Project Grant 2510860
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $290,000 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to conduct research on predicting, suppressing, and optimizing elastic instability in three engineering applications: bridge decks, piezoelectric energy harvesters, and aircraft/projectile paneling. The research will focus on analyzing partial differential equation models of flexible plates to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $404,889 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to develop new computational methods for accurately and efficiently analyzing the dynamic behavior of complex structural systems, such as buildings and bridges, in the presence of uncertainties. The research aims to create a novel solution methodology that combines high accuracy with computational efficiency, enabling...
- This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $166,285, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The award supports the development of new mathematical approaches for analyzing complex bifurcations in high-dimensional dynamical systems. This work aims to enable quantitative and qualitative progress in the study of data-driven, detailed, and phenomenologically-reduced models with complex...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $399,915 in funding to the University of California, Davis from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028. The goal of this research is to develop a novel scientific formulation that integrates fracture mechanics with an enriched frame element formulation, resulting in a method that can accurately simulate the initiation and propagation of fracture and fatigue in steel structures. This research...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $150,000 EAGER/Collaborative Research grant to New York University (NYU) under the NSF Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041). The project will support research at the intersection of structural mechanics and network theory, exploring "switching structures" - load-bearing systems with dynamically switchable components. The objective is to establish a network-theoretic framework to study the stability and response of these structures, with...
- This $552,291 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the Stevens Institute of Technology to develop a novel equality-based framework for modeling and analyzing the vibrations of large-scale structural systems with nonlinearities from friction and contact. The research aims to provide new mathematical tools and computational methods to more accurately simulate the complex dynamic behavior of engineering...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $340,277 to support fundamental research on developing a new class of fracture-resistant mechanical metamaterials. The research aims to create a hierarchical framework for understanding and designing these materials to have enhanced fracture resistance, addressing a critical issue that impacts safety and economic efficiency across industries such as construction, manufacturing,...
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop predictive modeling approaches that capture the coupling between structural dynamics and the integrity of bolted joints over a structure's service life. The $631,070 award, effective from October 1, 2024 to October 31, 2028, aims to improve health monitoring of aging infrastructure, design against extreme weather impacts,...
- This $110,000 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports collaborative research on the theory of self-organized criticality, which seeks to explain the ubiquity of fractal patterns and power-law behavior in natural systems. The research aims to establish that activated random walk and the stochastic sandpile model are suitable mathematical models for this...
- This $317,248 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research to enable the design and creation of a new class of fracture-resistant mechanical metamaterials. The key objectives are to develop a hierarchical framework for understanding and optimizing fracture resistance in these materials across global and local scales. The research aims to generate new insights, design principles, and educational tools to enable...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) aims to develop new mathematical paradigms, computational models, and design principles to better predict and avoid instability and failures in pedestrian bridges and other modern civil engineering structures. The $87,500 award to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. will fund research to understand the complex dynamics and nonlinear effects of human-structure interactions, with the goal of providing bridge engineers with practical tools for avoiding harmful oscillations or catastrophic failures. The three-year project, running from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028, will also train students in advanced mathematical modeling and promote collaboration with international groups of applied mathematicians and engineers.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $87.5k | 7/23/25 |