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The nuclear weapons community has traditionally focused on the next generation or level of weapon capability complimented by gathering and analysis of actual test data. Now, with the cessation of actual weapons testing, there is an increased need to use the actual test data in modeling techniques to better understand the phenomenology and potential effects of nuclear weapons. The first phase of ...

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE AND ECONOMICAL EXPERIMENTAL METHOD IS PROPOSED WHICH CAN PROVIDE THE BASIC BEHAVIOR DATA NECESSARY TO MEET THE DNA OBJECTIVE OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE ANALYSIS, DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT METHODS FOR MINIMALLY HARDENED TUNNELS. THIS DEVELOPMENT IS ACCOMPANIED BY ANALYSIS CAPABLE OF REPRESENTING THE COMPLEX INELASTIC MATERIAL BEHAVIOR OF THE ROCK MASS AND OF REPRESENTING SIMPLE ...

Turbulence of gas flows by its very nature is one of the most difficult things to model and measure. We propose to develop a new way of measuring the turbulence and to compare these measurements to predictions using the k-epsilon model. Typical measurements, in the past, use smoke, Schlierin or shadow graph techniques to visually infer turbulence characteristics. These features are either motio ...

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"We developed a super-sensitive technique called Multi-Photon Detection (MPD). MPD has been used to improve the sensitivity of protein detection, including immunodiagnostics and proteomics. The development of MPD enabled methods for detecting a subattomole/ml amounts of proteins has been documented. The detection of the differentially displayed proteins, i.e. elucidation of promising set of the ...

WE PROPOSE TO PROVE THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY TO USE ELECTROSTATIC ACCELERATION TO BOOST THE ENERGY OF CF-252 FISSION FRAGMENTS AS A LABORATORY SIMULATION OF COSMIC RAY EFFECTS I MICROELECTRONICS. THE PROJECT OBJECTIVE IS TO BOOST THE ENERGY SUCH THAT A LARGE FRACTION OF THE ACCELERATED IONS HAVE A RANGE IN SILICON GRATER THAN 20 MICROMETERS. THIS SOLVES A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS ASSOCIA ...

THE CONTRACTOR HAS PATENTED TECHNOLOGY FOR A UNIQUE PROCESS THAT DIRECTLY CONVERTS AN ACOUSTIC SIGNAL INTO A VISIBLE ONE IN REAL-TIME WITHOUT ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY. THIS RELIES ON THE ACOUSTO-OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF A CONTINUOUS LAYER OF LIQUID CRYSTAL THIN FILM LAYER WHICH SERVES AS BOTH THE SENSOR AND THE DISPLAY. THE IMAGE CAN BE VIEWED DIRECTLY BY MEANS OF CCD CAMERA. HOLOGRAPHY PROVIDES FOR BOTH ...

A GREAT DEAL OF EFFORT HAS BEEN SPENT IN RECENT YEARS TO DEVELOP STANDARDIZED METHODOLOGIES FOR ACCEPTING AND VERIFYING EMP HARDENED MILITARY FACILITIES. THE FIRST OF THESE STANDARDIZATION EFFORTS TO BE PUT INTO EFFECT APPLIES TO FIXED SITE, CRITICAL, TIME URGENT C4I FACILITIES. THE REQUIREMENTS EXISTS FOR AN ADVANCED INSTRUMENTATION APPROACH THAT CAN OVERCOME THE DIFFICULT ACQUISITION ENVIRONMENT ...

ONE COMMON NUCLEAR WEAPONS EFFECTS CIMULATION TECHNIQUE SIMULATES THE EMP RESPONSE OF LONG CABLES USING DIRECT CURRENT INJECTION. DIRECT CURRENT INJECTION TYPICALLY INVOLVES THE CONNECTION OF HIGH VOLTAGE PULSE SOURCES TO THE CABLES THAT ARE ATTACHED TO A MILITARY SYSTEM. A RECENTLY DEVELOPED MILITARY STANDARD SPECIFIES THAT DIRECT CURRENT INJECTION TESTING WILL BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH SEVERAL ...