PHYSICS, MATERIALS, AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS RESEARCH L.L.C. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: ABSTRACT: In Phase I, we presented options for direct marking of high-performance turbine
PHYSICS, MATERIALS, AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS RESEARCH L.L.C. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $749,912
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Solicitation
- 2009.3
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- AZ
- Period
- 2011-11-15 → 2013-11-15
Description
ABSTRACT: In Phase I, we presented options for direct marking of high-performance turbine parts using ultrashort pulse lasers, that do not compromise the integrity of said parts. In the proposed effort, we will work with our customer to: evaluate metallurgy and fatigue, and mark quality on the range of materials used for fracture critical parts; develop marking conditions for all major alloys to be marked; test critical performance parameters including fatigue limit to include quality and readability of scanned/ machine readable bar code marks; and integrate results to develop specifications for improved marking equipment. BENEFIT: The system we design will reduce risk in applying new marking requirements, and will directly benefit the commercial and defense aerospace markets, as well as ground-based turbines for power-generation.