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Cobalt-Free Environmentally Green Process to Produce Fine Grained WC

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W911QX-13-C-0106
Agency Tracking Number: O12B-T07-2018
Amount: $99,925.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: OSD12-T07
Solicitation Number: 2012.B
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2012
Award Year: 2013
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2013-08-08
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2014-02-11
Small Business Information
3013 Aztec Road NE
Albuquerque, NM -
United States
DUNS: 099725108
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 George Jacobsen
 Senior Scientist
 (505) 830-6986
 gmjacobsen@thortech.biz
Business Contact
 Larry Kepley
Title: President
Phone: (505) 573-9908
Email: ljkepley@thortech.biz
Research Institution
 Southern Research Institute
 Andy Cain
 
2000 Ninth Avenue South P.O. Box 55305
Birmingham, NM 35205-5305
United States

 (205) 581-2809
 Domestic Nonprofit Research Organization
Abstract

The proposed work will result in a method for production of dense, hard, tough, strong tungten carbide (WC) ceramic material for ultimate use as the penetrating core in armor piercing projectiles. Focus is on the development and feasibility of a titanium silicon carbide (Ti3SiC2) based matrix as a replacement for cobalt based materials currently used. Ti3SiC2 is a so called ductile ceramic which shows improved fracture toughness compared to most ceramic materials. Sintering agents to fuse the WC into a dense hard monoliths, including TiSi2, Ni, and/or ZrB2, will be utilized in dopant levels. Grain inhibitors, preceramic polymers, microwave processing, and other means of microstructure control will be utilized to keep grain size<1 um in the fully densified composite. Ceramic rods of this next generation WC material will be fabricated and hardness, density, and fracture toughness of the resulting ceramic measured.

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