SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ultrasonic Guided Wave Ring Array for Micro-structural Level Damage Monitoring
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Intelligent Automation, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2008-07-28
- Contract end date
- 2009-05-01
- UEI
- C3QJD7VXG167
- Solicitation number
- 2007.3
- Topic code
- AF073-109
Research abstract
Abstract Corrosion and cracking in aerospace structure materials is a common problem. Early detection of failures is desired for structural safety. Most existing structural health monitoring (SHM) and nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques focus on detecting the damage of sizes beyond a certain threshold. We propose to design a SHM system for monitoring the material degradation in a micro-structural level before the real defect initiates. The proposed SHM system embeds ultrasonic guided wave sensor array for data acquisition and robust software for fault diagnosis/prognosis. It can achieve reliable detection of micromechanical damages with low false alarms and be able to localize the defect position and monitor its growth.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Awards with the same topic code
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- Portable Active Damage Inspection (PADI) system for stress-corrosion cracks in aerospace structures
- Portable Active Damage Inspection (PADI) system for stress-corrosion cracks in aerospace structures
Research funding history
1,182 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2021). Reported award amounts total $369,972,257. 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 Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security