Project Grant 2230218
- This Project Grant award of $607,855, awarded on June 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research at the University of Massachusetts Lowell to develop new methods for remote monitoring of large-scale structures like wind turbines and bridges using aerial stereovision techniques. The research aims to overcome limitations of traditional structural health monitoring by using drone technology and advanced computer vision to precisely...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,973.00 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to research the nonlinear behavior of slender beams with localized geometric variations. The objective is to develop a hybrid high-order nonlinear beam model that can capture large deformations in beam-type structures with arbitrary initial shapes. The research will focus on understanding how localized geometric variations affect...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $552,291 to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology to develop a novel equality-based framework for modeling and analyzing vibrations in large-scale structural systems with nonlinearities from friction and contact. The research aims to eliminate simplifications and approximations in current analysis techniques, enabling engineers to better predict the performance of critical...
- This Project Grant award for $600,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research by Carnegie Mellon University to develop new technologies for sensing and understanding vibrations. The project aims to create innovative solutions for capturing and analyzing vibrations, which can reveal information about physical objects and events not easily detected by the human eye or regular cameras. Potential...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $499,993 to the University of Massachusetts to investigate fluid-structure interactions (FSI) between flexible structures and inertial-viscoelastic flow. The goal is to conduct numerical simulations and synergistic experiments to understand the influence of viscoelasticity on the dynamics of flexible structures like flags, sheets, and cantilevered beams in high-Reynolds number flows....
- This federal Project Grant award for $300,000.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to advance mathematical and computational models for predicting material and structural failures. The primary goals are to establish the existence of solutions to a new variational principle for fracture propagation that is compatible with applied forces, as well as to develop...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $404,889 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to develop new computational methods for accurately and efficiently analyzing the dynamic behavior of complex structural systems, such as buildings and bridges, in the presence of uncertainties. The research aims to create a novel solution methodology that combines high accuracy with computational efficiency, enabling...
- This $522,014 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop new data-driven methods for correctly identifying interaction structures in complex dynamical networks. The research aims to address challenges in reconstructing network structures from finite, non-ideal data streams, such as those found in neural interactions, weather patterns, computing systems, and financial markets. The project will provide...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $399,915 in funding to the University of California, Davis from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028. The goal of this research is to develop a novel scientific formulation that integrates fracture mechanics with an enriched frame element formulation, resulting in a method that can accurately simulate the initiation and propagation of fracture and fatigue in steel structures. This research...
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop predictive modeling approaches that capture the coupling between structural dynamics and the integrity of bolted joints over a structure's service life. The $631,070 award, effective from October 1, 2024 to October 31, 2028, aims to improve health monitoring of aging infrastructure, design against extreme weather impacts,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $369,698 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute for research related to structural dynamics identification using non-contact video methods. The award aims to develop techniques using motion estimation and video magnification to identify small motions and dynamic behavior of structures from video recordings. This has applications for monitoring the health of structures like wind turbines, bridges and vehicles. Key products include a portable application for simplifying use of the video sensing technology, and integration of the technology into high school curricula with involvement of female and minority students. The research seeks to quantify the relationship between structural dynamics extracted from video and true dynamic motion, generating understanding of how extracted optical flows relate to dynamic behavior. Outcomes could transform non-contact measurement for system identification, validation and monitoring of infrastructure. The award period is from February 1, 2022 to August 31, 2022.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $184.8k | 6/13/22 |