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As a candidate concept to recycle Post-Consumer Waste (PCW), Industrial Honeycomb Structures, Inc. (IHS) proposes to incorporate PCWs as feedstocks for manufactoring an innovative, cost-effective construction material systems using building panels comprised of paper-honeycomb and fiber-reinforced-polymer honeycomb FRPH) structural elements. These elements are light-weight, high-strength, tough, re ...

As a candidate OHC-IFP panel concept, Industrial Honeycomb Structures, Inc. proposes an innovative fiber-reinforced-polymer honeycomb core material sandwiched between two fiber-reinforced- polymer skins. These materials are light weight, high strength, tough, resilient, and highly producible, but need to be qualified for ballistic protection. The honeycomb cores appear promising as a means for lim ...

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The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of a new na resolution independent digital image compression technology in the area of real time compression for imagery including types generated by electro-optical, imaging infrared and millimeter wave sensors. The technology is based on Fractal Transform technology. Digital imagery is generated at a high rate and needs to be distr ...

The automated inspection of gas turbine components has proven to be difficult due to their complex geometry. While ultrasonics has demomstrated excellent capabilities in detecting and characterizing the erosion and corrosion on turbine components from the hot effluent gases, it's application details laborious alignment procedures for the ultrasonic transducer during inspection. The need for automa ...

A modern gas turbine engine such as the T800-LHT-800, which is to be used in the Army's Light Helicopter Experimental (LHX) Helicopter (now referred to as the RAH-66 Comanche), is among the most complex mechanical systems in use today. The parameters involved in diagnosing a fault are numerous and often subtly interrelated. The objective of Phase I is to define a system architecture for a diagnost ...

A major obstacle to the establishment and measurement of valid cause and effect relationships between Army service and the costs and benefits of such service is the impossibility of performing experiments with random assignment of individuals to service and non-service groups. A recent innovation in statistical theory, propensity score methodology, allows one to draw from an observational (or retr ...

The principle objective of the proposed research program is the development of a noval spatial light modulator that calculates a 3 x 3 kernel convolution on an input image. The spatial light modulator consists of a ferroelectric liquid crystal modulator on top of a CMOS VLSI chip. During Phase I, a comprehensive study of several convolving SLM designs will be performed. The study will examine circ ...

The objective of this proposal is to develop and implement a scientifically based solderability tester as a process control tool during the fabrication process for printed circuit boards. Using the sequential electrochemical reduction analysis (SERA) process as invented by Rockwell International, data will be gathered to correlate the coulomb density values determined by SERA to current, commercia ...

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