NASA Tech Briefs - April 2017 - Vol. 41 No. 4

Features

• Application Briefs

  Low-Outgassing Labels Identify Instruments on the International Space Station

  Cooling Solution Helps NASA Get Closer to Mars

  Optical Fiber for NASA's Next Climate-Viewing Satellite

  Custom Brakes Meet the Challenges of Gearless Motor Elevators

• Who's Who

  Brooke Thornton, Mission Operations Manager, NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA

• Articles

  Products of Tomorrow: April 2017

  Today's Automobile: Supercomputer on Wheels

• NASA Spinoff

  Vibration Tables Shake Up Aerospace and Car Testing

Tech Briefs

• Manufacturing & Prototyping

  Melt Infiltration of SiC/SiC Preforms Using Cr-Si Alloys

  Method of Making a Composite Panel Having Subsonic Transverse Wave Speed Characteristics

  Additively Manufactured Modular Thrust Chamber

• Software

  AMMOS Common Access Manager (CAM)

  Automating Optimization and Design Tasks Across Disciplines

  Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT)

  Intelligent Software Enables Design of Greener, More Efficient Construction Vehicles

  Shift: Self-Healing Independent File Transfer

  Designing Stronger Concrete

  Designing Materials with Reprogrammable Shape and Function

  Designing and 3D Printing Customized Insoles for Diabetics

  Software Improves Medication Adherence for Heart Stent Patients

  Launch Trajectory Acquisition System (LTAS) Simulator

  Inductive Monitoring System Graphical User Interface (IMS GUI) for Processing, Analyzing, and Cleaning Datasets

  Computer Models Could Help Design Physical Therapy Regimens

• Materials

  Electric Field Activated Shape Memory Polymer Composite

  Strain-Detecting Composite Materials

  Compositions Comprising Nickel-Titanium, Methods of Manufacture Thereof, and Articles Comprising the Same

  Preparation of Metal Nanowire Decorated Carbon Allotropes

  In Situ Mechanical Property Measurements of Amorphous Carbon-Boron Nitride Nanotube Nanostructures

  Negative Dielectric Constant Material Based on Ion Conducting Materials

• Electronics & Computers

  Wireless Electrical Device Using Open-Circuit Elements Having No Electrical Connections

• Sensors/Data Acquisition

  Method of Mapping Anomalies in Homogenous Material

  Controlled Deposition and Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes

  Point Mechanic Piezoelectric Sensor System

  Active Remote Sensing Radiometer

• Photonics/Optics

  Micro-Fresnel Zone Plate Optical Devices Using Densely Accumulated Ray Points

  CUDA Framework for Linear Time-Invariant Control of Adaptive Optics Systems

  Arrayed Micro-Ring Spectrometer System and Method of Use

  Resonance-Actuation of Microshutter Arrays

  A Novel Orbiting Cloud Imager System for IR/UV/ X-Ray Bands

• Aerospace

  Aircraft Configured for Flight in an Atmosphere Having Low Density

Products

• Product of the Month: April 2017

• Briefs

  Mechanical Metamaterials Block Symmetry of Motion

  Portable Superconductivity Systems for Small Motors

  Six-Legged Robots Move Faster with Bipod Gate

  Reducing Inaccuracies in Force/Haptic Feedback Systems

  Exo-Brake Enables Safe Return for Small Spacecraft

  BiBlade Sampling Chain

• Articles

  Scanning Performance of Air Bearing Equipped Precision Motion Systems

  Four Ways to improve Production by Understanding the Physics of Servos

  Converting from Hydraulic Cylinders to Electric Actuators

• Products

  New Products: April 2017 Motion Design