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During Phase I, goals of initial design and demonstration of system concepts for a portable friction stir welding (FSW) system were successfully completed. During Phase II, the objective is to design, fabricate, and demonstrate a portable and versatile FSW system. To support AMP’s design, BYU will continue engineering and application studies in parallel with the design effort. BYU will optimize ...

It is difficult to remove oil and AFFF from voluminous streams. Research has been continously carried out to develop new technologies to be employed in this field of application with little success. Air-sparged hydrocyclone (ASH) flotation technology is a new technology developed by the University of Utah and Advanced Processing Technologies, Inc. It combines the advantages from both conventional ...

The ultimate Virtual Environment system must free the user of const raining hardwire connections to the host computer or telepresence sensors. In addition to wirelessness, the headset must be unobtrusive and deliver a high quality image. We propose a research methodology and development program that will result in a wireless, low mass, high definition, wide FOV full color personal display ...

The U.S. Department of Defense currently has ever 3,000,000 short tone Of CONUS munitions that have been declared obsolete and are awaiting disposal. Current demilitarization techniques include open detonation and traditional washout methods or meltout. Open detonation includes uncontrolled air emissions, and is unpopular with the general public; traditional washout or meltout methods may requir ...

The purpose of this Phase I of fort is to develop an advanced IRST discrimination algorithm by applying a newly developed mathematical technique to tracking filters and thus exploiting the reduced 'tracking error in the predicted position to better reject false detections. 'the new filter concept is founded on penetrating implicit (and presumably heretofore unrecognized) assumptions upon ...

The supply of critical replacement parts to maintain the readiness of military units serving overseas can be a problem. Lone Peak Engineering (LPE) has identified an opportunity to develop a solid freeform fabrication (SFF) process to manufacture functional metal components. These metal components, prepared in a manner of hours from computer-generated models without hard tooling could be quickly ...

A major barrier to the widespread adoption of wireless sensors for structural health monitoring is the requirement to power the network of wireless nodes. Batteries have a limited lifespan, adding significant size, weight, and costs to the wireless sensor network,and may represent a long term environmental problem. Battery maintenance can be eliminated by harvesting energy from the environment. Fo ...

Structural monitoring of Navy aircraft is of critical importance as the fleet ages. One critical area includes the control surfaces, which are subject to intense, dynamic buffet loading which can lead to structural cracking. The highly transient nature of buffet loading makes it difficult to measure using conventional sensors. We propose to solve this problem by combining a network of time-synchro ...

Investigations into JP-10 combustion chemistry thus far can be characterized as preliminary. The few detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms that have been published are limited in their ability to reproduce experimental data. The combustion chemistry of JP-10 is highly complex and involves hundreds if not thousands of species and thousands of chemical reactions. A detailed kinetic model capable of ...

Power Electronic Building Blocks are envisioned to allow large amounts of power to be controlled by small, modular blocks, with similar blocks being used for both military and commercial applications. In order to accommodate the large amounts of heat generated by the electronic switches within the modules, they should be soldered or brazed onto a high conductivity substrate with the same coeffici ...