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TMSSequoia proposes to develop a software system to allow conversion of paper-based legacy engineering drawings, technical manuals and reports, to a digital format. This process will include automatic extraction of data from the scanned images that is input into a Configuration Management Information System (CMIS) for storage, query and retrieval. TMSSequoia will then identify current software t ...

A smart wing design is proposed here to demonstrate the feasibility of using smart structures for suppression of aircraft vibration. Active wing research, conducted for many years, continues today as an important element in advanced aircraft technology. This program will analytically demonstrate the use of piezoceramic sensors and actuators, in conjunction with a adaptive neural network estimation ...

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The objective of this work is to develop analytical techniques to characterize wear and gouging phenomena of slippers at speeds up to hypersonic and demonstrate means to evaluate or reduce slipper wear/gouging. Specifically, we will develop analytical techniques that can be used to predict slipper wear patterns and gouging phenomena throughout the sled velocity regime to Mach 10. This will inclu ...

FluoreScience, Inc. is proposing an innovative thermometry technique for measuring the surface temperature of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) that are critical to the success of new, high performance turbine engines in the Air Force IHPTET program. The technique, phosphor thermometry, is based on the temperature dependence of the fluorescence of refractory phosphors deposited in thin ...

The extraordinary potential of high-temperature composite materials to meet the engineering design challenges presented by advanced turbine engines and hypersonic flight vehicle airframes is well known. However, their implementation has been seriously impeded by excessive variability in materials properties due to somewhat unpredictable microstructures subject to a host of possible defects. A nove ...

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DCS will design a room temperature imaging radiometer for use in aircraft engine testing at AEDC. The radiometer will be a modification of an existing uncooled thermal imager; either Texas Instruments's ferroelectric device, or Honeywell's using microbolometers detectors. After a brief application analysis of AEDC's requirements to define optics and spectral passbands, a detailed comparison and se ...

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Current VLSI design tools fall short in their approach to automating the reliability analysis during the design process. The manual burden of these checks then falls heavily on the designers.Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) has developed the system concept of the RELI, an integrated design system for reliable VLSI design. In the RELI system, long term reliability problem such as ...