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The automated inspection of gas turbine components has proven to be difficult due to their complex geometry. While ultrasonics has demomstrated excellent capabilities in detecting and characterizing the erosion and corrosion on turbine components from the hot effluent gases, it's application details laborious alignment procedures for the ultrasonic transducer during inspection. The need for automa ...

Reliability and lifetime performance data for environemntal control systems (ECS) is limited. Real-time tests require 5-15 years, and results often apply only to obsolete technology. Accelerated life testing (ALT) is a means by which reliability data may be obtained quickly and at a reasonable cost. A primary difficulty with ALT of ECS units is that typical service conditions impose multiple stres ...

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A DISPERSION AND COMPOSITE STRENGTHENING APPROACH INCORPORATING THE BENEFITS OF RAPID SOLIDIFICATION AND IN-SITU COMPOSITE FORMATION IS PROPOSED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREEP AND FATIGUE RESISTANT HIGH STRENGTH SOLDER ALLOYS AND COMPOSITES FOR ELECTRONICS PACKAGING APPLICATIONS . THE GOAL OF PHASE I OF THE PROGRAM IS TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF PRODUCING BY INDUCTION MELTING AND INERT GAS ATO ...

Applied Polymer Systems, Inc (APS) has developed a new plasma spray process capable of applying a polymetric resin binder with high filler levels in coating form over various substrates. The process can be robotically controlled and is environmentally friendly. A vacuum collection system captures vapors, and no solvents are used in the process. The filters can be functional and contribute to surfa ...

Field Emitter Displays (FEDs) represent the "leap frog" technology which can rebuild America's dominance in the information display industry. This represents simultaneously a critical technology area for Defense and a multi-billion dollar market opportunity. Basic technology feasibility for FEDs has been amply demonstrated already. The remaining questions are those of engineering and economics. Im ...

THE GOAL OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY LOOKING TO THE FIERCE COMPETITION OF THE NEXT DECADE IS TO MANUFACTURE PRODUCTS (1) AT REDUCED COSTS, (2) WITH SHORTER LEAD TIMES, AND (3) AT A HIGHER QUALITY. COMPONENTS THAT WOULD ASSIST IN ACHIEVING THIS GOAL INCLUDE (1) AUTOMATED PROCESS PLANNING, (2) DESIGN RETRIEVAL, AND (3) PRODUCIBILITY/VALUE ANALYSIS. NEEDED TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS FOR EFFECTIVE COMPUTER- ...

UBC, INC., AN ENGINEERING FIRM PERFORMING RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND LIMITED PRODUCTION OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY OVER THE ENTIRE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM, SPECIALIZING IN MILLIMETER WAVE AND INFRARED SENSORS, PROPOSES AN SBIR PROGRAM TO PROVIDE DESIGN, SUPPORTING ANALYSIS AND BRASS-BOARD DEVELOPMENT LEADING TO A W-BAND POLARIZATION DIVERSE FOUR PLANE MONOPULSE RADAR WITH DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTABLE POLAR ...

The Aeronix Phase I task will demonstrate the application of an innovative parallel processing computer architecture and parallel processing programing envirorment to a class of problems associated with the real time detection, recognition, acquisition and tracking of multLple objects in a high rate image sensor environment. The Phase I task will examine the problems associated with the multiplici ...

A HYBRID GRID SCHEME WHICH UTILIZES AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED STRUCTURED MESHES GLUED TOGETHER BY UNSTRUCTURED MESHES IS PROPOSED FOR DEVELOPMENT. THE HYBRID METHOD PROMISES TO COMBINE THE EASE AND LOW MAN-HOUR REQUIREMENT FOR THE GENERATION OF UNSTRUCTURED MESHES WITH THE EFFICIENCY OF THE VISCOUS FLOW SOLVER ON STRUCTURED MESHES. THUS THE HYBRID SCHEME WILL COMBINE THE ADVANTAGES OF THE TWO IHESHE ...