Project Grant N629092312048

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 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...

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...

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 $187,220 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to establish an optimal design framework for multi-functional composite structures. Leveraging kirigami cutting principles and snap-through multi-stability, the framework will expand performance capabilities for composites in aerospace, automotive, and robotics applications. Under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in...

This National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) Project Grant award to North Carolina State University for $649,274 will support research focused on understanding the mechanics of propagating instabilities and developing methods to regulate their behavior in deployable shell structures. The key objectives are to: Characterize the structural, dynamic, and packaging parameters that govern multiple fold propagation in deployable shell structures, using computational modeling and...

This $599,262 National Science Foundation award under the Engineering (47.041) program will fund research at Princeton University from June 2023 to May 2026 to advance knowledge in water-shell structure interaction and enable innovative coastal resilience approaches. The research aims to discover efficient hydrodynamic thin-shell structural forms through integrative modeling, experiments, and machine learning. Specific objectives are to determine forms suited for coastal structures like seawalls...

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 three-year, $267,089 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Stony Brook University to improve understanding and modeling of flood-borne debris impacts on coastal structures. Using computational fluid dynamics, computational solid mechanics, and laboratory experiments, the researchers will quantify critical mechanics processes involved in water-wind-debris-structure interactions. Specific tasks include innovative...