Cooperative Agreement W911NF2220256

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports a research and education project aimed at understanding the behavior of dislocations in concentrated solid-solution alloys (CSAs). The $104,060 award to Drexel University will be used to develop a probabilistic framework for describing how dislocations move and affect the deformation properties of CSAs made from refractory metals like niobium, molybdenum, and tungsten. The...

This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $536,195 supports research into abnormal grain growth in ultrafine grained metals under high cycle loading at room temperature. The principal investigators will conduct high-throughput characterization of cyclic-load-induced grain growth in ultrafine grained metal films using scanning electron microscopy with electron backscatter diffraction. Six different metallic films with varying degrees of elastic anisotropy and face-centered...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $287,357 supports fundamental research exploring stress-assisted structural phase transformations and plasticity in bicontinuous nanoporous metals to enable uniform deformation. Funded under the Engineering (47.041) program, the University of Rochester award runs from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The project seeks to understand mechanisms enabling homogeneous phase transformations and significantly improved plastic deformability in...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award, under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering), provides $251,445 over 5 years to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct fundamental research on fracture propagation in soft viscoelastic materials under a broad range of loading rates and temperature conditions. The project aims to develop integrated experimental and computational methods to bridge gaps in understanding dynamic fracture behavior in materials...

This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop a computational framework for simulating elastic deformation and fracture in advanced materials with complex internal structures, such as metal-ceramic composites. The research aims to create an efficient, scalable simulation platform that can accurately predict material failure while applying high-fidelity modeling only in regions undergoing damage. This hybrid...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports fundamental research to investigate the role of topological defects in regulating the strain-induced crystallization in end-linked polymer networks. The research combines experimental and modeling approaches to study the stress-strain behavior, fracture, and fatigue properties of these materials at both the microscale and macroscale. With a total funding amount of $369,424,...

The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University, received a three-year $420,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to conduct collaborative research on deformation mechanisms in microstructurally tailored high strength alloys. The grant aims to develop a fundamental understanding of rate-limiting dislocation nucleation and propagation mechanisms to enable metallic...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation provides $417,921 to fund research at Duke University from September 2021 through August 2024 under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant supports collaborative research between Duke University and the NSF to develop a unified theory of crack nucleation and growth in materials subjected to repetitive surface acoustic waves and dynamic impacts. The research is...

This $599,998 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense (CFDA 12.431 - Basic Scientific Research) supports research at Boise State University and Purdue University to understand how irradiation induces unusual amorphous-to-crystalline phase transformations in structural ceramics and their associated mechanical resilience. The primary work under this 3-year award involves molecular dynamics simulations at Purdue to model the crystalline phase nucleation process and internal...

This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to systematically understand the dislocation-phonon drag regime in metallic materials across a wide range of strain rates. The research aims to develop a novel, small-scale, high-throughput approach to study the characteristics of dislocation-phonon interactions in metals and alloys at extremely high deformation rates. The integrated experimental-computational...