SBIR/STTR Research Award
Validated Engineering Tools for Thin-Ply Composites
Award amount
$124,871Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- OPTERUS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, INC
- Proposal award date
- 2018-07-27
- Contract end date
- 2019-08-26
- UEI
- ZJCXCAVCQMR3
- Solicitation number
- STTR_18_P1
- Topic code
- T12
Research abstract
Opterus Research and Development, Inc. proposes to develop and validate multi-scale thin-ply High Strain Composites (HSCs) constitutive modeling tools for incorporation into commercial finite element analysis codes. The constitutive models will capture the time-temperature-load-deformationviscoelasticcharacteristics common to HSCs as well as the yielding or permanent deformation associated with the large strains HSC materials are subjected to.The two main program components are 1) characterization of thin-ply HSCsthrough extensive testing and 2) multi-scale modeling of thin-ply HSCs at the constituent (matrix and fiber), lamina, and laminate levels. Ofparticular interestare modeling and characterizing the unique behaviors of highly spread tow woven textile HSCs.Thiscombination of characterization and modeling will enable validated engineering tools to allow the predictive design of thin-ply HSC structures.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Modular Operations, Resource, & Power Hub (MORPH)
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Research funding history
36 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2018–2025). Reported award amounts total $14,282,580. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense