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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 ...

Warhead design calculations and weapons effectiveness estimates require a methodology to predict the terminal ballistic structural response and the associated functional damage to operating missile batteries subjected to warhead fragment impacts at speeds up to 16,000 ft/sec. The objectives for the proposed Phase I study effort are to develop a candidate structural representation for the missile b ...

We will use two approaches to produce new near infrared (nir) dyes for use as fluorescent probes for biological sensing. The first approach will build on the experience of the laboratory of Dr. Leslie Loew in the development of fluorescent dyes based on the aminostyryl pyridinium chromophore and its analogs. These dyes have extraordinary Stokes shifts and, when bound to biological macromolecules ...

In this proposal we present a novel approach to aircraft and missile mission and route planning using neural networks. The approach is unique in four aspects: l) it is a proactive planner that looks at the global topographic characteristics of the battlefield environment when generating plans; 2) it uses a cost surface to determine the advantages or disadvantages of moving through an area by integ ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The data storage requirements for many DOD and commercial applications are rapidly surpassing the current technology in disk storage capabilities. For the DOD, there is a substantial increase in the amount of data coming from new and refined sensors, and many command centers are being required to go moblie, exacerbating the data storage problems. For commercial applications, multimedia application ...

This research will develop a new generation vulnerability/lethality code based on advanced ray tracing methods. This new code will replace the current vulnerable area method and its inherent limitations. The new method will integrate the lethality code with utilities for generating 3D target models and other inputs associated with the vulnerability/lethality process. All of the code elements will ...

Recent world events have underscored the changing political and military requirements of the United States and its Allies to respond to situations not previously envisioned as primary missions of their Navies. Military missions which require the extensive use of mines, anti-ship cruise missiles (HARPOON), land attack cruise missiles (TOMAHAWK) and torpedoes in conjunction with littoral operations ...