Cooperative Agreement DEEE0011016

This Project Grant award of $267,524 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to enable the manufacture of high-performance thermoplastic composite structures through faster and less energy-intensive processes. The research, conducted by an international team from the University of California-San Diego, Michigan Technological University, NASA, and the University of Wuppertal in Germany, aims to develop a physics-based, multiscale modeling...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $283,099 will support the development of new stochastic optimization methods to calibrate digital twins using large datasets. Awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the grant will fund research at the University of Michigan from January 2023 through December 2025. Specifically, the university researchers will develop computational approaches using statistical theories to guide simulation experiments and identify optimal subsets of...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded Perseus Materials Inc. a $498,767 Project Grant to develop a new composite fabrication process for manufacturing wind turbine blades. The goal is to create variable cross-sectional wind turbine blades using an innovative casting technique. This 2-year project, which started on October 19, 2023, aims to deliver a transformative solution that can enhance the efficiency and performance of wind...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $275,000 to Novineer, Inc. to develop novel approaches for optimizing the layout, fiber paths, and plastic infill distribution in 3D printed composite materials. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art in additive manufacturing for end-use parts by creating automated design software that can tailor the material distribution to...

This $255,934 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships grant will support Exlattice, Inc.'s development of machine learning-powered additive manufacturing simulation software. Under the SBIR Phase I Project Grant, Exlattice will create a proof-of-concept for 3-5 orders of magnitude faster process simulation software to predict manufacturing failures from high temperature, residual distortion, and residual stresses. The proposed hybrid data-driven and physics-based...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $250,000 to Purdue University to develop an energy-efficient manufacturing process for producing lightweight titanium alloy sheet, foil and wire. Specifically, the award will support optimizing hybrid machining process parameters to influence material structure and properties for these thin gauge formats. The project will also characterize the new...

This $2,600,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) supports Collaborative Composite Solutions Corporation (CCS), a non-profit organization, in developing large-scale 3D printed steel tools for molding lightweight automotive composite components. The 1-year project aims to advance additive manufacturing and composite materials innovations to enable low-cost, high-rate production of durable and...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), provides $461,544 to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) to advance a 4D printing platform for creating continuous fiber-reinforced smart composites. The research seeks to: Develop a cross-material multi-property prediction framework to map matrix materials and fiber compositions to stimuli-response behaviors and mechanical properties....

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089), awarded a $865,961 Cooperative Agreement to Baker Hughes Energy Transition LLC to develop a digital twin framework for hydrogen-blended natural gas turbine systems with point-source carbon capture technology. The objectives include validating a digital twin architecture for "blue hydrogen" with carbon capture from natural gas turbines,...

This Project Grant award of $199,066.00 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to automate the creation of digital twins for manufacturing systems. The key objectives are to: Develop a dataset of manufacturing shop floor videos annotated with ISO 23247-compliant labels of observable manufacturing elements (OMEs). Train a neural radiance field (NeRF) model to reconstruct the shop environment as a high-fidelity 3D model. Implement a 3D...