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CHANNELING CAN SEVERELY REDUCE FILTER LIFE. THUS, A NON-DESTRUCTIVE METHOD TO DETECT CHANNELING IS REQUIRED TO ENSURE THE ACCEPTABLE PERFORMANCE OF A CARBON FILTER WHILE MAINTAINING ITS PROTECTIVE LIFE. IN THE PHASE I FEASIBILITY EFFORT, SEVERAL TEST BEDS WILL BE INTENTIONALLY PACKED TO INDUCE VARIOUS DEGREES OF CHANNELING. NONDESTRUCTIVE BREAKTHROUGH EXPERIMENTS WILL BE PERFORMED USING AN APPROPR ...

AT PRESENT, CONFIDENCE LEVELS IN THE INTEGRITY OF POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITE STRUCTURES ARE LOW DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTIESIN PROCESS CONTROL DURING THEIR MANUFACTURE. OPTIMIZATION OF PROCESS MONITORING TO ALLOW ADEQUATE CONTROL OF CHEMISTRYCHANGES DURING FABRICATION WILL REQUIRE IMPROVED PROCESS PARAMETER SENSORS AND CONTROL METHODOLOGIES. THE USE OF FIBER OPTIC SENSORS EMBEDDED WITHIN THE COMPOSITE S ...

THE PHASE I EXPERIMENTAL EFFORT WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF A FIELD WORTHY GROUND MOTION SENSOR TO REPLACE PIEZO-ELECTRIC ACCELEROMETERS FOR CONVENTIONAL EXPLOSIVES AND NUCLEAR TESTING. THE OUTPUT SIGNALS OF PIEZO-ELECTRIC ACCELEROMETERS MUST BE INTEGRATED TWICE TO DETERMINE GROUND MOTIONS. THIS PROCESS REDUCES SYSTEM ACCURACY AND MEASUREMENT BANDWIDTH. ADDITIONALLY, AS PIEZO-ELECTRIC SENS ...

GEO-CENTERS, INC. PROPOSED TO DESIGN, DEVELOP, AND TEST A NOVEL SENSOR SYSTEM FOR WIDE AREA MINES (WAMS) THAT WILL ULTIMATELY DETECT ARMORED VEHICLES AT DISTANCES EXCEEDING 100 METERS. A MAGNETIC SENSOR TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN DEVELOPED AND DEMONSTRATED WHICH PROMISES TO UNIQUELY COMBINE HIGH SENSITIVITY WITH EXTREME SIMPLICITY, RELIABILITY, RUGGEDNESS, COMPACT SIZE AND LOW COST. PROJECTED SENSITIVITI ...

THE GOAL OF THE PROPOSED PROGRAM IS TO DEVELOP A DEVICE TO CLEAR MILITARY SMOKES AND AEROSOLS. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES WITHIN THE PROPOSED PROGRAM ARE DIRECTED TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF CHARGED SCAVENGERS AS AN EFFECTIVE MEANS TO REMOVING AEROSOL PARTICLES AND SMOKES. INCREASING THE CHARGE ON THE SCAVENGING MATERIAL GREATLY ENHANCES THE REMOVAL EFFICIENCY OF THE CLEARING MATERIAL. THE ...

THE FORMATION AND BUILDUP OF ICE ON OR IN OUTDOOR STRUCTURES IS A SIGNIFICIANT PROBLEM IN NORTHERN LATITUDES, OFTEN RESULTING IN DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND NEARBY OBJECTS. WOODEN SUPPORT STRUCTURES FOR AEDC COOLING TOWERS ARE EXPOSED TO ICE BUILDUP THAT MUST BE DETECTED MANUALLY BEFORE CORRECTIVE OPERATING MODES CAN BE IDENTIFIED. A DISTRIBUTED FIBER OPTIC ICE DETECTION SYSTEM IS PROPOSED TO ALLOW AUT ...

GEO-CENTERS, INC. PROPOSES TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A NEURAL NETWORK TO ANALYZE SEISMIC DATA TO CLASSIFY EARTHQUAKES, NUCLEAR BLASTS, AND CHEMICAL BLASTS. USING TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN INFORMATION FROM IDENTIFIED PHASES A NEURAL NETWORK WILL BE TAUGHT USING DATA AVAILABLE FROM THE CENTER FOR SEISMIC STUDIES. A MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORK WILL BE EMPLOYED HAVING AN INPUT LAYER, A HID ...

IN SUPPORT OF THE AIR FORCE SPACE DIVISION OPERATIONS, GEO-CENTERS, INC. PROPOSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A UNIQUE DOSIMETER INCORPORATING BOTH A PASSIVE COLORMETRIC ELEMENT AND AN OPTICAL SENSOR. THE DOSIMETER ALLOWS CONTINUOUS REAL TIME PASSIVE MONITORING WHILE THE OPTICAL SENSOR ALLOWS THE INCORPORATION OF AN AUDIO ALARM SYSTEM. GEO-GENTERS, INC. PROPOSES A PHASE I EFFORT TO DESIGN AND DEMONSTRATE I ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGHLY RELIABLE, LOW DRIFT, FIBER OPTIC HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE SENSOR FOR SONAR DOMES IS PROPOSED. THE SENSOR IS BASED ON THE ELASTO-OPTIC EFFECT IN OPTICAL CRYSTALS. THE SENSING ELEMENT IS AN OPTICAL CRYSTAL, AND BECAUSE NO MOVING PARTS ARE INVOLVED, WEAR AND FATIGUE ARE REDUCED TO A MINIMUM. BECAUSE OF ITS INHERENT LINEARITY AND LOW DRIFT, THE PROPOSED PRESSURE SENSOR WILL BE ...

THE PHASE I EXPERIMENTAL EFFORT WILL DEMONSTRATED THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A RUGGED HIGH BANDWIDTH FIBER OPTIC BASED ACCELEROMETER FOR USE IN SHOCK ENVIRONMENTS. THE PROPOSED EFFORT WILL SEEK TO DEVELOP AN ACCELEROMETER WITH WIDE MEASUREMENT BANDWIDTH CAPABILITY AND INCREASED RUGGEDNESS COMPARED TO PRESENTLY AVAILABLE PIEZOELECTRIC AND PIEZO-RESISTIVE ACCELEROMETERS. THE PHASE I EFFORT WILL Q ...