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While AM systems, especially metal AM, bring revolutionary capabilities and have the potential to reduce supply chain issues and enable new designs through unique layer-by-layer fabrication capabilities, AM technologies currently suffer from defects that exist within the components. Defects such as porosity, inclusions, large-scale voids, and chemical inconsistencies can inhibit the functional per ...

The Multisensor Insitu Data with Machine Learning (MIDML) program will develop a convolutional neural network (CNN) to leverage data generated from multiple AM inprocess sensors. This can provide more accurate and reliable assessments and predictions of final part quality during layer-by-layer fabrication, in real time. The CNN will be developed for maximum prediction accuracy from multiple senso ...

There is a critical need for a high purity commercial source of calcium lanthanum sulfide (CaL2S4; CLS).  Ceramics made from CLS have an unusually broad range of transmittance in the infrared (IR), as well as high mechanical strength and environmental durability.  For these reasons, CLS is an ideal material for IR windows used in applications such as multispectral imaging.  CLS ceramics are not ...

Rebreathers are scuba gear that allow the diver to breath underwater without producing bubbles. They have many benefits including light-weight, reduced risk of decompression (lack of nitrogen in the system allows the divers to stay submerged longer) and stealth (since they produce no bubbles, they don’t reveal the diver’s location).  In this closed-circuit operation, the CO2 is removed from t ...

Develop next-generation heads-up displays (HUDs) to provide training aids, operational tools, and situation awareness (SA) visualizations to improve the speed and quality of decision making by Marine Corps Ground Forces, specifically for close-air support (CAS) and call-for-fire (CFF).

To address the DON’s need for developing methods to produce accurate riblet profiles in outer mold line (OML) surfaces that yield significant drag savings, fuel cost savings and extended range for USN aircraft, DARE Venture Group is partnered with MicroTau to deliver that exact development related to specific US Naval aircraft requirements. This project includes objectives encompassing the resea ...

Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. (GEM), along with its team members, Professor Hang Yu at Virginia Tech (VT) and Professor Rajiv Mishra at the University of North Texas (UNT), propose to develop a multiphysics based PSPP (process-structure-property-performance) approach and its associated toolkit for tailoring of additive friction stir deposition (AFSD) repair of aluminum components for impr ...

Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. and Professor Jinhui Yan at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign propose to develop an Integrated Computational Materials Engineering simulation toolkit for optimal tailoring of gas flow in laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) and direct energy deposition (DED) to reduce defects (e.g., porosity and spatter) and surface roughness improve quality (e.g., mi ...

Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. (GEM), along with its team members, Professor Jinhui Yan at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University, Professor Dianyun Zhang at Composite Manufacturing and Simulation Center at Purdue University (PU), and Professor Yuri Bazilevs at Brown University, proposes to develop an inte ...

"Biomason’s proposed Soteria effort will eliminate key carbon incorporation elements within current biocement product production streams by: 1) urea substitution, 2) base aggregate mass carbon bundling, and 3) tuning of biocement speciation. In composite, these strategies will yield a carbon negative building material production strategy for cementitious materials that has the potential to suppl ...