SBIR/STTR Research Award
Functionally Graded Nano-Composite for Gear Applications
Award amount
$69,985Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT & TRANSFER, INC
- Proposal award date
- 2005-08-01
- Contract end date
- 2006-05-31
- UEI
- MNGNMTT66L71
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- N05-T006
Research abstract
The U.S. Navy is seeking improved durability, increased life and reduced maintenance for aircraft, particularly rotorcraft, by increasing the hardness of gears and bushings. They have suggested that the incorporation of nano-sized materials to create a functionally graded surface may provide this advantage. Such a compositionally graded structure offers the tooth surface offers the high hardness required to impart surface durability under very demanding contact conditions; the subsurface case region provides the strength gradient; and the core region with low to medium hardness of HRC 35-40 (VHN 345-390) provides a substrate with high toughness. Technology Assessment, in association with the University of Delaware and SSI Technologies has proposed to form a functionally graded surface during gear manufacture.
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.
- Enhanced Sinterability of Complex-Shaped 3D Printed Silicon Nitride
- Extended Life Coatings for Electrochemical Machining Tools
- CMC COMBUSTOR ON THE PATH TO 3100oF
- High Payoff 3D Printed Ceramic Heat Exchangers for HVAC
- High Payoff 3D Printed Ceramic Heat Exchangers for HVAC
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Net Shape Manufacturing of Functionally Grading Nanocomposite Materials for Gear System Components Using High Pressure Combustion Driven Powder Compac
- Exploratory Development of Functionally Graded Nano-Composite (FGNC) for Gear Applications
- Net Shape Manufacturing of Functionally Grading Nano-Composite Materials for Gears Using High Pressure Combustion Driven Powder Compaction (CDC)
- Exploratory Development of Functionally Graded Nano-Composite (FGNC) for Gear Applications
- Exploratory Development of Functionally Graded Nano-Composite (FGNC) for Gear Applications
Research funding history
147 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1985–2024). Reported award amounts total $42,308,149. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation