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HIGHLY CONFORMAL GRAPHITE/PEEK THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE FABRICS UTILIZING CO-MINGLED YARNS ARE CURRENTLY BEING INVESTIGATED FOR USE IN SIMPLE CURVATURE PRIMARY HELICOPTER STRUCTURE. THIS PROGRAM SEEKS TO ADVANCE THEIR USE TO COMPOUND CURVATURE HELICOPTER PRIMARY STRUCTURE AND CONCURRENTLY DEMONSTRATE A MANUFACTURING PROCESS APPLICABLE TO LARGE, COMPLEX STRUCTURES. THE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INCLUDES S ...

THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF PEROVSKITE-LIKE COPPER-OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS WITH TRANSITION TEMPERATURES ABOVE LIQUID NITROGEN TEMPERATURES HAS LED TO RENEWED INTEREST IN THE APPLICATION OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. THESE NEW YBACUO (YBA(2)CU(3)O(7-X) MATERIALS OFFER THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE THESE MATERIALS AS DETECTORS MORE CONVENIENTLY THAN THE "CLASSICAL" SUPERCONDUCTORS. THE LONG RANGE GOAL OF THE PROPOSED PR ...

COMPOSITES OFFER THE POTENTIAL FOR OBTAINING MATERIALS WITH SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES (STIFFNESS, DAMAGE TOLERANCE, HIGH TEMPERATURE CAPABILITIES) COMPARED TO THAT OF ANY OF THE INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS ALONE. DIAMOND WOULD BE A VERY INTERESTING COMPONENT IN A COMPOSITE MATERIAL BECAUSE OF ITS EXTRAORDINARY HARDNESS, HIGH ELASTIC MODULUS, LOW COMPRESSIBILITY, LOW THERMAL EXPANSION ...

IT IS COMMONLY AGREED THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF ULTRA-HIGH DENSITY AND VERY HIGH SPEED ELECTRONICS FOR COMPUTING AND SIGNAL PROCESSING IS PRESENTLY LIMITED NOT BY THE CIRCUT COMPONENTS THEMSELVES BUT RATHER BY THE ELECTRONIC PACKAGING. HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR (HTSC) FILMS ARE EXPECTED TO MAKE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THIS TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE APPLICATIONS IF A NUMBER OF CRITICAL MA ...

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OUR RESEARCH PROPOSAL OF LAND MINES DETECTION BY A NUCLEAR ACTIVATION METHOD IS BASED ON A NEW EXTREMELY INTENSE, COMPACT PULSED SOURCE OF 14.1 MEV NEUTRONS (WITH A YIELD Y(N)=5.10(12) NEUTRONS/50 NS PULSE AND A SOURCE REPETITION RATE 1 HZ). WE HAVE DEVELOPED AND CARRIED OUT EXPERIMENTS WITH (A) COMPACT ACCELERATOR PLASMA TARGET SYSTEMS (CAPT). THIS IS A NEW GENERATION OF DEVICES WHICH IS OBTAINED ...

TECHNIQUES ARE BEING SOUGHT TO REDUCE GUN MUZZLE SIGNATURE. THE ELEMENTS OF THIS SIGNATURE ARE SHOCK WAVES AND VISIBLE LIGHT. THE SIGNATURE BETRAYS LOCATION, HINDERS GUN CREW PERFORMANCE, AND DETERIORATES GUN MECHANISMS. A COMPUTER CODE WILL BE DEVELOPED TO DESCRIBE THE KEY ELEMENTS OF THE SIGNATURE PROBLEM. EXISTING COMPUTER MODULES IN USE AT BELTRAN, INC. WILL EXPEDITE THE PROGRAM. THESE INCLUDE ...

INNOVATIVE, REAL-TIME, NEURAL NETWORK HARDWARE TECHNIQUES FOR IMPLEMENTING DR. JOHNSON'S DYNAMIC OBJECT EXTRACTION PREPROCESSOR ALGORITHM FOR AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION WILL BE INVESTIGATED, DEVELOPED AND DEMONSTRATED. SCALABILITY TO FULL REAL-TIME 2-DIMENSIONAL IMAGERY WILL BE SHOWN. THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A PHASE II HARDWARE PROTOTYPE FOR ALGORITHM VALIDATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT ...