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Novel Standoff Detection of Material Damage Precursors for Structural Health Monitoring and Prediction

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W911QX-13-C-0150
Agency Tracking Number: A131-016-0289
Amount: $99,106.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A13-016
Solicitation Number: 2013.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2013
Award Year: 2013
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2013-09-04
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2014-03-04
Small Business Information
1 Deerpark Drive Suite L2
Monmouth Junction, NJ -
United States
DUNS: 964843481
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Rich Skibo
 Principal Investigator
 (732) 355-9550
 rskibo@pntsystems.com
Business Contact
 Karin Fisher
Title: Director of Business Development
Phone: (732) 355-9552
Email: karin@pntsystems.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Because of the overwhelming migration to composites, particularly exotic thermoset materials from the bismaleimide (BMI) family, the PNTS team is focusing its work on this topic on composite structures. The team's high level approach will be to demonstrate an innovative and practical design using dielectric spectroscopy at millimeter wave through terahertz frequencies that will provide composite material integrity assessment to address and identify material damage precursors, including the little understood reversion of composite polymers which ultimately leads to premature failures. The comprehensive analysis regime will also provide 3-D images of artifacts such as intralayer delamination/disbond and other structural defects. The final deliverable for this Phase I program will include the demonstration of the nondestructive evaluation method applied on a structural composite coupon subjected to fatigue loads. The comprehensive schema developed by the PNTS team will have the capability to predict remaining useful life (RUL) of the coupon within 10% error on or before 50% of the total useful life of the coupon has been expended. As"ground truth"for the schema, PNTS will employ Trilion Quality Systems'ARAMIS product.

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