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A PHASE I PROGRAM WILL BE DIRECTED TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGHSPEED, POWER GENERATING TURBINE DRIVEN BY A COMPRESSED FLUID. CONCEPTS AND DETAILS WILL BE FORMULATED, DESIGNED, AND ANALYZED WITH REGARDS TO EFFICIENCY, LIGHT WEIGHT, COST EFFECTIVENESS, OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS, AND RELIABILITY. OVERALL SIZE WILL BE 2 INCHES DIAMETER OR LESS. ROTOR/NOZZLE CONFIGURATIONS WILL BE ANALYZED AND EVAL ...

PERSONNEL REQUIRED SOME MEANS OF EYE PROTECTION AGAINST VARIOUS TYPES OF LASERS WHILE INVOLVED IN OPERATIONAL SITUATIONS, BUT ALSO NEED TO BE ABLE TO SEE IN A NORMAL MANNER. WE PROPOSE HERE AN INDIRECT VIEWING SYSTEM CONTAINING A MIRROR WHICH WILL NOT PASS ANY LIGHT INTENSE ENOUGH TO HARM THE EYE BUT WILL OTHERWISE ALLOW NORMAL VIEWING. THE MIRROR WILL BE CONSTRUCTED OF REFLECTIVE THIN FILM AND OR ...

DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH FIDELITY, HIGH ENERGY DENSITY WATER SHOCK SIMULATOR APPEARS FEASIBLE. MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION (MRC), WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE NEW MEXICO ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NMERI), PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN ELECTRICAL WATER SHOCK SIMULATOR WHERE AN ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE ACROSS A WELL DEFINED ELECTRODE GAP WILL PRODUCE A HOT PLASMA EXPANSION WHICH RESULTS IN A FAST RISE PRESSUR ...

THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A PHASE I RESEARCH PROJECT TO EVALUATE ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION AS A TECHNIQUE FOR PRELAUNCH TORPEDO COMMUNICATIONS. IN THIS CONCEPT, A MAGNETIC FLUX IS GENERATED IN A TOROIDAL-LIKE CORE. THE CORE WOULD BE MOUNTED ON A TORPEDO TUBE. A SMALL BLADE ANTENNA IS MOUNTED ON THE TORPEDO AND CAN DETECT OR EXCITE THE MAGNETIC FIELD IN THE CORE. TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION IS THEN POSSIBL ...

FRP MATERIALS ARE USE TO PRODUCE LIGHTWEIGHT, HIGH STRENGTH STRUCTURES WITH EXCELLENT DAMPING, NOISE REDUCTION, AND CORROSION RESISTANT PROPERTIES WHICH MAKE THEM ATTRACTIVE FOR USE IN SUBMARINES.THIS RESEARCH WILL INVESTIGATE POTENTIAL ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS WHICH MIGHT RESULT FROM FRP USE. SEVERAL CANDIDATE FRP MATERIALS WILL BE USED FOR OUTGASSING AND COMBUSTION EXPERIMENTS AND THE DETERMINATION O ...

ROTARY COMPRESSORS ARE CAPABLE OF PROVIDING LARGER VOLUMES OF COMPRESSED GAS THAN RECIPROCATING MACHINES. THIS IS PRIMARILY RELATED TO THE FACT THAT ROTARY MACHINES CAN ROTATE AT HIGHER SPEEDS THAN RECIPROCATING DEVICES. A HIGH EFFICIENCY, LARGE DISPLACEMENT ROTARY COMPRESSOR OFFERS VERSATILITY AND FEATURES THAT EXISTING RECIPROCATING COMPRESSORS DO NOT POSSESS. AN ADVANCED MARINE PROPULSION CONCE ...

The objective of the proposed SBIR is the design and development of a small, lightweight tactile transducer which produces a vibratory stimulus above the sensory/recognition threshold of the skin. A novel transducer element, based on a miniature, laterally acting linear motor driving a skin contactor is proposed. The transducer includes a mechanical impedance matching device which enables effici ...

Tunability of laser output in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum has typically only been available only with doubled dye lasers. Their toxicity, size and complexity have made them undesirable for many applications, especially in areas where Recent research has demonstrated the feasibility of substitution of trivalent cerium into the colquiriite lattice, which has received considerable at ...

In this research, a miniature computer based chirp sonar will be developed for making rapid surveys of offshore sediments. The sonar reflection data will be integrated to both differential GPS navigation and spot geotechnical measurements in a manner that will provide rapid large scale assessment of marine soil properties. The cumulative survey results will be presented, in real time, in the form ...

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