SBIR/STTR Research Award
Composite Airframe Damage Detection and Evaluation
Award amount
$79,936Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Quest Integrated, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2010-01-15
- Contract end date
- 2010-07-15
- UEI
- S2AMPALHTDJ3
- Solicitation number
- 2009.3
- Topic code
- N093-169
Research abstract
In composite structures, some of the most critical areas susceptible to damage are inaccessible due to assembly or manufacturing procedures. In order to scan or monitor the structural integrity on those zones, a multidisciplinary approach that involves smart materials, additive manufacture, embedded systems, and wireless communications among others is proposed. Thus, a piezoelectric transducer array is deposited or placed around the region of interest and used to interrogate, on-ground or in-flight, the state of the composite structure. Then, Lamb-wave tomography and acousto-ultrasonic techniques are used to identify and localize any damage.
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.
- Printed Skin (pSKIN) for Aircraft Sensing and Testing
- Printed Skin (pSKIN) for Aircraft Sensing and Testing
- Active Metamaterial Based Ultrasonic Guided Wave Transducer System
- Printed Ultra-High Temperature NDE Sensors for Complex Structures
- Printed Skin (pSkin) for Aircraft Sensing and Testing
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Vibration Imaging Sensor for Damage Assessment in Composites (VISDAC)
- Damage Detection of Composite Components using Surface Mounted Sensors
- Dual sensor system for global damage assessment in composite structures (GDACS)
Research funding history
46 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1989–2016). Reported award amounts total $10,954,501. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy