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Method of Making a Composite Panel Having Subsonic Transverse Wave Speed Characteristics
NASA's Langley Research Center has developed an enhanced design for a composite panel with a recessed core. NASA designed it to decrease the radiation...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Cooling Solution Helps NASA Get Closer to Mars
Aggreko
Houston, TX
281-985-8200
www.aggreko.com
Briefs: Software
Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT)
The Federal Aviation Administration's Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT) is a software system that dynamically models aircraft performance in space and time to estimate fuel consumption,...
Briefs: Software
Intelligent Software Enables Design of Greener, More Efficient Construction Vehicles
University of Warwick (UK) engineers are optimizing the fuel economy of next-generation offhighway vehicles by introducing new intelligent power systems for...
Briefs: Software
Shift: Self-Healing Independent File Transfer
In high-end computing environments, remote file transfers of very large data sets to and from computational resources are commonplace, as users typically are widely distributed across different organizations and must transfer in data to be processed, and transfer out results for further analysis....
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
CUDA Framework for Linear Time-Invariant Control of Adaptive Optics Systems
Current science objectives, such as high-contrast imaging of exoplanets, have led to the development of highorder adaptive optics (AO) systems possessing several thousand deformable mirror (DM) actuators. These systems typically rely on integrator-based control...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optical Fiber for NASA's Next Climate-Viewing Satellite
Molex
Lisle, IL
1-800-78MOLEX
www.molex.com
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Arrayed Micro-Ring Spectrometer System and Method of Use
NASA Langley Research Center has developed a novel spectral analysis system that provides rapid multispectral analysis and imaging in a miniaturized system design. Typical spectrometers make use of linear gratings with linear slits or charge-coupled device (CCD) arrays to separate and...
Briefs: Materials
In Situ Mechanical Property Measurements of Amorphous Carbon-Boron Nitride Nanotube Nanostructures
Utilizing the full mechanical capabilities of individual nanotubes is a primary research goal in nanotube reinforced nanocomposite materials. Practical use of these nanomaterials requires creating stable and strong linkages between nanotubes...
Briefs: Materials
Negative Dielectric Constant Material Based on Ion Conducting Materials
NASA Langley Research Center has developed a novel negative dielectric constant material based on ion-conducting materials. A negative dielectric constant material is an essential key for creating metamaterials, or artificial negative index materials (NIMs). NIMs have...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Additively Manufactured Modular Thrust Chamber
Thrust chambers have historically been difficult to manufacture. They require extensive tooling and labor, and are expensive with long lead times. Thrust chambers were designed for manufacture using conventional machining. As a result, designs required multiple pieces to ensure machine tool access...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Resonance-Actuation of Microshutter Arrays
The field of view required for future missions is much larger than for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have created a new actuation scheme...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Point Mechanic Piezoelectric Sensor System
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Wireless Electrical Device Using Open-Circuit Elements Having No Electrical Connections
NASA Langley Research Center has developed a wireless, connection-free, open-circuit technology that can be used for developing electrical devices such...
Briefs: Software
Designing Stronger Concrete
Plasticity at small scales boosts concrete's utility as the world's most-used material by letting it constantly adjust to stress, decades or centuries after hardening. To find out why, Rice University researchers...
Briefs: Software
Designing Materials with Reprogrammable Shape and Function
Researchers from Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a...
Articles: Automotive
Today's Automobile: Supercomputer on Wheels
With every passing year, it's getting more difficult to recognize the current crop of passenger vehicles as the descendants of Henry Ford's Model T. Those first mass-produced vehicles didn't even...
Briefs: Software
Designing and 3D Printing Customized Insoles for Diabetics
Insoles for diabetics have traditionally been handmade by makers of orthopedic shoes. In the future, these specialist shoemakers will be able to produce insoles more cost effectively...
Briefs: Software
Software Improves Medication Adherence for Heart Stent Patients
MyIDEA (My Interventional Drug-Eluting Stent Education App) software was developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) who study data-simplification to...
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Vibration Tables Shake Up Aerospace and Car Testing
Spinoff is NASA's annual publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. This commercialization has contributed to the development of products and services in the fields...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A Novel Orbiting Cloud Imager System for IR/UV/ X-Ray Bands
Typically, the cost of a spaceborne imaging system is driven by the size and mass of the primary aperture. Innovative solutions for imagers that are less complex and are lightweight are very desirable. Currently, telescopes such as JWST and ATLAST are very expensive and very...
Briefs: Software
Launch Trajectory Acquisition System (LTAS) Simulator
The objective of the LTAS Simulator application is to transmit one or more streams of simulated LTAS data frames in User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets to the network. Each LTAS data frame is filled with simulated data values, with each data field determined using several methods: 1)...
Briefs: Software
Inductive Monitoring System Graphical User Interface (IMS GUI) for Processing, Analyzing, and Cleaning Datasets
The Inductive Monitoring System (IMS) software uses data mining techniques to automatically characterize nominal system operation by analyzing archived system data. These nominal characterizations are then used to perform near-realtime...
Briefs: Software
Computer Models Could Help Design Physical Therapy Regimens
After a stroke, patients typically have trouble walking, and few are able to regain the gait they had before suffering a stroke. Researchers funded by the National Institute of...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Mechanical Metamaterials Block Symmetry of Motion
Engineers and scientists at the University of Texas at Austin and the AMOLF institute in the Netherlands have invented mechanical metamaterials that easily transfer motion in one direction...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Portable Superconductivity Systems for Small Motors
Superconductivity, where electrical currents travel unhindered through a material, has many practical uses. It is used in applications extending from MRIs in hospitals to the cavities of particle accelerators. However, practical exploitation of superconductivity also presents many...
Articles: Motion Control
Scanning Performance of Air Bearing Equipped Precision Motion Systems
Scanning is a common technique in applications ranging from high-resolution microscopy to industrial material processing. Scanning involves moving either a workpiece or an...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Six-Legged Robots Move Faster with Bipod Gate
Six-legged insects run fastest using a three-legged (tripod) gait where they have three legs on the ground at all times (two on one side of their body and one on the other). The tripod gait has...
Articles: Motion Control
Four Ways to improve Production by Understanding the Physics of Servos
There is always a need to increase production in automation applications. Sometimes achieving improvements requires breaking the process down to its fundamental basics....
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