Cooperative Agreement P20AC00564

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to explore novel lightweight backfill materials for geotechnical structures. The project aims to leverage aerospace composites engineering concepts to develop new geo-composite materials that combine geosynthetics and lightweight backfill like lightweight cellular concrete (LCC) and tire derived aggregate (TDA). This...

This $394,302 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Purdue University to advance understanding and modeling of seismic cracking in earthen embankments and dams. Funded through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the two-year Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering Synergy project aims to validate assumptions around using static analyses to estimate earthquake-induced cracking location and size. Researchers will combine case...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award, totaling $128,716, will support rapid response research by Georgia TECH Research Corp (the Office of Sponsored Programs) to characterize subsurface conditions and ground performance at sites affected by the 2023 Kahramanmaras, Turkey earthquake sequence. The goal is to develop well-documented case histories on building and infrastructure damage, with a focus on near-fault ground motions, liquefaction-induced...

This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research at Stanford University from September 2022 to August 2025 on the physical and mechanical response of aluminosilicate cementation. Principal Investigator Dr. Vanorio will conduct laboratory studies to investigate how cements form within rocks and how much they increase rock strength under varying thermal and chemical conditions. This...

This $581,865 National Science Foundation project grant will support research and education activities towards developing next-generation data-driven procedures in mining geotechnics. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the five-year award beginning September 2022 aims to investigate the multiscale mechanical response of mine tailings through data science and numerical simulations. Specifically, the grantee will analyze tailings material signatures, inherent anisotropy, and...

Precast Systems Engineering, LLC received a $274,956 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The award will fund the development of an innovative, bio-inspired, ultra-high performance concrete foundation system to support offshore wind turbines through December 2023. The proposed foundation system aims to provide technical and cost improvements over foundations currently used for offshore wind energy...

The University of California, Davis will receive $200,000 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The grant funds the research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DEVELOPMENT OF REALISTIC SEISMIC INPUT MOTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE RESILIENCE OF INFRASTRUCTURE TO EARTHQUAKES" from November 2021 through October 2023. This project supports the NSF Directorate for Engineering's goal of improving...

This $950,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at Arizona State University to develop carbon-neutral cement manufacturing technologies. The goal is to enable production of Portland cement and other lime-based cements in an energy-efficient and carbon-neutral manner through technological innovations, including a low-temperature process to decompose...

This $346,929 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research to build foundational knowledge about the spatial skills relevant to contemporary engineering practice. The award, effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028, will focus on identifying the spatial problems embedded in the work of civil and mechanical engineers. The research will utilize ethnographic methods to understand how engineers...

This $175,233 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research to understand the competencies and professional identities of digitally-enabled sustainable demolition construction practices. The research aims to: 1) advance knowledge and innovation to transform demolition practices to be more technologically advanced and sustainable, mitigating the impact of natural hazards; 2) collaborate with demolition...