SBIR/STTR Research Award
INTEGRATED COMPOSITE FLOW CASTING
Award amount
$500,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1991Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Thompson Aluminum Casting Co
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
DEVELOP A METHOD AND APPARATUS TO HOT SQUEEZE CAST A HOMOGENOUS MAGNESIUM AND DISCONTINUOUS FIBER OR ALUMINUM AND DISCONTINUOUS FIBER METAL MATRIX COMPONENT. A GENERIC TEST BAR OR MECHANISM WILL BE DEVELOPED TO TEST SEPARATELY CAST SPECIMENS TO CORRELATE TEST DATA. PHASE I WILL CONSISTOF FABRICATION OF THE GENERIC TEST BAR MECHANISM WITH A FIXED FIBER FRACTION AT VARIOUS SQUEEZE PRESSURES. PHASE II WILL CONSIST OF FABRICATING A FULL SCALE COMPONENT USING THE INTEGRATED COMPOSITE FLOW CAST SYSTEM. THE TEST DEVICE FABRICATED IN PHASE I WILL BE USED TO CORRELATE TEST DATA WHERE TEST BARS CAN'T BE EXTRACTED PRACTICALLY FROM THE FULLSCALE COMPOSITE COMPONENT.
Technology keywords
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