SBIR/STTR Research Award
HVI Damage Assessment
Award amount
$124,951Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- INVOCON, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2012-02-23
- Contract end date
- 2012-08-23
- UEI
- LZQCQX2HPGN5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- X5.03
Research abstract
A device is proposed that can track the electrical charge dispersion that is created when hyper velocity impact (HVI) occurs between two entities with a closing velocity greater than 1 km per second. This same device can measure the time of arrival of the charge wave front at transducers placed throughout the vehicle. Using the known speed of light minus the reactive effects of the skin of the vehicle on the "charge", the system can calculate the exact point of impact. Further, the nature of the charge dispersal wave front contains critical information as to the damage incurred as a result of the HVI.
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.
- Hypervelocity Impact Detection, Location, and Assessment for Thermal Protection Systems
- Wireless Intra-vehicle Sensor Package for Enhanced Reliability (WISPER)
- Hypervelocity Impact Detection, Location, and Assessment for Thermal Protection Systems
- Health Interrogation for Space Structures (HISS)
- Wireless Sensor Network for Flight Test
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Structural Integrity Inspection and Visualization System
- Structural Integrity Inspection and Visualization System
- No-Oven, No-Autoclave, Composite Processing
- Ionic Liquid Epoxy Composite Cryotanks
- Lightweight Inflatable Cryogenic Tank
Research funding history
55 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2019). Reported award amounts total $12,310,094. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services