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...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $511,916 supports research at The Pennsylvania State University to develop computational design techniques for multi-functional triply periodic minimal surface lattice structures. The award is provided through the NSF Engineering Directorate's ($512K) program, which seeks to advance engineering innovation and research. Specifically, the research will formulate novel computational methods to efficiently design lattice structures...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to understand how human bone tissue dynamically adapts at the nanoscale level under various loading conditions. The $719,538 award to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, made on May 1, 2024, will investigate the real-time rearrangement and deformation of the nanoscale components of healthy and osteoporotic bone tissue when subjected to cyclic loading....
This $128,989 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support research at the University of Pennsylvania to study the structural design and formation mechanisms of biomineralized architected metamaterials, using the skeletal system of starfish as a model. The research aims to quantify the 3D microstructure and crystallographic properties of the starfish's biomineralized ossicles, and investigate how their...
This five-year, $1,279,786 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop a fundamental understanding of the mechanics of three-dimensional self-architected materials. The grantee will integrate computational modeling and experimental methods to relate geometric parameters like curvature to mechanical responses of nano-to-microscale self-architected materials derived via spinodal...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $310,661 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop impact-resistant phononic sutural gabions. The award funds a three-year collaborative research project at the State University of New York at Buffalo ending June 30, 2025. The project aims to advance next-generation shockproof materials by drawing inspiration from biological sutures in woodpecker beaks and plant seedcoats, as well as engineered seawalls using...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program project grant awarded to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, provides $654,278 in funding from May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2027 to support fundamental research on the microscale origins of ductile failure in engineering metals. The research aims to identify links between microstructural features in metals and their propensity for failure under real-world loading conditions, using a combination of...
This $325,044 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop a new "aerodynamic fiber deposition" technology to manufacture biomimetic soft fiber-reinforced composites with spatially varying fiber arrangements. The research aims to enable the production of high-throughput, highly controlled nano/microfiber patterns that mimic the complex fiber structures found in biological tissues like skin, muscle, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $358,885 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ENGINEERING FRACTURE RESPONSE AND TRANSPORT BEHAVIOR IN ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED, LAYERED CONCRETE MATERIALS." The three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will support research at Princeton University to study fracture properties and material transport within additively...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $612,379 supports research on the mechanics of soft, multiphase architected materials. The award recipient, Washington State University, will investigate the effects of solid-liquid phase interactions and geometric arrangement on the mechanical properties of these materials, which have potential applications in biomedical, healthcare, and soft robotics. The research aims to develop a nonlinear...