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This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,645 to Georgia Southern University Research & Service Foundation Inc. to conduct fundamental research on understanding porosity formation in ductile iron castings. The research aims to correlate porosity to graphitization and casting wall movement through experiments and numerical simulations. Key activities include developing an apparatus for in-situ measurement of casting...

This five-year, $648,748 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at Cornell University to develop a unified framework for understanding and predicting critical velocity, microstructural development, micro-scale bond strength, and macro-scale mechanical properties of cold-sprayed metal deposits. The Principal Investigator will conduct laser-induced micro-scale projectile impact testing with high-resolution imaging to produce well-defined high-velocity individual bonded...

This $558,370 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research into the use of energized fields, such as electrical, magnetic, and ultrasound, in combination with the freeze casting manufacturing process. The goal is to develop a better understanding of how these energized fields can be leveraged to tailor the microstructure and properties of porous materials produced through freeze casting. The research will...

This $606,413 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Central Florida to develop a new liquid metal processing strategy called Severe Ultrasonic Melt Shearing (SUMS) for manufacturing magnesium composite implants. The goal is to refine microstructures and improve corrosion resistance to enable use of magnesium in larger orthopedic and other medical implants. The research aims to understand microstructural...

This Project Grant award of $142,686 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Northwestern University to investigate the abnormal columnar-to-equiaxed transition (CET) in metals processed using wire-laser directed energy deposition (DED) techniques. The research aims to understand the mechanism behind this microstructural phenomenon, which cannot be fully explained by classical solidification theory, and explore...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research to understand the detailed physical mechanisms of segregation during capillary flow of molten metallic alloys under both microgravity and terrestrial conditions. The $108,237 award to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation will fund a series of experiments on the International Space Station, along with ground-based experiments and computational modeling, to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $469,421 to Northwestern University to develop micro-casting of titanium alloys using 3D-printed self-boiling molds. The university will conduct fundamental research on a novel casting method for titanium alloy parts ranging from microns to tens of millimeters. Researchers will utilize a new type of functional mold called "self-boiling molds" produced through three-dimensional printing....

This $247,667 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041), will fund collaborative research on laser powder-fed directed energy deposition (LP-DED) additive manufacturing. The University of Michigan will investigate fundamental interactions between high-speed metal particles and molten pools in LP-DED using synchrotron X-ray imaging and computational process modeling....

This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to investigate the elastic properties of fluids confined in nanoporous materials and their impact on wave propagation. The project aims to develop a molecular theory to quantify the effects of fluid confinement on elastic properties like compressibility, and apply this to improve models of wave propagation in...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project grant to Grow Oyster Reefs LLC, a for-profit organization, to develop a 3D printed metal mold for producing dry-pressed, modular, biophilic concrete reef substrate units. This novel mold will enable mass production of these nature-based concrete units suitable for shoreline protection, ecosystem restoration, and offshore wind infrastructure applications. The project aims to create a...