4.0Relationship with Phase II or Future R/R&D

HyPerComp Engineering views the results demonstrated in this SBIR as an excellent foundation for the development and understanding of both commercial and aerospace filament wound cryogenic pressure vessels with significantly improved performance. While this effort has pointed the way, additional work with different levels and types of testing is certainly required and justified.

Finally it bears noting that HyPerComp Engineering has worked with NASA, MSFC to perform some very preliminary evaluation of a cryogenic composite pressure vessel incorporating a crack resisting barrier that shows potential for increased performance. While those efforts are outside the scope of this document the preliminary results offer hope. HEI will be submitting a proposal for a phase II effort to further examine the possibility of incorporating a crack resisting barrier along with the possibility of both increasing performance of cryogenic pressure vessels and better understanding of how different materials behave differently and why those materials behave differently when exposed to cryogenic applications.

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