Waterproof Towed Array Hosewall
High moisture permeation rates through hose wall materials are a primary failure mode for the design currently used in fat line towed arrays. These premature failures are extremely costly in…
Moulding Compounds and Test Methods for Underwater Hardware
The Navy continues to incur very high costs and lost service time due to unanticipated maintenance and repair or replacement of unreliable outboard sonar and other hardware on submarines, surface…
TRI SealPlus® Coating for Plasma Sprayed Ceramics
TRI SealPlus® is specifically designed for sealing the pores of plasma sprayed ceramic coatings. The cured sealer reduces permeation of reactive species through the ceramic layer to increase durability in…
Bond-Coat™
BondCoat™ is technology for making underwater connectors resistant to cathodic delamination. The Portsmouth connector is the most commonly used underwater connector on ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). Due to electrical connector…
Tough-Grip® Non-Skid Surface Coatings for Navy Fleet Application
Non-skid coating materials are used for treatment of aircraft carrier flight deck surfaces and ship deck applications. Legacy non-skid products require frequent replacement, generating large amounts of hazardous materials and…
High-Temperature Aircraft Camouflage Coatings
Working under a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract, scientists from AFRL and the Texas Research Institute developed a high-temperature aircraft camouflage coating for use on the titanium slats of…
Improved Protective Coatings for High Strength Steels
Corrosion resistant coatings are used to protect aircraft landing gear components that are made of high-strength steel. These alloys are susceptible to corrosion and subsequent cracking when exposed to the…
High-Temperature, Abrasion Resistant Coating
Many of the coatings used on composite aircraft cannot withstand high temperatures, especially while maintaining mechanical properties such as abrasion resistance. To address this problem, we developed a low temperature…
Physical Scale Models for Signature Reduction
The suppression of a ship’s magnetic signature is important in the effort to thwart detection by adversarial forces and prevent engagement with magnetic fused weapons. There are two ways to…
Manufacturing of Stress Physical Scale Models (SPSMs) for Signature Reduction and Resistance to Environmental Stress
The use of stress physical scale models allows the Navy to design ship magnetic field signature reduction systems into Navy vessels. Current methods for fabricating the stress physical scale models…