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ATA Engineering has developed a wavelet-based damage squeezing methodology for generating optimally compressed fatigue test signals that produce an equivalent amount of fatigue damage in a predictably reduced amount of time compared to the baseline (uncompressed) signals. Fatigue-critical signal characteristics (e.g., magnitude, phase, frequency, and sequencing relationships) are identified in the ...

Webbing is strong, woven material that is used to secure cargo as well as for safety equipment such as seat belts, harnesses, and parachute rigging. Due to its extensive use in Military applications, the strength of the webbing is a key component of equipment design, especially in the case of safety gear that protects soldiers, as lives may be dependent on the strength and proper performance of th ...

NAVY seeks high strength, low density, and high corrosion resistant alloys for structural components which can be processed by additive manufacturing (AM). Magnesium (Mg) alloys are candidates for fuel-efficiency applications, especially the aircrafts. They satisfy density, strength, and stiffness for many designs. However, their low corrosion resistance cannot ensure design lifetimes.  This limi ...

Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs) are one of the most versatile sources of radiation in the mid-infrared range and have found applications in a variety of fields. Despite their widespread adoption, one of the main hurdles holding QCLs back from large volume manufacturing is the large cost of ownership. While QCLs, like most semiconductor devices based on III-V compounds, can leverage the economies of ...

Modern and next generation military aircraft face increasing challenges as thermal demands grow while available heat sinks reduce. Legacy platforms upgraded with advanced electrical systems are also encountering similar thermal constraints. Modeling and simulation (M&S) tools provide a cost-effective solution to the design, analysis, and optimization of growing thermal management challenges, but t ...

HySonic Technologies, founded by Dr. Carlo Scalo, addresses this call by combining its capabilities in design of acoustically absorptive high-temperature materials with Dr. Carson Slabaugh’s (Purdue University) well-established expertise in designing and testing of Rotating Detonation Combustors (RDC) at various scales. HySonic’s history in the design of acoustically absorptive material relies ...

Decompression sickness (DCS) can occur during rapid pressure changes such as when a diver ascends rapidly or during high altitude flights. Rapid decompression can causes gases dissolved in body fluids and tissues to come out of solution and form bubbles. The symptoms of DCS include painful joints, neurological dysfunction, dermal effects, and cardiopulmonary collapse. Currently, divers rely on dec ...

In order to facilitate collaborative decision-making during modern surface warfare situations, locally learned knowledge among sailors and warfighters must be shared effectively in a timely manner. Current Naval approaches for collecting and sharing knowledge are inefficient and inflexible, as new contents are examined over extended timelines with no ability to dynamically update the knowledge bas ...

Vescent Photonics, LLC, (Vescent) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory (MIT-LL) propose to develop a low-noise, field-deployable vector magnetometer based on the dispersive cavity readout (DCR) of nitrogen vacancy (NV) diamond.  Solid-state quantum systems based on NV-diamond centers have many intrinsic properties that make them well-suited as stable, sensitive platfor ...

As complexity and performance requirements increases for RF sensors and systems for electronic warfare applications, the need for innovative and low-power compressive sensing (CS) technologies will become urgent in power constrained mobile platforms. There are several DOD and government application areas where this holds true and the high-performance CS technology to be developed in this program c ...