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Diamondlike multinetwork and network-crystalline atomic-scale composite coatings constitute a new class of materials with unique properties including high adhesion to virtually any substrate (including materials, crystalline and glass dielectrics, plastics), excellant thermal and diffusion barrier properties, good hardness, high elasticity and flexibility, very high thermal shock resistance, extre ...

POLYMERIC MATERIALS ARE USED EXTENSIVELY IN A MULTITUDE OF APPLICATIONS DUE TO A UNIQUE BALANCE OF COST AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES. HOWEVER, WHERE THERMAL APPLICATIONS ARE CONCERNED, THE UTILIZATION OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS IS EXTREMELY LIMITED DUE TO POOR THERMAL TRANSFER. STRUCTURAL POLYMERS TYPICALLY EXHIBIT THERMAL CONDUCTIVITIES ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE LOWER THAN MOST METALS AND CERAMICS. PARTICU ...

Use of chromates as corrosion inhibi.tors in coatings, adhesives and sealants is a well established technology. However, toxicity and waste disposal problems have led to the urgent need for development of an environmentally benign substitute for chromium compounds in coatings and sealants, which is the subject of this SBIR. This pa'per discusses the state-of-the-art technical approaches to the sol ...

THE PROJECT IS DEVELOPING AND APPLYING AN ALGORITHM THAT REALIZES A PRACTICAL SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF AN OPTIMAL ROUTE LOCATION FOR SURFACE TRANSPORTATION OR UTILITY CORRIDORS. THE ALGORITHM, IMPLEMENTED AS REAL-WORLD COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN SYSTEM, IS BASED ON THE SHORTEST PATH ALGORITHM WITH EXTREMELY LOW METRICATION ERROR. THE SYSTEM ATTEMPTS TO FIND A ROUTE LOCATION BETWEEN TWO POINTS THAT ...

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This proposal describes a basic research effort to establish the feasibility of a cost-effective, modular, high-fidelity, reconfigurable, realtime simulator of radar warning receivers. An open architecture, multi-processor design for the simulator is proposed which will allow individual EW processing functions to be evaluated in the context of full EW system operations in dense, realtime mission s ...

AN ATTENTION MECHANISM CAN INFLUENCE SYSTEM BEHAVIOR AND PERFORMANCE ONLY TO THE EXTENT IN WHICH SYSTEM RESOURCES ARE ALLOCATABLE. A KEY ROBOT VISUAL SYSTEM RESOURCE IS ACUITY, AND YET THIS IS FIXED IN CONVENTIONAL UNIFORM ACUITY MACHINE VISION; REGIONS WITH LITTLE OR NO RELEVANCE TO THE ROBOT'S MISSION ARE SAMPLED AT THE SAME RESOLUTION AS KEY FEATURES, OCCUPYING VALUABLE SIGNAL BANDWIDTH AND CO ...

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The goal of this project is to create tools to support the formal verification of VHDL designs. Two existing formal verification tools will be enhanced to support VHDL. The first, Spectool, will allow a class of designs, the synchronous finite-state controlled systems, to be specified and verified and then translated into VHDL. This capability will allow VHDL to be used as an interface between Spe ...