A PHASE I FEASIBILITY STUDY IS PROPOSED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 2400 DEGREE KELVIN GAS SAMPLE CELL WHICH IS CAPABLE OF SIMULATING THE COMBU STION PRODUCTS OF HYDROGEN-AIR SCRAMJET PROPULSION SYSTEM AT PRESURES FROM 0.5 TO 2.0 ATMOSPHERES, FLOWS FROM 0 TO 1.0 STANDARD LITERS PERMI NUTE, AND A CELL COMPOSITION OF AIR WITH 20 PERCENT WATER VAPOR BY WEI GHT. ADDRESSED WITHIN THE PROPOSAL IS THE PRIMA ...

FIBER MATERIALS, INC. (FMI) PROPOSES A PROGRAM TO DEVELOP A NEW CLASS OF SMART MATERIALS WHICH HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF SENSING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND RESPONDING TO IT IN A DESIRED MANNER. PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS AND ACTUATORS WILL BE COUPLED ELECTRICALLY TO FORM THE SMART MATERIAL STRUCTURE. A NEW TYPE OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL CONTAINING PIEZOELECTRIC TUBES WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR HIGH ACTUATION WITH LO ...

RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN HOT ISOSTATIC PRESSING TECHNIQUES HAVE ALLOWED AN AUSTRIAN COMPANY TO SUPPLY FULL LENGTH LINERS MADE FROM NIMONIC 105 TO A SWISS GUN MANUFACTURER. THESE TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN UTILIZED IN THE U.S. FOR LINING OF TUBES FOR THE CHEMICAL AND NUCLEAR INDUSTRIES AND FOR LINING OF VALVES FOR WEAR AND EROSION RESISTANCE. THIS TECHNOLOGY, BASE UPON COLD AND HOT ISOSTATIC PRESSING TECHN ...

WITH THE CONTINUED INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY TOWARD HIGHER DENSITY, FASTER SPEED, LIGHT IN WEIGHT AND SMALLER IN SIZE, THE DEMANDS ON SOLDER INTERCONNECTIONS, PARTICULARLY FOR THE BOARD-LEVEL PACKAGING, BECOME INCREASINGLY STRINGENT. THE INCREASED DENSITY AND DECREASED SIZE IN SOLDER JOINTS, PER SE, DRAW CONCERNS ABOUT THE RELIABILITY OF SUCH SOLDER JOINTS WHICH ARE M ...

THE PROBLEM IS THAT WHEN ARMY TRAINEES REACH THEIR UNITS THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN MUCH OF THE MATERIALS PRESENTED AT THEIR SCHOOLS. THE NEED IS TO IDENTIFY THE TYPES OF SKILLS AND METHODS THAT ARE MOST LIKELY TO RESULT IN ROBUST INSTRUCTION, TO PROVIDE A FIRM BASIS FOR ON-THE-JOB-TRAINING (OJT) AT THE UNIT LEVEL. THE APPROACH IS TO USE AN EXPERTISE-CENTERED SKILL TAXONOMY TO DISTINGUISH PROCEDURAL FROM ...

MTL proposes to perform the preliminary design for a very high speed integrated circuit hardware design language (VHDL) behavioral simulation acceleration engine, and to demonstrate the critical aspects of that design though simulation. The approach will be to use the QUEST parallel simulation technology developed at the University of Cincinnati which currently executes on a general purpose distri ...