ADVANCED CERAMICS MANUFACTURING, LLC — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: N16A-T015

ADVANCED CERAMICS MANUFACTURING, LLC — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$79,998
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
STTR · Phase I
Topic
N16A-T015
Solicitation
2016.0
NAICS
Place of performance
AZ
Period
2016-07-11 → 2017-05-10

Description

Advanced Ceramics Manufacturing (ACM) has developed several generations of proprietary soluble tooling systems that address the composite industrys need for water soluble tooling. These systems have been engineered via a combination of low CTE ceramic fillers soluble binders. ACM and its University research partner (Oklahoma State University) will reengineer the filler-binder system and manufacturing process to reduce the dimensional tolerance by 66% and to reduce the CTE by >60% to better match that of performance carbon-epoxy systems. The new High Tolerance Soluble (HITS) tooling will readily achieve tolerances of +/- 0.005.