Questions? Call 800-624-6242
|
|
|
|
Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole.
Intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text on the opening pages of each chapter.
Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.
Do not use for reproduction, copying, pasting, or reading; exclusively for search engines.
OCR for page 1
1
Introduction
INTRODUCTION AND STUDY ORIGIN
In 2012, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached the National Research Council’s
TIGER standing committee and asked it to develop a list of workshop topics to explore the impact of
emerging science and technology. One topic that came out of that list was adaptive structural materials.
This workshop was held on July 11-12, 2012.
OBJECTIVES
The statement of task for the workshop can be found in Box 1-1. The objectives for the workshop
were to explore the potential use of adaptive structural materials science and technology for military
application. Understanding the current research in this area, and the potential opportunities to use this
research by U.S. adversaries, allows the Defense Warning Office to advise U.S. policy makers in an
appropriate and timely manner to take action on those areas deemed a national security risk. The
workshop featured invited presentations and discussions that aimed to:
Review the latest advances and applications both nationally and internationally related to adaptive
structural materials scientific research and technology development.
Review adaptive materials related to shape memory, magnetostrictive materials, magnetic shape
memory alloys, phase change materials, and other metal and non-metallic materials research that
may be uncovered during the course of workshop preparation and execution, to include all soft
or nanoscale materials such as those used in human bone or tissue.
Review modeling, processing and fabrication related to defining designs or design requirements
for future military or dual-use air, space, land, sea or human systems.
Review dual-use applications of commercial adaptive structural materials research and
development, and the potential impacts on U.S. national security interests.
The workshop then focused on the application of adaptive structural materials technology and the
national security implications for the United States, discussing U.S. and foreign researchers’ current
research, why the state or non-state actor application of a technology is important in the context of
technological and military capabilities, and what critical breakthroughs are needed to advance the field.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
The Committee for a Review of Adaptive Structural Materials Research That Could Pose a Threat to
US National Security Interests: A Workshop devised an agenda (see Appendix B) that helped the
committee, sponsors, and attendees probe issues of national security related to materials as well as gain an
understanding of potential vulnerabilities. This report summarizes the views expressed by individual
workshop participants. While the committee is responsible for the overall quality and accuracy of the
report as a record of what transpired at the workshop, the views contained in the report are not necessarily
1
OCR for page 2
2 ADAPTIVE MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES: A WORKSHOP REPORT
BOX 1-1
Statement of Task
An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a two day workshop on selected national security
implications of recent advances in adaptive structural materials. The workshop will feature invited
presentations and panelists and include discussions on adaptive structural materials research and
application that could create a technological surprise to our Nation's security and require US Defense
Department intelligence monitoring and advance warning to allow national leaders to take action. The
committee will plan the agenda, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the
discussions.
those of all workshop participants, the committee, or the National Research Council. This workshop was
not intended to provide a comprehensive review of the state of adaptive structural materials.
REPORT STRUCTURE
The content of this report is divided between two chapters which correspond to the discussions and
presentations on each day. Chapter 2 summarizes presentations and discussions held on the first day of
the workshop, July 11, 2012. Chapter 3 chronicles the discussions from the second day of the workshop,
July 12, 2012. The three appendices contain, in order, the biographies of the committee members, the
agenda and list of attendees, and the biographies of the presenters. A distinction is noted in Chapters 2
and 3 as to whether the material is from the presenters or from participant discussion.
