SBIR/STTR Research Award
Development of Lightweight and Low Cost Advanced Structural Materials for Off-board Surface Vessels (OBVs)
Award amount
$69,969Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Sensintel Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2006-08-24
- Contract end date
- 2007-05-24
- UEI
- TKTAE1Q7ZPL8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- N06-T021
Research abstract
The ACR led team proposes an affordable manufacturing technique for complex-geometry composite components to be used as stiffened curvilinear structural panels and variable shaped fuel and ballast tanks for Off-board surface vehicles. Through the use of its Aquapour™ and Aquacore™ water-soluble tooling materials, ACR has previously demonstrated that different composite material systems based on epoxy and BMI types of matrix systems could be fabricated including sandwich composites, while Dr. Jack Gillespie at UD-CCM has successfully performed design and testing of complex composite structures. The Aqua tooling materials are capable of creating composite geometries that could not be fabricated any other way. BENEFITS: By demonstrating the fabrication of vinyl ester/carbon composites (VE/carbon) using its washable tooling materials, complex geometry parts can be made and inserted into Off-board surface vehicles.
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.
- Telemetry for Massive Data Transfer and Storage
- Magnetically-quiet Expendable Sono-Launched Unmanned Aircraft System (MESL UAS)
- Low Cost Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
- Polymer Matrix Composite Materials for Lightning Strike Mitigation
- Scaled Model Technology for Flight Research of General Aviation Aircraft
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Innovative Titanium Structures for Off-board Surface Vessels
- Development of Lightweight and Low Cost Advanced Structural Materials for Off-board Surface Vessels (OBVs)
- Durable Composites for Harsh Marine Environments
- The Application of Titanium as a Low Cost Structural and Armor Material for Off-Board Surface Vessels (OBVs)
- Development of Lightweight and Low Cost Advanced Structural Materials for Off-board Surface Vessels (OBVs)
Research funding history
109 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2015). Reported award amounts total $25,094,742. 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 Agriculture, Department of Energy