99--TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY NEW PROBE FOR DETECTING DEEP FLAWS INSTRUCTURES

NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA solicits interest from companiesinterested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market thefollowing technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basisand may include specific fields of use. THE TECHNOLOGY: NASA Langley has developed a new nondestructive evaluation probe to detect small fatiguecracks prior to the onset of widespread fatigue damage. The detection of deeply buriedfatigue cracks in thick multilayer structures like airplane wings continues to be achallenge for the nondestructive evaluation community. This new technology leverages thelow frequency magnetic field sensitivity of giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensors toidentify subsurface cracks up to 1 cm deep. The handheld probe has been tested, and NASALangley is seeking partners to license and commercialize it.To express interest in this opportunity, please respond to Sean Sullivan, ResearchTriangle International (RTI), at: NASA Langley Research Center, Strategic RelationshipsOffice (SRSO), 17 West Taylor St., Mail Stop 218, Building 1212, Room 110 Hampton,Virginia, E-mail: [email protected], or phone: 757-864-5055. Please indicate thedate and title of the FBO notice and include your company and contact information.RTI is responsible for aggregating and acknowledging all responses. These responses areprovided to members of NASA Langleys Innovative Partnerships Office within the SRO forthe purpose of promoting public awareness of our technology products, and conductingpreliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for futurelicensing opportunities. If direct licensing interest results from this posting, SRO willfollow the formal licensing process of posting in the Federal Register as required. Nofollow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice.