Project Grant DESC0019901

This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to advance the capability of metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies to develop single-phase concentrated solid-solution alloys (SP-CSAs) with superior radiation tolerance. The key objectives of this 2-year project are to: (i) synthesize SP-CSAs with varying compositions, structures, and defects using laser-directed energy deposition AM; (ii) investigate...

General Electric Company's GE Additive division was awarded a $1,466,390 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to develop a novel additive manufacturing process for fabricating silicon carbide matrix composite heat exchangers. The objective is to utilize an advanced additive manufacturing machine and method to fabricate complex silicon carbide components and incorporate chopped fibers to enable composite properties for applications...

This $118,700 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the acquisition of an ultrasonic atomization and alloying platform for additive manufacturing research and education at the University of Louisville. The platform will enable production of custom metal powders for additive manufacturing technologies using an ultrasonic method to fabricate powders from traditional raw materials, including those with extremely high melting points. This...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $538,225 to Dartmouth College to conduct research on fabricating columnar-grained microstructures and single crystals of nickel-based superalloys through directional recrystallization of additively manufactured materials. The goal is to develop a cost-effective method for producing nickel alloy turbine blades, a critical component in jet engines. The research will investigate the...

This $599,342 National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports fundamental research to develop a novel additive manufacturing (AM) approach for fabricating high-performance tungsten alloy components. The research, conducted by The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), aims to address the challenges in producing dense, crack-free tungsten alloy parts through AM by integrating compression-enabled filament...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop a novel additive manufacturing process called Vacancy-Assisted Jet Fusion (VJF) for fabricating complex parts from transition-metal-carbide (TMC) ceramics. The $300,000 award to the University of Iowa aims to (1) quantify the effects of layerwise triggered electron flow on the diffusion of locally induced crystal vacancies, (2) uncover the underlying mechanisms governing...

This $122,531 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research into fabricating columnar-grained microstructures and single crystals of nickel-based superalloys through directional recrystallization of additively manufactured materials. The goal is to develop a cost-effective method for producing nickel-based superalloy turbine blades, a key component in jet engines that currently cost over $15,000 each. The project will...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,497,403 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop an efficient molten metal droplet jetting process for additive manufacturing. The key products and services to be delivered through this 4-year project include: Advancing a novel multi-nozzle metal jetting technology that can utilize both new and recycled metal feedstock, with the goal of enabling additive manufacturing...

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....

This $496,138 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports collaborative research to develop methods for optimizing laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing scan sequences. The research aims to uncover relationships between scan sequences, temperature distribution, distortion, and residual stress in LPBF to enable manufacturing of complex metallic parts with fewer defects. Key objectives include incorporating...