SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Rail Materials for Electromagnetic Launchers
Award amount
$69,888Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- IAP RESEARCH, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2010-05-10
- Contract end date
- 2011-03-09
- UEI
- WBU3RUKH8DY8
- Solicitation number
- 2010.1
- Topic code
- N101-086
Research abstract
Erosion of copper rail surfaces in EM launchers is a major impediment to their development. Subscale testing at IAP has shown that thin high temperature bore layers such as Tantalum and other refractory metals offer significant protection against erosion. The focus of this Phase I effort is to establish the feasibility of using laser cladding and cold spray technologies to apply high temperature erosion resistant coatings to rail surfaces. These coating technologies are attractive in that they offer the ability to place high hardness low porosity coatings onto low electrical loss copper rail substrates. In addition both processes have the potential to readily scaled to the lengths required for future launcher designs (> 10 m).
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.
- SiC-Based High Voltage Capacitor Charging Innovations
- Field effects in processing lightweight materials with superior mechanical properties and microstructures
- Innovative, shock-load resistant Pulsed Power supply.
- Medium Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) Fault Detection, Localization, and Isolation
- Affordable Point of Use Conversion (PUC) Module for 400Hz Power System Applications
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Functional Graded Conductor Rails for Electromagnetic Launchers
- Advanced Rail Materials for Electromagnetic Launchers
- Lightweight, Corrosion, Erosion and Ultra-High-Temperature Resistant, Electrically-Conductive Rails.
- Functional Graded Conductor Rails for Electromagnetic Launchers
- Advanced Rail Materials for Electromagnetic Launchers
Research funding history
85 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2017). Reported award amounts total $21,413,397. 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