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Bennett Advanced Research proposes to examine fundamental properties of adaptive materials for use with Additive Manufacturing technologies. The focus will be on developing a system for spacecraft Self Health Monitoring (SHM).

A major limitation of current high performance composites made from vinyl ester resins is their performance with carbon fiber reinforcements. Carbon fiber composites can possess much higher specific stiffness and strength than glass fiber composites, but the laminated composite properties depend on a good interface between the matrix resin and the fiber. Since vinyl ester resins typically do not e ...

A major limitation of current high performance composites made from vinyl ester resins is their performance with carbon fiber reinforcements. Carbon fiber composites can possess much higher specific stiffness and strength than glass fiber composites, but the laminated composite properties depend on a good interface between the matrix resin and the fiber. Since vinyl ester resins typically do not e ...

EE Boost Inc. proposes to develop a new, fast and accurate hybrid wave-based method for acoustic simulation in large and complex environments. The hybrid method combines two efficient methods: the pseudo-spectral time-domain (PSTD) method and the enlarged cell technique (ECT). The PSTD method is extremely fast and accurate in computing fields in large cuboids without internal boundaries and interf ...

The military is actively implementing diagnostics, prognostics, and health management technologies across platforms in an effort to reduce maintenance costs, increase readiness and availability, and improve safety. In aircraft electric power systems, the largest maintenance driver is the generator, followed by the batteries. Common faults include winding shorts, pitting and spalling in bearings, a ...

In this program, we will combine commercially available AlGaN/GaN on Si FETs with short gates such that the high frequency performance (X-band and higher) can be significantly increased. The AlGaN/GaN material system has significant advantages over the incumbent technology for X-band applications; specifically, AlGaN/GaN FETs have much higher power density which translates into broader bandwidth. ...

AlGaN/GaN FETs on Si will be developed and optimized for operation at high frequency (X-band and above). The high frequency performance will be improved by modifications to the existing commercialized sub-4GHz GaN FET platform technology that’s currently available at Nitronex. The modifications will be made in the epitaxial structure, device layout and gate length for maximum X-band radar perf ...

   The proposed STTR will have broad impacts in the emergency services and armed forces by leveraging advanced personnel management technology. These organizations rely on outdated systems to track training and deploy individuals, often resulting in serious logistical errors and wasted time. EZTrain LLC has researched Air Force Reserve training and discovered a need for process improvement and g ...

Wave Computation Technologies, Inc. (WCT) proposes to develop a new multiscale solver for electromagnetic field/circuit co-simulation. This solver combines three efficient electromagnetic field algorithms, (a) the spectral element time-domain (SETD) method for coarse scales, (b) the enlarged cell technique (ECT) for the boundary conformal finite-difference time-domain method [i.e., the FDTD method ...

Wave Computation Technologies, Inc. (WCT) proposes to develop a new multiscale solver for electromagnetic field/circuit co-simulation. This solver combines three efficient electromagnetic field algorithms, (a) the spectral element time-domain (SETD) metho