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IN RECENT YEARS THE CORROSIVITY OF THE TACTICAL WHEELED VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT HAS BECOME MORE SEVERE DUE TO INCREASED USE OF ROAD SALTS, INCREASED ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS (SO(2) AND NO(X)), AND CHANGES IN CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN SELECTED GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS OF THE WORLD. THE COMBINED EFFECTS OF THE ABOVE CONDITIONS AND MARINE SALTS HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASE THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF SELECTED VEHICLES AN ...

A quality simulation which allows a user to simulate the acoustic emissions in a multi-source environment and then study the effects these conditions have on a set of acoustic sensors would be of great value. As acoustic sensors technology continues to advance with robust algorithms for detection, tracking and identification as well as high performance hardware providing real-time operation, thes ...

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This project applies a combination of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Genetic Algorithms (GA), and CAD software to the problem of optimum armor design. Previous work for TACOM has established the efficacy of ANN/GA as applied to the problem of 1-D armor design. This new work will extend the concept to full 3-D vehicle geometries (CAD models). The CAD part of the code will handle the 3D data d ...

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This SBIR Phase I project will create an event representation framework and generate a catalogue of reasoning mechanisms for transforming domain specific events into a convenient representational framework. The choice of the representation scheme used to model a domain for analysis by the neural network of fuzzy logic system can make an enormous difference in the ease and efficiency of the proble ...

Enterprises today rely heavily upon a wide variety of modeling methods and modeling technologies for the development of requirements for complex, software intensive systems. In general, however, (i) the different modeling methods provide very different perspectives on system information, (ii) models created with these methods are expressed in very different modeling languages, and (iii) models ar ...

Military scout vehicles and commercial sports utility vehicles share the common need for advanced suspension/drive systems that offer robustness over widely varying terrain. The ultimate system for handling, ride isolation, and stability control would incorporate high efficiency electric motors independently driving the four wheels, with one on-board high-level computer for controlling the active ...