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THIS RESEARCH WILL EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITIES AND RESULT IN THE DESIGN OF AN ACOUSTIC ENERGY GENERATOR FOR GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION IN INACCESSIBLE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. THIS EFFORT WILL DETERMINE THE MAGNITUDE OF ACOUSTIC SIGNAL REQUIRED AND WILL DEVELOP A TECHNIQUE FOR COUPLING THE SIGNAL GENERATOR TO THE EARTH. THE COUPLING TECHNIQUE WILL EXAMINE FORCES OTHER THAN GRAVITY TO ENSURE THAT THE SIGNAL ...

Not Available Aircraft-turbine-engine operation can greatly benefit from the development of sensors and actuators (pressure sensors, flow controllers, etc) that can withstand the gigh-temperature environment at various close-in locations. In this Phase I proposal, ISSI, in collaboration with the University of Cincinnati, will determine the feasibility of using SiC for high-timperature turbine eng ...

180 Ultra-Lightweight Carbon-Carbon Cooling Structure For Pixel and Silicon Strip Detectors-HYTEC, Inc., 110 Eastgate Dr., Suite 100, Los Alamos, NM 87544-3304; (505) 662-0080 Mr. William O. Miller, Principal Investigator Mr. William O. Miller, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82397 Amount: $75,000 Removal of heat from the next generation of particle detection systems used in high ...

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Not Available In this Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I proposal LinCom Corporation describes how state-of-the-art coding and modulation techniques can be used to increase the data rate on the Space Ground Link System (SGLS). LinCom describes how punctured Turbo Codes can be concatenated with Reed-Solomon Codes to provide coding gains for increased data throughput for those SGLS l ...

THE MAJOR LIMITING RELIABILITY COMPONENT OF CRYOGENIC SYSTEMS HAS ALWAYS BEEN SEALS. BESIDES CONTRIBUTING TO GAS CONTAMINATION AND DEBRIS PARTICLE ACCUMULATION, SEALS HAVE PHYSICALLY FAILED; AS A RESULT, SEALS HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MAJORITY OF FAILURES OCCURRING IN CRYOGENIC LIQUIFICATION AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS. A POTENTIALLY VIABLE SOLUTION IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-LIFE CRYOGENIC SEA ...

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40837 November 13, 1996 TomoSeis, Inc. Crosswell Seismic Imaging holds great promise for imaging the region between existing oil wells to incrementally increase the recovery of the 368 billion barrels of oil still in the ground (of the 500 billion barrels of original oil in place in the U.S.). To make crosswell data acquisition cost effective, surveys mu ...

Not Available The Department of Defense has expressed a need for an inexpensive inertial navigation system (INS), based on small-size, low-cost inertial sensors. Earlier designs could not be employed in many practical applications due to their restrictive specifications (high cost and low accuracy). Since 1995, the technical staff of VeNIS Technologies has been actively developing a design method ...

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