TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY: Optical method for detecting displacements and strains at ultra-high temperatures, LAR-17495-1

NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA solicits inquiries from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis and may include specific fields of use. NASA provides no funding in conjunction with these potential licenses. THE TECHNOLOGY: Scientists at NASA Langley Research Center have developed an optical method for detecting displacements and strains at ultra-high temperatures during thermo-mechanical testing. This innovation will provide displacement and strain measurements in high temperature applications where conventional measurements technologies cannot physically survive. The measurement system has operated in laboratory environments in excess of 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit with minimal optical aberrations during measurements. It can be applied to any optical pattern recognition system and is useful for tests related to atmospheric re-entry vehicles, hypersonic flight vehicles, high temperature engine turbines, high performance engines, as well as other types of high temperature testing. The technology enables the use of conventional optical methods for sensing of displacements and strains at temperatures well above those where these conventional measurement techniques have previously been applicable. High temperature materials are used which can endure an experimental high temperature environment while simultaneously having a minimum optical aberration, such that emissivity differences in these materials can be used to produce a visible pattern that can be used by conventional optical methods. NASA is seeking to license this technology commercially in the United States. US Patent 9,400,237. To express interest in this opportunity, please respond to [email protected] with the title of this Technology Transfer Opportunity as listed in this FBO notice and your preferred contact information. Please also provide how you foresee using the technology along with a brief background of your company. Additionally, please identify any non-US interests/subsidiaries in your company as well. For more information about licensing other NASA Langley-developed technologies, please visit the NASA Langley’s Technology Gateway at https://technologygateway.nasa.gov/ These responses are provided to members of NASA Langley’s Office of Strategic Analysis and Business Development “OSACB” for the purpose of promoting public awareness of NASA-developed technology products, and conducting preliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for future licensing opportunities. If direct licensing interest results from this posting, OSACB will follow the required formal licensing process of posting in the Federal Register. No follow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice.