This $322,052 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds collaborative research on hybrid flow-sediment-structure interaction analysis of extreme scour due to coastal flooding. The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, on behalf of Stony Brook University, will analyze the interaction of water flow, sediment transport, and infrastructure to better understand scour hazards during coastal flooding events. As the NSF Engineering...
The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY) was awarded a $302,641 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "Frustrated Metamaterials as Shape-Morphing Structures" from January 15, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant funding will enable Stony Brook University researchers to develop new frustrated...
The Research Foundation For The State University of New York was awarded a $314,560 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research linking pyroclastic surge dynamics and deposits through integrated field data collection, multiphase numerical modeling, and experiments. The three-year award beginning June 15, 2021 will support collaborative work between foundation researchers and the State University of New York at Buffalo to advance...
The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York received a $223,744 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support research exploring dislocation structures with conventional electron backscatter diffraction through August 31, 2023. The Geosciences program aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a $149,999 EAGER/Collaborative Research grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University. The grant, under CFDA Program 47.041 Engineering, supports research at the intersection of structural mechanics and network theory. The project aims to develop a network-theoretic framework to study "switching structures" - load-bearing systems made of bars...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $294,992 Project Grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant supports fundamental research to develop a symbolic artificial intelligence framework for automatically discovering physically interpretable constitutive laws of soft functional composites. The framework will incorporate general tensor functions, scalar and tensor-based operators, and statistical analysis for noisy...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $223,232 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University, from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The funding supports collaborative research at the intersection of geotechnical engineering and structural mechanics, with the goal of realizing flexible burrowing probes for...
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York was awarded a three-year, $511,573 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to support modeling, design, and operation of robotic tether-net systems for reliable capture of targets. The goal of the NSF Engineering program, which provided funding under assistance listing 47.041, is to foster innovation in engineering research. Through this award, university researchers will develop advanced robotic technologies to deploy and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support research to develop a physics-informed machine learning framework for surrogate modeling of geostructural systems under seismic loading. The $607,802 project, awarded to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), aims to enable rapid and reliable seismic response predictions for geostructural systems to improve earthquake engineering and infrastructure...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $302,485 project grant to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for collaborative research titled "Mechanics of Hybrid Random Fiber Networks." The award period is from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The grant is being administered under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. The funding will support...