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"The aim of our Phase II activity is to incorporate the Cohesive Volumetric Plate and Shell (Finite) Elements into LS-DYNA3D, thus enhancing its capabilities in modeling HRAM loading and damage in composite structures. In Phase I, we reported oninterlaminar failure criteria and modes, based on fracture mechanics. A damage-dependent bilinear cohesive element is used to capture the crack initiatio ...

"This Phase I SBIR Project will develop a complete set of guiding documents which shall constitue a roadmap for implementing and deploying the Worldwide C4I for Special Operations Forces Combatant Craft solution. The documentation set will include analysisand results for algorithms in the areas of data compression, and encryption schemes. The document set shall contain the following: Concept of ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is submitted in response to NCUBIP PAR-01-102, "Development of Novel Imaging Technologies for In-Vivo Imaging". A overall goal of this project is to facilitate routine head/neck imaging at 3T, which at present is limited to head MRI. In Phase I, novel RF coil prototypes capable of high-resolution head/neck imaging in a clinical 3T setting will ...

"Aetion will leverage proprietary multi-criterial decision-making technology, SFVM, that can be used for generating and evaluating a very large number and range of manufacturing alternatives in parallel, efficiently finding the best options from among them,and presenting the results to the user so that they can understand how the design of prototypes impacts their manufacturability, and to navigat ...

"To maximize situational awareness, while minimizing cognitive overload, automated abductive inference (best-explanation reasoning) will be used to create a changing, "best interpretation" representation of the situation from incoming data. Modeling andsimulation will be used by the abductive inference software for automatic generation of predictions from hypotheses, enabling the continual generat ...

"Aetion Technologies LLC will study the feasibility of applying its SFV decision-support technology to visualization of modeling and simulation processes. The technical and scientific merit will be assessed of applying SFV technology to build up models andobserve them being simulated, in whole or in part. This use of SFV will be evaluated by applying Generic Task methodology to analyze the informa ...

"Aetion Technologies LLC will study the feasibility of applying its SFV decision-support technology to modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, and analysis of depot shop processes. The project will assess whether SFV can be used to model heterogeneous depot shopelements and systems with multiple states at multiple levels of resolution, and to simulate the flow of items through them. By running many simu ...

"Opportunities exist to use sensor-guided robotic manipulator systems on future surface combatants to automate the process of breaking-out palletized loads into individual packages and items, and to assemble mixed loads of such goods--to order--for deliveryto end-users aboard ship. The system envisioned will be capable of handling provisions, consumables, spare parts and similar commodities origi ...

"Sandwich structural designs are the most weight efficient concepts for stability-critical components such as control surfaces. The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of producing honeycomb sandwich structure using a unique DoubleWalled Honeycomb design. This new ARDL honeycomb design is called Hexagonal Double walled structure or "HexD" This is depicted in Figure 1.HexD ...

"The proposed effort will research development of an onboard 1 MW auxiliary power unit (APU) and cooling capability for installation on heavy aircraft. One important objective is that the total package that includes a generator, a prime mover, and anauxiliary compressor to weigh no more than 1400 lb. Such a solution does not currently exist. Development of technical objective is to be carried o ...