IUCRC Planning Grant: Oregon State University: Center for Concrete Advanced Network - CAN

IUCRC 规划资助：俄勒冈州立大学：混凝土高级网络中心 - CAN

• 批准号: 2113626
• 负责人: William Weiss
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-15 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2113626&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Planning; Grant; Oregon; State

The Concrete Advancement Network (CAN) is a consortium of academic and industrial researchers engaged in bringing cutting-edge technologies to the cement and concrete materials industries, improving the built environment. Cement and concrete represent ubiquitous human-made materials and continue to be widely utilized in construction. Despite a universal utilization, most modern cement and concrete applications are based on relatively dated technology, requiring massive inputs of raw materials. This IUCRC will allow researchers to collaborate on the latest advancements in nanotechnology, bottom-up engineering, recyclability, improved structural design with machine learning, and emergent technologies relating to the improvement of concrete in its use throughout the nation’s buildings and infrastructure. This award supports the planning phase of the CAN IUCRC to enable the team and participating leaders from industry to explore unmet needs, identify promising research trends, and formally establish the 5-year research plan for the proposed Center. The Planning Workshop will allow members and industry partners to establish the research agenda, select the first pool of research projects for the four member sites, and foster collaborative activities. CAN will be led by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, with Arizona State University, Oregon State University, and the University of Texas at Arlington as partners. CAN’s members will facilitate the translation of novel concepts and ideas into scalable and implementable solutions with impact. Industry partners will steer CAN’s research direction and priorities to realization by providing testbeds and promoting CAN’s value proposition and research results to cement and concrete businesses.CAN’s mission is to enhance the resilience and sustainability of concrete materials and structures through innovations in materials and processing by leveraging use-inspired research and collaborations between academia and related industrial partners. CAN will plan to develop new techniques and methods that will usher the next generation of concrete that is energy-efficient, rapidly deployable, labor efficient, economical, and less dependent on natural resources than existing concrete. The collaborative teams research capabilities will couple scientific advances in concrete materials and design with multi-scale modeling, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and, ultimately digital manufacturing, towards cutting-edge concepts in this critical and massive-scale industrial sector. At the planning workshop and during the 12-month planning grant period, CAN industry and academic leaders will discuss current limitations, barriers, and obstacles to identify immediate solutions for industry/academic research and dissemination, engineering student education and job-preparedness, and broadening the participation of students underrepresented in STEM. CAN seeks to provide long-term solutions for the nation’s deteriorating infrastructure and meet the demand for future transportation, infrastructure, buildings, and housing.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

混凝土发展网络（CAN）是一个学术和工业研究人员的财团，致力于将尖端​​技术带入水泥和混凝土材料行业，从而改善了建筑环境。水泥和混凝土代表着无处不在的人造材料，并继续在建筑中广泛使用。尽管有普遍的利用，但大多数现代水泥和混凝土应用都基于相对日期的技术，需要大量的原材料投入。该IUCRC将允许研究人员合作纳米技术，自下而上的工程，可回收性，通过机器学习改进的结构设计以及与混凝土在整个国家建筑物和基础设施中使用相关的新兴技术。该奖项支持CAN IUCRC的计划阶段，以使团队和参与行业的领导者探索未满足的需求，确定有希望的研究趋势，并正式为拟议中心制定了5年的研究计划。计划研讨会将允许会员和行业合作伙伴建立研究议程，选择四个成员站点的第一个研究项目，并培养协作活动。可以由威斯康星州米尔沃基大学，亚利桑那州立大学，俄勒冈州立大学和德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校作为合作伙伴领导。 CAN的成员将支持将新颖概念和思想转化为具有影响力的可扩展和可实施的解决方案。行业合作伙伴将通过提供测试台和促进CAN的价值提议和研究结果来指导CAN的研究方向和优先事项。 CAN将计划开发新技术和方法，这些技术和方法将迎来下一代的混凝土，这些混凝土比现有混凝土相比，能节能，迅速部署，劳动力，经济且对自然资源的依赖更少。协作团队的研究能力将在混凝土材料和设计方面将科学进步与多尺度建模，机器学习，人工智能以及最终的数字制造业相结合。在规划研讨会和12个月的计划赠款期间，CAN和学术领导者将讨论当前的局限性，障碍和障碍，以确定有关行业/学术研究和传播，工程学学生教育和工作期待的即时解决方案，并扩大了在STEM中缺少的学生的参与。可以寻求为国家不断恶化的基础设施提供长期解决方案，并满足对未来运输，基础设施，建筑物和住房的需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估来获得的支持。