Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Building Panels Capable of Energy Storage Through High Enthalpy Solid-State Phase Transition

Not Available Developers and planners are required to prioritize the development of technologies and systems relative to user needs. Designs for new sys-tems typically only exist at the conceptual level, yet trade studies musts be performed to assess cost and effectiveness, as well as overall affordability. As new systems become more sophisticated and automated, integration costs and test/certification costs become an ever increasing proportion of the total system cost as well as schedule drivers. Devel-opers and planners require a methodology and tool-set to not only esti- mate integration and test costs and their associated schedules; but, to conduct trades between the amount of sophistication/automation and the resulting integration/test costs and schedule to derive effective, af-fordable systems. This SBIR will modify an existing methodology that currently estimates system life-cycle affordability based on performance and operational re-quirements. The estimating tool developed during this research project will be based on an existing cost tool developed for the Air Force. The tool will be capable of operating separately or as a functional element of a more detailed model. The Phase I program will demonstrate feasi- bility of the approach, develop the top-level affordability relation-ships and provide a prototype. The Phase II program will fully develop the tool and validate its accuracy.