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Additive Manufacturing Today, Growing Airplanes, Literally, Tomorrow?
If 3D virtual reality and additive manufacturing (AM) are indicative of one direction that disruptive developments are taking the aerospace engineering sector, then...
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Additive Manufacturing, Virtual Reality Add to Aerospace Design Repertoire
Images of exciting and futuristic-looking aircraft might capture the imagination of the next generation of would-be aerospace engineers, but the most spectacular...
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Fiber Laser Sensor Technology for Structural Health Monitoring
According to Dr. Geoffrey Cranch, a research physicist from the Optical Sciences Division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), none of the U.S. military services are...
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Using Mathematics to Make Computing on Encrypted Data Secure and Practical
In order to make computing on encrypted data more practical to use and more secure from attack, it is necessary to discover, develop, and understand the mathematics on which it is based and the mathematics that can be used to attack it.
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SIPHER: Scalable Implementation of Primitives for Homomorphic Encryption
Prior to the Proceed program, the main challenges preventing practical demonstrations and use of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) were efficiency and scalability....
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Secret Sharing Schemes and Advanced Encryption Standard
There are many secret sharing schemes and variations available to hide and reconstruct the given secret. Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme, making use of linear Lagrange interpolation on the dealer-generated polynomial, was used to reconstruct the secret from the stipulated threshold number of...
INSIDER Aerospace
Existing Navigation Data Can Help Pilots Avoid Turbulence
Detecting turbulence remains the Achilles' heel of modern-day aviation. The reports submitted by pilots, subjective and often very inaccurate, are the least expensive and the most...
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Testing the Transition to Low-Carbon, Low-Noise, Electric Propulsion
As the industry’s appetite for electric propulsion continues to increase, so too does the need to understand the intricacies of the systems that are needed to make it...
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System Makes Airport Surface Traffic More Efficient
Researchers have developed an optimization system that identifies the optimal timing and taxiing sequences for runway use by a given aircraft. It plans detailed taxiing routes, recommends...
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The Future of Better Drones Is for the Birds
David Lentink, an Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford, has been studying birds in flight with an eye toward applying the tricks birds use to navigate changing conditions in...
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Slim Wing Can Reduce Aircraft Fuel Use and Emissions by 50%
NASA and Boeing are designing a longer, thinner, and lighter wing that requires a brace, or truss, to provide it with extra support. The lower-drag wing will reduce both fuel burn...
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Collier Research Corporation Newport News, VA 757-825-0000 http://hypersizer.com When announcing the completion of the Bell V-280 tiltrotor fuselage at a press conference, Bell Helicopter leadership applauded the Bell...
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Next Generation FPGAs for Electronic Warfare Systems
Designers of virtually all electronic warfare system applications exploit CPUs and FPGAs, each offering unique strengths and advantages for handling a wide range of tasks. This diversity...
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Probing Ways to Dampen Sonic Boom
One of the reasons there is not a supersonic plane flying in and out of an airport near you is because of that not-so-little thing known as a sonic boom. And that particular reason also has a lot to do with...
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Promise for an Electric Propulsion Aircraft Future
At first glance, it may seem that the excessive weight (i.e., low specific energy) of today’s batteries limits electric aircraft to, at best, a few trivial niches. However, the different...
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Mentor Graphics Updates CFD Tool for Improved Productivity
Mentor Graphics recently released the latest version of its general-purpose computational fluid dynamics (CFD) FloEFD solution with updated features such as improved mesh handling,...
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From 3D Printer to Practice
Conventional 3D printers create objects layer-by-layer from the bottom up, which can be a challenge when printing parts with enclosed electronics and overhanging or protruding features. Such features must be...
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Aurora Flight Sciences, Stratasys Debut at Dubai Jet-Powered, 3D Printed UAV
Stratasys and Aurora Flight Sciences unveiled at this week’s Dubai Airshow an aircraft built using lightweight Stratasys materials to achieve speeds in excess of...
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Lockheed Martin Determined to Keep the F-16 Viable
It was around the middle of October when Lockheed Martin's F-16V completed its maiden flight. It was also the first time any F-16 flying equipped with Northrop Grumman’s APG-83 Active...
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"Fused Reality" Combines Simulation and Flying to Train Pilots
There are two ways for pilots to gain proficiency in an airplane and evaluate its handling qualities: climb into the cockpit and take off, or practice in a ground-based simulator....
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Tool Nondestructively Characterizes Structural Materials as they Deform
Materials scientists are busy developing advanced materials, while also working to squeeze every bit of performance out of existing materials. This is particularly true...
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Energid Actively Working on Simulation Technologies for Lunar and Planetary Rovers
For obvious reasons, conditions on lunar and planetary surfaces can understandably be hard to duplicate physically, even in the best case when they are...
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NASA System Would Enable Unmanned Aircraft to Fly in US Airspace
NASA, working with government and industry partners, is testing a system that would make it possible for unmanned aircraft to fly routine operations in United States airspace. The...
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Dassault Systèmes on Everyone’s Side with 3D Visualization for Cabin Design
Dassault Systèmes announced just prior to Paris Air Show the launch of “Passenger Experience,” what it describes as a new aerospace and defense industry...
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Propulsion Performance Model for Efficient Supersonic Aircraft
For the design process of the class of aircraft known as an efficient supersonic air vehicle (ESAV), particular attention must be paid to the propulsion system design as a whole...
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Altair Optimizes 3D-Printed Structures for Complex, Lightweight Designs
Altair expects to better support the use of additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, by releasing new OptiStruct solver capabilities for topology optimization. The...
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Airflow Model Could Reduce Time on the Tarmac
New research could lead to more efficient takeoffs on airport runways and improve safety. A mathematical tool was developed to calculate the flow of turbulent air produced by a plane’s wing tips...
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Deploying Next-Generation UAS Platforms with 3U VPX
More powerful. Lighter. Cooler. These are the key criteria for the design of Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) in next-generation Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) platforms, which continue to grow in...
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Modeling and Simulation of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle Power System
Robotic vehicles such as unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have multiple sources of power, including batteries, fuel cells, combustion engines, ultracapacitors, and solar cells to...
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