SBIR/STTR Research Award
Smart Tooling for Manufacturing Composites
Award amount
$749,562Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- CORNERSTONE RESEARCH GROUP INC
- Proposal award date
- 2011-06-01
- Contract end date
- 2015-03-30
- UEI
- F7G8SHTEHNU7
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- X5.03
Research abstract
CRG's shape memory polymer (SMP) tooling technologies, Smart Tooling, offer cutting-edge manufacturing solutions that can meet the construction needs of all future composite platforms and systems. Development and implementation of Smart Tooling, Smart Mandrels and SMP Bladders, offers end users significant opportunities to save direct expense for tooling cost and manufacturing labor to fabricate complex geometry and trapped composites. CRG's concept for a high temperature mandrel product is to leverage a proven Smart Mandrel process and replace the current material system with a novel SMP capable of remaining rigid at the 350 F laminate cure temperatures then softening following cure for extraction.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Research funding history
384 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2026). Reported award amounts total $175,315,942. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security