Project Grant 2345438
Award Date
6/1/24
Completion Date
5/31/27
Dollars Obligated
$313K
Federal Agency
Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation
Federal Grant Program
47.041
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Penn State University, PA 16802, USA
Similar Awards
This $104,060 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports an integrated research and education project at Drexel University. The project aims to develop a framework for understanding the motion of dislocations, a type of crystalline defect, and how they impact the mechanical properties of concentrated solid-solution alloys. The research integrates statistical theories,...
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 $255,940 National Science Foundation project grant will support the development of a fractional-calculus-based computational platform for multiscale and multiphysics analysis of failure-critical systems. Specifically, the awardee M3Sim LLC will utilize its cutting-edge distributed-variable order fractional calculus techniques to develop fatigue and damage mechanics simulation software. This software will provide both continuum-scale computational efficiency and microscale accuracy for...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Pennsylvania State University a $220,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to research defect-electron interaction in metallic materials at ambient temperature. The two-year project will explore using electrical current without temperature increases to manipulate internal defects and microstructures in metals and alloys, with the goal of developing a non-thermal alternative to traditional...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $652,025 Project Grant to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for research titled "CAREER: INTEGRATING INFORMATION THEORY WITH DATA-DRIVEN MECHANICS: TOWARD PREDICTIVE MODELING OF MATERIAL BEHAVIOR FAR FROM EQUILIBRIUM." The grant is funded under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support innovative engineering research and education improving quality of life and economic strength. The University of Pennsylvania will...
Penn State University received a three-year, $568,745 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award will support research titled "Functionally Graded Metallic Materials by Directed Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing: Computational Design, Fabrication and Validation" from May 2021 through April 2024. The research aims to advance the computational...
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 $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to systematically understand the dislocation-phonon drag regime in metallic materials across a wide range of strain rates. The research aims to develop a novel, small-scale, high-throughput approach to study the characteristics of dislocation-phonon interactions in metals and alloys at extremely high deformation rates. The integrated experimental-computational...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $728,684 supports research at The Pennsylvania State University to develop new machine learning and mathematical methods for quality control in manufacturing. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the award runs from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. Specifically, the university will first create improved algorithms for identifying a subset of key process variables in continuous manufacturing that best indicate overall plant control,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $289,495 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an integrated materials-manufacturing-controls framework for improving the efficiency and resilience of manufacturing systems. The research will focus on enhancing the understanding of the interactions between raw material properties, manufacturing processes, and process control to enable more integrated and...