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Considerations for Suspension ModificationJ2492_201910 (Current)10/9/2019
The scope of this document is limited specifically to the following types of passenger vehicles: automobiles, light trucks, and sport/utility vehicles. This document addresses modifications as they apply to legal use of the vehicle, and examines suspension modification as it applies to stock (as manufactured) ride height, and changed (raised or lowered) ride height. Note that modifications of ride height are considered, exclusive of wheel and/or tire modifications, which can also have potentially serious side effects, and are outside the scope of this document.
Motor Vehicle Council
The Selection of Adhesives for the Attachment of Exterior Aftermarket AccessoriesJ2375_201910 (Current)10/3/2019
The scope of this SAE Recommended Practice is to provide a mechanism for the proper surface preparation and selection of adhesive for the attachment of exterior aftermarket accessories.
Motor Vehicle Council
Composable Storage Platform for High-Performance ComputingTBMG-339073/1/2019
Large-scale, high-performance computing — supercomputing — is essential to solving both complex and large questions. But storage platforms essential for these advanced computer systems have been stuck in a rigid framework that required users to either choose between customization of features or high availability.
Design Development of Lightweight Thermoplastic Composite Cargo Floor for Helicopter ApplicationF-0074-2018-128205/14/2018
ABSTRACT The ability to construct a composite, semimonocoque, damage-resistant, cargo floor for a rotary wing application using an IM7 graphite/polyetheretherketone (PEEK) composite with in-situ tape-placement fabrication technology has been demonstrated. Through an evolutionary process, a damage-tolerant thermoplastic composite cargo floor was designed according to realistic requirements, and subelement representative structures were developed to verify the design viability and approach. The fabricated and tested structural composite floor subelements demonstrated the feasibility of the technology, illustrated the ability to customize the design to meet unique cargo floor properties (e.g., cargo-loading features), and validated the maturity of the approach and fabrication technology for rotary-wing applications.
Luzetsky, Harry, Michasiow, John
Lightweight, Low-Cost, Damage-Tolerant, Highly Survivable Composite Drive Shaft for Helicopter ApplicationF-0073-2017-121535/9/2017
ABSTRACT The ability to construct a composite, damage-resistant, highly survivable drive shaft for a rotary-wing application using an IM7 graphite/polyetheretherketone (PEEK) composite and in-situ tape-placement fabrication technology has been demonstrated. Through an evolutionary process, highly survivable, damage-tolerant shafts were developed, design tools and data were validated, and test shafts developed to evaluate the design viability in a dynamic application. The drive shafts demonstrated the feasibility of the technology, illustrated the ability to customize the design to meet unique shaft properties (e.g., frequency), and validated the maturity of the technology for rotary-wing applications.
Luzetsky, Harry, Michasiow, John, Phifer, Ellen
SCOTUS Rules Out Gene PatentsTBMG-170038/1/2013
In June, academic researchers and clinical laboratories seeking to make a mark in the emerging fields of molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine were buoyed by the long-awaited ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) v. Myriad Genetics Inc., (2013).
Remote Data Exploration with the Interactive Data Language (IDL)TBMG-159163/1/2013
A difficulty for many NASA researchers is that often the data to analyze is located remotely from the scientist and the data is too large to transfer for local analysis. Researchers have developed the Data Access Protocol (DAP) for accessing remote data. Presently one can use DAP from within IDL, but the IDLDAP interface is both limited and cumbersome. A more powerful and user-friendly interface to DAP for IDL has been developed.
Secure Peer-to-Peer Networks for Scientific Information SharingTBMG-130533/1/2012
The most common means of remote scientific collaboration today includes the trio of e-mail for electronic communication, FTP for file sharing, and personalized Web sites for dissemination of papers and research results. With the growth of broadband Internet, there has been a desire to share large files (movies, files, scientific data files) over the Internet. Email has limits on the size of files that can be attached and transmitted. FTP is often used to share large files, but this requires the user to set up an FTP site for which it is hard to set group privileges, it is not straightforward for everyone, and the content is not searchable.
Mercury Toolset for Spatiotemporal MetadataTBMG-80546/1/2010
Mercury http://mercury.ornl.gov is a set of tools for federated harvesting, searching, and retrieving metadata, particularly spatiotemporal metadata. Version 3.0 of the Mercury toolset provides orders of magnitude improvements in search speed, support for additional metadata formats, integration with Google Maps for spatial queries, facetted type search, support for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) delivery of search results, and enhanced customization to meet the needs of the multiple projects that use Mercury. It provides a single portal to very quickly search for data and information contained in disparate data management systems, each of which may use different metadata formats. Mercury harvests metadata and key data from contributing project servers distributed around the world and builds a centralized index. The search interfaces then allow the users to perform a variety of fielded, spatial, and temporal searches across these metadata sources. This centralized repository of metadata with distributed data sources provides extremely fast search results to the user, while allowing data providers to advertise the availability of their data and maintain complete control and ownership of that data.
