Project Grant NRCHQ11G040065

This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research at Stanford University from September 2022 to August 2025 on the physical and mechanical response of aluminosilicate cementation. Principal Investigator Dr. Vanorio will conduct laboratory studies to investigate how cements form within rocks and how much they increase rock strength under varying thermal and chemical conditions. This...

This $581,865 National Science Foundation project grant will support research and education activities towards developing next-generation data-driven procedures in mining geotechnics. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the five-year award beginning September 2022 aims to investigate the multiscale mechanical response of mine tailings through data science and numerical simulations. Specifically, the grantee will analyze tailings material signatures, inherent anisotropy, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences provides $497,132 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation for the development of a Collaborative Center for Landslides and Ground Failure GeoHazards under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The Center will serve as a hub focused on researching the causes and triggers of landslides as well as developing forecasting tools. Specific products and services include developing...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award, totaling $128,716, will support rapid response research by Georgia TECH Research Corp (the Office of Sponsored Programs) to characterize subsurface conditions and ground performance at sites affected by the 2023 Kahramanmaras, Turkey earthquake sequence. The goal is to develop well-documented case histories on building and infrastructure damage, with a focus on near-fault ground motions, liquefaction-induced...

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The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, has been awarded a $599,873 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). This 5-year grant will support the University's research to improve the fundamental understanding of grain-size evolution in granular soils under severe loadings and develop new methodologies for assessing the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant, awarded to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines (doing business as Colorado School of Mines), will support research to develop realistic computational models for studying the complex mechanical behavior of fault zone "gouge" materials. The $258,297 award, effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, aims to enhance the understanding of how the heterogeneous properties of these crushed...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $692,942 in funding to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop an integrated experimental and computational framework for modeling the hydro-chemo-mechanical behavior of geomaterials across scales. The key objectives of this 5-year research project are: 1) Creating a machine learning-enabled multiscale material characterization framework for heterogeneous...

This $212,803 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research at Montana Technological University from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2024 to improve prediction of rock slope failures during earthquakes. The university will enhance understanding of seismic rock slope stability through experimental and numerical modeling work. Researchers will develop an improved direct shear test for characterizing rock joint strength and conduct shake table tests investigating rock block motion...

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