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In Phase I, Shear Form, Inc will apply a severe plastic deformation (SPD) processing technology to ultra-high strength steels (UHSS), specifically 4340M and AF 9628, to enable penetration improvement for munitions casings. Equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE), a fully scalable SPD method, will be used to process the steels under ausforming conditions. This will facilitate microstructural enginee ...

Plasma facing components must withstand plasma-wall interactions with minimal plasma contamination or wall erosion. Additionally, they must possess high thermal conductivity, should reflect neutrons, have low tritium absorption, resist creep, and have sufficient ductility/toughness to withstand a wide range of load conditions. No one material contains an ideal mix of these properties. However, tun ...

In Phase II, Shear Form, Inc will apply a severe plastic deformation (SPD) processing technology to Ultra-High Strength Steels (UHSS), specifically 4340M and AF 9628, to enable penetration improvement for warhead casings. Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE) will be used to SPD process the steels under ausforming conditions. Larger scale experiments will be trialed to determine suitability for s ...

Carbon-metal composites (CMC - metals infused with carbon) have shown increases in electrical and thermal conductivities compared to pure metals, but experimental results are inconsistent. For example, electrical conductivity increases for CMC vary considerably. The proposed work aims to both improve and bring consistency to CMC conductor properties. How this problem is being addressed: The team ( ...

We propose to develop carbon-negative Magnesium Oxychloride Cement (“MOC”) material formulations incorporating novel bio-based products (i.e., hemp shives) and then verify the mechanical (i.e., compressive, and tensile strength), physical (i.e., length-change), and durability (i.e., leaching potential) properties of this novel material. With the goal of utilizing these materials for carbon-neg ...

The Design Knowledge Company, Inc. (TDKC) and our partner Teledyne CollaborX present this proposal titled Air, Space; Cyber & UDOP/COP (ASC&UC) . ASC&UC offers a logical, phased approach to satisfying the objectives of this 2009.3 SBIR topic. TDKC and CollaborX have the expertise in the technical, scientific, and research disciplines necessary for this effort. TDKC brings significant prior resear ...

TDKC’s Advanced Distributed Visualization-based Satellite Resource Management Tool (ADVISR) includes a requirements analysis, cognitive task analysis, technology evaluation, concept prototyping, commercialization planning, and real-world scenario derivation in order to derive an operationally-focused solution that is cost effective, demonstrable and most of all operationally practical. As part o ...

TDKC has developed a simple commercial-off the-shelf (COTS) solution integrating state-of-the-art visual graphics hardware and 3-D viewpoint optimization algorithms to overlay map information onto a video feed in real-time. COMPOSIT leverages the significant computing capabilities that are available on the latest generation video cards to perform high-speed matrix and viewpoint calculations. COMP ...

BUCK-I defines an architecture for an appropriate work-centered support environment, creates an innovative method for human knowledge indexing, defines collaboration technologies and methods, and introduces tools to manage workflow. It is open source, cross platform, and cross-operating system technology. BENEFIT: Successful completion of BUCK-I would provide TDKC with a commercializable produc ...

ASET develops a plug-in technology compatible with existing TDKC work-centered support tools. It is cross-platform, cross-operating system capable, and is based on open-source software. ASET enhances TDKC''s suite of offerings by supporting human performance assessment in those environments. BENEFIT: ASET represents an entree into performance monitoring for TDKC. This capability is important t ...