Tanner Research, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: One advanced material found to survive high G-forces while making accurate inertial measur
Tanner Research, Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $99,989
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Missile Defense Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- 2012.3
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2013-05-24 → 2013-11-27
Description
One advanced material found to survive high G-forces while making accurate inertial measurements is thermo plastic formed (TPF) Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG). Unlike MEMS-based silicon components which have historically shattered when used in higher-stress gun-launched applications, Tanner Research and Yale University successfully demonstrated BMG use as an alternative materials technology that survives gun-launch type shocks. BMG survivability has been demonstrated in the MEMS S & A device as an inertial sensing structure. The fact BMG is potentially useful in inertial measurement units (IMU) has been previously established at Tanner through the proof-of-concept accelerometer hardware highlighted in this proposal. The proposal is aimed at characterizing performance metrics for the inertial sensing ranges achieved by the MEMS combs fabricated in various BMG alloys.