The National Science Foundation awarded a $353,840 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for research titled "A Unified Theory of Crack Nucleation and Growth for Materials Subjected to Repetitive Surface Acoustic Waves and Dynamic Impacts." The three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will support collaborative research developing a unified theoretical framework to predict crack initiation and propagation in...
The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded Duke University a $580,158 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2026. The grant funds the development of an integrated dissipative modeling framework to assess geohazards over the long term. As part of its mission to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research, the NSF Directorate for Engineering aims to improve quality of life...
Duke University was awarded a $200,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The grant falls under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. The grant will fund a three-year collaborative research project titled "Acoustic Holography Enabled Additive Manufacturing of High-Resolution Multifunctional Composites." Duke University...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $399,915 will fund fundamental scientific research to develop a novel method for simulating fracture behavior in steel structures under extreme loads and hazards. The award, which runs from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028, is part of the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to integrate fracture mechanics with an enriched frame element formulation, enabling more accurate prediction of fracture initiation and...
This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to systematically understand the dislocation-phonon drag regime in metallic materials across a wide range of strain rates. The research aims to develop a novel, small-scale, high-throughput approach to study the characteristics of dislocation-phonon interactions in metals and alloys at extremely high deformation rates. The integrated experimental-computational...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $250,338 Project Grant to Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. The grant, which runs from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, will fund research to enable the adaptive steering of acoustic waves through engineered or biological structures. The research aims to characterize flexural wave propagation on thin, curved shells and determine how shape-morphing shell geometries can be used to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $382,298 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte under the NSF Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041). The 3-year award, starting on October 1, 2024, will support fundamental research on the processing-structure-mechanics relationships in thermosetting nanocomposites containing ultra-small two-dimensional quantum dot nanoparticles. The research aims to reveal the...
The Johns Hopkins University received a three-year, $600,000 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 support research utilizing integrated physics-based modeling, machine learning, and experiments to develop a "digital twin" of acoustic emission experiments that can predict deformation mechanisms in metals. Specifically, the university will (1)...
Duke University was awarded a $160,944 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds the REU Site: Collaborative Research: Nanoscale Detectives -- Elucidating the Structure and Dynamics of Hybrid Perovskite Systems project at Duke University. The project supports undergraduate students in conducting research to better understand the structure and dynamics of hybrid perovskite...