Formula Grant 15G007

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Missouri System's Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T) to research methods for repairing buckled cold-formed steel panels used in building construction. The 2-year project aims to develop a science-based analytical model to predict the cyclic performance of cold-formed steel members repaired with basalt fiber-reinforced polymers...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, totaling $951,218, will fund research at Carnegie Mellon University to develop new techniques for measuring temperature distribution in nanoscale electronic devices under an applied voltage. The university researchers will use scanning thermal microscopy and scanning Joule expansion microscopy to map temperature changes in resistive switching structures and identify the operating mechanisms...

This two-year, $252,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research will support research into mechanically controlling the electronic properties of two-dimensional ferroelectrics. The grantee, the University of Nebraska, will investigate using mechanical stress and strain as novel methods to deterministically modulate polarization states and related changes in electrical resistance in 2D ferroelectric materials. Researchers will use scanning probe...

This $592,223 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the development of an ultrasonic diffuse wave field method to enable volumetric characterization of microstructures in engineering metals. Led by The Pennsylvania State University, researchers will design experimental transduction mechanisms and signal processing techniques to extract quantitative data on properties like diffusivity, attenuation, and scattering from ultrasonic...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to evaluate the susceptibility to stress corrosion cracking (SRC) of two alternative candidate materials as a function of microstructure, residual stress, and plastic strain, compared to the susceptibility map developed previously for 347H stainless steel. The project will also evaluate tanks...

This five-year, $641,328 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at the Colorado School of Mines to advance additive manufacturing of nickel-based superalloys for clean energy applications. Funded through NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the award will develop a mechanistic understanding of how wire arc additive manufacturing processing conditions influence the microstructure and high-temperature mechanical properties of Haynes 282 superalloy. The research combines...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $249,999 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to establish a physics-informed machine learning (PIML) framework for predicting and mitigating fatigue life scattering in metal components produced via laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing processes. The project aims to: Characterize the quality and fatigue properties of LPBF-produced stainless steel 316L and titanium...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $456,786 Project Grant to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to investigate robust superconductivity in high-entropy alloys under high pressure and low temperature conditions. The work aims to provide a fundamental understanding of superconducting phenomena in these novel materials, with the goal of tailoring their microstructure using 3D printing techniques to enhance their ability to generate high...

The National Science Foundation awarded Hysa Fillers LLC a $256,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop multi-principal element alloy fillers for enhancing toughness in repairing nickel-base superalloy components. Hysa Fillers will design and test novel alloys using thermodynamics-based calculations to identify compositions that suppress detrimental phases and improve mechanical performance. The alloys aim to fill cracks in gas...