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Toward Smarter Manufacturing and Materials
At the U.K.’s new Advanced Manufacturing Research Center, engineers and innovators have at their disposal some of the world’s most advanced design and manufacturing assets for precision...
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Designing Quieter Aircraft Via Acoustic Simulation
Greater fuel efficiency and low emission requirements have grown into such an urgent imperative in aircraft design that it often overshadows an equally significant factor in air...
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Army Secures Critical Component for Artillery, Mortar Ammunition
The U.S. Army is nearing completion on a project to eliminate its dependency on foreign countries for a critical energetic component in artillery and mortar ammunition, officials...
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Architecture Developed for Monitoring and Anomaly Detection of Space Systems
The ability to interface real-time instrumentation data from remote hardware to local data analysis systems is important in the space industry. NASA, for example,...
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GKN Aerospace-Led Project Automates Assembly of Aircraft Wing Structures
GKN Aerospace is leading a project under the Structures Technology Maturity (STeM) program that aims to automate the assembly of aircraft structures with the goal of...
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Ball Aerospace Awarded Contract for Ion Velocity Meter
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a $5.8 million contract from the Defense Weather System Directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, CA,...
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Boeing Selects Site for New 777X Composite Wing Center
Boeing has selected its Everett, WA, site as the location for a new composite wing center for the 777X program. Boeing evaluated criteria that were designed to find the wing fabrication...
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Virtual Reality Immerses Passengers in "See-Through" Cabin
In the VR-Hyperspace project, Fraunhofer IAO has teamed up with eight partners from six European countries to investigate how flight journeys can be made into a more pleasant experience...
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ETS Researchers Develop New Methodology for Wind Tunnel Calibration
In recent years, the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) Research Laboratory in Active Controls, Avionics, and Aeroservoelasticity (LARCASE) has acquired several...
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Thermal Simulation and Testing of Expanded Metal Foils for Lightning Protection
With the implementation of major aircraft structures fabricated from carbon fiber reinforced plastic materials, lightning protection has become a more complicated...
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Pumped Two-Phase Cooling for Thermal Management of High Heat Flux Electronics
Pumped two-phase cooling provides a compact, low pumping power option for thermal management in high heat flux applications (300-500W/cm2). Compared to single-phase...
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Optically Transparent EMI Shielding for Defense and Aerospace Applications
Modern electronic devices and computing equipment are often integrated with wireless capabilities which utilize multi-bands for high speed communication, as well as high...
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Tata Sikorsky JV Producing Fully Indigenous S-92 Cabins
The India joint venture established between Tata Advanced Systems and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has announced that its S-92 helicopter cabin production in India has become 100%...
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Design Software Targets Germs, Dry Air
Concerns about airborne diseases and flu pandemics coupled with increasing passenger concerns about environmental conditions are prompting some aircraft designers to take a closer look at ventilation...
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Thermal Management for Fuel-Cell Systems Studied
Reducing the environmental impact of aircraft in terms of carbon dioxide, noise, and pollutant emissions is an important objective. Fuel-cell systems deliver electrical energy with high...
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Predicting Cavitation in Fuel Pumps
Liquid ring pumps are used in aircraft fuel systems in conjunction with main impeller pumps and serve the function of removing fuel vapor and air from the fuel. Thus, their reliable functioning plays a...
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FAA Selects Six Sites for UAS Research
After a 10-month selection process involving 25 proposals from 24 states, the U.S. FAA has chosen six unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research and test site operators across the country. In selecting...
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Lipid Layer-Based Corrosion Monitoring on Metal Substrates
Corrosion is a deforming process that costs the United States Department of Defense (DOD) approximately $23 billion annually and accounts for 23% of all DOD maintenance. Exhaustive...
Briefs Materials
Carbon Nanotube Thermal Interfaces Enhanced with Sprayed-On Nanoscale Polymer Coatings
As the semiconductor industry continually strives to increase the power density of single-chip packages, thermal management remains a critical challenge...
Briefs Materials
Formation and Characterization of Gold Nanoparticles
One-dimensional nanowires are of increasing interest due to their size, physical properties, and other applications in opto-electronics. For example, nanowires have already been used in...
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MISRA C:2012
For C programmers working on safety-critical applications, following restrictions and guidelines to ensure safe-coding practices can be painful. Features of the language designed to make your work easier, more efficient, or provide...
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Stencil Mask Methodology for Parallelized Production of Microscale Mechanical Test Samples
Over the past decade, there has been considerable progress in the development of new mechanical testing methods to characterize the properties of...
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Tin-Based IV-IV Heterostructures Fabricated Using Molecular Beam Epitaxy
The indirect nature of the fundamental energy gap in the elemental semiconductors Si and Ge prevents the use of these materials and their alloys in laser devices. The...
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Micro-Composite Fabrication via Field-Aided Laminar Composite Processing
Much work has been accomplished since the discovery that particles in a dielectric fluid experience forces when placed in an electric field, including mathematical...
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Three-Dimensional Plastic Part Extrusion and Conductive Ink Printing for Flexible Electronics
Structural electronics, or structronics, seeks to build wiring and electrical interconnects directly into component structures to diminish the need...
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Intelligence Analysis System
Air Force intelligence analysts must assess an adversary’s capability to achieve their objectives, including their offensive and defensive systems, state of readiness, training, and conditions such as weather. To effectively assess these capabilities, analysts must integrate a tremendous amount of data from a number...
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Weapon Center of Mass Calculator
The Weapon Center of Mass (COM) software allows researchers to easily determine mass properties of a weapon system. The tool presents a photograph of the weapon and allows the user to place weight anywhere on the weapon by clicking on the screen. After the weight is placed, the software returns the mass properties...
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General Runtime/Architecture for Many-core Parallel Systems (GRAMPS)
The era of obtaining increased performance via faster single cores and optimized single-thread programs is over. Instead, a major factor in new processors’ performance comes from parallelism: increasing numbers of cores per processor and threads per core. In both research and...
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Crumple Zone Software Absorbs Attack Effects Before System Failures
A higher level of structural and operational endurance and ruggedness can be achieved in software systems by strategically introducing crumple zones (CZs) in the system...
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