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This poject deals with the long range propagation of strong blast waves in a real environment resulting from the blasting of an ammunition, from an accident or from a terrorist attack. This project has got applications both in the public domain and in the military perimeter. This is why it is submit

-To improve understanding of primary blast-related injury mechanisms on lungs -To revisit numerical approach by taking into account this atypical threat in order to get an efficient numerical tool. -To think and design future surrogates improving personal protective equipment testing. A state of

The main objective of the NeoTherapeutics project is to investigate the therapeutic potential of helical peptidomimetic foldamers as a new class of host defence peptide mimics in a mouse model of Anthrax infection. The project is strongly related to the Thematic axis 7 of the DGA POS document, conce

The incisive feature of the TRINIDAD project is its focus upon the outstanding ultra-low damping properties of YIG to create new applications as microwave components, exploiting the possibility to electronically tune the magnetic losses. The main deliverable of the project is to fabricate a t

The aim of the 3CAH project is to design new composite materials presenting controllable conductivities. The composite structures generally associate hearts and skins dielectric materials which ensure the mechanical behaviour of the structure. To obtain increased electromagnetic performances, these

In the history of pyrotechnics, nanothermites are younger energetic materials; their versatility makes them promising for a lot of applications requiring a high power. The challenges are of scientific, regulatory and social concerns. 1. The scientific challenges: The initiation of high explosive

A polarimetric imager illuminates the scene with light whose polarization state is controlled and analyzes the state of polarization of light scattered by the scene. In most current systems, the poalrization states are limited and cannot be changed. Recent studies have shown that it is possible to i

The objective of the COCORICO project is the realization of an autonomous communicating discrete and directive sensor operating in the millimeter range and made with a (COC / COP) polymer material. It will be able to deliver a signal over a distance of the order of a km and in a preferred direction

The objectives are to push the current limits to achieve the widest bandwidth, (6:1 for antenna and 4:1 for absorbing materials) and a scanning angle until 60 °. The targeted applications are directive antennas required by radar and high data rate telecommunications in civil and / or military airbo

Traditionally the intense laser beam at the end of the chain , after compression , has a Gaussian amplitude distribution type, or super- gaussian. This is teh eigenmode of the system and theassociated spatial phase is quasi plane if a deformable mirror is implanted or aberrant if it is not the case

The goal of our RiftVac proposal is to develop RVFV vaccines for humans and ruminants based on 1) SIRP- DC targeting with protein or DNA-based vaccines and 2) on pox viruses, either in homologous or heterologous prime/boosts, in the sheep preclinical model. RiftVac implicates 4 complementary partne

This project aims at defining the first procedure yielding a complete characterization of the susceptibility of a system under test (SUT) to any external interferer configuration, without having to submit the SUT to exhaustive test configurations. The most important innovation will be a change of pa

Meet these requirements through a multidisciplinary team (Information Science and Ecology / Marine Biology) is the goal of the project which will focus its demonstration of the infra-littoral environments (bathymetry between 0 m and 30 m). Indeed because the latter i) plays a significant role (produ

C2 are designed to help a military command post to manage its resources, give orders, and especially to understand the tactical situation by providing a summary of known information. The objectives of the project are following: - Assess the feasibility and the interest of new hypotheses of intera

Here we propose to i) identify novel F. tularensis effector proteins secreted into the host cell and required for virulence ii) identify their eukaryotic binding partners by the yeast two hybrid technology and decipher their molecular functions; iii) screen two chemical libraries to identify drugs d

This project intends to develop numerical and modelling tools to predict air injection drag reduction, based on the collaboration between three partners: GIP French Naval Academy/IRENav, IMFT and LML with both numerical and experimental methods. In this project, the mechanisms that govern air inject

The objective of this project is to develop multispectral molded optics operating simultaneously in the visible/short wave infrared (SWIR) and far infrared between 8-12 µm. These optics will allow the fusion of images taken in these two complementary spectral bands with the same optic, leading to a

The AUCTOPUSS project aims to study and develop a function to digitalize, high dynamics and very wide band, microwave signals by optimizing the sampling operation using semiconductor nanostructured materials. This research project is motivated by the very promising results obtained during the explo

In 1950, 30% of humans were urban. The UN and the World Bank noted that in 2007, for the first time in the history of mankind, the urban population outnumbered the rural population. And this ratio is expected to reach 60% by 2030. Urban areas become a major configuration, whether for civil, militar

Recently, the team EMC (ElectroMagnetic Compatibility) of the Institute XLIM has developed new thin oblique wire formalism in the FDTD method applied for Maxwell’s equations. This formalism exhibits robustness, flexibility and enable us to model complex topology of cables as demonstrated with the Fa

