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THE EXISTING METHODOLOGY OF DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT IS AN EXPENSIVE AND TIME CONSUMING PROCESS. TO KEEP PACE WITH THE RAPIDLY ADVANCING SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY, IT IS NECESSARY TO DEVELOP A COMPUTER BASED ENVIRONMENT TO QUICKLY SIMULATE THE FEATURES OF THE MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT BEFORE IT IS TURNED INTO A PHYSICAL PROTOTYPE. APART FROM ACHIEVING CONSIDERABLE ...

PRESENT TURBOJET ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEMS, WHICH ARE COMPRISED OF: CONTROLLER, FUEL METERING DEVICE, SENSORS, CONNECTORS, AND HARNESSES ARE THE SINGLE MOST EXPENSIVE SUBSYSTEM ON EXPENDABLE TURBOJET ENGINES. THE SIZE AND COST OF EXPENDABLE TURBOJET ENGINES HAS STEADILY DECREASED. HOWEVER, THE ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEM COST HAS RE MAINED RELATIVELY CONSTANT. ELECTRONIC CONCEPTS PROPOSES TO DEMONSTRATE TH ...

GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC. PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM (ITS) ARCHITECTURE THAT IS FLEXIBLE, MODULARLY STRUCTURED TO ALLOW FOR FUTURE EVOLUTION, AND WHICH CAN BE USED IN A FAMILY OF TACTICAL WEAPON SYSTEMS IN EMBEDDED TRAINING OPERATIONS. IN PARTICULAR, WE PROPOSE USING AN EXISTING ITS FOR WEAPON SYSTEM TRAINING, THE INTELLIGENT EMBEDDED OPERATOR ASSISTANT (I ...

The predominant concern of evolving high-speed network architectures is fault tolerance. High-speed networks will expereince a variety of faults, such as link or node failures, excessive buffer overflow due to faulty flow and congestion control mechanisms, and partial failure of the switching fabric. The main goal of this research is to increase the availability of essential network services witho ...

AN ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MAXIMUM FIBER STRESS OCCURRING DURING PAYOUT IS CRITICAL TO IMPROVE THE RELIABILITY OF CURRENT AND FUTURE DISPENSER DESIGNS FOR FIBER OPTIC GUIDED VEHICLES. THE FIBER DEFORMATIONS OCCURRING AT THE PEEL POINT ARE A DIRECT INDICATION OF THE MAXIMUM FIBER STRESSES UNDER NORMAL PAYOUT CONDITIONS. IN ADDITION, THE FIBER DEFORMATIONS AT THE PEEL POINT PROVIDE AN INVALUABLE M ...

Aerospace systems undergo environmental stressing which ultimately limit their useful life. Empirical rules and constant inspection are required for commercial and military aircraft because real-time data are not known for the high-cost systems. This effort proposes imbedded microelectronic and microelectromechanical devices to constantly monitor aerospace systems and a life-cycle analysis of the ...

WIZDOM SYSTEMS, INC., A PIONEER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIE/CIM SOFTWARE AND INTEGRATED METHODOLOGIES, PROPOSES FOR PHASE I TO DETERMINE SOFTWARE DESIGN REQUIREMENTS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR WIZARD, A SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT FOR INTEGRATED DESIGN AND MANUFACTURABILITY ANALYSIS (IDMA). WHEN COMPLETE, THE WIZARD SYSTEM WILL INTEGRATE THE NOW SEPARATE PROCESSES OF PRODUCT DESIGN, DESIGN EVALUATION, AND MANU ...

COLEMAN RESEARCH CORPORATION (CRC) PROPOSES TO DEVELOP THE CAPABILITY TO PERFORM COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF UPPER-ATMOSPHERE BALLOON DRIFT PATTERNS. MODELS OF ZERO-PRESSURE AND SUPER-PRESSURE BALLOONS WILL BE DEVELOPED TO ACCOUNT FOR BUOYANCY, MASS PROPERTIES, AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATION, PROPULSIVE CAPABILITY, AND OTHER PHYSICAL PARAMETERS WHICH INFLUENCE THE RESPONSE OF THE BALLOON SYSTEM TO EXTERNAL ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH TC SUPERCONDUCTING THIN FILMS WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON A LARGE NUMBER OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA OF ADVANCED MICROCIRCUITRY. ALTHOUGH SUPERCONDUCTING THIN FILMS HAVE BEEN PREPARED BY A VARIETY OF METHODS, ALL OF THESE METHODS REQUIRE HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCESSING STEPS WHICH ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH DENSITY MICROCIRCUITRY, AND NO ...

THIS STUDY IS INTENDED TO DETERMINE THE OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS, THE CONFIGURATION AND THE ENGINE CONTROL PHILOSOPHY FOR A HIGH ALTITUDE VARIABLE CYCLE DIESEL ENGINE INSTALLED IN A RPV. WEIGHT, PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION INFORMATION WILL BE DEVELOPED IN THE STUDY.