This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $475,399 to Auburn University to conduct fundamental research on laser nanoparticle powder-bed fusion, an additive nanomanufacturing process. The research aims to develop layer-by-layer fabrication of micro- and nano-scale functional structures and devices with tunable chemical compositions, interface interactions, and physical architectures. This work has potential...
The National Science Foundation awarded Auburn University a $498,762 project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop federated deep learning techniques for distributed additive manufacturing. The two-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will support Auburn University's work to create a federated deep learning framework that enables ubiquitous distributed additive manufacturing across networked nodes. Auburn University will collaborate with sub-awardees the University of...
Florida Polytechnic University received a $148,885 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The award is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "Deformation Mechanisms Governing Torsional Fatigue Failure of Additively Manufactured Metals at High Temperatures" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The project aims to advance understanding of deformation and...
Auburn University was awarded a $499,940 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Under this award, Auburn University will develop multi-material manufacturing techniques for eco-friendly and biodegradable paper-based flexible hybrid electronics. The university will leverage its...
Auburn University was awarded a $678,310 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award will support research into the material processing and mechanical behavior of high-performance cellulose nanopaper made from cellulose nanofibrils. The Engineering program aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through fostering innovation in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) award, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $149,999 to the University of Toledo to advance the scientific understanding of fatigue behavior in a novel additively manufactured aluminum matrix nanocomposite. The research seeks to establish a comprehensive experimental and analytical framework to evaluate the extended fatigue performance (10 million to 10 billion cycles) of the Al-Cu nanocomposite...
This $249,999 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to establish a physics-informed machine learning (PIML) framework to enable accurate and transparent predictions of fatigue life and its variation for metal additive manufacturing (AM) components. The project will fabricate baseline fatigue samples of SS316L and Ti-6Al-4V alloys produced via laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) AM and post-processing, characterize their...
The National Science Foundation awarded Purdue University a $297,365 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support research to develop an interpretable machine learning approach to facilitate data-to-knowledge translation for better understanding material integrity issues related to fatigue in additively manufactured components. Specifically, the university will utilize genetic programming based symbolic regression modeling to discover...
This Cooperative Agreement award is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 43.008). The $100,000 award will support the development of a finite element-based user material model for thermo-mechanically coupled fatigue damage accumulation in additively manufactured short-fiber thermoplastic composites. The project aims to bridge microstructural and macroscale properties to enable rapid assessment of the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research project focused on developing intelligent scan sequence generation to reduce local overheating, distortion, and residual stress in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing. The $250,000 award, spanning January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027, will enable researchers at the University of Pittsburgh to mathematically, numerically, and experimentally...