SBIR/STTR Research Award
Improved Approaches to Nondestructively Test Marine Aluminum Structures
Award amount
$600,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Space Micro Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2008-12-23
- Contract end date
- 2010-12-22
- UEI
- ED9EEK4ZRZG4
- Solicitation number
- 2006.2
- Topic code
- N06-132
Research abstract
The use of aluminum alloys in marine vessels introduces new problems in the maintenance of structures. Steel has a ‘fatigue limit’. This means that if the stress is moderately low, the structure will never fail by fatigue. Aluminum alloys do not have such a limit, meaning that these alloys can eventually fail by fatigue regardless of how low the stress is in the part. Marine aluminum structures therefore need periodic examination to check for cracks before they become critical in size. SMI is developing a technology with a university partner that will incorporate an IR camera along with a novel acoustics thermography. The results have shown rapid and precise imaging of internal defects.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Awards with the same topic code
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- Improved Approaches to Nondestructively Test Marine Aluminum Structures
- Magnetic Imaging And Current Mapping For NDE Of Aluminum Components On Ships
- Improved Approaches to Nondestructively Test Marine Aluminum Structures
- Improved Approaches to Nondestructively Test Marine Aluminum Structures
Research funding history
150 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2023). Reported award amounts total $58,449,422. 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 Homeland Security