Primary Recipient

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

Amount

$30,000.00

Award Date

8/06/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The objective of this EAGER project is to explore a novel concept - shape memory alloy (SMA) z-pinned sandwich with an integrated, grid stiffened shape memory polymer (SMP) based syntactic foam core for healing impact damage autonomously, repeatedly, and