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An investigation of nickel coating processes to provide corrosion protection for 6061-T6 aluminum alloy in a marine environment is proposed. The effects of aluminum preparation and pretreatment steps will be investigated. Additionally, strategies which utilize multiple layers of nickel of different compositions will also be explored.

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 ...

RESEARCHERS ARE COMPLETING A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF AN ADVANCED SOFTWARE PRODUCT DESIGNED FOR SOLVING SYSTEMS OF SIMULTANEOUS ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS WHICH ARISE IN CONNECTION WITH THE P- AND HP-VERSIONS OF THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, UTILIZING MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTER SYSTEMS.

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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 ...

This study will test the feasibility of alternative machine learning strategies for training an expert decision support computer program to automatically code social interaction processes. Collecting and analyzing interaction process data is difficult, time consuming, and expensive. Reliability and reproducibility are difficult to establish and maintain. Phase I will test several alternative machi ...

This project is based on a novel computer graphics technology for man/machine interfaces that relies on machine learning techniques, neural-like networks, and object recognition IU techniques. The key idea is to use a few "example" views of an object or person, to teach the computer to generate other views, under user control. WIth our technology we will develop an interactive (multimedia) interfa ...

PRESENT TREATMENT OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS IS PERFORMED BY SEVERAL METHODS, WHICH INCLUDE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, STEROIDS, IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AND CYTOTOXIC AGENTS, RADIATION TREATMENT BY BEAM METHOD, AND SURGERY. EACH METHOD HAS ITS DRAWBACKS. OF THESE METHODS, RADIATION BEAM TREATMENT HAS BEEN SHOWN TO SUPPRESS THE INFLAMED SYNOVIUM AND PALLIATE THE PATIENT'S PAIN. THERE ARE, HOWEVER, ADVERSE EF ...

A new family of bioactive iron calcium phosphate glasses will be evaluated as thermoseeds for hyperthermia of cancers, especially bone tumors. Through appropriate heat treatment and atmosphere control, the Fe3+/Fe2+ ratio can be adjusted to achieve the desired magnetic hysteresis. The heat generating characteristics of these glasses under external magnetic induction will be studied as a function o ...

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 ...