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Naval Surface Warfare
Center/Carderock
Carderock Division
(Bethesda, Annapolis, and White Oak, MD)
Facilities include deep water basins, water
tunnels, rotating arm, maneuvering and seakeeping
basins, anechoic wind tunnel, deep ocean pressure
tanks, access to CRAY and other state of the
art computers, hydrofoil and air cushion vehicle
test units, subsonic and transonic wind tunnels
and many others.
Acoustic Ship Silencing:
Acoustic silencing of submarines and surface
ships, reduction of sonar self-noise and target
strength, sound and vibration, acoustical
characteristics of structural materials, hydrodynamic
noise suppression, acoustical data analysis,
wetted surface treatment for noise control,
acoustic fields of submarine and surface vehicles,
non-linear behavior in turbo machinery flow.
Vulnerability:
Ship vulnerability, survivability and protection,
weapons effects, damage control, combat readiness
of naval vehicles and their weapons, fire
fighting sub systems.
Survivability:
Structure and Materials: Structures, materials
and fabrication techniques for submarine and
surface vehicles with emphasis on advanced
structural concepts, numerical methods, probabilistic
based design/analysis methods, structural
analysis, seaway loads prediction; metals
and alloys, high strength steels; spray metal
fabrication; Advanced composite materials;
fracture fatigue, physical metallurgy; welding
research; automated manufacturing processes;
nondestructive evaluation (NDE); biomolecular
electronics, control of chaos, electrochemical
power sources, radiation dosimetry, magnetostructive
materials; marine corrosion; fouling control;
coatings and ship protection; ship related
environmental quality, water treatment, grey
water and oily waste systems, gaseous exhausts;
high temperature ceramics; superconducting
materials; marine tribology, surface wear;
fire safety and sea survival equipment, and
life support technology.
Ship Machinery Systems:
Propulsion, power and auxiliary machinery
systems for surface ships, submarine auxiliary
machinery, energy conservation, environmental
engineering, alternate energy sources (other
than nuclear), condition based maintenance
technology, simulation and modeling of machinery,
and information technology. Solid state power
conditioning; fiber optics sensors and communications;
deep ocean technology; machinery acoustic
and magnetic silencing; non-linear flow and
acoustics in turbo machines.
Ship Systems and Logistics:
Integrated logistics support (ILS), and acquisition
methodologies, micro-analysis, forecasting,
artificial intelligence and robotics, advanced
ship concepts, assessments and projection
of technology.
Ship Hydromechanics:
Resistance of ships and submarines, hydrodynamic
flow characteristics around ship hulls and
appendages, propeller design, ship stability
and seakeeping, prediction of hydrodynamic
loads.
Advanced Electronics Instrumentation:
New and improved instrumentation for research
and full scale applications, improved computational
methods, advanced electronic devices laser
doppler velocimeters, fiber optic probes.
Submarine Maneuvering:
Stability, control, and maneuvering characteristics,
mathematical models for simulation of the
motions, recovery from control surface casualties,
hydrodynamic forces and moments developed
on the hull, appendages, and propulsion, hydrodynamic
flow measurements, and new control concepts.
Electromagnetic Signatures:
Wave theory, optics, radar and infrared instrumentation
signal and image processing systems and techniques.
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