Specialized Color Function for Display of Signed DataTBMG-344612/1/2008
This Mathematica script defines a color function to be used with Mathematica’s plotting modules for differentiating data attaining both positive and negative values. Positive values are shown as shades of blue, and negative values are shown in red. The intensity of the color reflects the absolute value of the data value.
International Space Station USOS Crew Quarters Development2008-01-20266/29/2008
The International Space Station (ISS) United States Operational Segment (USOS) currently provides a Temporary Sleep Station (TeSS) as crew quarters for one crewmember in the Laboratory Module. The Russian Segment provides permanent crew quarters (Kayutas) for two crewmembers in the Service Module. The TeSS provides limited electrical, communication, and ventilation functionality. A new permanent rack sized USOS ISS Crew Quarters (CQ) is being developed. Up to four CQs can be installed into the Node 2 element to increase the ISS crewmember size to six. The new CQs will provide private crewmember space with enhanced acoustic noise mitigation, integrated radiation reduction material, controllable airflow, communication equipment, redundant electrical systems, and redundant caution and warning systems. The rack sized CQ is a system with multiple crewmember restraints, adjustable lighting, controllable ventilation, and interfaces that allow each crewmember to personalize their CQ workspace. Providing an acoustically quiet and visually isolated environment, while ensuring crewmember safety, is critical for crewmember rest and comfort to enable long term crewmember performance. The numerous human factor, engineering, and program considerations during the concept, design, and prototyping are outlined in the paper.
Broyan, James Lee, Borrego, Melissa Ann, Bahr, Juergen F.
Aerospace Engineering 2007-10-01AEROOCT0710/1/2007
Let's get digital Aviation and defense companies are turning to software tools as a way to create systems and components faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than ever before. Global collaboration is in the air From national to international to global, aerospace programs have become ever more geographically interlinked. Whether military or civil, the need for transworld technology collaboration and partnership is rising to new heights. Creating, customizing aircraft interiors Aircraft designers who have made the transition to digital design tools are expanding their use as the tools extend their capabilities.
Highly Maneuverable Mobility Platform for Personal Vehicle2007-01-08434/16/2007
Personal mobile vehicles have been extensively studied recently, for the benefit of fuel economy and transportation efficiency. This study proposes a personal vehicle system comprising a new tilting mechanism -Stephenson six-bar linkage- combined with a new diamond-shape wheel arrangement chassis for high maneuverability. The present personal concept vehicle not only makes all the wheels and body lean simultaneously, and achieves an effective tilting angle of 32° in cornering, but can also, in normal attitude, turn in a narrow space with the steering front wheel and freely steering rear wheel. The current prototype of the proposed diamond-shape tilting chassis of personal vehicle concept, driven by 1.5kW hub motor in the front wheel, tandem two-seat, is 1m wide by 2.1m long. Preliminary test results indicate that the minimum turning radius is 1.05m for turn-in-spot, and the anti-rollover capability is almost 0.5g.
Peng, Yu-Yin, Li, C. H., Wang, James H., Gau, Tien-Ho
Customized Power MOSFETs for Automotive Application2007-01-15904/16/2007
This paper describes the customized power MOSFET technologies that we have developed over the last twenty years for automotive use. During the 1980s we developed thermal-destruction free power MOSFETs with monolithically integrated polysilicon thermal sensing diodes (PTSDs), which are in wide use around the world. In the 1990s, we succeeded in developing the CONCAVE-DMOSFET, the first vertical channel power MOSFET for automotive use that achieves both lower dissipation and optimal gate reliability. Recently, we have greatly advanced power MOSFET performance through the development of PTOx trench-gate MOSFETs (TMOSs), where PTOx stands for partially thick gate oxide film structure. The PTOx structure consists of thick oxide around the trench top, thin oxide on the trench sides, and thick oxide at the trench bottom, and is formed using a simple process that we developed. Estimated figures of merit (Ron*Qgd) compared with conventional devices are remarkably reduced by 32% at 60 V, 28% at 100 V, and 25% at 250 V. Fabricated PTOx-TMOSs of 100 V and 250 V denote high performance corresponding with the estimations, and stress reduction in the gate oxides against high electrical field has been successfully achieved, promising high reliability.
Mizuno, Shoji, Aoki, Takaaki, Tsuzuki, Yukio, Suzuki, Mikimasa
Cassini Archive Tracking SystemTBMG-108010/1/2006
The Cassini Archive Tracking System (CATS) is a computer program that enables tracking of scientific data transfers from originators to the Planetary Data System (PDS) archives. Without CATS, there is no systematic means of locating products in the archive process or ensuring their completeness. By keeping a database of transfer communications and status, CATS enables the Cassini Project and the PDS to efficiently and accurately report on archive status. More importantly, problem areas are easily identified through customized reports that can be generated on the fly from any Web-enabled computer. A Web-browser interface and clearly defined authorization scheme provide safe distributed access to the system, where users can perform functions such as create customized reports, record a transfer, and respond to a transfer. CATS ensures that Cassini provides complete science archives to the PDS on schedule and that those archives are available to the science community by the PDS. The three-tier architecture is loosely coupled and designed for simple adaptation to multi-mission use. Written in the Java programming language, it is portable and can be run on any Java-enabled Web server.
