SBIR/STTR Research Award
Lightweight Innovative Composite Tank Concepts
Award amount
$69,989Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2003Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- SORDAL, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Sordal proposes to design and develop a novel composite material composed of polyimide foam filled into a honeycomb core structure. The resultant composite panel would be thermally stable from -300C to over +500C. It is be possible to heat set the panelsto a specific radius and thereafter join them in a spherical or cylindical shape or combination thereof for use in tank construction. Fuel tanks for aerospace and space craft, cryogenic gas storage tanks
Technology keywords
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