The ANDROMEDE project aim to reach a new technological knowledge step for the understanding of the transient phenomena in energetic materials and especially to characterize the energetic thresholds with the measure of the continuous evolution of these physical parameters. This new diagnostic is a

The understanding of the space weather and the disturbances of the iono-magnetosphere is a challenging matter for many institutions. The spatial industries, agencies and research institutes must maintain the highest standards for the design of their satellites, instruments and data processing algori

We propose to carry out studies to understand the effects of electric pulses, promising in biology and medicine and mimicking pulses used by the Defense, on the living, and thereby to control them. The field of investigation concerns the different constituents of living, from the molecule to the com

Localizing transient acoustic signals has a dual interest. It may contribute to area surveillance. It also constitutes a protection against snipers. For these reasons, acoustic localization systems have been developed and satisfactorily evaluated in open outdoor environments. In urban environments t

The initial objectives of this research program were: (i) to collect and identify new toxic agents from cyanobacteria, (ii) to determine the pharmacology of spirolides not yet studied (20 methyl spirolide G), of pinnatoxin analogs and prorocentrolides, all having a cyclic imine group, and that of al

The project aims to develop new methods for multimodal image exploitation. It will assess the potential of using separate and joint Lidar and optical multi / hyper spectral data in dual applications (civilian and military). It will identify new processing algorithms for characterization/detectio

Antifouling coatings are currently used on surfaces in contact with marine fouling organisms. The most successful antifouling (AF) paints for several years have been tributyltin (TBT)-based self-polishing paints and have been banned because of environmental concerns.The aim of this project is to dev

This project aims at investigating three key issues in aerial robotics: teleoperation, high-level sensor-based control, and sensor fusion. The intended applications encompass visual inspection of a target (e.g. building, electric line, bridge, etc.) thanks to a semi-autonomous aerial robot piloted b

In the first step of the project, 3D outstanding microstructures will be realized in silicon wafer. An individual fabrication will be developped at the begining of the project with MEMS technologies. A collective development of at least 2 microdevices will be proposed in the second part. To get auto

PROPHETE aims to develop and validate a prediction tool for radiation and propagation for HF and VHF antennas. These calculations are usually performed by different tools. In this project they will be merged into one single tool. PROPHETE will allow predicting the far field pattern of an antenna loc

- Improve the Freq & Time products, - applications for high temperature sensors None so far No change up to now nothing In the field of numerous applications in the Frequency and Time domain, quartz crystal remains the leader. Nevertheless, « new » piezoelectric materials can exhibit properti

The main steps are (i) the development of a regional meteorological dust model by implementing specific parameterizations of dust emission, transport and deposition on-line in the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model, (ii) the evaluation of the quality of the resulting regional dust simulations

The remote detection of gaseous compounds is a part of innovative technologies for the detection of gaseous compounds, whether it is in the civil domain for the atmospheric applications or in the field of the defense for the detection of hazardous materials. This last point is the object of one of t

Molecular imprinting is a well-established and facile technique to synthesize molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) with specific molecular-recognition sites for a large variety of applications, such as chromatographic separations, membranes, catalysis, biosensors, and artificial antibodies. However

Optimization algorithms, when they are used in a real-time and safety-critical context, offer the potential for considerably advancing robotic and autonomous systems by enabling significant improvements in their ability to initiate, plan, and execute complex missions. In that regard, they are likely

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 100 tropical and sub-tropical countries are endemic for malaria and as many as 3.3 billion people are exposed to malarial infections. Approximately, 1.24 million people die of malaria every year.In addition to people living in endemic area,

Predicting the behavior of fire in confined enclosures with and without mitigation using water-based firefighting systems is a topic of great interest for both civil and military fields. Although notable advances have been made in this area from prescriptive or analytic approaches, these conventiona

Find an efficient solution for neutralization of organophosphorus nerve agents in vivo, in order to protect or cure people is a concern of public health. Such organophosphorus-based compounds are used as chemical weapons or pest control agents. The need of a biocompatible mean for their neutralizati

The overall goal of this proposal is the high precision digital stereo obtained from a pair of images (and more generally from an arbitrary number of images of the same scene). The project goal is to reach the effective limits when we control the entire chain of acquisition to the maximum precision,

The goal of this project is to detect "online" noticeable events in video sequences. By "noticeable event" we mean any event that draws attention by its spatial and/or temporal behavior. In this project, we wish to develop a general-purpose detection framework. This rules out supervised learning-bas

Gravimetric devices permit mass measurements in the macro-world (kilograms to nanograms), whereas mass spectrometers perform mass-to-charge ratio measurements on the infinitesimal scale (attograms to yoctograms). In between these two regimes, lies the “meso-world” where viruses, spores, fungi, bacte