This federal contract award to the Regents of the University of Michigan, worth $165,000.00, seeks to investigate the pyroelectric effects of macro-fiber composites (MFCs). The goal is to determine how temperature and thermal cycling impact the performance of MFCs, as they exhibit piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and ferroelectric properties. The research could contribute to energy harvesting applications by leveraging the pyroelectric effect in addition to the piezoelectric effect. The contract was...
This federal contract award, valued at $256,000.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The contract, titled "MULTI FIDELITY APPROACH FOR AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL WEIGHT ESTIMATION SAFA BAKHSHI NASA AAVP," is for research and development work related to aircraft structural weight estimation. The contract does not utilize any set-aside designations and is a grant for research. The University of Michigan, a...
This $303,000 federal contract award to the Regents of the University of Michigan was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Space Technology Mission Directorate. The contract is for the development of high-fidelity material response modeling for resin-infused woven thermal protection systems (TPS) to be used in future space exploration missions. The work will focus on two main modeling components: coupled computational fluid dynamics-surface chemistry...
This is a $336,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, a prominent U.S. state-owned educational institution, for research on low hysteresis shape memory alloys for mechanical actuation and thermal management systems. The award is not associated with a set-aside program. The grant supports the university's extensive research and development capabilities across multiple scientific domains, including the delivery...
This federal contract award, valued at $2,231,521.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of Michigan's Office of Research and Sponsored Projects division, doing business as the University of Michigan. The contract is a grant for research, with a period of performance running through September 30, 2025. The purpose of the award is to support the geospace community's transition from large, centralized...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan (University of Michigan) is for a $599,256 grant to develop a framework for runtime monitoring and anomaly detection in autonomous cyber-physical systems. The objective is to enable these systems to operate safely and reliably for long periods without human intervention, particularly in highly dynamic environments where failures could have catastrophic...
This federal contract award is a cooperative agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and New Mexico State University (NMSU), valued at $744,914.12. The objective is to develop autonomous structural composites capable of self-powered delamination detection and energy harvesting for aerospace applications. The research involves designing and optimizing multilayer thin film materials, embedding them into fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000.00 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, was awarded on September 10, 2019 and has a completion date of September 9, 2022. The research is focused on using remote sensing technologies to study two-dimensional characteristics of land cover,...
This $203,947.34 federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was made to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop novel metamaterial silicon half-wave plates and anti-reflection coatings for use in cosmic microwave background observations. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, runs through December 1, 2020 and is intended to produce lower-loss and broader-bandwidth polarization modulation components to enable unambiguous...
This federal contract award to New Mexico State University (NMSU) represents a significant step in addressing the safety of space vehicles through the development and testing of a structural health monitoring system (SHM) for a flight information recorder, or "black box." The project aims to investigate the effects of the space environment on piezoelectric sensors, explore structural vibrations in microgravity, and demonstrate the feasibility of SHM during long-term space missions. The...
The federal contract award NNX16AM55H was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan. The $148,000 contract is for research and development to create a self-powered structural health monitoring (SHM) system for fiber-reinforced polymer composites used in aerospace applications. The goal is to develop zinc oxide (ZnO) piezoelectric nanowires that can be integrated into the composite material to harvest energy from vibrations and detect damage. No set-aside was used for this award. The research will build upon previous work to scale up the manufacturing of the ZnO nanowires, quantify their power generation capabilities, and evaluate their use for impedance-based and guided wave SHM techniques. This contract supports NASA's efforts to improve the safety, reliability, and performance of aerospace structures through advancements in composite materials and structural health monitoring.