SBIR/STTR Research Award
Development of Fast Response SME TiNi Foam Torque Tubes
Award amount
$599,456Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Shape Change Technologies LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2010-02-02
- Contract end date
- 2012-05-01
- UEI
- HDF2A1QZKBS7
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- A2.01
Research abstract
In Phase I, Shape Change Technologies had developed a process to manufacture net shape TiNi foam torque tubes that demonstrated the shape memory effect. The torque tubes dramatically reduce the response time by a factor of 10 and with integrated hexagonal ends, make structural connections fascile. In Phase II we see to mature this actuator technology by rigorously characterizing the process to optimize the quality of the TiNi and develop a set of metrics to provide ISO 9002 quality assurance. With the rapid response time, a Labview based real time control of the torsional actuators will be developed. With team partner Boeing, we will develop these actuators for aerospace applications and Boeing will independently characterize the actuators.
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 a Flexible and Robust Patch Weld for Dry Nuclear Storage Casks
- Development of a Precise Remote Sealing Technique for Dry Nuclear Storage Casks
- Shape Memory Effect Actuators from Chlorides
- SBIR Phase I:Development of Chemical Vapor Deposition of Shape Memory Alloy TiNi Thin Films for Complex Forms
- Development of Fast Response SME TiNi Foam Torque Tubes
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Research funding history
19 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2019). Reported award amounts total $3,624,444. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation