Planning Grant: I/UCRC for CICI Expansion to Add a Site at the University of North Dakota

项目主任推荐计划拨款：CICI /UCRC扩展在北达科他大学（UND）增加一个站点1237579；北达科他州大学（UND）寻求加入现有的复合材料与基础设施集成中心（CICI）。该中心目前由西弗吉尼亚大学（牵头机构）、罗格斯大学、迈阿密大学（FL）和北卡罗来纳州立大学组成。该中心目前的任务是通过学术界、政府和工业界的合作研究伙伴关系，加速聚合物复合材料在基础设施和交通运输中的应用。研究重点是关于复合材料的基础科学课题，如强度/使用寿命预测、智能结构开发、防火/防爆、疲劳响应、老化现象和无损检测。该中心致力于开发新的和独特的产品，这些产品可以通过各种各样的工艺制造，其中存在许多市场机会。通过将UND加入CICI，研究范围将扩大到包括：1)用于CICI相关应用的可再生聚合物和复合材料，2)用于复合材料的天然和可再生填充材料，以及3)复合基础设施材料火灾时产生的排放物的特征。UND网站将通过SUNRISE生物产品国家资助的卓越中心进行管理。该中心的活动旨在提高美国工业在复合材料领域的国际竞争力，包括使用天然和生物材料的模块化结构和快速部署技术；从而减少向大气中的碳排放。拟议的扩展通过扩大CICI的范围来进一步实现这一目标，以包括可纳入复合材料的可再生来源原料的整个价值链。开发计划署调查人员的经验是对中心现有能力的一个很好的补充。通过使用明尼苏达大学开发的生物聚合物以及威斯康星大学或北卡州立大学进行的天然织物研究，存在着合作研究的巨大潜力。除了发表期刊文章和会议报告以促进科学研究和知识传播外，拟议的网站和中心将利用单独的资助机制来教育不熟悉复合材料的实践工程师和最终用户。上述更广泛的影响将通过涉及各个学科和广泛的行业和机构的集体多大学团队工作来确保。该网站将通过SUNRISE REU网站，SUNRISE印第安人项目以及与西班牙裔服务机构的桥梁项目增加多样性。

Program Director's Recommendation Planning Grant: CICI I/UCRC Expansion to Add a Site at the University of North Dakota (UND) 1237579 University of North Dakota; Wayne Seames The University of North Dakota (UND) seeks to join the existing Center for Integration of Composites into Infrastructure (CICI). The Center is currently comprised of West Virginia University (lead institution), Rutgers University, the University of Miami (FL), and North Carolina State University. The current mission of the Center is to accelerate the adoption of polymer composites into infrastructure and transportation applications through a collaborative research partnership of academia, government and industry. Research is focused on fundamental scientific topics concerning composites such as strength/service life predictions, smart structure development, fire/blast protection, fatigue response, aging phenomenon, and nondestructive testing. The Center works to develop new and unique products that can be made through a wide variety of processes for which numerous market opportunities exist. By adding UND to the CICI, the research scope will be expanded to include: 1) renewable polymers and composites for use in CICI relevant applications, 2) natural and renewable filler materials for composites, and 3) characterization of emissions generated during fires from composite infrastructure materials. The UND site will be administered through the SUNRISE BioProducts State Funded Center of Excellenece. The center's activities seek to enhance the international competitiveness of American industry in the area of composites including modular construction and rapid deployment techniques using natural and biomaterials; thus reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere. The proposed expansion furthers this goal by expanding the scope of the CICI to include the entire value chain for renewable source feed stocks that can be incorporated into composite materials. The experience of the investigators at UND provides a nice complement to the existing Center competencies. Strong potential for cooperative research exists through the use of biopolymers developed at UND coupled with the natural fabric research conducted at WVU or NCSU. In addition to the publishing of journal articles and conference presentations to promote scientific research and knowledge dissemination, the proposed site and the Center will utilize separate funding mechanisms to educate practicing engineers and end users who are not familiar with composites. The above mentioned broader impact will be assured through collective multi-university team work involving various disciplines and a wide spectrum of industries and agencies. The UND site will add diversity through a SUNRISE REU site, a SUNRISE Native American program, and a bridge program with a Hispanic serving institution.