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THIS PROPOSAL IS DIRECTED TOWARDS ESTABLISHING THE FEASIBILITY OF USING WAVE ENERGY TO PROVIDE HIGH-PRESSURE SEAWATER AT REMOTE COASTAL AND ISLAND LOCATIONS. THIS HAS POTENTIAL COMMERCIAL VALUE BECAUSE OF THE MANY POSSIBLE USESOF HIGH-PRESSURE SEAWATER: IT CAN BE CIRCULATED IN ONSHORE AQUACULTURE TANKS, PASSED THROUGH A REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE TO PRODUCE FRESH WATER, OR PASSED THROUGH AN IMPULSE ...

METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES (MMCS) REPRESENT AN EMERGING CLASS OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS WITH POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS RANGING FROM DIMENSIONALLY STABLE SPACE STRUCTURED COMPONENTS TO HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY PACKAGES FOR HYBRID MICROELECTRONICS. USE OF MMCS IN COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS HAS BEEN LIMITED TO DATE BECAUSE OF HIGH MATERIAL COSTS AND EXTREMELY HIGH MANUFACTURING COSTS (BOTH MATERIAL FABRICATION ...

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THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS ENDEAVOR IS TO DEVELOP AN AUTOMATED AND CONTINUOUS MEANS OF MONITORING WATER QUALITY, UTILIZING FISH AS THE SENSORS. THE SPECIFIC AIMS INCLUDE THE IMPROVEMENT OF COMPUTERIZED INSTRUMENTATION, AS WELL AS,TO QUANTIFY THE POTENTIAL FOR MONITORING THE FISH VENTILATORY PROFILES IN RESPONSE TO THE PRESENCE OF TOXICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN IN A VARIETY OF COMMERCIAL APPLIC ...

WHILE CURRENT TECHNOLOGY HAS MADE THE AUTOMATION OF MANY CREW FUNCTIONS FEASIBLE, HUMAN CAPABILITIES, LIMITATIONS, AND PREFERENCES MAY MAKE AUTOMATING CERTAIN FUNCTIONS UNDESIRABLE. DESIGNERS INITIALLY MAKE FUNCTION-ALLOCATION DECISIONS DURING THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS. THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO KNOWLEDGE-BASED TOOLS AVAILABLE THAT SUPPORT THE DESIGNER IN MAKING THESE DECISIONS. ...

NOVA TECHNOLOGY, INC. IS INVESTIGATING THE USE OF AN OPTICAL SETUP SIMILAR TO A TWYMAN-GREEN INTERFEROMETER, A LASER BEAM TO ILLUMINATE A MICROSCOPE SPECIMEN AND A REFERENCE SURFACE, IN THE SCATTERED LIGHT FROM THE SPECIMEN IS MIXED WITH THE SCATTERED LIGHT FROM THE REFERENCE SURFACEAT THE IMAGE PLANE OF THE MICROSCOPE. BY MONITORING THE SPECKLE INTENSITY WITH A CCD ARRAY, THE PHASE CHANGE IN SPEC ...

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THE FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH TO STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS HAS BEEN CONSIDERED EFFICIENT AND COMPREHENSIVE FOR MANY YEARS. THE NASA-DEVELOPED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS PROGRAM NASTRAN IS IN THE FOREFRONT FOR USE IN SUCH ANALYSES. IN THIS PROJECT, A DESIGN THAT WOULD ALLOW NASTRAN TO WORK EFFICIENTLY ON COMPUTERS THAT HAVE A MASSIVELY PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE WILL BE STUDIED. THE EFFORT WILL INCLUDE AN ANALYSIS OF ...

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BIOREGENERATIVE PROCESSES STRESS MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS, INCREASING THE NEED FOR A VIABLE CERAMIC MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY. SOL-GEL DERIVED MEMBRANES THAT ARE PROCESSED BY SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION (AEROGEL) TECHNIQUES OFFER THE POTENTIAL OF NET-SHAPED, LOW-COST FABRICATION, WITH PRECISE CONTROL OF MEMBRANE PORE STRUCTURES. COMBINED WITH CERAMIC FIBER REINFORCEMENT, THE AEROGEL CERAMIC ...