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THERE IS AN ESTABLISHED NEED FOR A SIMPLE ROBUST TRANSDUCER TO MEASURE PARTICLE VELOCITY IN SEVERE BLAST AND SHOCK ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS NUCLEAR AND HIGH EXPLOSIVE TESTS. A GAGE CONCEPT IS PROPOSED FOR DEVELOPMENT, BASED ON THE PROVEN MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLES USED IN THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL DX GAGE, BUT RECONFIGURED MECHANICALLY AND ELECTRICALLY TO WITHSTAND THE HARSH SHOCK ENVIRONMENTS. THE CONCEPT RE ...

HIGH RANGE (200,000 G) ACCELEROMETERS ARE THE ONLY TRANSDUCERS THAT PROVIDE THE REQUIRED LONG-TERM DATA IN THE ENVIRONMENTS OF INTEREST TO THE BLAST AND SHOCK COMMUNITY. THESE GAGES HAVE A VERY LARGE DYNAMIC RANGE AND NOISE OFTEN MASKS THE LATE TIME (BUT EXTREMELY IMPORTANT) DATA. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A CLOSE COUPLED LOGARITHMIC GAIN SIGNAL CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT WILL CORRECT THE LATE TIME NOIS ...

A FEASIBILITY STUDY OF IMPROVING DECOY PENETRATION AID (PENAID) PERFORMANCE BY SUPPLYING MEANS TO 1) ALLOW FOR DUAL CENTER OF GRAVITY (CG) LOCATION, THEREBY ENABLING INDEPENDENT FULFILLMENT OF IMPULSE BALANCING AND REENTRY STABILITY REQUIREMENTS; AND/OR 2) COUNTERACT DECOY CONING BY SENSING ITS PRESENCE, AND CORRECTING THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF THE DECOY TO ELIMINATE CONING.

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH AIMS TO EMPLOY A RECENTLY PROVEN GENERALIZATION OF HERBRAND'S THEOREM TO AUTOMATIC THEOREM PROVING (ATP). THE GENERALIZATION, WHICH WAS PROVEN BY THE PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR, CHARACTERIZES PROVABILITY IN THE NORMALIZABLE FRAGMENT OF SET THEORY IN TERMS OF PROVABILITY IN PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC. THIS RESULT WILL BE APPLIED TO UTILIZE FINITE MODELS WHICH WILL PROVIDE SEMANTIC GUIDAN ...

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THE LONG RANGE SCIENTIFIC GOALS OF THIS RESEARCH ARE TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CORRELATION OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE WITH PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL (FLC) PHASES, AND TO TEST STRATEGIES FOR DESIGN OF NEW MATERIALS. THE PRACTICAL GOAL IS THE INVENTION OF NEW FLC MATERIALS WITH PROPERTIES SUITED FOR INCORPORATION INTO COMMERCIAL FLC SHUTTERS AND LARGE-AREA MATRIX DISPLAY ...

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EBERT AND ASSOCIATES PROPOSE TO REFINE A TECHNIQUE FOR DOCUMENTING ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURFACE DISTRIBUTIONS. THE METHOD OF DISTRIBUTIONAL SURVEY, USED TO DOCUMENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURFACES, EMPLOYS TASK SPECIFIC TEAMS WHO TOGETHER INTENSIVELY SURVEY AN AREA LOCATING, CODING ATTRIBUTES FOR, AND MAPPING ALL ARTIFACTS AND FEATURES WITHIN A PRESCRIBED AREA. AS PRESENTLY IMPLEMENTED, THIS SURVEY PROCEDURE RE ...

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