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Non-Destructive Coercimetry Fracture Toughness Assessment for Steel Pipelines
Overview
Fast Facts
Project No.
1024
Contract No.
6913G624C100001
Research Award Recipient
Innerspec Technologies, Inc.
2940 Perrowville Rd
Forest, VA 24551-2225
COR
Zhongquan Zhou
Ben Kendrick
Nusnin Akter
Researcher Contact Info
Borja Lopez
blopez@innerspec.com
Michael Engle <mengle@innerspec.com>
Technology and Commercialization
Technology Demonstrated
TBD
Commercialized (in whole/part)
TBD
Commercial Partner
Empty Value
Net Improvement
Empty Value
Financial and Status Data
Project Status
Active
Start Fiscal Year
2024 (10/20/2023)
End Fiscal Year
2026 (10/19/2025)
PHMSA $$ Budgeted
$987,015.00
Main Objective
This SBIR Phase IIb project seeks to build on Phase I and Phase II results by building a field-ready tool to calculate fracture toughness values of pipeline steel by measuring coercivity of the steel in-ditch. The project will additionally test the tool on samples of known fracture toughness to create calibration curves.
