ERDC Innovation
ERDC has created and engineered state of the art materials that enable advancements in instruments, construction, environmental remediation, and much more. Explore these technologies for more information on how they can benefit your business.
• Contains explosions and captures debris
• Reduces shock waves and secures explosive remnants for safer cleanup
• Supports unexploded ordinance remediation, mine clearance, and blasting for dredging projects
• The actuator operates on just 3 watts, similar to a cellphone signal.
• Maintains consistent performance with no loss after repeated activation cycles.
• Enables wireless motion for soft robotics, prosthetics, aerospace structures, and deployable defense and exploration systems.
• Achieves ±¼ inch accuracy in bead width, enabling high-fidelity printing of complex geometries and structural features
• Dynamically adjusts gantry speed and pump settings to accommodate different material properties and design requirements
• Designed for expeditionary and remote use, ensures reliable performance in variable environments
• Uses DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes and an enzyme-mediated process to link individual nanotubes into visible macroscopic structures without damage
• Solves manipulation challenge through controlled biological process, preserving nanotubes' superior strength, electrical conductivity, and thermal properties for practical use
• Enables high-performance structural materials for aerospace/automotive, advanced electronics requiring superior conductivity, and applications needing exceptional strength-to-weight ratios and thermal properties
• Eliminates errors introduced by contact during material characteristic measurements by using collimated light
• Can be extended with additional environmental sensors, such as a clock, thermometer, hygrometer, or environmental control systems
• Measurements can be taken from the top or bottom of the strip and the material is not limited to two layers.
• Provides simple tools for conducting cost-effective computational testing of a range of chemicals and materials, avoiding unnecessary lab-based testing
• Normalizes emission concentration values, enabling appropriate comparisons
• Includes a cumulative repository of scientific data, making automatic real-time adjustments to impact models as the database is updated
• Ensures access across lighter convey waves, bridging systems, and austere sites
• Achieves full-scale trafficability testing, rapid prototyping, and performance objectives
• Provides an affordable option for rapid deployment of a trafficable roadway by a small crew in austere coastal environments
• Distinct CNC programming digitally creates expanded polystyrene foam (EPS) blocks that can be easily employed to create more detailed and accurate bathymetric models than traditional concrete
• EPS foam blocks can be easily and rapidly placed and removed in situ, allowing prototype refinement, use in limited space areas, and storage
• Using EPS reduces construction costs by 30-60% and allows up to 60% faster construction time compared with concrete modeling
• Demonstrated higher performance (100 passes of an F15-E) in all temperatures than cold-mix asphalt
• Pre-packaged in 5-gallon buckets
• Effectively unlimited shelf life
• Lower installed cost than factory-provided hot mix or cold mix
• Breaks target contaminants down into benign products
• Relies on non-toxic, earth-abundant photocatalysts with filterable particle diameters (> 0.1 μm)
• Uses energy-efficient solar radiation
• Degrades nitrobenzene & carbamazepine at rates equal to that of existing commercial systems
• On-site detection of RDX & NTO in soil and water samples
• Fast-acting: binds to over 50% of available RDX & NTO in just one hour
• Achieves nearly 100% of the theoretical binding capacity
• In-situ treatment for contaminated subsurface soil and groundwater
• Removes > 95% of TNT and NB
• Reduces chlorinated propane concentrations to non-detectable levels
• Utilizes inexpensive ammonia gas
• Environmentally friendly
• 3D printed kit-of-parts for rigid, protective shelter
• Designed to be lightweight, reusable and easily transportable
• Easy to assemble and disassemble on-site
• No tools required
• Multiple configurations for broad applications
• Improves the safety and extends the life of concrete structures
• Reinforces concrete joints up to sixfold
• Protects from salt corrosion
• Reduces the need for costly maintenance and repair
• Purifies water when other treatment facilities are off-line or unavailable
• Selectably controls bleach concentration
• Easily transportable to remote locations
• Energy efficient
• Instantly senses turbidity, temperature, conductivity, pH, oxidation reduction, dissolved oxygen, free chlorine, and more
• Wireless transmission
• Easy-to-use touch screen display
• Portable
• Remote monitoring
• Custom-build any structure, any size, on-site in a fraction of the time
• Reduces shipping of building materials by half
• Reduces manpower requirements by 62% as compared to plywood
