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ABSTRACT: Many turbomachinery applications have achieved improved availability, reliability and cost savings by incorporating health monitoring systems to determine the mechanical condition of key components in near real time. The goals of any health monitoring system are to ensure reliability by avoiding unplanned maintenance, to reduce operating costs by providing the information needed to plan ...

ABSTRACT: The Air Force spends $4.5 billion annually on aircraft maintenance related to corrosion.The source of this corrosion frequently is airborne chlorides that settle on metal parts and sensitive avionics and then absorb moisture from the air to create an electrolyte that promotes galvanic corrosion.The proposed work will design, fabricate and test a Corrosion Mitigation System (CMS) that sup ...

ABSTRACT: The objective of the effort is the development of a Femtosecond Laser Electronic Excitation Tagging (FLEET) system and data analysis tools for the measurement of transport parameters in nitrogen and air ground test facilities without seeding the flow with either particles or with foreign gases.  The effort follows Phase I accomplishments, wherein a transportable FLEET laser system with ...

ABSTRACT:A system is proposed to access, collate and process imagery from multiple small satellite constellations. The imagery is fused and registered to a common reference so that exploitation algorithms, such as change detection and event monitoring, are reported with accurate geographic coordinates. The system, called SatTel, is implemented as open source software that is designed to run on the ...

This work proposes further development of small, ruggedized, very lightweight, inexpensive, field-portable sensors for detection of multiple analytes in the environment. Unique modifications of voltammetric techniques allow fingerprint detection/discrimination of multiple analytes in presence of interferents. The sensors are 3-modular: Disposable sensor probe; Microcontroller; Control/display inte ...

Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. (GEM) along with its team member National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University will extend, enhance, and validate CB2ATA (Composite Bolted and Bonded Analysis Toolkit for Abaqus). The capability of using a hybrid discrete damage and continuum modeling methodology will be demonstrated via its prediction of fatigue damage evolution ...

Applied Research in Acoustics LLC has formulated and developed and evaluated the feasibility new concepts and algorithms for data-driven clutter-adaptive waveform synthesis and CFAR normalization processing based on physical models of resonant backscattering from heterogeneous aggregations of swim-bladder-bearing fish that will significantly improve active sonar detection capability in littoral wa ...

To address the Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) training challenge of teaching Navy sonar operators advanced concepts and tactical-system operation in complex environments given constraints on training and compressed training cycles, Applied Research in Acoustics LLC (ARiA) has developed and evaluated the feasibility of E-SAIL, the Environment for Surface ASW Interactive Learning. E-SAIL is a unique l ...

The proposed research for Phase II of topic N14A-T004, Active Combustion Control of Augmentor Dynamics, has the objective of maturing the Augmentor Screech Active Suppression technology demonstrated successfully during Phase I by Knite, Inc. and the University of Cincinnati Gas Dynamics and Propulsion Laboratory. The work plan is intended to provide continued progress focusing on increasing knowle ...

This project will further develop the Weapons Information System Expert (WISE) Multi Agent System for the automated generation of plans for ordnance handling in aircraft carriers. WISE agents collaborate with users, understand user intent and produce ordnance arrangements in magazines and staging areas. In addition agents produce ammunition transfer plans (ATP) in support of onload and offload eve ...