The project call is designed to solicit exciting new project ideas from LIFT members connecting materials, processes and systems, and bring them to completion on a shorter timeline.
Project ideas should align with LIFT’s main technology pillars with focus in areas of:
– High Throughput Alloy Synthesis And Test: Automated Metallography and Analysis; Chemical Analysis
– Extreme Environment Performance Testing: Hot Structure; Aerothermodynamics; High Strain Rate
– Virtual Representation Of Materials In Extreme Environments: Crack Growth In Homogenous Materials; Gun-barrel Interactions; Ballistic Impact; Hypersonics
– Digital Augmentation Of Manufacturing Processes: In-situ Monitoring; Process Modeling (DCS, Atomizing)
– High Temperature Materials: MMCs, Ceramics, CMCs & Metallics; ICME For Ceramics and CMCs (Chemistry, Process, Structure, Performance); Joining; Cost Effective, Scalable, Refractory Metal Processing (Hydride – Dehydride Alloying)
– Materials Maturation: Design For Materials Recovery; Critical Element Reclamation; Displacement/Replacement Of Critical Materials; Battlefield Foraged Material Re-use; Graded Materials Property And Performance; Supply Chain Modeling (Lifecycle, Risk & Cost)