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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 ...

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 ...

WE PROPOSE TO IDENTIFY THE EFFECT OF METALLURGY VARIABLES ON THE DYNAMIC STRENGTH OF TANTALUM (TA) USING AN ELECTROMAGNETIC EXPANDING WIRE TECHNIQUE. OUR TECHNIQUE IS CAPABLE OF SIMULATING THE HIGH STRAIN RATE AND ELEVATED TEMPERATURE ENVIRONMENT EXPERIENCED BY ACTUAL SHAPED CHARGE LINEAR MATERIALS. THIS INFORMATION CAN ULTIMATELY BE USED TO PREDICT PARAMETERS SUCH AS SHAPED CHARGE JET BREAKUP.

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IN RESPONSE TO THE THREAT OF ROAD-MOBILE AND RAIL-MOBILE INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THE UNITED STATES HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF DETECTING AND IDENTIFYING THESE ELUSIVE TARGETS. MULTISPECTRAL SIGNATURE DETECTION IS A TOOL THAT CAN BE USED AS A FRONT END FILTER FOR OTHER SENSORS. MTL HAS BEEN USING A 63 CHANNEL MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER FOR COLLECTING DATA ...

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PHASE I WILL BUILD A PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE "THOUSAND POINT" MODEL OF A WIDE-BAND CORRELATOR AND WILL DESIGN A CORRELATOR CAPABLE OF FINDING A KNOWN "MILLION POINT" SIGNAL AMONG MANY SIGNALS AND OF DETERMINING THE TIME OF BEST CORRELATION TO ONE "POINT," EVEN IN THE PRESENCE OF DOPPLER EFFECTS. THE CORRELATOR WILL USE "VIDEO DISK" TECHNOLOGY AND WILL BE SUITABLE FOR USE IN WIDE-BAND RADARS OR SONARS.