Project Grant FA95502410251

The National Science Foundation awarded a $216,000 Project Grant to Southern Illinois University Carbondale under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The two-year project will fund research to understand the thermomechanical response of sandwich structures with triply periodic minimal surface core lattice architectures. The university researchers will use numerical simulations and experimental testing to examine how structured core designs, including gyroid, diamond, and primitive...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award to The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund, doing business as Tulane University, provides $224,063 to develop a tough, lightweight self-healing modular panel system that can shield lunar habitats and vehicles against micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) impacts. The project aims to measure the thermal and flow properties of a polypropylene/carbon nanotube (PP/CNT) composite material,...

This Project Grant award of $299,741 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program aims to advance the understanding of resilient high entropy alloys (HEAs) capable of effectively mitigating high-velocity impact loads. The two-year project, awarded to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation, will conduct a comprehensive study in three phases: 1) high-velocity impact experiments at speeds up to 2 km/s utilizing the Johns Hopkins University's...

This three-year, $356,560 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Northeastern University to develop impact-resistant phononic sutural gabions. Inspired by biological sutures in woodpecker beaks and plant seedcoats that resist high impacts, as well as engineered seawalls using gabions, the university researchers will investigate a new class of composite materials termed "sutural gabions" expected to significantly mitigate adverse effects from impact and...

This three-year, $365,327 National Science Foundation Project Grant through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at the University of California, San Diego to develop new energy-absorbing metamaterials with hierarchical and multi-stable internal architectures. The grantee will design foam-like cellular materials with predictable energy absorption capabilities comparable to ideal absorbers. Introducing hierarchy and multi-stability is intended to enhance absorption capacity,...

This Project Grant award of $299,431 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program will fund a fellowship for an assistant professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to study the dynamic fracture and deformation behavior of polymer matrix composite (PMC) materials. The project aims to develop experimental and computational modeling techniques to accurately predict the response of PMCs to high-rate loading, such as during vehicle crashes...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program Project Grant award to the University of Houston System will investigate the mechanics and design of a new class of optimal biomimetic shell structures termed "torenes." The 3-year, $334,569 award aims to disentangle the roles of differential geometry and associated parameters in modulating the strength and stability of these highly resilient topological structures. The research will involve finite element analysis, numerical...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $307,450 to The Trustees of Princeton University to conduct collaborative research on a new class of optimal biomimetic shell structures termed "torenes." The research aims to investigate the mechanics, geometric properties, and optimization of these multilayer plate and shell structures inspired by the nuclear envelope in human cells. Key objectives include performing...

This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041), aims to develop a deeper understanding of fracture and damage tolerance in micro-architectured materials composed of brittle ceramic or ceramic-like parent materials. The $500,000 award to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), a division of the Texas A&M University System, will facilitate damage tolerance and structural integrity analysis to enable the reliable use...