SBIR/STTR Research Award
Shape Memory Alloy-Based Periodic Cellular Structures
Award amount
$600,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- TRANSITION45 TECHNOLOGIES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2011-06-01
- Contract end date
- 2014-03-31
- UEI
- MA7MZBUBZP75
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- A2.01
Research abstract
This SBIR Phase II effort will continue to develop and demonstrate an innovative shape memory alloy (SMA) periodic cellular structural technology. Periodic cellular structures (PCS) will be designed and tailored to determine if additional shape memory performance benefits can be derived from the underlying macro-structure when fabricated from SMA's. These structures will be manufactured using an advanced reactive metal casting technology that will allow complex-shaped, integral bulk structures to be fabricated with the requisite composition-microstructure-properties needed for shape memory performance. Casting also offers a relatively low-cost approach for fabricating near net-shape components. The fabricated SMA structures will be characterized for resulting microstructure-properties in order to determine how to best design such PCS to better exploit SMA's for use in aerospace applications.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Research funding history
30 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2006–2022). Reported award amounts total $7,496,216. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Energy