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The objective of the proposed program is to demonstrate the feasibility of applying Cast Metal Composite's unique pressure infiltration process to the production of lightweight, dimensionally stable, high thermal conductivity, high stiffness cyanate ester resin matrix composites for spacecraft subsystems and advanced thermal management systems. The low cost pressure infiltration process will be c ...

Integration/evaluation facilities such as the Integrated Defensive Avionics Laboratory (IDAL), ECIT/IFAST (Edwards AFB, AFEWES, REDCAP and PRIMES must support the development of EC systems on a real-time/non-intrusive basis. The complexity of today's EW systems require non-intrusive instrumentation for their development. This instrumentation must operate on a real-time basis so that the developm ...

Increased tip chord, tip speed, and use of sweep have long been recognized as beneficial to fan and compressor aero designs. However, significant increases in blade stress, blade weight, disk weight, and cost result from higher tip speed and longer tip chord. An innovative design concept is presented that reduces blade stress, weight, and cost while increasing possible forward sweep and blade natu ...

The objective of the proposed program "A Novel Electrochemical Process for Removal of Scrap Dental Amalgam from Waste Water" is to develop and commercialize cost effective electrochemical hardware for the treatment of dental waste water. Our process will remove the dental amalgam from the waste water to acceptable mercury limits to meet local mercury compliance requirements, e.g., 50 parts per bi ...

Technical planners are required to prioritize the development of new systems technologies relative to user needs. Designs for these new systems typically only exist at the conceptual or preliminary design level, yet trade studies must be performed to assess cost and effectiveness, as well as overall affordability. Bottoms up estimating techniques cannot be used without performing a complete deta ...

Shrimp farming is the world's most valuable aquaculture sector with 1994 production of 733,000 MT and crop value of $4 billion. This huge industry depends on wild animals with its seedstock either gathered directly from the sea or produced in hatcheries from wild-caught broodstock. Recently the industry has experienced severe disease problems which in part are due to its reliance on wild animals ...

Preliminary work is outlined for the development of a turnkey Hall effect measurement system permitting both magnetic field and temperature dependent studies. This system would be a fully integrated system including instrumentation, cryogenics for operation to at least 80 K, an electromagnet for operation to at least 1.5 tesla, and control software for automatic operation. Analysis of the field a ...

Transparency ownership costs have been increasing in recent years reflecting the need to account for the total cycle costs which includes final disposition and disposal. The current method of disposal is to landfill transparencies. Landfill disposal is becoming increasingly expensive and operationally unacceptable for materials that potentially are recyclable. These transparencies represent a h ...

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This research will define, experimentally validate, and produce a preliminary design for some innovative, Practical AECM (Air-to-Air Electronic Countermeasures Assessment Model) Capability Enhancements (PACE) for electronic protection assessment. The proposed techniques include an innovative means to manage antenna pattern and monopulse tracking error function effects, an efficient simulation out ...