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The Advanced Helicopter Electromagnetics (AHE) Industrial Associates Program has fruitfully completed its fourth year. Under the support of the AHE members and the joint effort of the research team, new and significant progress has been achieved in the year. Following the recommendations by the Advisory Task Force, the research effort is placed on more practical helicopter electromagnetic problems, such as HF antennas, composite materials, and antenna efficiencies. In this annual report, the main topics to be addressed include composite materials and antenna technology. The research work on each topic has been driven by the AHE consortium members' interests and needs. The remarkable achievements and progresses in each subject is reported respectively in individual sections of the report. The work in the area of composite materials includes: modeling of low conductivity composite materials by using Green's function approach; guidelines for composite material modeling by using the Green's function approach in the NEC code; development of 3-D volume mesh generator for modeling thick and volumetric dielectrics by using FD-TD method; modeling antenna elements mounted on a composite Comanche tail stabilizer; and antenna pattern control and efficiency estimate for a horn antenna loaded with composite dielectric materials. Balanis, Constantine A. and Sun, Weimin and El-Sharawy, El-Budawy and Aberle, James T. and Birtcher, Craig R. and Peng, Jian and Tirkas, Panayiotis A. and Andrew, William V. and Kokotoff, David and Zavosh, Frank Unspecified Center AIRCRAFT ANTENNAS; ANTENNA DESIGN; ANTENNA RADIATION PATTERNS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; GRID GENERATION (MATHEMATICS); HELICOPTERS; HORN ANTENNAS; ANTENNA COMPONENTS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; DIELECTRICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE THEORY; LOW CONDUCTIVITY; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; SURFACE PROPERTIES...

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