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THIS STUDY WILL EVALUATE THE RANGE OF SHIP SIZES AND POWER LEVELS (SPEEDS) TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMUM SHIP CHARACTERISTICS FOR OPERATING U.S. FLAG RO/RO SHIPS IN U.S. COASTAL SERVICE. RO/RO CARGO HANDLING TECHNIQUES PREVALENT IN EUROPE AND SCANDINAVIA WILL BE INCORPORATED AS A FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT OF THE SERIES OF SHIPS INVESTIGATED. THESE TECHNIQUES INVOLVE THE USE OF CASSETTES TO HANDLE CONTAINERS ...

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COORDINATING INFORMATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN A LARGE NUMBER OF INTERRELATED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R&D) PROJECTS HAS TYPICALLY BEEN CONDUCTED USING HIERARCHICAL DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE FOR CATALOGING AND RETRIEVING PROJECT RECORDS. AN INTELLIGENT R&D INVESTIGATOR'S ASSISTANT, ONE THAT USED OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES TO CLASSIFYPROJECTS AND THAT COULD EMPLOY SUBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE A ...

The proposed project will demonstrate unique digital signal processing software for automated, early detection of Widespread Fatigue (WF) damage in turbine engine disks. The software, known as RVMD is based on recently patented technology in Rotational Vibrationa Monitoring (RVM). RVMD will measure loss of disk structural rigidity due to WF defects, both from High Cycle and Low Cycle Fatigue. ...

THE ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH EFFORT IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SHIP MANEUVERING SIMULATION SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR SHIPBOARD USE IN MANEUVERING ASSESSMENT, PASSAGE PLANNING AND TRAINING. THE SOFTWARE MUST OPERATE IN A STAND ALONE MODE AND/OR INTEGRATED WITH THE SHIP'S NAVIGATION AND CONTROL SYSTEM. THE PHASE 1 EFFORT INCLUDES THE INITIAL DETERMINATION OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS SOFTWARE PAC ...

ECOTEK INTERNATIONAL PROPOSES AN ALL SOLID-STATE VISIBILITY MONITORING SYSETM THAT WILL BE USED TO MONITOR VISIBILITY CONDITIONS ALONG ROADWAYS AND WARN TRAVELERS OF LOW VISIBILITY CONDITIONS. THE PURPOSE OF THE SYSTEM IS TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF MULTIPLE-VEHICLE COLLISIONS AND CONSEQUENT FATALITIES, INJURIES, AND PROPERTY DAMAGES. THE SYSTEM IS BASED ON AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO A WELL-ESTABLISHED ...

We propose here to evaluate a variety of inorganic scintillators, including sodium iodide and bismuth germanate, for use in energy-sensitive neutron detectors. We will couple these crystals to photomultiplier tubes and measure the prompt response to inelastic neutron reactions with the scintillator atoms. To unfold the incident neutron energy distribution from the resulting signal pulse heights, ...

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