The National Science Foundation awarded a $996,596 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to establish a framework for modeling the mechanical behavior of living building materials for structural applications from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2027. Specifically, the award will support research to develop a new multiscale cellular and granular material poroelastic formulation for a microbial precipitation-based living...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Utah State University under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024. The grant funds research to develop constitutive equations of chemo-mechanics through atomistic simulations. As part of its mission to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research, the NSF Engineering program supports fundamental research that advances understanding of engineering systems and improves the...
The University of Utah received a $622,222 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research on physics-informed artificial intelligence to parallelly design metal matrix composites and their additive manufacturing processes. The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through innovative engineering research and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $447,008 five-year Project Grant under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The grant will fund research to provide a comprehensive understanding and prediction of thermal transport across successive material interfaces, which is critical for improving the design of advanced electronics, thermal barrier coatings, thermoelectrics, and other technologies. Key research activities...
This $188,024 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation supports collaborative research at Iowa State University to develop a fundamental understanding of adsorption-deformation coupling in soft nanoporous materials. The research aims to establish a multiscale mechanics framework to predict sorption-induced straining of nanoporous materials like cellulose, which exhibit significant swelling/shrinkage upon...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $498,661 Project Grant to the University of Utah under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant will support the design and fabrication of engineered dielectric metamaterials for energy harvesting applications through an integrated research approach. As part of its mission to improve engineering research and innovation, the NSF Directorate for Engineering program aims to foster...
The University of Utah was awarded a $287,802 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support the collaborative research project "Multiscale Simulations and Imaging of Viscoelastic Media in Reduced Order Model Framework" from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The project aims to advance understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical...
This $223,010 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a new class of ultralight, manufacturable materials with jointly optimized mechanical and transport properties. The key activities include: Characterizing the benefits of exploiting local uniformity and hyperuniformity in materials design and fabrication, Measuring the mechanical...
The University of Utah will receive $388,445 in funding from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. This three-year Project Grant, awarded September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024, will support collaborative research on stakeholder interdependencies in post-disaster relocation under high uncertainty. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $293,104 Project Grant to the University of Colorado Boulder under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MULTISCALE MECHANICS OF ADSORPTION-DEFORMATION COUPLING IN SOFT NANOPOROUS MATERIALS." The three-year award beginning December 1, 2021 will support research examining the multiscale mechanics of adsorption and deformation processes in soft nanoporous materials. Specifically, the...