SBIR/STTR Research Award
Reliable Portable Device for Inspection and Assessment of Guy Cables Supporting Tall Structures
Award amount
$312,750Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Quest Integrated, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2008-09-26
- Contract end date
- 2010-02-25
- UEI
- S2AMPALHTDJ3
- Solicitation number
- 2007.2
- Topic code
- N07-128
Research abstract
Corrosion within guy cables is a significant problem to the Navy. It is particularly difficult because the corrosion often initiates from within the cable and may not be visually apparent from the outside. Of course even if the corrosion was visually apparent from the outside, installed guys can only be visually inspected through the use of a telescope from the ground. This problem is not limited to Navy antennas. There are many other guyed commercial antennas as well as other structures around the world that are aging and suffering corrosion issues. QUEST plans to develop a crawler and a separate towed inspection vehicle that can be installed on the guy at ground level and then climb the full length of the guy and return. Inspection results from the guy can be then analyzed. Separating the crawler from the inspection vehicle provides a general purpose device that could carry any properly configured payload to the top of the guy.
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.
- Reliable Tool for Assessing Structural Integrity of Guy Wires on Tall Antenna Tower
- Reliable Tool for Assessing Structural Integrity of Guy Wires on Tall Antenna Tower
- Reliable Portable Device for Inspection and Assessment of Guy Cables Supporting Tall Structures
- Reliable Tool for Assessing Structural Integrity of Guy Wires on Tall Antenna Tower
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