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W81EWF-22-SOI-0010: Innovative Technologies in Structural Health Monitoring for Condition Assessment and Future Reliability Prediction

Closed Closed May 25, 2022 Opportunity W81EWF-22-SOI-0010 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: ERDC Broad Agency Announcement (W912HZ26S0001). Status: Closes January 1, 2027 (55 days left). It is in our archive of Engineer Research and Development Center notices from 2022.

• Award ceiling$2.0 million
• Total funding$12.0 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

This opportunity is restricted to the non-federal partners of the Californian Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU)

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering awards averaged $1.1 million; this notice allows up to $2.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (69% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

Brief Description of Anticipated Work: The purpose of this research is to advance structural health monitoring (SHM) technologies, including innovative sensors, sensing modalities, telemetry, data analysis, feature extraction, numerical models, and statistical models, for their readiness for use by infrastructure portfolio managers to assess current future condition and reliability of infrastructure components and systems. The ultimate form in which these technologies will be utilized is a multi-scale digital surrogate model of specific infrastructure assets as identified by the government. All efforts toward the research objectives should be aligned with the basic tenants of ISO 55000 standards for asset management. Specifically, the objectives include: Objective 1. Implementation/deployment of digital twins Develop and deploy multi-scale digital surrogate models/digital twins of large civil infrastructure. The digital twin shall be deployed for specific water-resource asset(s) as identified by the government as part of this cooperative agreement. The digital twin must include visualization of decision support metrics with consideration of integration of augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) tools for use by the end user. Objective 2. Non-contact sensing Develop new or modify existing technologies to implement non-contact sensing of large scale, civil infrastructure that is otherwise difficult to physically access. Example modalities to consider can include, but are not limited to, computer vision, LiDAR, sonar, and ultrasonic. Sensing targets may be to supplement traditional contact sensing, and aim to acquire displacement, acceleration, strain, etc. Other targets of interest may be obtaining information specific to the visible spectrum, such as the presence of corrosion, spalling, scour, etc. Technologies shall be investigated for use above and below water with varying levels of turbidity, in environments and locations with limited lighting, etc. Methods developed shall be implemented on water-resources infrastructure identified by the government and shall be developed in a manner to be implemented directly into the digital twin outlined in objective 1.

Category: Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, W912HZ26S0001, which is open now.

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