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Most research on scour assessment has traditionally focused on developing best-fit or envelope equations to estimate the maximum scour depths from physical experiments in a laboratory environment. However, obtaining an accurate estimate is always a challenge due to numerous uncertainties in the actual riverine or coastal environment. With advances in new surveying technologies and growing computat ...

A newly proposed combination of high-strength weathering steel sheet with Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) to leverage the benefits of both emerging technologies. The combined system offers benefits over traditional orthotropic steel decks and existing concrete or UHPC deck solutions, both of which offer high up-front costs in fabrication or forming. The resulting composite structure provide ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will investigate the value of a quantitative risk assessment tool for management of geohazard threats to pipelines.Phase I will determine data sources for quantitative risk assessment to support management and decision-making needs of pipeline industry stakeholders; identify the potential market for such a tool; identify a study locati ...

Crushed aggregates play an important role in the safe and reliable operation of our nation’s railroad infrastructure.Over time, aggregates become fouled by finer particles, and if not monitored and remedied, this fouling can lead to catastrophic accidents such as train derailments.A handheld inspection system that can accurately perform a quantitative measure of aggregate gradation and degree of ...

The objective of the proposed Phase I Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration SBIR program is to develop a sprayable highway paint to communicate vehicle-to-everything (V2X) safety messages between infrastructure, vehicles and pedestrians. During Phase I, NanoSonic will work with Virginia Tech antenna designers and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) to design and ...

MATSYS proposes to develop high density and high strength structural reactive materials (SRMs) to provide increased lethality and impose superiority on contested and expanded battlefield. The objective of this project is to develop a novel iron (Fe)-based SRM with suitably high density, strength, and energy release to enhance warhead performance upon detonation or high-velocity impact for long ran ...

Dengue virus (DENV) is the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral pathogen in the world with nearly 400 million infections occurring annually. The infection risk for deployed troops has increased with the global incidence of dengue, leading to a loss in mission capabilities as soldiers are hospitalized, treated, and evacuated. DengVaxia, a recombinant live-attenuated tetravalent vaccine, is licensed ...

NOVI proposes to develop a prototype system capable of automating NDT of munitions using deep learning techniques. The system will be designed to process a stack of radiography scans for a 6.5” diameter, 36” tall munition with 0.002” – 0.020” defects in under one minute, and largely utilize Government-provided images (appropriately annotated) to create the necessary training data set. Sp ...

Sniper teams use new portable ballistic computers to provide feedback to improve their shooting accuracy. The bullet’s muzzle velocity speed is a critical input to the ballistic computer, currently taken as a constant, but is affected by barrel wear, temperatures, muzzle attachment, and other factors. Technologies already on the market to sense muzzle velocity are not appropriate to be taken on ...

In response to SBIR 19.2, A19-137, “Army xTechnology Search Dual-Use Technologies applicable to Army modernization priority areas”, and to specifically protect against an adversary’s ability to exploit our information, Cogitari proposes a radio frequency over fiberoptic (RFoF) distributed antenna system (DAS) with broadband RF threat detection capabilities. Initially developed by a US govern ...