SBIR/STTR Research Award
DEVELOPMENT OF FREE FIELD TIME-OF-ARRIVAL GAUGES FOR LOW OVERPRESSURES
Award amount
$49,924Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1988Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- KTECH CORP.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
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- Solicitation number
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- Topic code
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Research abstract
THE PROPOSED EFFORT WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING THE PIEZOELECTRIC POLYMER POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE (PVF[2]) AS A LOW OVERPRESSURE (1-30PSI) TIME-OF-ARRIVAL (TOA) TRANSDUCER. A SERIES OF SHOCK TUBE CALIBRATION EXPERIMENTS WILL BE PERFORMED ON EXISTING PVF(2) STRESS GAUGES. TWO DIFFERENT PROTOTYPE TOA GAUGE CONFIGURATIONS WILL BE DEVELOPED. CIRCUITRY FOR INTEGRATION OF PVF(2) TRANSDUCERS TO EXISTING AFWL/CERF DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS WILL BE DESIGNED. A CONCEPT DEMONSTRATION WILL BE PERFORMED AS AN ADD-ON EXPERIMENT TO A SCHEDULED FIELD TEST. OPTIONS FOR LOW-COST PVF(2) TOA MATERIALS WILL BE EVALUATED.
Technology keywords
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