SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Temperature Force Sensor System for Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Test
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
- 2008-02-25
- Contract end date
- 2008-11-25
- UEI
- C3QJD7VXG167
- Solicitation number
- 2007.3
- Topic code
- AF073-132
Research abstract
Measurements of vehicle/test article component loads and control-surface loads are required during testing to provide vital information for flight vehicle control, design and performance estimation and for structural design loads prediction. Accurate measurements of forces and moments experienced by the test article are critical during wind tunnel tests. Typical wind tunnel conditions are speeds of Mach 8 at total temperature up to 900 ºF. Thermal effects associated with testing in the continuous-flow hypersonic wind tunnel impose challenges for strain-gauge balances or other force/moment measuring devices used for component loads. A non-water-cooled thermal protection and compensation design solution is needed. In this proposal, Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI) proposes to develop innovative sensor architectures, electronics, and software techniques to provide the force sensor with capabilities of continuous measurements under high temperature without water-cool or thermal protection.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Awards with the same topic code
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- High Temperature Force Sensor System for Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Test
- High Temperature Hypersonic Force Measurement System
- Un-cooled High-Temperature Hypersonic Force Measurement System
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