This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $1,100,000 to Southern University and A&M College (SUBR) to acquire an advanced laser powder bed fusion 3D printer for multi-material additive manufacturing research and education. The project aims to enhance engineering research and workforce development, particularly among underrepresented groups, through hands-on experience with this cutting-edge additive...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $262,929 will support research to develop an in-situ processing data-driven framework that can link manufacturing processes to environmentally-related performance for laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) metal additive manufacturing. The key objectives are to: Establish a physics-constrained artificial intelligence (PCAI)-based surrogate model to predict part-scale residual stress and microstructures using...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) GOALI (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry) project grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to develop uncertainty-aware modeling and control strategies for the microscale selective laser sintering (?-SLS) additive manufacturing process. The $609,991 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, will enable researchers at the University of Texas at Austin to: Develop physics-based models with...
This $496,138 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research investigation into optimizing scan sequence in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing to reduce local overheating, distortion, and residual stress. The project aims to mathematically, numerically, and experimentally uncover relationships between optimal scan sequences, temperature distribution, distortion, and residual stress in...
This $700,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support The Johns Hopkins University's research on amorphous metal additive manufacturing. The project aims to develop simulation-informed models and computational tools to enable design of additively manufactured amorphous metals with desired strength and toughness properties. This will involve using machine learning to quantify structural order parameters...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.041 - Engineering provides $250,000 in funding to the University of Pittsburgh for a collaborative research project focused on "Towards Intelligent Scan Sequence Generation to Reduce Local Overheating, Distortion, and Residual Stress in LPBF Additive Manufacturing." The objective is to mathematically, numerically, and experimentally investigate the relationships between optimal scan sequences, temperature...
This Project Grant award of $197,874 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the acquisition of a metal additive manufacturing (AM) system at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. The goal is to enrich undergraduate learning and experiences in mechanical engineering, engineering physics, and aerospace engineering by providing critical hands-on metal AM experiential learning. The project will integrate the AM system into core engineering courses to...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research to develop methodologies for monitoring and improving personalized manufacturing processes, particularly for one-of-a-kind parts produced using additive manufacturing. The award, totaling $129,624 and spanning from June 1, 2024, to May 31, 2027, will enable researchers at the University of Oklahoma to establish a novel latent space monitoring approach based on...
This $247,667 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041), will fund collaborative research on laser powder-fed directed energy deposition (LP-DED) additive manufacturing. The University of Michigan will investigate fundamental interactions between high-speed metal particles and molten pools in LP-DED using synchrotron X-ray imaging and computational process modeling....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $526,334 Project Grant to the University of Pittsburgh through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "CAREER: UNRAVELING FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS GOVERNING GRAIN REFINEMENT IN COMPLEX CONCENTRATED ALLOYS MADE BY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TOWARDS STRONG AND DUCTILE STRUCTURES." The five-year award, effective April 15, 2021 through March 31, 2026, will fund research investigating fundamental mechanisms governing...