COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (CR&D) Delivery Order 0065: Nanostructured Dynamic Modulus Materials
Abstract
This research in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate was conducted at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio from 2 November 2006 through 1 March 2008. This task worked to develop hybrid, potentially nanostructured materials that exhibit novel mechanical damping and tunable modulus. The preparation, characterization, and fundamental understanding of new, high-performance shape memory materials helps address Air Force needs relevant to the development of everything from next-generation actuators to self-deploying structures or morphing airframes. In particular, porous shape-memory thermosets hold significant promise as a class of shape-memory materials due to their ability to accommodate large amounts of elastic strain and release significant mechanical work in a controlled fashion. The goal of this work was to prepare porous shape memory thermosets via the solution-gelation (solgel) technique, to form hybrids of these materials with high-Tg open-cell foams so as to enhance shape memory characteristics, and to develop new means of quantifying the shape memory properties of these materials.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA530596
Entities
People
- D. R. Schmidt
Organizations
- Universal Technology Corporation (United States)