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May 22 | News
What makes a piece of armor effective? Sure, it needs to be strong, and it should be lightweight. But what is it about a material's composition that gives it such properties? And can we develop materials that provide even better protection? With decades' worth of investment and preparation, California Institute of Technology engineers are particularly well equipped to address such questions as part of a new Army-funded program to improve protective gear and vehicles for soldiers.
May 17 | News
The
U.S. Army Research Laboratory-led Army ManTech program has achieved a
breakthrough in the ability to process thermoplastic-based composites for
use in the helmets of soldiers. The new material grades have produced
several types of head protection, each of which saves at least
one-quarter the weight and up to 35% higher tolerance from fragmenting
munitions.
Jan 23 | News
With
the help of military colleagues, University of Buffalo researchers have
shown that embedding charged quantum dots into photovoltaic cells can
improve electrical output by enabling the cells to harvest infrared
light, and by increasing the lifetime of photoelectrons.
6/14/2011 | News
Bourque
Industries Inc. recently announced it had completed testing of its
Kryron armor at the Army Research Laboratory’s Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
The proprietary metal alloy is often stronger, lighter and has a higher
electrical and lower thermal conductivity than the materials it is
designed to replace.
9/13/2010 | News
Reflecting
the fortunes of a struggling economy, government R&D funding for
2011 is expected to slip about three-tenths of one percent from 2010
levels. The big news from the proposed package, however, is a marked
fall in defense R&D: 6.6%. As a result, non-defense R&D could rise by several percentage points.
9/9/2010 | News
A portable, laser backpack for 3D mapping has
been developed at the University of California, Berkeley,
where it is being hailed as a breakthrough technology capable of
producing
fast, automatic, and realistic 3D mapping of difficult interior
environments.
9/1/2007 | RD 100 Awards
Power device users have long assumed that the temperature, switching, and packaging limitations of thyristors and GTOs (gate turn-off thyristors) would improve over time. They have not. A research team at Silicon Power Corp. (Malvern, Penn.), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) (Palo Alto,Calif.), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) (Arlington, Va.), and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, Md.), have developed an IC foundry fabrication process to substantially increase the conduction and switching efficiency in an ultra-high density package.
9/1/2007 | RD 100 Awards
Titanium is well known for having the greatest strength-to-density ratio of any metal.
However, titanium manufacturing costs have proven difficult to keep down. Researchers at
International Titanium Powder Inc. (Lockport, Ill.) have accomplished that goal
with ITP, Armstrong Process CP Ti and Ti Alloy Powder and Products. Developed
with researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), BAE
Systems (Santa Clara, Calif.), AMETEK (Wallingford, Conn.), National Energy Technology Laboratory (Albany, Ore.), Red Devil Brakes (Mt. Pleasant, Pa.), and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, Md.), ITP processes eliminate several time consuming and expensive processing steps in the production of titanium plate.
