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Despite decades of experimental and theoretical studies cyclic fatigue failure remains one of the most critical challenges for engineering as it can occur without any indication of impending failure. More than half of mechanical in service failures are due to cyclic fatigue resulting in unanticipated and significant costs. Metallurgical Acoustic Research Solutions, LLC (MARS, LLC) in collaboration ...

Missile attitude in flight can be difficult to determine from ground-based images due to image resolution, lighting, object occlusion, and poor contrast. To address the need, UHV and UTARI propose a fusion based approach of 2 well proven methods to solve this problem. First, UHV Technologies will implement their existing innovative and state of the art machine learning methods for image segmentati ...

Busek Co. Inc. and The University of Notre Dame propose to develop room-temperature ionic liquids (ILs) that are robust, non-volatile, transparent, radiation hard, and atmospherically tolerant for use in electrolytes for reversible electroplating applica...

Triton is proposing to develop a family of preceramic polymers and polymer formulations that will produce group 4 (Zr and Hf) carbides and carbide/boride mixtures in good yield. The target yield for the program is 60 vol%. The goal is to develop material...

The aerospace industry deals with antiquated processes for collecting aircraft maintenance records. Today, maintenance records are done in paper. Typically there is the discrepancy, corrective action, and a signature and date from the repair technician. There is myriad of information lost like all the steps, processes, and timing of the repair. Not having that data in a form that can be manipulate ...

Real Time pilot health/performance monitoring requires body worn physiological sensors to communicate their data to a monitoring device in the cockpit. Traditionally Radio Frequency (RF) based wireless communication would be used in these scenarios. However, these RF waves can potentially affect critical radio communication between the airplane and ground. Electro Quasi-Static Human Body Communica ...

Given the current use and ownership of proprietary software in public and private healthcare systems, deficiencies have been identified that a) prevent real-time access to patient data by providers and patients, (b) inhibit patients from connecting to others with similar ailments/illnesses, and (c) fail to interconnect with other operational e-systems. The goals of the current development address ...

The quantum internet will harness new reusable, functional building blocks to connect quantum computers and processors, quantum sensors, and quantum data centers over local and global scales. In fact, quantum networking is crucial even inside individual quantum computers, which will need to transport quantum information reliably between processing and memory modules. The quantum internet will enab ...

Risk of suicide continues to threaten both individual wellness and overall Air Force personnel readiness. The active-duty suicide rate increased 13% in 2018, while the suicide rate for veterans was 31 per 100,000 – 1.5 times greater than among nonveteran groups. Predictive analytics approaches using sensitive Electronic Health Records (EHRs) or social media data have shown promising accurac ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) and Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) will optimize and scale-up a paintable cathode coating for the prevention of electrostatic discharge (ESD) from spacecraft operating in the low earth orbit (LEO) and geosynchronous orbit (GEO) plasma environments. The passive cathode coating requires no external power, can survive even in low altitude LEO orbits, will have negligible i ...