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A DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IS DESCRIBED WHICH WILL CONFIRM THE FEASIBILITY OF THE OVONIC THRESHOLD SWITCH (OTS) TO PROTECT ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS FROM EMP OR OTHER ELECTROMAGNETIC DISTURBANCES. THE DEVICE WILL BE INVESTIGATED FOR THE CASE OF VERY LARGE ELECTRODE AREAS IN ORDER TO CONFIRM AN EXPANDING CHANNEL MODEL WHICH ALLOWS FOR VERY HIGH CURRENT CARRYING CAPABILITY. THE KEY TECHNICAL ISSUES FOR THE LARG ...

FOR ENGINE TESTING, AN ANGULAR ACCELERATION SENSING SYSTEM WILL BE ADAPTED TO BE DRIVEN BY THE CRANKSHAFT WITHOUT IMPACT ON THE DRIVELINELAYOUT. A CORRELATION WILL BE ESTABLISHED BETWEEN CRANKSHAFT ANGULAR ACCELERATIONS AND OVERALL ENGINE TORQUE OUTPUT. THE SENSING SYSTEM WILL BE UTILIZED TO MEASURE THE TORQUE CONTIBUTED BY EACH INDIVIDUAL CYLINDER IN A MULTI-CYLINDER ENGINE. THIS SYSTEM MAY ALSO ...

SIX POLYMERIC MATERIAL SYSTEMS ALL HAVING EXCELLENT DIELECTRIC STRENGTH ARE TO BE EXAMINED TO DETERMINE THEIR FAST RISETIME PULSE DIELECTRIC STRENGTH. THE MATERIALS TO BE TESTED INCLUDE EPOXIES, POLYURETHANES AND SILICONE ELASTOMERS. A SURVEY WAS MDE TO LOCATE A TEST FACILITY THAT COULD DUPLICATE THE SOLICITATION PULSE SIGNATURE. NONE WAS FOUND, HOWEVER, THE WESTINGHOUSE CORP. HAS SUBMITTED A PROP ...

Due to recent technological advancements there is a need for a family of flexible, optically transparent conducting films. Eclipse Energy Systems (Eclipse) has developed a proprietary visually transparent electrical conductor (88% transmission at 550 nm,

The Army currently has a need to model debris flyout and subsequent rubble pile generation from munition detonations in urban areas. Munitions may include various types of IEDs, artillery rounds, RPGs, and air delivered munitions. Rubble sources include building structures consisting of concrete, masonry block, mud brick, steel frame or wood frame. The Army is interested in simulating the physical ...

Urban environments are a central focus of military operations and by extension, training. The military simulation community has put significant effort into the representation and visualization of buildings and urban clutter. While there is basic simulation support for underground structures, progress is hampered by a lack of source data and widely available tools to support manual or automated ge ...

Currently there are limited tools to aid in training the task of casualty extraction from a vehicle. The V-Xtract system includes three components that facilitate training on this critical task: A reconfigurable vehicle simulator, a performance metric suite, and a training management system. The vehicle simulator is designed to be reconfigurable so the vehicle can be rotated and modified to creat ...

When a service member returns from deployment, expectations on both sides run high for a joyous reunion. However, this transition to a peacetime environment can pose many challenges for the service member as well as his family and friends. Soar Technology and our partners at USC’s Institute for Creative Technology and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System propose to develop a game-based training en ...

Alternative processes, tools and techniques are required for installation and support of traditional steel and segmented band track systems using only two crew members. The logistical burden of the current system of using 3-4 crew members and additional heavy equipment is not feasible to support vehicles in the future. The new system must allow two crew members to assemble, install, disassemble, ...

The opportunity is to develop light weight high strength/density armor to better resist ballistic threats of fragments and projectiles. The objective is to scale up Mg matrix composites that were discovered in Phase I - to provide larger test samples for ballistic testing - as produced by the novel Thixomolding Thermomechanical Process(TTMP). The target is yield strength of >250MPa at density of 1 ...