Summary of Final MURI Report

This report summarizes the results of the five year DARPA Multi-University Interdisciplinary Research Initiative (MURI) conducted under the Air Force Office of Scientific Research program entitled "Development of Enabling Methodologies for Detection and Characterization of Early Stages of Damage in Aerospace Materials", funded under grant number F49620-96-1-0442.

This program began on September 1, 1996 under the direction of Dr. Theodore Matikas from the University of Dayton. The program was continued and finished on November 30, 2001 under the direction of Dr. Norbert Meyendorf from the University of Dayton. AFOSR grant program managers were Maj. Hugh DeLong and Lt. Col. Paul Trulove. More than 100 scientists and students from the University of Dayton, Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, the Fraunhofer Institute for Non-Destructive Testing in Germany, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, NASA, the University of Arizona, the National Center for Scientific Research in Greece, and others collaborated on the program. Eight faculty members advised graduate and undergraduate students from diverse departments including Aerospace, Materials, Electro-Optics, Welding, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, and Physics.

The first chapter of the following report will give an overview of the five year program, followed by a detailed discussion of the new achievements in NDE methods and application for the characterization of corrosion defects, corrosion protective coatings, fatigue and fretting fatigue damage.

Final Muri Report - Summary - Table of Contents

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