Courtesy Photo | Air Force Research Laboratory | 08.09.2017
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – One of the most notable, recent projects by the Flexible Materials and Processes team is the transition of 3-D printed conformal antennas to enable Link-16 radio communication on the MQ-9 reaper platform. The team’s expertise in additive manufacturing and functional materials enabled them to create a quick-turn solution to meet a communication need......
Photo by Marisa Alia-Novobilski | Air Force Research Laboratory | 08.09.2017
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio –A member of the Flexible Materials and Processes team at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate exhibits an additively manufactured electrical circuit embedded in a flexible material substrate. The flex team is exploring novel ways to use 3-D printing technology to create next generation flexible hybrid......
Photo by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 06.16.2016
Keith Thole, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District civil engineer, demonstrates reading a manual piezometer with students, including Ed Blackburn, civil engineer in the Nashville District’s Soils and Dam Safety Section. They were getting hands-on training at J. Percy Priest Dam June 16, 2016. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)...
Photo by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 06.16.2016
Matthew Short, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District instrumentation technician, shows students how to take manual inclinometer readings at J. Percy Priest Dam June 16, 2016. Inclinometers are used to measure any slope movement. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)...
Photo by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 06.16.2016
Jason Anderson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District, shows students the automated instrumentation installed at J. Percy Priest Dam in Nashville, Tenn., during a hands-on class June 16, 2016. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)...
Photo by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 06.16.2016
Georgette, Hlepas, senior geotechnical engineer with the Dam Safety Modification and Mandatory Center of Expertise in Huntington, West Va., examines drain holes and uplift cells with a student in the gallery of J. Percy Priest Dam in Nashville, Tenn., June 16, 2016. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)...
Photo by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 06.16.2016
Vanessa Bateman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Civil Design chief, reviews J. Percy Priest Dam case history with students before going out to the dam in Nashville, Tenn., to take instrument readings. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)...
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 06.16.2016
A total of 30 students receive classroom instruction during the dam and levee instrumentation and performance monitoring training held at J. Percy Priest Dam in Nashville, Tenn., June 16, 2016. (USACE photo by Vanessa Bateman)...
