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This proposal involves the development of highly sensitive magnetoresistive sensors for use in electronic fuzing applications. Such fuzing applications include post-launch, projectile warhead initiation of spinning rounds and the safe and arming of non-spinning rounds. The magnetoresistive devices to be developed are highly-sensitive, DC-coupled sensors with very low magnetic offsets and hystere ...

This project describes a design methodology and development environment that can be used to develop efficient parallel or distributed software systems. Implicit in the methodology are concerns for the characteristics of the information being processed, the properties of the host computer systems, execution time performance issues and measures of effectiveness. The methodology incorporates the ad ...

This proposal seeks to determine the feasibility of developing new, polymeric dental restorative and impression materials that will not only withstand high temperature and humidity conditions but also retaining their physical and mechanical properties. The procedure will involve the selection or the synthesis of heat and moisture resistant resins and curing agents; the development of optimum silan ...

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This Phase I SBIR demonstrates the underlying technology required to construct an ultraspectral imager that has the ability to spectrally resolve molecular absorption lines while simultaneously creating a two dimensional spatial mapping. The proposed instrument will have a spectral resolution that is better than 2 cm-1 and two dimensional spatial resolution that exceeds 2 milliradian. Based on Fou ...

In this Phase I SBIR a totally new, non intrusive optical method for making fundamental atmospheric turbulence measurements will be investigated. A correlation between the movement of a pair of thin beams is used to define the inner and outer scale size independent of any assumed turbulence model and to calculate the index of refraction coefficient. During the effort, extensions will be made to th ...

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A growing number of fire fighters are suffering third degree burns; this has led to questions about the adequacy of thermal protective performance (TPP) measurements for protective clothing. A new heat flux sensor, whose response approximates that of skin, will be developed to provide better measurements of heat transfer in TPP tests. This sensor will be used with nonlinear parameter estimation an ...