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This effort would develop the laboratory set-up of the solderability tester into a real time statistical process control tool in the manufacture of printed wiring boards. By correlation of SERA test data to copper contamination levels in the solder plating bath; and the application of statistical process control techniques, real time feedback to the plating process would be established.

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Advanced turbine engines and flight vehicles will depend upon new, high-temperature metal matrix composites (MMC's) to meet performance goals. Engineering characterization of such materials is difficult and costly, which accounts for the meager property database available to designers. Thin-walled tubes would be especially useful for developing constitutive relations and failure criteria under mul ...

Successful development of advanced turbine engines will depend heavily upon rapid development of new, reliable, lightweight metal matrix composites (MMC's) having unprecedented high temperature properties. Recent developments in the manufacture of MMC's by vapor deposition methods offer the prospect of producing polyphase microcomposite precursors in the form of continuous monofilaments or thin m ...

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One of the most challenging information management problems related to the Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA) missions is the real-time spatio-temporal fusion of target-specific cues from a netwotk of multiple sensor platforms. A robust algorithmic framework is necessary to involve the multiple agents together and achieve the optimal trade-off between low false alarm rate ...

Data Fusion Corporation and the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) propose the development of a comprehensive software package of image inversion algorithms to support the detection and determination of environmental changes using IFSAR imagery. This software package is intended to support rapid mapping of such changes and would be compatible with TEC's future TDBS workstation. ...

The objective of this project is to develop a significantly improved ground vehicle for military reconnaissance with high speed over rough terrain and high mobility a prime factor. Concepts to capitalize on the attributes of electric drive and active suspension utilizing swing arm technology are explored and a practical system selected. The use of independent drive wheels of a hybrid electric dr ...

Aerosol sprays of paint, epoxy, and other substances can be dispensed by mines and other munitions to disable hostile sensors, vehicles, and weapon systesm. For example, a paint-filled aerosol mine could be designed to detect an approaching vehicle, pop into the air, and eject and aerosol mist of opaque, brightly colored, slovent resistive, electrically conductive paint at the vehicle. The resulti ...