Project Grant N629092512007

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop a new class of ultralight, manufacturable materials with optimized mechanical and transport properties. The $362,000 award to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill aims to: Characterize the benefits of exploiting local uniformity and hyperuniformity in material design; Measure mechanical and transport properties to understand the...

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 NSF Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) project grant, awarded to Iowa State University, provides $276,827 to develop a novel cyberinfrastructure for designing and characterizing printable multifunctional materials. Key products and services being delivered include: A universal, parallelized in silico voxelized microstructure generator to produce datasets of material morphologies with distinct properties and manufacturability Numerical methods for efficient characterization of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $2,000 to fund a 2-day workshop focused on the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI). The workshop will bring together MGI grantees and program managers from various federal agencies, including the NSF, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and National Institute of Standards and Technology. The goal is to assess the current...

The University of Colorado Boulder received a $127,944 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research to organize a virtual workshop on materials for space. The workshop will bring together 50 experts over six half-day sessions spanning three weeks to identify current and future needs for materials that can perform in various space environments. Participants will define key areas for materials research investment to support future space missions and prolong the...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $481,998 to support research at the University of California, Berkeley on developing a new additive manufacturing process for multi-material and multi-functional part fabrication. The principal investigator will conduct fundamental research into a charge-programmed additive microfabrication technique to rapidly pattern...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) project grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) in the amount of $330,000 will support 5 years of theoretical and computational research, as well as educational and outreach activities, focused on the geometric and topological mechanics of flexible structures. The research will explore the design and characterization of flexible mechanical metamaterials, which are systems composed of...

This Project Grant award for $313,087 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support a collaborative research initiative at the State University of New York at Binghamton to develop a physics-informed machine learning framework for tailoring the multidirectional mechanical properties of composite materials. The research aims to create a data-driven approach to understand the relationship between material architecture and mechanical behavior, facilitating...

This $399,915 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support fundamental scientific research to develop novel computer models for simulating fracture and failure in steel structures during extreme hazard events like earthquakes. The research, a collaboration between the University of California, Davis and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, aims to integrate fracture mechanics with an enriched frame...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $299,999 to Louisiana State University (LSU) to establish a synergistic multiscale and multiphysics characterization approach for additively manufactured self-sensing concrete structures. The project aims to pioneer a comprehensive understanding of 3D printed self-sensing concrete through investigating critical manufacturing parameters and material properties, identifying...