This federal contract award, NNL13AA08B|80LARC18F0105, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Langley Research Center to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research organization, to develop minimum-weight structural designs of tow-steered flat composite panels representative of wing structure. The goal is to fabricate and test these panels on the Integrated Structural Assembly of Advanced Composites (ISAAC) robot at the Langley...
This is a $450,000.00 firm fixed price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Ames Research Center to Sheryck, LLC. The contract supports the development of a risk assessment framework for detecting, predicting, and mitigating aircraft material inspection issues under the Aviation Safety Program's Aircraft Aging and Durability project, which is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The goal is to develop integrated methods...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $168,046.00 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Illinois, doing business as The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, for a project titled "OPTIMALLY TAILORED ARCHITECTED MATERIALS FOR LIGHTWEIGHT AND HIGH-STRENGTH PART DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING." This award is not associated with a set-aside contract and is part of the agency's broader efforts in advanced materials research and development. As a...
This federal contract award is to the University of Illinois for the development of improved thermal response models of the Avcoat thermal protection system (TPS) used on the Orion spacecraft. The objective is to create a high-fidelity, multi-scale model that can accurately simulate the complex physics and chemistry involved in the ablation of the porous Avcoat material during atmospheric reentry. The work will leverage large-scale molecular dynamics simulations and direct simulation Monte Carlo...
This federal contract award, valued at $662,400.00, was issued by NASA's Langley Research Center to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research and graduate education institute. The purpose of the award is to support research related to the study of damage processes and the development of improved durability of aeronautical structural materials, which is part of NASA's Aviation Safety Program. This work aims to improve aircraft safety for current and future...
This federal contract award to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is for research on using progressive damage analysis (PDA) to predict impact damage and subsequent compressive residual strength of stiffened-skin composite panels representative of aircraft structures. The $1,102,035 cooperative agreement is funded by NASA and directly supports the agency's Advanced Composites Project within the Advanced Air Vehicles Program. The research aims to establish physics-based analysis tools...
This federal contract award, valued at $157,110.59, was issued by the Shared Services Center (an agency within NASA) to The University of Akron. The contract is for the development of computational strategies to simulate the fabrication of fiber-reinforced composites for aerospace applications. The goal is to understand variations in fiber architecture during fabrication and how they impact the mechanical properties and impact performance of the composite materials, which are critical for...
This federal contract award is a cooperative agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and New Mexico State University (NMSU), valued at $744,914.12. The objective is to develop autonomous structural composites capable of self-powered delamination detection and energy harvesting for aerospace applications. The research involves designing and optimizing multilayer thin film materials, embedding them into fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)...
This is a $749,999.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Louisiana Board of Regents, a state government agency responsible for coordinating public higher education in Louisiana. The primary objective of this project is to develop new self-healing polymer composite panels for aerospace applications. The work involves designing, synthesizing, and characterizing two-way shape memory polymers, multi-scale modeling of smart composite...
This firm-fixed-price contract was awarded by the Langley Research Center, a civilian agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to the University of South Carolina (USC) for the development of a multi-scale computational non-destructive evaluation (NDE) simulation tool for composite materials. The objective is to advance the state-of-the-art in NDE ultrasound simulation tools to enable the quantitative characterization of degradation and damage in aerospace composite...
This is a $500,002.00 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to the University of Illinois for the "Development of a Composite Self-Sealing Face Sheet for Sandwich Structure." This competitive award, funded in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), supports NASA's Aircraft Aging and Durability (AAD) project under the Aviation Safety Program. The AAD project focuses on aging and damage processes in recently designed and certified aircraft, with the goal of identifying and mitigating aging-related hazards. The awarded work will involve developing a process to manufacture and deliver composite face sheets incorporating a self-sealing resin system. This contract does not have a set-aside designation.