SBIR-STTR Award

End-to-end Naval Asset Damage Detection System
Award last edited on: 5/7/2019

Sponsored Program
STTR
Awarding Agency
DOD : Navy
Total Award Amount
$69,967
Award Phase
1
Solicitation Topic Code
N10A-T042
Principal Investigator
Richard J Black

Company Information

Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation (AKA: IFOS~IFOS Corporation)

4425 Fortran Drive Unit 4425
Sanjose, CA 95134
   (408) 565-9000
   info@ifos.com
   www.ifos.com

Research Institution

University of Florida

Phase I

Contract Number: N00014-10-M-0300
Start Date: 6/28/2010    Completed: 4/30/2011
Phase I year
2010
Phase I Amount
$69,967
IFOS will demonstrate the feasibility of a minimalistic, yet powerful, distributed network of piezoelectric actuators and ultrasonic wave detecting fiber optic Bragg grating (FBG) sensors interrogated by a high frequency parallel processing FBG interrogator together with innovative mathematical and computational algorithms to process, store and visualize (via damage index maps) massive amounts of data generated from said system to enable quantitative structural health monitoring of Naval assets (ships and aircraft). The goal is development of a complete and detailed assessment of the material or structural condition well before any visible signs of deterioration develop by using a permanently installed network of FBG sensors and actuators and interrogating them only during scheduled stops or during scheduled maintenance intervals. The initial focus will be on material state accuracy rather than computational speed. In Phase I, IFOS will develop a lab bench prototype material state awareness distributed network of sensors and actuators. In Phase II, IFOS will scale up the system to enable interrogation of structures with much greater size and with much more diverse structural details such as structural ribs, stiffeners and bulkheads as well as complex composite construction such as sandwich core or rib stiffened structures.

Keywords:
Mathematical Algorithms, Mathematical Algorithms, Fbg Interrogators, Fiber Bragg Gratings (Fbgs), Structural Health Monitoring (Shm), Material State Awareness, Optical Fibers

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