Project Grant FA95502410247

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research to develop an experimental-computational framework for characterizing damage mechanisms in advanced fiber-reinforced composite materials. The primary objectives are to leverage digital image correlation and discontinuous finite element methods to reconstruct the full-field evolution of material properties and damage in mesostructured composites. This research...

This Project Grant award of $267,524 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to enable the manufacture of high-performance thermoplastic composite structures through faster and less energy-intensive processes. The research, conducted by an international team from the University of California-San Diego, Michigan Technological University, NASA, and the University of Wuppertal in Germany, aims to develop a physics-based, multiscale modeling...

The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded a $255,743 Project Grant to Aerosens, Inc. under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an energy harvesting system for self-sustaining aircraft tracking and monitoring sensors. The one-year award will support Aerosens' Phase I Small Business Innovation Research project to evaluate mechanical energy harvesting technologies for powering Bluetooth Low Energy asset tracking devices onboard aircraft....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $299,431 to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to develop characterization techniques for determining the rate and temperature-dependent properties of polymer matrix composite (PMC) materials. The goal is to enable accurate simulations of PMC behavior under dynamic loading conditions, such as vehicle crashes and aircraft impacts, to support the widespread...

This $255,996 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships award to Wave Logix, Inc. supports development of an Internet of Things sensing platform to monitor civil infrastructure concrete strength. The awardee will prototype a piezoelectric concrete strength sensor integrated with customized data logging, processing, and transmission capabilities. A secure cloud-based database is also envisioned to provide contractors real-time in-place concrete strength data through...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) award, under CFDA Program 47.041 - Engineering, supports research at New Mexico State University (NMSU) with the primary goal of developing a first-of-its-kind, sustainable, and multifunctional civil infrastructure system called self-recognizing composite structural elements (SR-CSES). The $199,999 project aims to transform fiber-reinforced polymer composite structural elements into sensing and energy harvesting systems...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a new class of fiber-reinforced plastics (FRPs) based on vitrimers. Vitrimers are polymers that can reverse fatigue-induced damage when exposed to heat, improving the durability, safety, and lifecycle performance of FRPs in high-performance applications such as aerospace, automotive, and medical devices. The $150,027 award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will systematically...

This $600,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Southern California to develop new manufacturing methods for recycling post-consumer carbon fiber composite materials. The research aims to preserve the value of continuous carbon fibers and recover the polymer matrix from aircraft and other composites currently buried in landfills or subjected to pyrolysis. The project will study techniques to remanufacture recycled carbon fibers and polymer matrix...

This $210,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of an experimentally verified thermodynamic framework for evaluating the fatigue performance and life of composite materials. The research aims to account for complex failure mechanisms in composites like matrix cracking, delamination, and fiber breakage through an entropy-based approach. The grant will enable in-situ thermal imaging of composite...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation provides $100,000 to William Marsh Rice University to develop a strain-sensing smart skin technology using carbon nanotubes. The technology is intended to enable non-contact, laser-based strain measurement with advantages over existing digital image correlation methods. It has applications in infrastructure maintenance and safety inspections across industries such as aerospace, bridges, pipelines, wind turbines. Successful development...