SBIR/STTR Research Award
FABRICATION OF A HIGH STRENGTH POROUS ALUMINUM MATERIAL
Award amount
$300,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1989Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Hittman Materials And
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP THE MATERIAL AND PROCESS FOR THE FABRICATION OF A HIGH STRENGTH, POROUS ALUMINUM ALLOY MATERIAL. THE APPROACH TAKEN HERE IS BASED ON POWDER METALLURGICAL PROCESSING AND COVERS COLD ISOSTATIC PRESSING FOLLOWED BY SINTERING OF ALUMINUM POWDER METAL ALLOYS AND POWDER BLENDS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGH STRENGTH POROUS MATERIALS IS BASED ON POWDER METAL PROCESSING OF HEAT TREATABLE, PRECIPITATION HARDENING ALLOYS AND DISPERSION STRENGTHENING AND HARDENING OF ALLOYS WITH ALUMINIDE COMPOUNDS.
Technology keywords
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