SBIR/STTR Research Award
HARD-FACED CARBON-CARBON FOR SPACECRAFT
Award amount
$49,960Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1988Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- Sullivan Mining Corp
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
SULLIVAN SURFACES FOR CARBON SUBSTRATES ARE STABLE TO 2300 DEG C (4173 DEG F) UNDER VACUUM. COATING MATERIAL IS IMPERVIOUS TO ATOMIC OXYGEN ATTACK. STATE OF THE ART COATINGS FOR CARBON-CARBON ARE LIMITED TO 1400 DEG C FOR BRIEF PERIODS. SULLIVAN MIXED SURFACES ARE POTENTIALLY SPALL AND OXIDATION RESISTANT AFTER MANY CYCLES OF PROLONGED PERIODS AT 1900 DEG C. MIXING THE SURFACE BY MEANS OF NEW HIGH ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CAN PRODUCE, HERETOFORE, IMPOSSIBLE OR PRACTICAL SURFACES. CARBON-CARBON CAN BE "HARD-FACED" FOR ABRASION RESISTANCE.
Technology keywords
Not reported