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AN IMPROVED METHOD OF WEIGHING TRUCKS WHILE IN MOTION IS PROPOSED. TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND REDUCE TIME LOST AT WEIGH STATIONS, THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEEDS TO EXCHANGE DATA, INCLUDING WEIGHT DATA, BETWEEN MOVING TRUCKS AND ENFORCEMENT FACILITIES. LEGALLY LOADED TRUCKS WOULD THEN BE ABLE TO PROCEED WITHOUT STOPPING. THIS INVOLVES WEIGH-IN-MOTION. PRESENT WEIGHING TECHNIQUES INVOLVE LOAD CELLS OR ...

To assure accurate detection of exposure to biological warfare agents or any environmental agents, it is necessary to exclude a variety of common conditions that may confound proper diagnosis. Many groups, including ours, have found that biological warfare agents can stimulate inflammatory systems; the same systems found stimulated in common inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis ( ...

FIBER MATERIALS, INC. (FMI) PROPOSES SENSORS WHICH CAN BE EMBEDDED IN PAVEMENT TO MEASURE STRESS AND STRAIN FROM TRUCKS PASSING OVER AT SPEEDS UP TO 60 MPH. THESE SIMPLE, DURABLE SENSORS WILL BE MADE FROM PIEZOELECTRIC COMPOSITES WHICH ACT AS PASSIVE SENSORS AND DEVELOP A CHARGE PROPORTIONAL TO THE APPLIED PRESSURE. THE CHARGE IS CONVERTED TO A VOLTAGE WHICH IS RECORDED ON NEARBY EQUIPMENT. THE PH ...

PRESENT TRAIN DETECTION SCHEMES RELY LARGELY ON A LOW RESISTANCE THROUGH THE TRAIN'S WHEELS TO PERTURBATE A STABLE ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT. WHILE ELEGANT IN PRINCIPLE, THE DESIGN IS PLAGUED BY OXIDE FILMS AND MATERIAL BUILDUP ON THE RAIL, SNEAK PATHS THROUGH THE BALLAST AND OTHER UNCONTROLLABLE VARIABLES. KVH INDUSTRIES PROPOSES TO DESIGN AND DELIVER A "SMART MAGNETOMETER"-BASED SENSOR PACKAGE WHICH WI ...

In Phase I, KVH Industries designed and prototyped a micro-machined all-fiber optic phase modulator and subsequently measured the modulator performance in a Sagnac interferometer gyroscope to prove feasibility of the approach. The micro-machined D fiber phase modulator is an enabling device to allow a robust and low cost effective rotation sensor for a diverse range of rotation rate sensor applica ...

THE APPLICATION OF LOAD-SENSING HYDRAULICS IN AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM DESIGNED AS A TANK AMMUITION HANDLER IS PROPOSED. THIS STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPONENTS LEND THEMSELVES TO EFFICIENT MATERIAL HANDLING APPLICATIONS AND HAVE BEEN PROVEN IN DESIGNS USING A MICROPROCESSOR CONTROL. A COMPUTER SIMULATION OF A LOAD-SENSING HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT WILL PERMIT TAILORING OF THE COMPONENTS BEFORE A HARDWARE COMMITMENT ...

AeroMancer Technologies proposes a Laser Rayleigh Aeroacoustic Density Sensor (LRADS) for the measurement of aeroacoustic density perturbations in anechoic wind tunnels using Rayleigh scattering of laser radiation by air molecules. The relative acoustic density perturbations are directly proportional to the ratio of fluctuations of the intensity of the light received by the detector to the mean li ...

The extended short wavelength infrared (e-SWIR) wavelength band is in a performance gap for infrared detectors. At both shorter and longer wavelengths high performance detector technologies exist: SWIR InGaAs detectors (1.7 m cutoff), and MWIR (3-5 m cutoff) detectors such as InAs-based and GaSb-based Unipolar Barriers, MCT, and InSb. This program proposes development of high performance e-SWIR de ...