Date: May 30,2020

Dr. Vimal Chaitanya (Principal Investigator), has received funding from Triad National Security to build research partnerships and contribute in the area of sustainability and security with Los Alamos National Lab staff researchers. As appropriate build partnerships with regional universities to form stronger multi-disciplinary team of researchers engaged in this area of research. Assist LANL with organizing workshops and meetings to build multi-disciplinary teams in general areas of sustainability and security.

Award Amount: $655,254  

Award Period: Start 5/6/2020 End 11/5/2020 

Huiping. Cao (Principal Investigator), Dr. Liang Sun (Co-Principal Investigator) have received funding from the National Science Foundation for research in REU Site: BIGDatA – Big Data Analytics for Cyber-physical Systems.
Duration: 36 months

5/27/20  Vimal Chaitanya (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Investigation on the Effect of Surface Roughness on the Failure of Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures”, Triad National Security, $13,573

5/19/20 Abdessattar Abdelkefi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Nonlinear Modeling and Performance Improvement of Energy Harvesting Systems for Long Term Data Acquisition”, Triad National Security, $57,158

5/8/20 Abdessattar Abdelkefi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Nonlinear Dynamics of Rigid Body Dynamics Models of Mechanims”, Sandia National Laboratories, $16,222

5/6/20 Vimal Chaitanya (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Academic Collaborations in Sustainability and Security”, Triad National Security, $39,526