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ABSTRACT: The objective of this proposal is to develop blast cleaning enclosures (BCE) that eliminate exposure to hazardous materials (HM) due to substantial migration in and around the enclosure to increase the occupational health and safety of Air Force personnel. To achieve this cleaner safer BCE, typical operations and enclosures will be examined to identify mechanisms of HM generation and m ...

ABSTRACT: The Air Force"s Air Logistics Centers (ALCs) are charged to maintain the fleet at maximum readiness. In order to achieve this goal, the ALCs perform aircraft scheduled maintenance using well-defined planning and scheduling processes and procedures by assigning MRO tasks to minimize the time an aircraft spends at the depot and the associated maintenance costs. However, the current system ...

ABSTRACT: Aircraft damage resulting from environmental exposure and fluid leaks constitute a major portion of the costs associated with aircraft repairs and lead to significantly reduced mission readiness. The ability to identify contaminant exposure within airframes and inform maintenance personnel of leaks, corrosive environments, and chemical contaminants in difficult to access areas will all ...

ABSTRACT: Phase 1 research will validate an approach for material synthesis that combines mechanical alloying with explosive powder consolidation to produce bulk materials with novel properties. The main advantage to the approach is that it can be applied to diverse material systems, including the creation of alloys with otherwise insoluble constituents. An additional advantage is that it has a ...

ABSTRACT: Prime Photonics is developing an ultrasonically enhanced magnetic field detection system that will measure defects, voids and residual stresses in ferrous and non-ferrous materials. Successful development and deployment of this technology will enable on condition replacement of critical components, increasing safety and reducing cost. This product can also be part of an integrated logis ...

ABSTRACT: Gun barrels have a variety of failure modes that must be monitored over the life of a barrel. Fatigue cracking is one of the most critical failure modes and can result in catastrophic barrel rupture if not detected and addressed. Currently, there is no existing NDI method or equipment to assess fatigue cracking within the barrel wall. Luna"s proposed technique has the advantage of autom ...

ABSTRACT: Cold working has been used for holes in aircraft structure to extend fatigue life for decades. This procedure can be used as a terminating action or as an inspection interval extension. To have confidence in the process, the Air Force needs an inspection tool that can conclusively determine of the cold work process has been applied to a hole, and if the results are within process specif ...

ABSTRACT: Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) proposes to conduct research leading to the design and development of Avionics Systems Susceptibility and Risk Analysis Toolkit (ASSURANT) and supporting disciplien to enable avionics engineers and cyber defense xperts to comprehensivelyl analyze susceptibility assessment of avionics systems and to determine how mitigation and protection strategies w ...

ABSTRACT:Lynntech is proposing a hybrid power system to provide the energy necessary for the directed energy pulsed applications of interest to the Air Force. The proposed system consists of a high power delivery component (battery) and a high energy density storage component (fuel cell) to meet the overall power and energy requirements. The conceptual system will deliver multiple bursts of 600kW ...

ABSTRACT:Although two- and three-dimensional cellular constructs are utilized regularly in in vitro toxicology studies, they possess significant limitations when compared to actual physiological states of cells and tissues in vivo. Microfluidic organ-on-a-chip systems offer a distinct advantage of these existing in vitro systems through incorporation of micro-architecture to a cultured cell line(s ...