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INTEGRATED DAMAGE CONTROL SYSTEMS (IDCS) HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE MONITORING, DECISION-MAKING, AND RESPONSE TO SHIPBOARD EMERGENCIES. ULTIMATELY, IMPLIMENTATION OF THESE SYSTEMS MAY REDUCE MANPOWER. THE TECHNICAL OBJECTIVE OF PHASE I WILL BE TO PROVIDE THE USCG WITH SEVERAL DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR INSTALLING IDCS ON USCG SHIPS. THIS WILL INCLUDE ALTERNATIVES FOR HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE AS A FUNCTIO ...

COMMERCIAL AND GOVERNMENT SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS DEPEND ON GROUND SUPPORT FOR NAVIGATION. THE GROUND SOLUTION CAN BE COSTLY AND MAY PROVIDE LESS ACCURACY THAN NEEDED. A GPS-BASED REAL-TIME AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. AN ALGORITHM WILL BE DEVELOPED WHICH COMBINES GPS-DERIVED POINT POSITION ESTIMATES WITH A PROPAGATED A PRIORI POSITION ESTIMATE. THE POINT POSITIONS ARE ...

Pipelines used for transporting natural gas and petroleum fluid are aging and may suffer from accidental damage. The need is growing for an efficient and reliable inspection system to locate and characterize the weak spots that can fail and result in leakage. Magnetic fulx leakage in-line inspection smart Pip-Inspection-Gears and compression wave ultrasonic transmission devices, currently used f ...

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DURING PHASE I, WE WILL DEVELOP AN ALGORITHM TO CALCULATE THE FORCES GENERATED DUE TO THE IMPACT OF AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES WITH SOIL. THIS ALGORITHM WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH THE CURRENT KRASH PROGRAM AS AN EXTERNAL FORCE ACTING ON THE VARIOUS MASS ELEMENTS THAT ARE DEFINED IN KRASH. THE FAILURE OF SOIL DUE TO THE IMPACT OF THE AIRCRAFT AND DRAGGING OF THE AIRCRAFT ALONG THE SURFACE WILL BE MODELLED TA ...

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As the OPS performs audits of the pipeline operators, pursuant to the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002 and Sub-part O of the newly released 49 CFR 192, the focus is no longer on the existence of a plan, rather, it is on the existence of a process, the completion of tasks defined within those processes and the documentation that supports and/or defines the decisions associated with said acti ...

SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO TRAIN ALERTER DEVICES SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE "DEAD-MAN PEDAL." THERE CONTINUES TO BE ROOM FOR ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS, PARTICULARLY IN LIGHT OF TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN THE FIELD OF ERGONOMICS AND HUMAN FACTORS. ONE AREA OF POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENT LIES IN THE RESPONSE THAT THE DEVICE REQUIRES FROM THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER. DEVICES CURRENTLY IN USE HAVE B ...

A NEED EXISTS TO MONITOR VIBRATION IN HIGHWAY BRIDGES. IT IS DESIRABLE TO MONITOR MANY POINTS ON THE BRIDGE. THE CURRENT PROBLEM IS THAT SENSORS MUST BE WIRED TO A CENTRAL LOCATION. WIRE IS DIFFICULT TO INSTALL AND TO MOVE. THE SOLUTION IS TO COLLECT SENSOR DATA BY RADIO. A SYSTEM EXISTS THAT ELIMINATES WIRE. IT GATHERS SENSOR DATA TO A CENTRAL LOCATION BY RADIO. THE SYSTEM'S UNIQUE FEATURE IS THA ...