SBIR/STTR Research Award
Development of 7050 T-74 Aluminum Alloy Alternative for use in Additive Manufacturing (AM) Systems
Award amount
$749,605Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- QuesTek Innovations LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2017-03-22
- Contract end date
- 2020-08-06
- UEI
- JMFVWEY5KLN6
- Solicitation number
- 15.1
- Topic code
- N151-010
Research abstract
Additive Manufacturing (AM) promises to be an innovative technology that can enable rapid manufacturing of complex parts at greatly reduced cycle time. Application of this technology to the manufacture of aircraft structural components is limited by the lack of high-strength aluminum alloys optimized for AM processing. In this SBIR program, QuesTek Innovations, a leader in the field of integrated computational materials engineering (ICME), is designing and developing a new class of high-strength aluminum alloys tailored for additive manufacturing processing. QuesTek is uniquely suited to rapidly designing new aluminum alloys specifically optimized for AM processing using its advanced Materials by Design® stage-gate alloy development process, which is based upon computationally-implemented mechanistic models to predict process-structure and structure-property relationships.
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.
- Development of 7050 T-74 Aluminum Alloy Alternative for use in Additive Manufacturing (AM) Systems
- Development of 7050 T-74 Aluminum Alloy Alternative for use in Additive Manufacturing (AM) Systems
- Development of 7050 T-74 Aluminum Alloy Alternative for use in Additive Manufacturing (AM) Systems
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