Project Grant 1756393

This $719,755 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Michigan to advance understanding of mechanical hysteresis and functional fatigue in martensitic phase transforming materials. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to foster innovation in engineering research and education. Specifically, the university will conduct multiscale, multimodal in-situ experimentation using dark-field x-ray microscopy, x-ray topotomography, and...

This $249,999 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to establish a physics-informed machine learning (PIML) framework to enable accurate and transparent predictions of fatigue life and its variation for metal additive manufacturing (AM) components. The project will fabricate baseline fatigue samples of SS316L and Ti-6Al-4V alloys produced via laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) AM and post-processing, characterize their...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a $649,207 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to the University of Miami to support fundamental research enabling novel micromechanical creep testing techniques and furthering the understanding of creep deformation mechanisms in advanced materials. This 5-year project, awarded on July 1, 2024, combines multiscale modeling, high-temperature micromechanical tests, and machine learning to establish a relationship...

The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $405,493 Project Grant to the University of Illinois to support research into the Mechanics of Fatigue in High to Medium Entropy Alloys from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. Under the grant, the University of Illinois will conduct research to improve understanding of the fatigue behavior of multi-principal element alloys (MEAs), also known as high to medium entropy alloys. MEAs have...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $479,069 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to support research on phase transition and plasticity in silicon nanostructures. Funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), this Faculty Early Career Development award will advance fundamental understanding of how stress fields, grain boundaries, and plastic deformation impact phase transition at the atomic scale in nanostructured silicon. The principal...

This $359,990 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Rutgers, The State University to establish a physics-informed machine learning (PIML) framework that can accurately predict the fatigue life and scattering behavior of metal components produced through laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing (AM) processes. The key objectives are to: 1) characterize the quality and fatigue properties of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program Project Grant award, valued at $222,890, will fund research to develop 2D auxetic lattice actuators that integrate shape memory alloy (SMA) backbones within elastomeric polymers. The goal is to enable enhanced functional deformation transfer from the SMA components to the surrounding elastomer, advancing the practical application of SMAs in soft robotics applications such as artificial muscles, soft grippers, wearables, and...

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 $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 University of Kentucky Research Foundation was awarded a $507,288 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "CAREER: THERMOMECHANICAL RESPONSE AND FATIGUE PERFORMANCE OF SURFACE LAYERS ENGINEERED BY FINISH MACHINING: IN-SITU CHARACTERIZATION AND DIGITAL PROCESS TWIN." The five-year award beginning May 1, 2022 will fund the development of a digital process twin approach to model the...