Scheduling With Automatic Resolution of ConflictsTBMG-389/1/2006
DSN Requirement Scheduler is a computer program that automatically schedules, reschedules, and resolves conflicts for allocations of resources of NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) on the basis of ever changing project requirements for DSN services. As used here, “resources” signifies, primarily, DSN antennas, ancillary equipment, and times during which they are available. Examples of project-required DSN services include arraying, segmentation, very-long-baseline interferometry, and multiple spacecraft per aperture. Requirements can include periodic reservations of specific or optional resources during specific time intervals or within ranges specified in terms of starting times and durations. This program is built on the Automated Scheduling and Planning Environment (ASPEN) software system (aspects of which have been described in previous NASA Tech Briefs articles), with customization to reflect requirements and constraints involved in allocation of DSN resources. Unlike prior DSN-resource scheduling programs that make single passes through the requirements and require human intervention to resolve conflicts, this program makes repeated passes in a continuing search for all possible allocations, provides a best-effort solution at any time, and presents alternative solutions among which users can choose.
Organizing Diverse, Distributed Project InformationTBMG-768511/1/2003
SemanticOrganizer is a software application designed to organize and integrate infor- mation generated within a distributed organ- ization or as part of a project that involves multiple, geographically dispersed collaborators. Semantic- Organizer incorporates the capa- bilities of database storage, document sharing, hypermedia navigation, and semantic-interlinking into a system that can be customized to satisfy the specific information-management needs of different user communities. The program provides a centralized repository of information that is both secure and accessible to project collaborators via the World Wide Web. SemanticOrganizer’s repository can be used to collect diverse information (including forms, documents, notes, data, spreadsheets, images, and sounds) from computers at collaborators’ work sites. The program organizes the information using a unique network- structured conceptual framework, wherein each node represents a data record that contains not only the original information but also metadata (in effect, standardized data that characterize the information). Links among nodes express semantic relationships among the data records. The program features a Web interface through which users enter, interlink, and/or search for information in the repository. By use of this repository, the collaborators have immediate access to the most recent project information, as well as to archived information. A key advantage to SemanticOrganizer is its ability to interlink information together in a natural fashion using customized terminology and concepts that are familiar to a user community.
Vehicle Electronic Programming Stations (VEPS) System Specification for Win32 TMJ2461_200208 (Historical)8/29/2002
Identification This system specification, SAE J2461, revises the requirements for Vehicle Electronics Programming Stations (VEPS) set forth in SAE J2214, Vehicle Electronics Programming Stations (VEPS) System Specification for Programming Components at OEM Assembly Plants. SAE J2461 specifies the recommended practices for a Win32 TM environment while maintaining the core VEPS architecture specified in SAE J2214. Introduction SAE J2461 describes the application of the Win32 TM environment to the customization of programmable components assembled in OEM vehicles, where components provide a communication API such as TMC RP1210. Because the customization is performed using both OEM-provided and vendor-provided software, the roles and responsibilities of the vendor and OEM elements must be defined to permit the development of common vendor software elements for all Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). SAE J2461 identifies the system resources of a Win32 TM computer between OEM and vendor components, the required elements comprising VEPS, and specifies the software interfaces needed between the OEM-supplied elements and the vendor-supplied elements. By maintaining many common elements with SAE J2214, an orderly transition from a MS-DOS TM based VEPS to a Win32 TM VEPS can be achieved. SAE J2286 is the software interface element of SAE J2214 that specifies the Vendor Component Program Data File Interface for OEM Assembly Operations. SAE J2286 will still be the Data File Interface used for the Win32 TM VEPS. TMC RP1210 describes the communication API used by the vendor programs.
Truck and Bus Low Speed Communication Network Committee
The development of in-vehicle unit of advanced vehicle information and communication system2000-05-03706/12/2000
This paper presents an in-vehicle information system, AVICS in development. With AVICS, the driver could get the various information on traffic, news, weather, restaurants, and so on, which the AVICS information center provides via mobile telecommunication network. The driver requests the information to operator in center by voice with hands-free system or by handling the menu offered in the form of web-page. The in-vehicle unit for AVICS is designed to interface with wireless network with a built-in RF MODEM, to control NAVI system, and to display the information on the LCD monitor of AV system. The Internet browser is customized to parse specific HTML tags, application software is realized on 32-bit RISC processor. In this paper, we will overview the concept of AVICS and focus on development of in-vehicle unit of AVICS.
Park, Chan Seok, Kim, Hyung Gon, Shim, Kab Jong, Lee, Sung Bum
Personalization of Vehicles Via Electronics86106110/20/1986
Weishaupt, Walter
Equipment Customization as a Full Time Business8009899/1/1980
The business of full time equipment customization in the international market presents unique, complex problems. To cope with these presistent problems, a company twist be organized in such a way to assure interfacing of all the company's facets in a consistent and efficient manner. With proper interfacing, each facet of the company is assured of participating in the decision processes throughout the product development cycle. In this manner product problems can be shared and solved broadening the entire company's knowledge and increasing efficiency.
Seabaugh, David T.
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