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The use of high-temperature laser densification/annealing techniques for enhancing materials surface characteristics has opened new opportunities in material/laser-process diagnostic instrumentation. Important issues in fabrication of reproducible refractory ceramic coating film lies in understanding of the interrelationship between processing parameters and surface properties. To respond to this ...

The need for simple and practical instrumentation for rapid identification and detection of biological agents has been recognized as an important research area in sensor development. Specific antibody/antigen binding, in conjunction with evanescent wave excited fluorescence sensing, has been applied to the detection of toxins and chemical and biological warfare materials. However, there remains a ...

Reusable software requiremetns offer significant potential for rapidly producing high quality software systems within many application domains. This is particularly the case in application domains where many variations of similar systems are generated. Command and control systems, such as those in CECOM, are specially good examples. Reusable requirements need to have the following properties. They ...

3-D visualization of multiple RF fields requires innovative display techniques to overcome a number of technical challenges, including surface polygon reduction for increased graphics speed, and discrimination of multiple overlapping surfaces. The innovation in the present proposal derives from the PI's recent development of a 3-D tactical display for the Navy in which the interaction of sonar ac ...

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This research project will investigate the use of optical-fiber sensors within a solid rocket motor case. THese sensors will be multi-functional and possess the ability to measure displacement (or strain) and temperature. They will be capable of embedment "in-site" or can be bonded to the exterior of motors that have already been manufactured. If successful, the effect of forces exerted on the ...

The Environmentally Oriented Systems Atmospheric Effects Library (EOSAEL) treats the propagation of ultraviolet through millimeter wavelength electromagnetic radiation for a wide range of atmospheric conditions. Because EOSAEL was originally designed in the 1970s for operation on mainframe and mini-computers, many archaic, cumbersome artifacts remain embedded in the code structure and programming ...

We propose innovative enhancements to EOSAEL providing Microsoft Windows operations with icons, 3D visualization and animation, sophisticated plotting, and CD-ROM. Moreover, we will incorporate portable software components that allow the software to run on other environments including Sun, SGI, and DEC. Iconic operation will allow minimal operator input for difficult and error prone operations s ...