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Advanced Shipboard Machinery Development Facility

West Bethesda, MD

This facility is dedicated to the test and evaluation of reduced scale and full scale advanced naval propulsion and auxiliary systems, equipment, and enabling technologies. It comprises laboratories for the development, rapid prototyping, and demonstration of: advanced turbomachinery, refrigeration and ventilation systems including collective protection systems, shipboard hydraulics systems and equipment, seals and bearings, composite machinery, submarine shaftline components, and small diesel engines. It also houses a test area to conduct cyclic displacement and pressure fatigue tests of piping and piping components.

Location

West Bethesda, Maryland

Approximate — state level, from the record’s listed location

From this record's listed location

Laboratory

  • NAVSEA Carderock

Category

  • Ship Mechanical Systems

Provenance

Original
https://dodtechmatch.com/dod/lab/viewfacility.aspx?id=70256

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