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Military Gas Turbine Engine High-Cycle Fatigue (HCF) Mitigation

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
69919 		Program Year/Program:
2005 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
N041-009-1387 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
VEXTEC Corporation
750 Old Hickory Blvd Bldg. 2, Suite 270 Brentwood, TN -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2005
Title: Military Gas Turbine Engine High-Cycle Fatigue (HCF) Mitigation
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N68335-06-C-0028
Award Amount: $811,660.00
 

Abstract:

The proceedings from the 16 August 1999 HCF Probabilistics Steering Committee meeting indicate that material behavior is a leading root cause of HCF problems in blades, vanes, and seals. A conventionally used component lifing practice is to conduct a Goodman type analysis to estimate the resistance to HCF failure. However the true resistance of a component to HCF loading is dependent on the steady and vibratory stress gradients and the stressed volume of material. Because Goodman diagrams are based on specimens of simple geometry that do not have the same stress gradients as the component, the Goodman diagram provides only a rough estimate of fatigue response. This SBIR will build on an existing VEXTEC material fatigue response model, MICRO (microstructural-based probabilistic fatigue analysis), to properly account for the multi-scale aspect of early fatigue damage that drives the scatter in fatigue response. The ultimate SBIR objective will be to develop capability for accurately predicting HCF damage effects for a complex component (JSF 1st stage fan blade) based on a minimal amount of simple. In effect, this product will be a computationally efficient Goodman analysis that will allow for accelerated design analysis, redesign avoidance, less testing and minimal build-in design conservatism.

Principal Investigator:

Robert Tryon
CTO
6153720299
Rtryon@vextec.com

Business Contact:

Loren Nasser
COO
6153720299
Lnasser@vextec.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

VEXTEC CORP.
750 Old Hickory Blvd, Building 2, Suite 270 Brentwood, TN 37027

EIN/Tax ID: 582529317
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No