SBIR/STTR Research Award
Optimized High Performance Stainless Steel Powder for Selective Laser Melting Additive Manufacturing (AM)
Award amount
$749,853Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- QuesTek Innovations LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2017-11-07
- Contract end date
- 2022-02-28
- UEI
- JMFVWEY5KLN6
- Solicitation number
- 16.A
- Topic code
- N16A-T007
Research abstract
Additive Manufacturing (AM) promises to be an innovative technology that can enable rapid manufacturing of complex parts at greatly reducedcycle time. With the maturation of selective laser melting (SLM) AM technologies there is increasing interest in applying this manufacturingmethod to the production of aircraft structural components, many of which are made of high-strength stainless steels. However, the currentresearch consensus has indicated significant process sensitivities in the SLM processing of high strength stainless steels such as 17-4PH, which ifnot corrected may limit the application of this manufacturing method. In this STTR program, QuesTek Innovations, a leader in the field ofintegrated computational materials engineering (ICME), is partnering with the University of Louisville’s Rapid Prototyping Center to design anddevelop a new powder specification for high-strength martensitic precipitation-hardenable stainless steel optimized for the unique processingconditions and challenges of SLM processing.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Multi-scale location-specific fatigue life prediction for additive propulsion components
- Development of Vehicular Armor using Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
- Microstructure-Sensitive Corrosion Fatigue Lifing Toolkit
- Graph-Based ICME Design Tool for Functionally Graded Materials
- Novel manufacturing pathway for nanocomposite steel wires
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Optimized High Performance Stainless Steel Powder for Selective Laser Melting Additive Manufacturing (AM)
- Additive Manufacturing of 17-4 PH Stainless Steel Metal Matrix Composites using Nickel functionalized Carbon Nanotubes
- Optimized High Performance Stainless Steel Powder for Selective Laser Melting Additive Manufacturing (AM)
Research funding history
151 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2025). Reported award amounts total $59,050,677. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation