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The Navy's reinforced concrete structures represent an invaluable asset to the nation's defense preparedness. However, some facilities are approaching a critical state of disrepair and represent a substantial facility management burden due to uncontrolled severe deterioration of reinforced concrete in marine environments. Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center's professionals estimate that ...

The development of a new process for the continuous separation of w aste plastic particles by type into purified streams for sale and recycling is proposed. This approach is based on the segregation of particles by density in liquid-fluidized bed classifiers (LFBC). The primary objective of the proposed work is "proof-of-concept" for the LFBC approach; that is, the experimental demonstratio ...

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Campylobacter jefjuni and Campylobacter coli are significant pathogens of humans. In the United States, the estimated annual incidence of the disease 1-2 million cases costing almost one billion dollars in health care costs and lost productivity. Currently, effective vaccines for do not exist; therefore, to reduce the impact of the disease, rapid and reliable diagnosis is essential for administra ...

The overall objective of Phase I and Phase II is to develop (1) the mathematical means to design, control, and modify a minesweeping operation in order to minimuze the time needed to nullify a minefield with specified assets in the light of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) products that become available befor and during the mine countermeasure operation and (2) a software imple ...

Marine Acoustics, Inc., proposes applying the team's operational expertise and tactical decision aid (TDA) technology to the development of a TDA that innovatively applies tactical oceanography principles to the employment of multistatic ASW assets. The foundation of the TDA module architecture will be the integration of innovative parametric sonar equation matrix analysis techniques with existin ...

Research proposed herein will provide important insight into design and development of an array data collection system that will lead to better understanding into phenomena of internal wave interactions with steep slopes and resulting affects on convergence zone formation as well as municipal outfall design, thereby providing a strong dual-use research initiative. Convergence zone behavior and mun ...

The ultimate goal of this three phase SBIR proposal is to design, develop, fabricate, and test real- time radiography system for inspecting large CDI castings with the emphasis on the production oriented inspection system. The proposed system takes significant advantage of detector system, data acquisition system, automated data analysis and image display software already developed by Omega. The ...

Frequency selective surfaces (FSSs) find widespread applications as radomes, dichroic filters and components for satellite antenna systems, and have been extensively investigated in the past. Much of the attention in these studies has been focused, however, on the in-band performance of versions of these filters and little progress has been reported on the important aspect of RCS reduction, which ...