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Cured aircraft composite materials present a particularly difficult challenge for recycling technology. Those materials have mostly thermosetting epoxy matrices and occur in intimate association with metals, paints, and coatings. Current techniques for recycling thermoset composites, mostly for automotive sheet molding compounds (SMC), involve pulverizing the material for use as fillers. Th ...

We propose to develop a layered real-time and fault-tolerant CORBA-based software architecture as a means to realizing an open standards-based middleware for Naval combat systems. The key features of our approach are (1) a low-level interface to a distributed network infrastructure consisting of an integrated real-time and fault-tolerant extension to CORBA patterned after existing and emerging COR ...

Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) proposes to develop a high-speed optical pyrometer which can be used on impact tests of reactive materials with metal plates where flash radiography equipment is in use. The unit will measure five narrow spectral bands of light and use their ratios to determine the temperature of the area of interest. It will also utilize an internal video camera to allow ...

The Virtual Engineering firm is a reality, with a team of scientists and engineers scattered at home sites working together to solve tough engineering problems. This SBIR will perform research and development to provide collaborative system engineering tools for network engineering projects. We will explore new directions for collaborative systems engineering (SE) that enable distributed req ...

We propose to develop a simulation system that integrates CAD/CAM/CAT tools into a Virtual Manufacturing Environment, and to demonstrate the proof of concept. The proposed system will be based on the demonstrated functionality of Multi-dimensional, user-oriented Synthetic Environment, UuSE (pronounced "muse'). Developed at Sandia National Laboratories by UuSE Technologies, Inc. (principals a ...

HSATYA Tech 1 Services (SATYA) proposes to develop an alternative engineering method or waste management option for the disposal of hazardous Glass Media Bead-blast Waste (GBW) resulting from the Glass Media abrasive Bead-blasting (GMB) operations. A pollution prevention or waste minimization technique will be developed to help reduce large quantities hazardous GBW that is being generated at ...

Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) and Dr. Richard E. Johnson of LeTourneau University proposes to develop a method to encapsulate and embed corrosion sensitive dye molecules into a intelligent aircraft primer coating. We intend to detect the fluorescence changes of dye molecules interaction with corrosion by-products by using frequency domain fluorescence lifetime imaging (F ...

Systems and Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) proposes to develop a straightforward methodology for the setup and operation of a rotating beam laser vibrometer to map and measure the vibrations of a rotating naval propeller in water. SPEC will develop a measurement system which integrates a laser vibrometer, a SPEC developed image derotator system, control software and straightforward alig ...

The objective of agile manufacturing is to increase competitiveness of the US manufacturing base, while addressing DoD priorities, with a combined goal of improving US global competitiveness and national security. To achieve this objective, significant changes in technology and infrastructure must occur. This proposal addresses a significant component of these required changes, a Next Generation C ...

Navy fiber optic connectors use a heat cured adhesive to hold the fiber within the connector ferrule. A cure time of twenty minutes at 120¿ C is currently required. A fast curing (< 3 minutes), room temperature cure adhesive with physical properties that meet the current specification (MIL-A-24792) would result in substantial time and cost savings during connector installation. Texas Res ...