SBIR/STTR Research Award
Improved Fittings for Self-Sealing Fuel Bladders
Award amount
$111,484Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- TRITON SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2020-02-05
- Contract end date
- 2020-10-15
- UEI
- DA91DUWSMSQ7
- Solicitation number
- 19.3
- Topic code
- A19-142
Research abstract
The proposed effort will focus on making improvements to the fuel tank fittings used on self-sealing fuel tank bladders for military rotorcraft. These fittings and fuel bladder wall transition areas are points of high stress concentration due to large material property gradients and therefore often are the cause of tank failure during significant hydrodynamic ram events. In this effort Triton Systems will design and demonstrate functionally-graded and topologically-optimized fittings for self-sealing fuel tank bladders for military aircraft to improve crash-worthiness and reduce weight.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Coatings for Reliable Compact Rotary Engines
- Pre and Post Weld Heating Innovations
- Biological Noise Modeling for Active and Passive Sonar System Performance Predictions
- Ambient Acoustic Noise Cancelling for Military Boom Microphones
- Advanced Fretting Fatigue Life Prediction Method for Naval Aerospace Applications
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Fuel Tank Energy Attenuation through Fitting Optimization
- Fuel Tank Energy Attenuation through Fitting Optimization
Research funding history
927 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2026). Reported award amounts total $388,500,403. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Transportation