NASA Tech Briefs - January 2015 - Vol. 39 No. 1

Features

• Application Briefs

  Design and Analysis Software Ensures Safety of Launch Vehicle Structures

  Tiny Camera Lets NASA Inspection Tool “See”

• Who's Who

  Susan Draper, Materials Research Engineer, Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH

• Articles

  Products of Tomorrow: January 2015

  15 Questions to Ask About Circuit Protection for Wearable Electronics

  Brainwave Monitoring Software Helps Distracted Minds

Tech Briefs

• Test & Measurement

  A Continuous-Flow, Microfluidic, Microwave-Assisted Chemical Reactor

  High-Resolution Data Acquisition System Enables Reliable Engine Parameter Measurements

  Guarded Flat Plate Insulation Test Cryostat

• Materials

  High-Performance Polyimide Powder Coatings

  Selective Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes

  Predictive Modeling of Corrosion Efficiencies and Toxicities

  Improving Foreign Object Damage Performance for 2D Woven Ceramic Matrix Composites

• Information Sciences

  Enhanced Project Management Tool

  Advanced Navigation Strategies for Asteroid Sample Return Missions

  Half-Cycle Crack Growth

  NASA Visualization Explorer

  Simple Safe Site Selection (S4) Algorithm

  Fast Classification Method for Multivariate Mixtures of Spectroscopic Responses

  Feature Database

  DRAT: A Distributed Release Audit Tool

• Electronics & Computers

  PATTERNS: Panoptic Aspect Time Triggered Ethernet Robust Network Scheduler, Version 1.0

  Electromagnetic Waves Transformed from a Coherent to a Quasi-Coherent Nature

  An Earth-Observing, Frequency-Agile Radar Receiver for RFI Mitigation

  Wireless Electrical Devices Using Floating Electrodes

• Sensors/Data Acquisition

  Magnetic Thermometer for High-Resolution 10-mK Scale Thermometry

  High-Temperature Ultrasonic Probe for In-Service Health Monitoring of Steam Pipes

  Low-Weight, Durable, Low-Cost Metal Rubber Sensor System for Ultra-Long-Duration Scientific Balloons

  Low-Power Charged Particle Counter for Space Radiation Monitoring

  Ground-to-Space Laser Calibration System

  Process-Hardened, Multi-Analyte Sensor for Characterizing Multiple Rocket Plume Constituents in a Test Environment

• Aerospace

  Web-Enabled and Automatic Ground Processing Infrastructure Servicing the UAVSAR Airborne Missions

  Variable-Sweep-Wing Aircraft Configuration

  Automated Table Lookup Solution Algorithm of the Optimal Powered Descent Guidance for Planetary Landing

  Head-Worn Display Concepts for Ground Operations for Commercial Aircraft

  Computation of Wing Deflection and Slope from Measured Strain

• Communications

  Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast System for Traffic Situational Awareness

  E-Textile Antenna Tuning Stitches

  Protograph-Based LDPC Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation

  Flight Imagery Recorder Locator (FIRLo) and High-Temperature Radome

  Multiparty Policy Negotiation Engine

Products

• Product of the Month: January 2015

• Briefs

  Active Layer Optimization in Ultra-Thin, Surface-Parallel, Deformable Mirrors

  Monolithic Dual Telescope for Compact Biaxial Lidar

  Passive Aerosol Cloud Suite

• Applications

  Fabricating Custom Components from Stock Optics

• Articles

  Design of High-Brightness, Fiber-Coupled Diode Laser Modules

  SPIE Photonics West 2015 Preview

• Products

  Product of the Month: LED Light Engines for Large FOV Fluorescence Imaging Systems

  Low Viscosity, Two Component Epoxy

  CCD Image Sensor

  Thermal Imaging Core

  CCTV Lenses

  Fiber Optic Laser Source Modules

  AFM TERS Solution

  Imaging Sensor Targets

  Laser Optics Coatings

  Optical Measurement System

  4 x 25G Lasers

  sCMOS Camera

  Solid-State Lasers

  High-Accuracy Galvo Scanner

  High-Speed Cameras

  Focus Module Developer’s Kit