THRUST AREA 1. REDUCED COST COMPOSITES
Project Title: Impact Of Processed Cellulose Fibers on
Portland Cement Concrete Properties (New)
 | Principal Investigator: Neeraj Bush |
| Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $21,000.00 |
Project Title: Shear Reinforcement of Wood Beams with Polymer
Composite Materials (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: R. Harichandran |
| Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Co-Investigator: F. Hatfield |
| Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $13,500.00 |
Project Title: Durability Characteristics of Cellulose Fiber
Reinforced Cement Composites (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Parviz Soroushian |
| Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $18,000.00 |
Project Title: None Metallic Reinforcement of Concrete Bridge
Decks (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Parvis Soroushian |
| Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $12,000.00 |
THRUST AREA 2. NEW HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPOSITE MATERIALS
Project Title: In-situ Study of Fatigue Crack Initiation and
Propagation in Metal Matrix Composites (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Martin A. Crimp |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $15,000.00 |
Project Title: Porous Ceramics-Preparation of Alumina Fiber
Reinforced Alumina Composites (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Melissa J. Crimp |
| Department: Materials Science & Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $15,000.00 |
Project Title: Thermotractive Titanium-Nickel/Polymide Thin Film
Elements for Smart Structural Composites (Renewal)
| Principal Investigators: David S. Grummon & Thomas J. Pence |
| Department: Materials Science & Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $26,000.00 |
Project Title: Design & Processing of Functionally Gradient
Material Without Structural-Level Residual Stress (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Patrick Y. Kwon & Melissa J. Crimp |
| Department: Materials Science & Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $15,000.00 |
Project Title: Effect of Physical Aging on the Viscoelastic
Response of Multi-phase Polymers (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Andre Lee |
| Department: Materials Science & Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $13,452.00 |
Project Title: Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Nano-Composites (New)
| Principal Investigator: Andre Lee |
| Department: Materials Science & Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $15,000.00 |
Project Title: Precision-Performance, Controllable-Fluid,
Laminated Composites Utilizing Active Optical Feedback (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: John R. Lloyd & Clark J. Radcliffe |
| Department: Mechanical Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $25,000.00 |
Project Title: Precision-Performance, Controllable Metallic
Particle Fluid Composites Utilizing Active Feedback Control (New)
| Principal Investigator: John R. Lloyd & Clark J. Radcliffe |
| Department: Mechanical Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $17,000.00 |
Project Title: Development of Multiperformance Smart Composites
Based on Dendrimer Technology (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Roger J. Morgan |
| Department: Advanced Materials Engineering Experiment Station (AMEES) |
| Composite Materials & Structures Center (CMSC) |
| Co-Investigators: Qing Zheng, E. Eugene Shin-AMEES-CMSC |
| Lawrence T. Drzal-CMSC |
| Petar Dvornic and Donald A. Tomalia- Michigan Molecular Institute |
| Amount Funded: $23,000.00 |
Project Title: Fundamental Characterization of Lifetimes of
Polyimide-Carbon Fiber Composites in Aeropropulsion Applications (New)
| Principal Investigator: Roger J. Morgan |
| Department: Advanced Materials Engineering Experiment Station (AMEES) |
| Composite Materials & Structures Center (CMSC) |
| Co-Investigators: Eugene Shin-AMEES, CMSC |
| Lawrence T. Drzal-CMSC |
| Ronald E. Allred-Adherent Technologies |
| Department: Chemical Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $13,200.00 |
Project Title: Laser Cladding Cu-Ti-Fe-Si-TiC Metal Matrix
Composites on 6061 Aluminum Alloys for Automobile Engine Valve-seat Application (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: K. Mukherjee |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Co-Investigators: C.W. Chen and Y. P. Hu |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $19,135.00 |
THRUST AREA 3. NEW COMPOSITE PROCESSING AND FABRICATION METHODS
Project Title: Formation of In-Situ Polymer Composites Using
Directional Solidification (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: A. Benard |
| Department: Mechanical Engineering |
| Co-Investigator: J.J. McGrath |
| Department: Mechanical Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $26,000.00 |
Project Title: Joining of Structural Ceramic Composites and
Optical Materials Using Interlayers (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Eldon Case |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Co-Investigator: Donnie Reinhard |
| Department: Electrical Engineering |
| Co-Investigator: Martin Crimp |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $26,000.00 |
Project Title: High-Precision Deposition Processes for
Thermotractive Thin Film Elements in Adaptive Composite Materials (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: David S. Grummon |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $20,000.00 |
Project Title: Development of the Part-shaped Cavity Process and
the Variable Frequency Microwave Processing Technique (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Martin C. Hawley |
| Department: Chemical Engineering |
