SBIR/STTR Research Award
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF METAL-VOID COMPOSITES
Award amount
$500,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Fairfax Materials Research,
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
MATERIALS FOR FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES MUST BE STRONG, TOUGH AND LIGHT. A GENERIC IMPROVEMENT IS OFFERED BY METAL-VOID COMPOSITES HIPED FROM NANOSCALE POWDERS, WITH GAS-PRESSURIZED VOID CONTENT OF 10-30%. STRENGTH TO WEIGHT RATIOS AND STRENGTHS ARE WELL ABOVE THOSE FOR CONVENTIONAL MATERIALS. HIGH TEMPERATURE STRUCTURAL STABILITY, RESISTANCE TO DISLOCATION, GRAIN BOUNDARY AND CRACK PROPAGATION, AND EXCEPTIONAL DAMPING PROPERTIES, DEMONSTRATED BY COMPUTER MODELING IN THIS PHASE I PROJECT, COMBINE TO INDICATE GREAT POTENTIAL FOR USAGE IN AEROSPACE AND AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRIES.
Technology keywords
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