This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research provides $390,940 to Northwestern University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The funding supports research examining the influence of cohesion enhancing elements, impurities and hydrogen/deuterium at grain boundaries and heterophase interfaces on embrittlement of additive-manufactured steels. As the NSF's Mathematical and...
This $221,462 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at the University of Michigan to develop advanced strategies for controlling the distribution of nanoparticles during the solidification of metal matrix nanocomposites, with a focus on aluminum alloys. The goal is to understand the fundamental mechanisms governing nanoparticle redistribution during solidification in order to realize improved...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Project Grant award, valued at $150,000 and running from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027, supports collaborative research to develop simulation-informed models for additive manufacturing of amorphous metals. The research team at The Washington University aims to derive meaningful measures of material structure from electron nanodiffraction and simulation data, and build predictive...
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 (NSF) awarded a $625,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "DMREF: Simulation-Informed Models for Amorphous Metal Additive Manufacturing". The goal is to develop simulation-informed models and computational tools that can predict the strength and toughness of amorphous metals produced through additive...
This $598,650 five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, supports fundamental research by The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) aimed at understanding the processing-structure-property relationships in metallic parts manufactured using a co-axial wire feed-powder feed laser directed energy deposition (DED) process. The research objectives are to: (1) compare deposit formations in the co-axial wire-powder DED process to singular wire...
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 $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research effort led by the University of Pittsburgh. The objective is to mathematically, numerically, and experimentally uncover the relationships between optimal scan sequences, temperature distribution, distortion, and residual stress in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. The research aims to develop models and methods to enable 3D printing of...
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 $155,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) supports fundamental research at Iowa State University to understand how nanoparticle self-assembly can be integrated into laser/powder-based additive manufacturing (AM) of multimodal metallic materials. The overall goal is to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms governing nanoparticle self-assembly behavior, microstructure evolution, and property enhancements in AM of...