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Fracture toughness is the material parameter that, along with applied loading and flaw geometry, dictates the critical crack size, and therefore controls the flaw size that must be detected during inspections. A major challenge facing pipeline operators is that many pipelines are old, making their structural integrity uncertain, and that material pedigree of the pipeline steel is unknown. Therefor ...

General Sciences, Inc. (GSI) proposes to incorporate highly exothermic composite reactive materials into the warhead of a Hyper Velocity Projectile (HVP) to provide lethality enhancement in a non-hit-to-kill option. These materials (some developed, improved and tested in the Phase I program) can be used in a non-hit-to-kill option by proper packaging. The proposed concepts, will be subjected to se ...

The proposed effort under this SBIR Second Phase II will be focused on advancing the capability to model missile plume re-entry vehicles, other high-speed vehicles and wakes for application to Electro-Optic (EO)/Infrared (IR)/Ultraviolet (UV)/ Visual (Vis)/ Radio Frequency (RF)/ and Radar Cross Section (RCS) signature predictions. To accomplish these goals, two tools existing at CRAFT Tech, RPFM3D ...

Nokomis Plans to further advance prototype Hiawatha-MEMS monitoring system developed under previous SBIR. System employs novel methodologies to determine device health by identifying degradation in electronic components in order to assess their Remaining Useful Life (RUL) in addition to environmental assessments provided by Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) devices. This second Phase II effor ...

Intense dynamic and thermal loads will occur during stage-separation events that are of major concern from both operational and safety viewpoints. The insensitive-munitions (IM) stimuli and thermal/dynamic response associated with such events has received very little attention, yet this is of major concern for the KEI vehicle undergoing Stage 1 to Stage 2 separation. The KEI event is at lower alti ...

Our Phase I research involved the development of an innovative sensor scheduling algorithm in support of Ballistic Missile Defense. This algorithm schedules multiple diverse and distributed sensors to perform time-critical tasks relating to multiple moving targets; specifically, to detect, classify, localize, track, support the interception of, and conduct BDA for ballistic missiles throughout t ...

Laser Technology Inc. (LTI) proposes a Phase II SBIR research project to further develop a Compact Shearography System, Analysis Method and Software for micro-crack detection in concrete. There is an urgent need to detect and characterize fine cracks in concrete that form because of various damage mechanisms including alkali-silicate reaction, delayed ettringite formation or frost damage. Fine s ...

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Development of the basic EMAT based transverse rail defect detector has progressed toward finished form, as envisioned in the original solicitation. This modification is intended to produce a demonstratable version of a 2-rail detection system with automated signal interpertation. The objectives of this work are to: a. Further develop the system into a functioning 2-rail detection system, as ori ...

Dynamic Structures and Materials, LLC (DSM) proposes the development of a compact, proportional piezoelectric motor actuation technology with miniature electronics, optimized actuator hardware and integrated position feedback capability. The new actuation system will be optimized and characterized in an integration test bed representative of system loads (physical, thermal, vibration) relevant to ...