Project Grant 1548845

This $255,996 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships award to Wave Logix, Inc. supports development of an Internet of Things sensing platform to monitor civil infrastructure concrete strength. The awardee will prototype a piezoelectric concrete strength sensor integrated with customized data logging, processing, and transmission capabilities. A secure cloud-based database is also envisioned to provide contractors real-time in-place concrete strength data through...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) project grant award of $200,000 to the University of Missouri System (Missouri S&T) will support research on a novel repair technique to restore the strength and stability of buckled cold-formed steel structural components after seismic events. The two-year project will develop a science-based analytical model to predict the cyclic performance of repaired cold-formed steel members reinforced with basalt fiber-reinforced...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $399,915 in funding to the University of California, Davis from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028. The goal of this research is to develop a novel scientific formulation that integrates fracture mechanics with an enriched frame element formulation, resulting in a method that can accurately simulate the initiation and propagation of fracture and fatigue in steel structures. This research...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation provides $100,000 to William Marsh Rice University to develop a strain-sensing smart skin technology using carbon nanotubes. The technology is intended to enable non-contact, laser-based strain measurement with advantages over existing digital image correlation methods. It has applications in infrastructure maintenance and safety inspections across industries such as aerospace, bridges, pipelines, wind turbines. Successful development...

This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041), aims to develop a deeper understanding of fracture and damage tolerance in micro-architectured materials composed of brittle ceramic or ceramic-like parent materials. The $500,000 award to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), a division of the Texas A&M University System, will facilitate damage tolerance and structural integrity analysis to enable the reliable use...

This $384,930 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports the acquisition of a drop tower impact test capability at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. The drop tower will allow researchers to study rate-dependent fracture behavior across a variety of materials, from metals and polymers to composites, under controlled high-speed impact conditions. It will complement existing test techniques and enable undergraduate research,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $223,232 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University, from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The funding supports collaborative research at the intersection of geotechnical engineering and structural mechanics, with the goal of realizing flexible burrowing probes for...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities provides $586,231 to Arkansas State University to acquire a nanoindenter for materials science and biomaterials research under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083). The nanoindenter will enable quantitative mechanical characterization of engineering, construction, and biological materials through measurement of elastic modulus, hardness, deformation, wear, fatigue...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $559,998 awarded under the Engineering (47.041) program will fund research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to understand and quantify seismic performance for the design of reinforced concrete structures using highly ductile fiber-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCCs). Beginning August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2027, the awardee will integrate physical experimentation, computational modeling, and risk assessment to develop new...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $299,431 to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to develop characterization techniques for determining the rate and temperature-dependent properties of polymer matrix composite (PMC) materials. The goal is to enable accurate simulations of PMC behavior under dynamic loading conditions, such as vehicle crashes and aircraft impacts, to support the widespread...