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Is chaos present in any significant real distributed system? We don't know. We will use our commercial grade toolkit for chaotic data analysis to see if chaos is present is some distributed systems. Our toolkit incorporates all the relevant methods for detecting and analyzing chaos. The remarkable aspect ofthese methods is that they operate directly on data. No prior knowledge or model of the syst ...

Significant savings in system life cycle costs can be realized when common Automated Test Systems (ATS) are used to meet both system production and field maintenance needs. Additional cost avoidance and quality gains are the result of transitioning the "lessons learned," and test maturity gained during manufacturing in-process and system acceptance (sell-off) testing to the maintenance environment ...

Many environmental pollutants, contaminants, poisonous gases, and hazardous materials are halogen-based chemicals in which they have chlorine or its family of elements in their molecular compositions. Pollutants in this family include many common chemicals found in the defense and the civilian sectors, e.g., trichloroethylene, polychlorinated biphenyl, and chlorofluorocarbons. These chemicals are ...

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The objective of the proposed SBIR program is to develop and commercialize high-temperature optical sensors using sapphire fibers for process control feedback in the fabrication of titanium-based metal matrix composites. Sapphire fiber interferometers will be designed to map the internal distribution of strain and temperature in titanium matrices durng processing, to optimize processing so that re ...

Smart Materials promise new opportunities for the implementation of adaptive structures. Smart Materials are a new class of materials that incorporate sensor, actuator and adaptive signal processing functions. These structurally and functionally integrated capabilities give the material the ability to detect changes in its environment, change its structural, electromagnetic and/or chemical charact ...

New bellows seal technology to greatly improve seal integrity and life of rising stem and quarter-turn valves in electronic processing, petroleum and chemical processing industries. Bellows seals, considered zero-emission devices by the EPA, are urgently needed to meet current and future more stringent fugitive emissions requirements, but their sensitivity to static pressure and pressure fluctuati ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the fabrication of ceramic core/composite skin structures using liquid infiltration techniques. The core will be porous alumina rods or tubes and the composite skin will be fabricated via infiltration with alumina sol of an aluminosilicate fabric wrapped around the core. Heating for drying and sintering will be accomplished using both conventional f ...

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