Cooperative Agreement W912HZ1820017

This $199,638 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by the San Diego State University (SDSU) Research Foundation to develop an improved seismic-resistant timber-concrete connection using replaceable ductile anchor rods. The goal is to enhance the seismic resilience of mass timber structures by enabling rapid post-earthquake repair through a reliable ductile mechanism that dissipates energy in the anchor connecting the...

This Project Grant award of $693,989 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports research by the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. The research aims to enable "mutualistic cyber-physical interaction" for self-adaptive monitoring of damage to civil infrastructure. Key components include: 1) deep learning-based damage prognostics to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the University of Washington to advance earthquake engineering research on cast-in-place concrete diaphragms with openings in reinforced concrete buildings. The 3-year project, beginning January 1, 2024, will develop a fundamental understanding of how openings for stairs, elevators, and mechanical systems affect the seismic performance of concrete floor diaphragms. The research...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $369,698 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute for research related to structural dynamics identification using non-contact video methods. The award aims to develop techniques using motion estimation and video magnification to identify small motions and dynamic behavior of structures from video recordings. This has applications for monitoring the health of structures like wind turbines, bridges...

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 $210,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of an experimentally verified thermodynamic framework for evaluating the fatigue performance and life of composite materials. The research aims to account for complex failure mechanisms in composites like matrix cracking, delamination, and fiber breakage through an entropy-based approach. The grant will enable in-situ thermal imaging of composite...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $505,999 Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CPS: MEDIUM: MUTUALISTIC CYBER-PHYSICAL INTERACTION FOR SELF-ADAPTIVE MULTI-DAMAGE MONITORING OF CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE" to the University of Illinois, a U.S. state government, 1862 land grant college, and educational institution. The project aims to develop a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) that enables "mutualistic interaction" between...

This $457,384 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a new computational framework for stochastic analysis of quasibrittle damage and fracture through 2025. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), key products include a mechanism-based model for mapping random fields of material properties onto finite elements to resolve mesh dependence issues in stochastic finite element simulations of quasibrittle structures. Validation will utilize experimental...

This $674,582 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program supports research to develop a framework for translating raw sensor data into functional analytical models that accurately represent the as-built behavior of civil structures. The project, conducted by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), aims to address key challenges in applying data-driven methods to structural engineering practice....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $510,000 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct research on crack propagation in nonlinearly viscoelastic materials, using hydrogels as a model system. The objectives are to identify criteria governing crack growth and path selection in viscoelastic solids through a combined numerical and experimental study of crack propagation under mixed-mode planar...