CORNERSTONE RESEARCH GROUP INC — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase II: X5.03
CORNERSTONE RESEARCH GROUP INC — SBIR Phase II award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Amount
- $749,562
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- X5.03
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- OH
- Period
- 2011-06-01 → 2015-03-30
Description
CRG's shape memory polymer (SMP) tooling technologies, Smart Tooling, offer cutting-edge manufacturing solutions that can meet the construction needs of all future composite platforms and systems. Development and implementation of Smart Tooling, Smart Mandrels and SMP Bladders, offers end users significant opportunities to save direct expense for tooling cost and manufacturing labor to fabricate complex geometry and trapped composites. CRG's concept for a high temperature mandrel product is to leverage a proven Smart Mandrel process and replace the current material system with a novel SMP capable of remaining rigid at the 350 F laminate cure temperatures then softening following cure for extraction.