A small business partner has delivered a critical new tool to assist the Air Force in its race for hypersonic capabilities.With support from the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Program, Pennsylvania-based Materials Research & Design Inc. created a...
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MATERIALS RESEARCH & DESIGN INC
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UEI: QU1NM7F1CDV4
# of Employees: 20
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Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
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Domestically Available C/C for Hot Structure
Amount: $749,970.00The overall objective of the Phase II program is to develop a domestically-available needled (2.5D) C-C composite and demonstrate its use as a nozzle extension for future lunar lander and upper-stage ...
SBIRPhase II2020National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Determination of Carbon-Carbon Hydrocode Parameters by Uncertainty Quantification
Amount: $149,792.00Materials Research & Design, Inc. (MR&D) and Southwest Research Institute will create an analysis framework allowing for the determination of uncertain carbon-carbon (C-C) material parameters for use ...
SBIRPhase I2020Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency -
Development of Numerical Tool to Optimize the PyC Fiber Interface Coating in C/SiC Composites
Amount: $111,412.30Improved performance of Army missile systems depends in part on the development of advanced composite materials including ceramic matrix composites (CMCs). These material systems must be engineered fo ...
SBIRPhase I2020Department of Defense Army -
Analytical Design of Surface Porosity in 2D C/C to Delay Boundary Layer Transition for Hypersonic Aeroshell Applications
Amount: $999,119.00One of the critical aspects of the aeroshell materials in current hypersonic vehicles is the ability to manage the integrated heat loads that result from the pull-up and glide portions of anticipated ...
SBIRPhase II2020Department of Defense Navy -
High Strain-Rate Characterization Methods for Carbon-Carbon Composites at Elevated Temperatures
Amount: $124,875.00Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) fly low and flat trajectories in an effort to evade current missile defense systems. Traditional interceptors are designed to have a 3-to-1 overmatch in regards to mane ...
STTRPhase I2020Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency -
Accelerating the Development of CMAS and Sulfate-Induced Hot Corrosion Resistant Materials through Machine Learning
Amount: $139,998.00For decades gas turbines have been a reliable source of propulsion for a variety of marine-based vehicles. Since their adoption as the go-to solution for vehicles requiring a higher power density than ...
STTRPhase I2020Department of Defense Navy -
Preliminary Design for GTE Research Grade CMC Combustor
Amount: $111,278.68Military-grade gas turbine engines are seeing increasing demands for operation at temperatures in excess of 1500°C, while future engines are projected to exceed 2000°C. Because of this, the US Arm ...
SBIRPhase I2020Department of Defense Army -
Domestically Available C/C for Hot Structure
Amount: $124,943.00In the proposed program, MRamp;D seeks to demonstrate the manufacturability of domestically available, needled Lyocell based Carbon-Carbon (C/C) materials for use in nozzle extension (NE) and exit con ...
SBIRPhase I2019National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Rapid Fabrication of CMCs with Aligned Discontinuous Reinforcement via Reactive Melt Infiltration
Amount: $124,871.00Through a combined analytical and experimental program, the effort proposed herein will develop an affordable, high-temperature capable composite material system to enable future small launch vehicle ...
SBIRPhase I2019National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Improved Carbon-Carbon for Hypersonic Vehicles
Amount: $995,056.00A recent flight test of a hypersonic vehicle resulted in failure that was traced to thermostructural damage in the carbon-carbon aeroshell. When the vehicle was exposed to peak thermal gradients, inte ...
SBIRPhase II2019Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency
