The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $399,662 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research to enable the adaptive steering of acoustic waves through engineered or biological structures, with applications including the control of structure-borne noise, harnessing of vibrational energy, diagnostic imaging, and wireless energy transfer to implanted medical devices. The research aims to characterize flexural wave propagation on thin, curved shells and determine how shape-morphing shell geometries can be used to design tunable and real-time adaptive acoustic waveguides. The project will combine analytical and numerical calculations, physical experiments, and the development of innovative fabrication techniques. The research is intended to promote the progress of science and advance national prosperity through the design and reconfiguration of curved surfaces for targeted wave propagation.
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