SBIR/STTR Research Award
Verification and Optimization of Advanced Finite Element Modeling Techniques for Complex Submarine Hull Structures
Award amount
$499,943Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- M4 ENGINEERING, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2019-05-02
- Contract end date
- 2020-05-01
- UEI
- DM3EW67JLQM1
- Solicitation number
- 17.1
- Topic code
- N171-059
Research abstract
The finite element method has been well-established for modern structural design and analysis. However, significant modeling choices must still be made in trying to achieve answers accurate enough for engineering decisions, but without unwarranted computational effort. This is especially true for high value complex submarine hull structures that are needed to protect Navy warfighters and enable successful missions. Using a rational series of models of varying fidelity, M4 Engineering will develop a comprehensive design guide of best practices and their temporal and spatial regions of applicability that can be utilized by the Navy and its contractors during their design and analysis activities. A comprehensive manual set giving specifications that will standardize submarine hull structure modeling best practices will be created. Artificial intelligence methods will be used to create a complementary software tool to provide an automated means for giving detailed modeling recommendations for specific designs. The design recommendations and the process for developing them will be validated via a companion experimental program that will be planned fully during Phase II for execution during Phase III.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Hypersonic Computational Fluid Dynamics Heat Flux Sub-Models
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- High-Fidelity Computational Modeling of Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions in Hypersonic Air-Breathing Systems
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Verification and Optimization of Advanced Finite Element Modeling Techniques for Complex Submarine Hull Structures
- Verification and Optimization of Advanced Finite Element Modeling Techniques for Complex Submarine Hull Structures
- Verification and Optimization of Advanced Finite Element Modeling Techniques for Complex Submarine Hull Structures
- Design Tool and Methodology for Verification of Submarine Finite Element Models
- Verification and Optimization of Advanced Finite Element Modeling Techniques for Complex Submarine Hull Structures
Research funding history
83 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2026). Reported award amounts total $30,097,301. 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