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Resin transfer molding (RTM) is a low-cost composites fabrication method used in many commercial products and secondary aircraft structures such as doors. This project investigates a low-cost concept for fabricating higher strength RTM composites enabling their use in primary aircraft structures. The approach uses discrete fiber reinforcements positioned transverse to fabric or through a stiffen ...

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Fieldable chemical sensing instruments must meet a variety of stringent specifications which are typically a function of the specific detection scenario. In many cases, meeting certain specifications can degrade the high performance characteristics originally identified for the chosen technology. For the majority of the fieldable instruments in use today, it is the size of the battery which dic ...

With the rapid rise of world wide. Reliable networking evidence by the Internet, the World Wide Web and Intranets. A new computing environment is being rapidly established. The new environment has created an opportunity to combine several key technologies and produce and effective platform to deploy significant network distributed applications. These technologies have been developed over the l ...

Proposed is an investigation into the use of flexible, extremely strong and tough, superelastic Nitinol shape memory alloy as a means of dramatically improving puncture resistance for personnel body armor. The Nitinol material is proposed as a surface material or coating for reinforcement or organic fiber fabrics and/or composites or aramid and UHMW polyethylene used in the current body armor sys ...

An improvement to a power metallurgy near-net-shape consolidation process, Radially Constricted Consolidation (RCC) process, is proposed. Program objective is to develop complex shaped ceramic containers (shells) for soft die hot pressing of powders using the RCC process. Shells to be developed are intended for consolidation of copper alloys, iron, iron base alloys, and stainless steels. Taguchi m ...

Currently an effective diver mine imaging sensor for use in VSW mine reconnaissance does not exist. The SBIR topic requests a capability to locate and image mine targets within a 45 deg wide x 10 deg high field-of-view and to image targets with a resolution of at least 3" at a range of 20 yards. An acoustic lens sonar is a preferred technical approach. Both an acoustic lens sonar and a more compac ...

We propose to build the optical heads of a terabyte optical disk using holographic storage in photopolymer. Two heads are proposed ---- a slow one for recording and a fast one for readout. Designs of the heads are simple. The heads are mounted on rails and are driven by linear actuators. The fast head has no moving parts on it and is very light-weighted. The technique used to store data is very to ...

Learning, which is far more than merely an associational complex of facts, requires a synthesis of ideas into something new. Contemporary cognitive scientists agree that learning is embodied in the fluid medium of language; it is through language that we understand the world. Language development can only occur in a rich social environment, where ideas are transformed, reformed, and dynamically ...