Project Grant 2427523
- This $735,670 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program supports fundamental research to create strong, tough, and sustainable materials through new knowledge of small-scale fracture in architected materials. The research will involve developing bio-derived and/or biodegradable materials with precise microstructures using advanced manufacturing, testing their mechanical properties, and modeling crack growth and propagation in...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) project grant award of $649,274 to North Carolina State University will support research focused on understanding the behavior of propagating instabilities and developing methods to regulate them in deployable shell structures. The research aims to characterize the structural, dynamic, and packaging parameters that govern multiple fold propagation behaviors in these types of highly deformable thin shell structures. The...
- This is a 5-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering). The purpose of this project is to advance the science of creating functionally graded shape memory alloy structures using additive manufacturing techniques and to study the folding performance of origami patterns made from these materials. The key research thrusts include: 1)...
- This $375,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research on shape-morphing structures that can dynamically transform their physical shapes into desired configurations. The project, led by Arizona State University (ASU), aims to develop a rigorous framework for modeling, planning, and controlling high-dimensional morphing structures composed of interconnected morphing rods. This research seeks to enable new...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), has awarded a $668,788 Project Grant to the University of Washington (UW) for the "CAREER: HARNESSING THE DYNAMIC FUNCTIONS OF IRREGULAR STRUCTURAL PATTERNS" research project. This 5-year effort, running from Jun 15, 2025 to May 31, 2030, aims to advance fundamental knowledge on the dynamics of segmented structural designs with irregular patterns, with the goal of developing engineering models and...
- This CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $314,769 to the University of Delaware to support research advancing the fundamental understanding of how cells and tissue communicate information about their mechanical environment. The project aims to develop new material platforms based on magnetic materials that can dynamically change local tissue stiffness to mimic biological events and measure the resulting mechanobiological...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program awarded a $546,127 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to the University of Pittsburgh to investigate novel, reversible adhesion mechanisms for soft materials like hydrogels. This research aims to enable the reconfigurable assembly of soft machines, such as medical implants, wearable devices, and biomimetic robots. The project will explore the underlying mechanics of stimuli-responsive osmocapillary and electrostatic...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation provides $511,901 to Purdue University from September 2021 through July 2025. The award supports research titled "CAREER: REGULATION OF HYALURONAN PRODUCTION AND FUNCTION BY BIOMECHANICAL SIGNALS" under the NSF Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041). The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and...
- This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research on dynamic shape-morphing structures at Colorado State University (CSU). The project aims to develop a rigorous framework for modeling, planning, and controlling high-dimensional morphing structures composed of interconnected morphing rods. These morphing rods combine thermally driven artificial muscles with variable-stiffness shape memory...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a $649,207 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to the University of Miami to support fundamental research enabling novel micromechanical creep testing techniques and furthering the understanding of creep deformation mechanisms in advanced materials. This 5-year project, awarded on July 1, 2024, combines multiscale modeling, high-temperature micromechanical tests, and machine learning to establish a relationship...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $368,886 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant under the Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) to Purdue University to conduct fundamental research on using snapping instabilities for designing shape-reconfigurable structures. The 4-year project, starting on March 15, 2024, aims to develop theoretical models, experimental data, simulation tools, and new design methods to enable structures that can extensively vary their shapes while maintaining stiffness, volume, and mass efficiency. Key areas of inquiry include understanding the role of viscoelastic material behavior and curvature/twist distributions on the stability of thin-shell structures. The research outcomes are expected to advance capabilities in areas like space exploration, targeted drug delivery, and robotic systems. The project also includes an integrated education plan to enhance learning in solid mechanics through coding, hands-on experimentation, and design projects.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $368.9k | 5/6/24 |