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Current NDI methods cannot detect corrosion onset in painted/sealed aluminum. TRI/Austin's team, including the Applied Microwave Nondestructive Testing Laboratory and Boeing, has successfully used microwave probes to detect 0.08 mm corrosion flaws inprimed and painted aluminum panels covered with aircraft. However, no fieldable microwave systems exist today.TRI/Austin will:1. Make samples with s ...

During Phase II, Texas Research Institute Austin, Inc. will develop and commercialize a series of room temperature cure syntactic foam products for Aircraft Battle Damage Repair (ABDR). Different formulations will be prepared for various repair sizes. Asingle component elevated temperature cured epoxy syntactic foam will be developed that will require a hot bonder or heat blanket cure of the foam. ...

During Phase II, Texas Research Institute Austin, Inc. will develop and commercialize a series of room temperature cure syntactic foam products for Aircraft Battle Damage Repair (ABDR). Different formulations will be prepared for various repair sizes. Asingle component elevated temperature cured epoxy syntactic foam will be developed that will require a hot bonder or heat blanket cure of the foam. ...

A wing-store unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is presented deployed from widely fielded existing weapons launchers. Computational simulation and modeling of the UAV as it is launched from a helicopter in hover, forward and sideward (crosswind condition)flight is considered. Comparison of simulation with data from a company 100% scale model test flown previously demonstrates accurate results of simu ...

During Phase I, feasibility was demonstrated for a prototype wing-store unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to be deployed from a widely fielded weapons launcher system. The proposed Phase II effort integrates a number of candidate electro-optical sensorpayloads to fly and demonstrate their efficacy in terms of system performance and utility for route and battlespace reconnaissance and battle damage as ...

Research and development is proposed of a miniature low capacity cooler capable of reliable achieving and sustaining cryogenic temperatures for very long periods without maintenance and providing low capacity refrigeration to cryogenic sensors and coldelectronic systems. The cooler has no moving parts of any kind and very long life (10 - 20 years) is anticipated. The unit operates without noise ...

This proposal entails the fabrication of selective permeable reverse microemulsion derived elastomeric membranes which are fabricated using rapid prototyping (RP) techniques. Rp offers a significant advantage in that it is capable of forming membraneshaving controlled porosity and microstructural architectures on a three dimensional level rather than the two dimensional level attained by conventio ...

Three simple, direct methods for decoupling the interrelated channel outputs in an ultra-tightly coupled GPS/IMU system are proposed. These methods, based on conditioning, are not as computationally expensive as methods such as multiple model matching, andalso take advantage of the high precision of carrier phase measurements and the presence of the IMU.The commercial potential for this technology ...

Implementation of higher level features to include effects of variable amplitude loading, crack closure, retardation effects, plasticity, thermal loading, etc. for improved analysis using fracture mechanics approach

Implementation of higher level features to include effects of variable amplitude loading, crack closure, retardation effects, plasticity, thermal loading, etc. for improved analysis using fracture mechanics approach