Project Grant FA95502410147

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to characterize recovered material from experiments that synthesized quasicrystals under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions. The research aims to provide a fundamental understanding of how and when quasicrystals nucleate and grow during these transient shock events, which could lead to discoveries of novel quasicrystal-forming alloys...

This $599,998 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense (CFDA 12.431 - Basic Scientific Research) supports research at Boise State University and Purdue University to understand how irradiation induces unusual amorphous-to-crystalline phase transformations in structural ceramics and their associated mechanical resilience. The primary work under this 3-year award involves molecular dynamics simulations at Purdue to model the crystalline phase nucleation process and internal...

This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $543,864 supports research at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to improve mathematical modeling of material failure under applied forces. Funded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, the award aims to advance variational fracture models to better predict failure in applications across civil infrastructure and national defense. Specifically, the principal investigator will enhance an existing static formulation to...

This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $536,195 supports research into abnormal grain growth in ultrafine grained metals under high cycle loading at room temperature. The principal investigators will conduct high-throughput characterization of cyclic-load-induced grain growth in ultrafine grained metal films using scanning electron microscopy with electron backscatter diffraction. Six different metallic films with varying degrees of elastic anisotropy and face-centered...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $261,718 will fund research at the University of Texas at Dallas from November 2022 to October 2025 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to improve fundamental understanding of the impact of heterogeneity and scale on the nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of glassy polymers and their nanocomposites. Researchers will use mechanical spectral hole burning and large amplitude oscillatory shear techniques to characterize...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $310,661 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop impact-resistant phononic sutural gabions. The award funds a three-year collaborative research project at the State University of New York at Buffalo ending June 30, 2025. The project aims to advance next-generation shockproof materials by drawing inspiration from biological sutures in woodpecker beaks and plant seedcoats, as well as engineered seawalls using...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences provides $250,000 to the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois over the period of August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The goal of the project is to develop a rigorous mathematical formulation to describe fractures in dissipative solids, which can dissipate energy through viscous or plastic deformation. The key objectives are to: 1) Develop a time-discrete formulation of brittle fracture...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program, totaling $450,000, will fund research at The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to develop a new class of high energy-density two-way shape memory polymers (2WSMPs). The goal is to advance the state of materials chemistry and polymer science by understanding the mechanisms behind strain-induced nanostructure formation, which can stabilize polymer...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $299,741 to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation to conduct research on the dynamic response characteristics of high entropy alloys (HEAs) under high-velocity impact conditions. The two-year project, running from February 2025 to January 2027, aims to advance the scientific understanding of these resilient materials and their potential for mitigating high-speed...

This five-year, $648,748 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at Cornell University to develop a unified framework for understanding and predicting critical velocity, microstructural development, micro-scale bond strength, and macro-scale mechanical properties of cold-sprayed metal deposits. The Principal Investigator will conduct laser-induced micro-scale projectile impact testing with high-resolution imaging to produce well-defined high-velocity individual bonded...