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CERAMATEC HAS CONDUCTED EXPLORATORY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON MONOLITHIC AND COMPOSITE MATERIALS IN THE ZRB2 AND TIB2 SYSTEMS AND HAS OBTAINED VERY ENCOURAGING RESULTS WITH SEVERAL PROPRIETARY COMPOSITIONS/CONSTRUCTIONS. THE AVERAGE STRENGTH OF A BASELINE TIB2 COMPOSITION WAS MEASURED AT 877 MPA (127.3 KSI). COMPOSITE STRUCTURESWITH DISCONTINUOUS REINFORCEMENT HAD STRENGTHS IN THE RANGE 400-600 ...

THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEMONSTRATE THE SUCCESSFUL FABRICATION AND DENSIFICATION OF CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES FORMED BY INJECTION MOLDING. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS OBJECTIVE, A DESIGNED TEST MATRIX WILL BE DEVELOPED THAT WILL SYSTEMATICALLY INVESTIGATE THE KEY INJECTION MOLDING AND DEBINDING PARAMETERS SUCH AS BINDER COMPOSITION, SOLIDS RATIO, MOLDING CONDITIONS, DEBINDING CONDITIONS ...

TITANIUM MACHINING HAS INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY DURING THE PAST 25 YEARS BUT DESPITE INTENSE INTEREST IN FINDING IMPROVED TOOL MATERIALS,WC-6 WT. % CO IS STILL USED AT CUTTING SPEEDS LESS THAN 75 M/MIN. RECENT WORK AT CERAMATEC SHOWED THAT NOVEL CERAMIC CUTTING TOOLS COULD BE USED TO MACHINE TITANIUM ALLOYS WITH 30-75% LESS FLANK WEAR THAN CONVENTIONAL CEMENTED CARBIDES AT SPEEDS OF 100-175 M/MIN. ...

SUBMARINE LAUNCHED TORPEDOES CURRENTLY USE CAST OR FORGED ALUMINUM HULL SECTIONS. THIS PROPOSAL OUTLINES THE PROCEDURES THAT SHALL BE USED BY R-CUBED COMPOSITES TO EVALUATE TORPEDO HULL SECTIONS THAT ARE MADE UTILIZING MATERIALS THAT OFFER A GREATER STRENGTH/WEIGHT AND/OR STIFFNESS/WEIGHT RATIOS THAN DO THE PRESENT ALUMINUM HULL SECTIONS. THESE HIGHER RATIO MATERIALS ARE OF COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION ...

SPECTRALYTIC, INC. CONTROLS THE RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT PATENT TO A TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED TO INCREASE THE ACCURACY AND EFFICIENCY OF DETECTION OF INCIPIENT FAILURE OF OIL-WETTED SYSTEMS, WHILE PROVIDING DATA COMPARABLE TO CURRENT MILITARY INSTRUMENTS IN A PORTABLE UNIT. THE TECHNOLOGY, VIA A FILTRATION PROCESS, TRAPS ALL THE PARTICULATE MATTER WITHIN A GIVEN OIL SAMPLE (ENGINE, HYDRAULIC, GEARBOX, TR ...

IN ORDER TO USE THE NEW CERAMIC SUPERCONDUCTOR MATERIALS IN MANY APPLICATIONS, THE NORMALLY BRITTLE MATERIALS MUST BE FORMED INTO WIRES. THIS PROPOSAL SUGGESTS A WET CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUE FOR FORMING THE SUPERCONDUCTOR COMPOUND INTO A WIRE, WHICH WILL THEN BE COATED WITH A METAL JACKET TO PROTECT THE WIRE FORM PHYSICAL ABUSE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION. BECAUSE THE COATING PROCESS WILL BE ESSENTIA ...

THE NAVY IS DEVELOPING METHODS TO DETERMINE THE SIZE AND TYPE OF DEFECTS IN HELICOPTER GEARBOXES. WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE FATIGUE-CRACK PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GEARS AND BEARINGS WILL BE POSSIBLE AND ENHANCE THE ACCURACY IN PREDICTING THE FATIGUE LIFE. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO UNDERTAKE THIS STEP BY INVESTIGATING THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRESS DISTRIBUT ...

THERE IS AN EMPHATIC NEED FOR RESEARCH INTO DEVELOPMENT OF NEW COST-EFFECTIVE MATERIALS TO SEAL AND RESEAL CONCRETE AIRFIELD PAVEMENT JOINTS. PRESENT METHODS/MATERIALS EMPLOYED RESULT IN INADEQUATE SERVICE LIFE OF THE JOINTS BECAUSE OF MATERIAL DETERIORATION DUE TO 1) HIGH TEMPERATURE JET EXHAUST BLASTS, 2) LOADING/ENVIRONMENTALLY INDUCED STRESSES, AND 3) INADEQUATE FUEL/SOLVENT RESISTANCE. THESE ...

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 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 ...