The University of California, San Diego will receive $370,293 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The grant falls under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) and will support collaborative research on developing a micromechanics-based framework for modeling fracture in structural steel weldments from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2024. The University will conduct research at its location in La...
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) was awarded a $419,486 Project Grant by the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant supports collaborative research to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the mechanics of hydraulic plucking, a fundamental process in landscape evolution where large, competent rock blocks are eroded from fractured rock masses by flowing water. This...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under CFDA Program 47.041 - Engineering, will support fundamental scientific research to develop improved computer models for predicting fracture and collapse behavior in steel structures under extreme events like earthquakes. The $399,915 award, running from April 2025 to March 2028, will fund a collaboration between the University of California, Davis and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. The...
The University of California, Davis will receive $200,000 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The grant funds the research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DEVELOPMENT OF REALISTIC SEISMIC INPUT MOTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE RESILIENCE OF INFRASTRUCTURE TO EARTHQUAKES" from November 2021 through October 2023. This project supports the NSF Directorate for Engineering's goal of improving...
The University of California, Davis was awarded a $567,806 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support research from July 2021 through June 2026 related to evaluating soil liquefaction at multiple scales through physics-guided data science approaches. The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research and...
The University of California, Davis received a three-year, $310,767 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds collaborative research on developing an integrated computational suite for large-scale modeling of crystal nucleation. The suite aims to enable simulation and prediction of crystal nucleation across multiple length and time scales. By furthering understanding of nucleation...
The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $354,392 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of California for collaborative research on learning and distributional feedback control for fabrication of advanced materials. The three-year award running from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 is funded through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to improve innovation, creativity and excellence in engineering research and education....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $475,821 project grant to the University of California, Davis under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to acquire an ultra-high speed data characterization system for convergent research in the big data era. The system will support research efforts across engineering and other scientific disciplines by enabling innovation, creativity, and excellence in engineering research through advanced data collection and analysis capabilities. Funding will be...
The University of California, Merced received a $750,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "UNDERSTANDING THE DEFORMABILITY OF BIOLOGICAL FILAMENTS FROM THEIR ATOMISTIC LEVEL DETAILS" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2026. The grant will fund research examining the deformability of biological filaments through analysis of their atomic structure to gain a deeper understanding of their material...
The University of California, Merced received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation on May 15, 2022 to support research under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The award will fund research from May 15, 2022 through April 30, 2024 to develop multi-scale models of cell-matrix mechanical interactions during endothelial cell network assembly. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and...