2003-2004 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory (2005) / Chapter Skim
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7 Weapons and Materials Research Directorate
7 Weapons and Materials Research Directorate
Pages 39-44
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The directorate was formed in 1996 by the merger of the Materials Technology Laboratory and the Ballistics Research Laboratory, which had been independent directorates prior to the formation of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
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Interactions with workers on the Sandia National Laboratories Inertial Confinement Fusion program or the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility, where similar issues are being investigated, could prove fruitful. A computer code has been developed for the prediction of the failure of fibrous composite materials under high-rate loading conditions.
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For example, in the previous biennial report, the suggestion was made to include the plug shear failure mode in the composites analysis software. This year, it was part of the software package that has just been completed and marketed to the public.
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This is an excellent example of a case in which materials science and engineering can provide an enabling breakthrough. Through substantial team effort, a process has been developed for producing magnesium doped BST thin films using a metal-organic solution deposition technique.
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The challenges for blast deflection include warhead design, creation of the proper blast loading, detonation timing, accuracy, and the available time line. The active protection system work is a well-managed program that has used a suite of analytical and computational tools, combined with well-planned experimentation, to understand, bound, and develop solutions for the various technical challenges.
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Similar close connectivity with the Sandia National Laboratories and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in dynamic modeling was not emphasized or demonstrated. While in past years WMRD has shown good and improving metrics dealing with issues such as papers published, presentations, professional society activities, and educational outreach, no information of this type was received at the 2004 review.
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