SBIR Phase I: Utilization of a Combustion Process to Rapidly Solidify a Photocuring Composite Structure

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响和商业潜力将是研究和开发一种新型的极其便携的可部署结构，这种结构允许更容易的运输和简化庞大结构的部署。这一基础技术涵盖了各种潜在的商业产品，包括大型易于运输的救援设备和用于地震和其他广泛的人道主义灾难场景的大型帐篷;大型空间卫星结构，如天线和光学阵列;大型可部署无人机机翼;用于居住或材料储存的大容量;水，污水，石油或天然气管道。这项技术可以帮助在灾难中拯救生命，简化饮用水、下水道和能源的运输，降低建设和部署成本。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将需要系统分析和开发一种新型的高度紧凑、可快速部署的复合管技术。挑战在于利用和联合收割机将化学燃烧的极高能量密度特性与光固化高性能结构复合材料相结合，以创建可快速部署的易于运输的结构。 该项目将通过实验来更好地了解聚合物材料的特性，并根据燃烧发出的电磁波谱对其进行调整。定制一种粘合剂，结合联合收割机所需的粘度，结构和固化性能。一个多物理场模拟，与实验室实验验证，将被用来预测该技术的局限性。 合格的组件将用于改进设计，并由制造商进行大规模生产评估。这些努力将最终在规模原型建设和测试。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的评估支持。

The broader impact and commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 project will be the research and development of a new class of extremely portable deployable structures that allows easier transportation and simplifies the deployment of bulky structure. This fundamental technology covers a wide variety of potential commercial products including large easily transported rescue equipment and large tents for earthquake and other widespread humanitarian disaster scenarios; large space satellite structures such as antennas and optical arrays; large deployable UAV wings; large volumes for habitation or material storage; piping for water, sewage, oil or gas. This technology can help save lives during disasters, ease the transportation of potable water, sewer and energy with lower construction and deployment costs.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) phase I project will entail the systematic analysis and development of a novel highly compact, rapidly deployable composite tube technology. The challenge is to harness and combine the extremely energy dense properties of chemical combustion with a photocuring high-performance structural composite material to create an easily transported structure that can be rapidly deployed. The project will entail experiments to better understand the polymer material properties and tailor them to the electromagnetic spectrum emitted by the combustion. Customization of an adhesive that will combine the necessary viscosity, structural and curing properties. A multiphysics simulation, validated with laboratory experiments, will be used to predict the technology's limitations. The qualifying components will be utilized in a refined design and evaluated by manufacturers for large scale production. These efforts will culminate in scale prototype construction and testing.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.