Cooperative Agreement FA70001920026

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) Federal Grant Program provides $250,000 to The Ohio State University to evaluate the environmental degradation of concrete materials made from different cement formulations. The research activities will fabricate four types of concrete specimens, including Portland cement-based concrete, and subject them to testing simulating...

This Project Grant award of $279,710 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will develop a multiscale experimental and modeling framework to understand the coupled ice/salt crystallization phenomena in low/zero clinker cementitious materials. The research aims to elucidate the mechanisms of entrained air void formation, saturation, and crystallization damage in these materials, which is crucial for improving the durability and resilience of concrete...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $274,921 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) Federal Grant Program is intended to develop a novel framework to quantify the impact of climate change on the risk of buildings and bridges prone to earthquakes and strong windstorms. The key activities include creating a framework with eight modules to assess climate change scenarios, hazard analysis, structural...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will develop a multiscale experimental and modeling framework to understand saturation and coupled ice/salt crystallization phenomena in low/zero clinker cementitious materials. The $180,000 award, effective December 1, 2024 through November 30, 2027, aims to elucidate the mechanisms of air void formation, saturation, and crystallization damage in these sustainable concrete formulations. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to elucidate how nanoscale pores govern expansive chemical reactions that cause cracking and damage in concrete, which compromises the safety of infrastructure and increases repair costs. With $650,563 in total funding, this 5-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to the University of Miami aims to develop computational methods and educational initiatives to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering) provides $220,000.00 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop a multiscale experimental and modeling framework to understand the coupled ice and salt crystallization phenomena in low/zero clinker cementitious materials. The research aims to elucidate the mechanisms of entrained air void formation, saturation, and crystallization damage in these sustainable concrete formulations. The project will...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,871 Project Grant to Youngstown State University (YSU) to conduct research aimed at assessing the performance of concrete exposed to harsh, cyclical environmental conditions due to climate change. The research project, titled "Correlating Cyclical and Coupled Exposure to Concrete Performance and Service Life", aims to (a) simulate the deterioration caused by cyclical, dynamic, and coupled environments, (b) measure the resulting...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program totals $289,243 and will be performed by the Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The purpose of this award is to improve understanding of the impact of climate change-induced drought and heavy precipitation on soil dynamic behavior and its subsequent effect on the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research that aims to develop methods for evaluating the safety and integrity of existing reinforced concrete structures. The $549,999 award to the University of Texas at Austin will fund a 5-year research project to investigate the combined effects of various deterioration mechanisms, such as corrosion, alkali-silica reaction, and freeze-thaw cycles, on concrete structures. The project...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $291,476 Cooperative Agreement to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) federal grant program. The purpose of this grant is to develop reliability analysis methodologies that account for the nonstationary nature of future climatic loads, while remaining consistent with current uniform reliability principles used in modern...