SBIR/STTR Research Award
Large Diameter, Light Weight Bearing Liners
Award amount
$149,828Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- GAMMA ALLOYS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2010-10-13
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- GUTUXRG8AVK3
- Solicitation number
- 2010.2
- Topic code
- N102-112
Research abstract
The use of materials other than steel in bearing liners lead to many problems associated with variations in thermal expansion coefficients. The use of an aluminum matrix composite minimized this problem because adding ceramic reinforcements to the aluminum matrix reduces the expansion coefficient to that of the steel. In addition, the ceramic increases the elastic modulus and increases the wear resistance. This proposal uses a new spherical alumina as the reinforcement for ease of machining in addition to the other properties.
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.
- Development of Nano-Reinforced 7075 Derivative Alloy For Structural Components
- Large Diameter, Light Weight Bearing Liners
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
Research funding history
3 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2011–2015). Reported award amounts total $313,999. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense