SBIR/STTR Research Award
Rapid, Low-cost Material Qualification for High-Cycle Durability of Blades in Short-Life Turbine Engines
Award amount
$749,997Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- FRACTURELAB LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-07-19
- Contract end date
- 2021-07-19
- UEI
- QQNNLZX7JGS1
- Solicitation number
- 18.1
- Topic code
- AF181-058
Research abstract
FractureLab LLC is honored to continue development of rapid low cost HCF material characterization methodology and application to gas turbine hot section rotary components. The limited, but encouraging success, of a hybrid experimental-analytical approach in phase I has opened up new possibilities in accelerated test data generation, and logical analytics proposed in this phase II, to estimate fatigue characteristics and performance at or above a billion cycles in a matter of days. The Phase II team includes Renprotech - with additional fatigue and fracture competency, Plus4Pi - an innovation advisory firm, and Technical Directions, Inc., an end-user and manufacturer of small gas turbine engines for DoD weapon systems.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
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- Rapid, Low-cost Material Qualification for High-Cycle Durability of Blades in Short-Life Turbine Engines
- Rapid, Local Characterization of the Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior
- Rapid, Local Characterization of the Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
4 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2016–2019). Reported award amounts total $1,874,947. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I
Agencies: Department of Defense