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ADIABATICS, INC. IS PLEASED TO PROPOSE A RESEARCH PROGRAM TO DESIGN AN OPTIMUM PISTON FOR A HIGH TEMPERATURE MILITARY ENGINE. ADIABATICS, INC. HAS BEEN CONDUCTING A PROGRAM FOR TACOM TITLED "DEVELOPMENT OF TRIBOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND ADVANCED HIGH TEMPERATURE IN-CYLINDER COMPONENTS FOR ADVANCED HIGH TEMPERATURE DIESEL ENGINES" FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS. BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCE WITH DESIGNING COMPONENTS ...

THIS PROGRAM WILL DEVELOP A NEW COMPUTER CONTROLLED STEREOLITHOGRAPHY PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF REINFORCED CERAMIC COMPOSITE PARTS. PHASE I WILL DEMONSTRATE A WORKING SYSTEM THAT WILL DIRECTLY READ A COMPUTER CAD DRAWING OF A SIMPLE COMPONENT AND THEN GENERATE THE ACTUAL GREEN COMPOSITE PART. PHASE I WORK WILL INCLUDE DEVELOPMENT AND FABRICATION OF SYSTEM HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE, DEVELOPMENT OF ...

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MANY AGRICULTURAL CROPS REQUIRE APPLICATION OF PESTICIDES AND/OR HERBICIDES. THE APPLICATOR'S JOB INCLUDES TWO TASKS. FIRST IS TO ACCURATELY PLACE A SPECIFIED UNIFORM SPRAY DENSITY ONTO THE CROP OR SOIL SURFACE. SECOND IS TO MINIMIZE OR ELIMINATE DRIFT OF PARTICLES INTO SENSITIVE AREAS SUCH AS HOMES OR SCHOOLYARDS. CURRENTLY, APPLICATORS HAVE NO MEANS TO VERIFY UNIFORM COVERAGE OR DETERMINE THE EX ...

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DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT OF SOOT IN THE EXHAUST OF TURBINE ENGINES IS IMPORTANT FROM A TACTICAL STANDPOINT OF AIRCRAFT VULNERABILITY. EXIS TING OPTICAL DETECTION METHODS ARE SUBJECT TO ERROR AND SUBJECTIVE ANA LYSIS. A NOVEL SOOT DETECTION METHOD IS PROPOSED FOR DEVELOPMENT. IT RELIES ON THE ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY RADIATED BY IONS EMBEDDED IN SOO T PARTICLES. THE FREQUENCY OF THE RADIATION IS VER ...

KENSAL CONSULTING IS A SMALL BUSINESS IN ARIZONA WHICH HAS JUST BEEN AWARDED A UNITED STATES PATENT (NO: 4,641,351) DATED FEBRUARY 3, 1987 ENTITLED LOGICAL TRANSFORM IMAGE PROCESSOR. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THIS PATENTED PROCESSOR IS BASED ON A NOVEL CONCEPT IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL CELLULAR LOGIC. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PARTICULAR ARCHITECTURE IS TO PROVIDE AN EXTREMELY HIGH-SPEED, LOW-COST PARALLEL-PROCESS ...

DURING THE 1984-1990 ACADEMIA, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, USING THE $180,000 COULTER BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ROBOT MICROSCOPE, THE DIFF3/50, INTERFACED TO A $80,000 INTERDATA MODEL 3230 COMPUTER, CONDUCTED RESEARCH UNDER A SERIES OF NIH GRANTS CUMULATIVELY FUNDED AT OVER $1 MILLION WHICH ACHIEVED INTELLIGENT PERFORMANCE IN SUBTYPING FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMAS. THE ...

KVH Industries proposes to design and demonstrate a low cost short range acoustic buoy release system designed to locate and retrieve underwater instruments. The proposed design effort will address the problems of search rate, identification, homing, slant range measurement, localization and buoy acknowledgement. The focus of the Phase I effort will be optimization of correct response to address a ...

NEW HIGH EXPANSION THERMALLY STABLE MULTIFILAMENT FIBER REINFORCEMENTS ARE KEY TO DEVELOPING SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES INCOMPOSITE MATERIALS. IT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED THAT TITANUIM ALUMINIDE ALLOYED WITH CARBON (X = 2 OR 3) IS A HIGHLY DESIRABLE HIGH CTE, THERMALLY STABLE MATERIAL FOR REINFORCING ALUMINIDE INTERMETALLICS AND OTHER MATRICES. CONVENTIONAL FIBER FORMING METHODS INCLUDING THERMAL CHEMICAL VA ...