| Co-Investigator: Jes Asmussen Jr. |
| Department: Electrical Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $12,514.00 |
Project Title: Fundamentals of Microwave-Induced Reactions Involving Non-ionic Species (New)
Principal Investigator: Martin C. Hawley
Department: Chemical Engineering
Co-Investigator: Kun-Mu Chen
Department: Electrical Engineering
Amount Funded: $20,464.00
Project Title: Innovative Laser-Aided Direct Deposition of
Metal-matrix Composites for Manufacturing 3-D Components (New)
| Principal Investigator: Kali Mukherjee |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Co-Investigators: C.W. Chen & James Howard |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $17,200.00 |
Project Title: High Performance Photopolymerizable Composite
Encapsulants for Improved Semiconductor Packaging (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Alec B. Scranton |
| Department: Chemical Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $23,000.00 |
THRUST AREA 4. PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN MODELING
Project Title: CAE Analysis and Design Tools - Making the
Transition from Homogeneous to Composite Materials (New)
| Principal Investigator: Ronald C. Averill |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $25,678.00 |
Project Title: Mechanical Fastening and Impact of Composites:
Scaling Effect of Composite Thickness (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Gary L. Cloud & Dahsin Liu |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $20,000.00 |
Project Title: Molecular Modeling of Phase Equilibrium Properties
of RIM-Urethane Polymers (New)
| Principal Investigator: Christian M. Lastoskie |
| Department: Chemical Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $25,000.00 |
Project Title: Damage Cumulation, Mechanical Durability, and Life
Prediction of Composite Fastener-with a feasibility study of Optical Coherence Tomography
(New)
| Principal Investigator: Dahsin Liu |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $18,500.00 |
Project Title: Modeling and Analysis of Energy Absorption in
Advances Composites (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Dahsin Liu |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $23,000.00 |
Project Title: Computational Methods for Highly Deformable
Directionally Reinforced Elastic Composites (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Thomas J. Pence |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $15,000.00 |
Project Title: Conceptual Process Design for Re-Engineering Metal
Assemblies to Composite Materials (Renewal)
| Co-Prin. Investigator: Dr. Jon Sticklen, Computer Science |
| Co-Prin. Investigator: Dr. James McDowell, Chemical Engineering |
| Co-Prin. Investigator: Dr. Martin Hawley, Chemical Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $40,000.00 |
Project Title: Virtual Prototyping for Polymer Composite
Assemblies (Renewal)
| Co-Prin. Investigator: Dr. Jon Sticklen, Computer Science |
| Co-Prin. Investigator: Dr. James McDowell, Chemical Engineering |
| Co-Prin. Investigator: Dr. Martin Hawley, Chemical Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $15,000.00 |
Project Title: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Shape
Memory Alloys in Elastic Composite Materials (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: Hungyu Tsai |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $16,126.00 |
Project Title: Design and Construction of a Test Facility for
Dynamic Flame Spread Measurements for Composites and other Advanced Materials (New)
| Principal Investigator: Indrek S. Wichman |
| Department: Mechanical Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $12,500.00 |
THRUST AREA 5. ADVANCED DETECTION AND CONTROL METHODS FOR
COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING
Project Title: Non-Destructive Evaluation of Manufacturing Defects
of Composites Using Fluorescence-Based Thermography (New)
| Principal Investigator: J. J. McGrath |
| Department: Composite Materials and Structure Center |
| Amount Funded: $34,200.00 |
Project Title: Characterization and Computer Modeling for the
Optimization of Chemically Amplified Resists (New)
| Principal Investigator: Alec B. Scranton |
| Department: Chemical Engineering |
| Co-Investigator: Gary J. Blanchard |
| Department: Chemistry |
| Amount Funded: $39,000.00 |
THRUST AREA 6. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON COMPOSITE MATERIALS
Project Title: Oxidation-Resistant Coatings for Ceramic Composites
(New)
| Principal Investigator: Eldon Case |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $17,000.00 |
Project Title: Moisture Induced Effects in Polymer Matrix
Composites: Physical and Mechanical Behavior (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: James P. Lucas |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $25,028.00 |
Project Title: Proposal Development for Center for Environmentally
Sensitive Melt-Joining (Renewal)
| Principal Investigator: K.N. Subramanian |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: No Cost Extension |
Project Title: Lead-Free Composite Solders (Renewal)
| Principal Investigators: K. N. Subramanian, T. R. Bieler, & J. P. Lucas |
| Department: Materials Science and Mechanics |
| Amount Funded: $25,000.00 |
REF GRANTS FOR CENTER DEVELOPMENT
Project Title: Development of IUCRC Proposal to NSF on Processing
of Thermoplastic Materials
| Principal Investigator: K. Jayaraman |
| Department: Chemical Engineering |
| Amount Funded: $12,500.00 |
Project Title: Center for Fundamentals and Applications of
Photopolymerizations
| Co-Principal Investigator: A.B. Scranton |
| Department: Chemical Engineering |
| Co-Principal Investigator: G.J. Blanchard |
| Department: Chemistry |
| Amount Funded: $3,000.00
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