SBIR/STTR Research Award
TESTING OF COMPOSITE ROCKET MOTOR COMPONENTS
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1984Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Scientific Measurement Systems
- 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
A METHOD BASED ON THE PROCESSES OF COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY IS PROPOSED FOR NONDESTRUCTIVE QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGE FEATURES IN FIBER/RESIN COMPOSITE COMPONENTS OF ROCKET MOTORS. AN IN-DEPTH STUDY WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ESTABLISH THE FEASIBILITY OF THE APPROACH. AN EXTENSIVE DATA BASE WILL BE GENERATED FROM COMPREHENSIVE TOMOGRAPHIC EXAMINATIONS OF A CONTROLLED REPRESENTATIVE OBJECT. THE INFORMATION ACQUIRED WILL BE USED FOR STUDYING THE DEPENDENCE OF RESOLUTION ON THE TOMOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS. A DESIGN GUIDELINE WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR AN OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE FIELD TOMOGRAPH, ALONG WITH COST AND SCHEDULE PROJECTIONS.
Technology keywords
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