SBIR-STTR Award

Advanced Intermetallic Matrix Composites
Award last edited on: 11/18/2002

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : MDA
Total Award Amount
$49,525
Award Phase
1
Solicitation Topic Code
SDIO93-013
Principal Investigator
Raymond J Weimer

Company Information

Cordec Corporation

7371-C Lockport Place Box 188
Lorton, VA 22079
   (703) 550-8044
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Location: Single
Congr. District: 08
County: Fairfax

Phase I

Contract Number: N00014-93-C-2106
Start Date: 7/23/1993    Completed: 1/23/1994
Phase I year
1993
Phase I Amount
$49,525
Many current and planned defense aerospace programs depend critically upon rapid development of lightweight composite materials having unprecedented high-temperature properties. Continuous fiber reinforced Intermetallic Matrix Composites (IMC's) have the potential to meet these performance requirements, and considerable research effort is now devoted to developing them. We recently demonstrated a novel method for manufacturing continuous silicon carbide fiber-reinforced titanium aluminide composites with excellent fiber distribution in a fine-grained matrix. Offering the materials designer remarkable access to microstructural variables, the process facilitates synthesis of non-equilibrium structures that will be exploited in Phase I to lower traditional consolidation and shaping temperatures from 1300 degree to 600 degree. A variety of continuous IMC precursors will be fabricated, consolidated, and characterized. Phase II would demonstrate pilot-scale production of IMC precursors and reproducibility of the consolidation and forming processes for prototype engineering structures.

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