SBIR/STTR Research Award
TRANSITIONAL ARMATURE CONTACT DEVELOPMENT
Award amount
$50,938Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1987Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- IAP RESEARCH, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- WBU3RUKH8DY8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
RAILGUN ARMATURES ARE LOSSY AND CAN PRODUCE SEVERE BARREL DAMAGE. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO DEVELOP THE DESIGN TOOLS AND DATA REQUIRED TO PERMIT THE USE OF TRANSITIONING CONTACTS IN ARMATURES. THIS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY AND BARREL LIFE OF RAILGUNS BY COMBINING THE LOW LOSS, LOW SPEED CHARACTERISTICS OF METAL ARMATURES WITH THE LOW DAMAGE, HIGH SPEED CHARACTERISTICS OF PLASMA ARMATURES. THE PROGRAM WILL BUILD ON EXISTING CONTACT THEORY AND WILL BE DIRECTED TO VALIDATION OF CONTACT TRANSITION CRITERIA.
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.
- SiC-Based High Voltage Capacitor Charging Innovations
- Field effects in processing lightweight materials with superior mechanical properties and microstructures
- Innovative, shock-load resistant Pulsed Power supply.
- Medium Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) Fault Detection, Localization, and Isolation
- Affordable Point of Use Conversion (PUC) Module for 400Hz Power System Applications
Research funding history
85 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2017). Reported award amounts total $21,413,397. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation