The University of California, Davis received a three-year, $245,101 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from November 2021 through October 2024 to develop a micromechanics-based framework for modeling fracture in structural steel weldments. The framework aims to improve understanding of weldment failure and inform engineering design. The...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA program 47.041 (Engineering) will support fundamental scientific research to develop a novel method for simulating fracture and fatigue in steel structures under extreme hazard events. The $399,915 award to the University of California, Davis, in collaboration with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, aims to integrate fracture mechanics with an enriched frame element formulation. This will enable...
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 National Science Foundation awarded a $978,870 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant funds research titled "CAREER: GOAL-ORIENTED VARIABLE TRANSFORMATIONS FOR EFFICIENT REDUCED-ORDER AND DATA-DRIVEN MODELING" from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2027. The research aims to develop new reduced-order and data-driven modeling techniques through goal-oriented variable transformations to enable more efficient...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $197,643 Project Grant to San Diego State University Research Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from January 2022 through December 2023 to develop techniques for making high-temperature alloyed components by combining additive manufacturing and spark plasma sintering. Specifically, the grant aims to enable greater complexity in component shapes while also predicting microstructures. The...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a $280,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research (CFDA 12.300) program. The funding will support a 4-year research project to develop in-situ non-contact monitoring techniques for detecting defects in automated fiber placement (AFP) manufacturing and assessing their impact on mechanical performance. This research aims to advance knowledge and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $593,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026. The grant funds research into the dynamics of fragile interfaces as part of the NSF's mission to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research. The University of California, Santa Barbara will conduct the proposed research at its campus location in Santa Barbara,...
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...
The University of California, San Diego was awarded a $551,341 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of March 1, 2021 through February 28, 2026. The grant funds research into the mechanical and structural adaptations of blood vessels in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Specifically, the university will examine how blood vessels in the lungs change over time in response to high blood pressure conditions. This work will further the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $359,147 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research on nonlinear balancing involving reduced models and control. Specifically, the University of California, San Diego will work to develop simplified mathematical models and control strategies to optimize complex nonlinear systems,...