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Grants and Contracts
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        Principal Investigator

  • TELUS for Trasnsit; US Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Authority; Budget $1,530,000; Duration 36 months; start date January 2008; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • National Center for Runway Friction. NASA Langley Research Center, Langley, VA; Budget $1,800,000; Duration 24 months; start date August 2006; Principal Investigator S. Saigal (contract turned over to a colleague at USF upon leaving the institution and joining NJIT).Hybrid Particle Methods for High Velocity Dynamic Events; Budget $240,000; Duration 36 months; start date January 1, 2006; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Treatment for Facet Joint in the Spine. Orthopaedic Development Corporation, Clearwater, FL; Budget $40,000; Duration 12 months; start date August 2004; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Reverse Shoulder Prosthesis. Florida Orthopaedic Institute, Tampa, FL; Budget $40,000; Duration 12 months; start date July 1, 2003; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • New Meshless/Particle Methods for Naval Structures and Weapon Systems. Office of Naval Research; Budget $225,000; Duration 36 months; start date March 1, 2003; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Algorithms for STL Data Cleanup and Manipulation. Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM. Budget $140,500; Duration 20 months; start date February 1, 2003; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Algorithms for Determining Medial Surfaces. Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM; Budget $185,000; Duration 16 months; start date June 1, 2001; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Topology Optimization for MEMS. Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance; Budget $41,400; Duration 12 months; start date November 1, 1999; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Analytical-Experimental Approach to Verified Cohesive Fracture Models in Engineering Applications. National Science Foundation; Budget $210,055; Duration 36 months; start date September 1, 1999; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Hexahedral and Tetrahedaral Finite Elements in Structural Analysis. Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM; Budget $99,000; Duration 12 months; start date June 1, 1999; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Cohesive Finite Elements for Physical Simulations. Sandia National Laboratories; Budget $200,000; Duration 36 months; start date September 1, 1999; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Safety and Crashworthiness Simulations. Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance; Budget $52,222; Duration 12 months; start date September 1, 1998; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Cohesive Zone Models for Polymeric Fracture. E.I. NeMours DuPont Company; Budget $20,000; Duration 24 months; start date August 1, 1998; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Studies on Hexahedral vs. Tetrahedral Finite Element Meshes; ANSYS, Inc.; Budget $21,000; Duration 12 months; start date January 1, 1998; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Quality Metrics for 2D and 3D Finite Element Meshing; ANSYS, Inc.; Budget $35,000; Duration 12 months; start date August 1, 1996; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • VRML and HTML for Finite Elements Models Animation; ANSYS, Inc.; Budget $35,000; Duration 12 months; start date August 1, 1996; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Finite Element Crash Simulations of Illinois 2399-1 Steel Post and Beam Bridge Railing; Federal Highway Administration; Budget $20,000; Duration 12 months; start date January 1, 1995; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • p-Version Shell Finite Elements  for  Fast,  Accurate  Analysis  of  Thin Welded  Structures;  Martin  Marietta  Energy  Systems/Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge, TN; Budget $25,000; Duration  12  months;  start date January 1, 1994; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Investigation of Contact Stresses in the Acetabular Polyethylene Insert; University Orthopaedics, Inc.; Budget $62,000; Duration 24 months; start date September 1, 1993; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Finite Element Software for Soil Consolidation; Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc.; Budget $92,000; Duration 24 months; start date September 1, 1993; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Unit/Truss/Continuum Scales Deformation Modeling of  Particulate Materials; ALCOA Foundation; Budget $15,000; Duration  24  months;  start date July 1, 1993; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Extension of the Integrated Force Method for Membrane and Bending Coupled Problems; NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Budget  $32,082; Duration  12  months;  start date January 1, 1993; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Software for the Dynamic Simulation of Large Full-Vehicle Models; Swanson Analysis  Systems,  Inc.;  Budget $35,000; Duration 12 months; start date September 1, 1992; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • CAE Software for Electromagnetic Devices and Processes; Swanson  Analysis Systems,  Inc. and Ben Franklin Technology Center;  Budget $82,500; Duration 12 months; start date September 1, 1991; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • 1991, 1992, 1993 Research   Experiences   for   Undergraduates;   National   Science Foundation;  Budget  $13,000;  Duration  3 months each year ; start date May 1, 1991, 1992, 1993; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Lightweight  Beam  Sections  for  Manufactured  Housing;   Ben   Franklin Technology  Center;  Budget  $55,400;  Duration  12  months;  start  date September 1, 1990; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Research into the Integration of Boundary and  Finite  Elements;  Swanson Analysis  Systems,  Inc.;  Budget $50,000; Duration 12 months; start date September 1, 1990; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Semi-analytical Univariate Perturbation and Implicit Differentiation  for Structural  Sensitivities  of  3-D  Solids  Using  Boundary Elements, The National Science Foundation, $60,000;  Duration  24  months;  start  date August  1,  1987.  Principal Investigator: S. Saigal (Research Initiation Grant) 

  • Boundary  Elements  Research  in  Solid   Mechanics;  National  Science Foundation, Presidential Young Investigator; Budget $325,000; Duration 60 months; start date September 1, 1990; Principal Investigator S. Saigal.

  • Finite Strain Shell Formulations,  HKS  Inc.,  Providence,  RI,  $10,000; Duration  3  months;  start  date  May  15, 1987. Principal Investigator: S. Saigal.

  • Three  Dimensional  Structural  Shape  Optimization:   Research   Project Initiation  and  Preliminaries,  WPI  Research  and  Development Council, $5,000;  Duration  12 months;  start  date  August  1,  1987.  Principal Investigator: S. Saigal.

  • Furnace  Design  Program  for  Optimal  Temperature  Profile  on Dies for Ceramic  Tile  Manufacture,  Norton  Company,  Worcester,  MA, $29,186; Duration  12  months; start date January 1, 1988. Principal Investigator: S. Saigal (Co-Principal Investigator: H.T. Grandin, Jr.)

    Co-Principal Investigator
     

  • Design for Deflection Control vs. Use of Specified Span to Depth Ratio Limitations; New Jersey Department of Transportation; Budget $200,000; Duration 24 months; start date May 2009; Principal Investigators: M. Ala Saadeghvaziri, S. Saigal, Ali Khan.

  • Structural Analysis in MEMS Design and Reliability, PITA – Pennsylvania Initiative for Technology Advancement, $37,890; Duration 12 months; start date January 1, 2001. Principal Investigators: A. Acharya, S. Saigal, G. Fedder

  • Microstructure Based Plasticity for Advanced Materials Development, PITA – Pennsylvania Initiative for Technology Advancement, $37,890; Duration 12 months; start date January 1, 2001. Principal Investigators: A. Acharya, S. Saigal, H.R. Piehler

  • Graduate Research Traineeship: Integrating Science, Technology, and Management in Global Civil Infrastructure Systems, The National Science Foundation, $562,500; Duration 60 months; start date September 1, 1996; Principal Investigators: S. McNeil, S. Saigal, H. Koutsopoulos.

  • Formulation  of   Boundary   Element   Substructuring,   Reduced   Design Sensitivity   Analysis, and  Re-analysis  for  Efficient  Optimal  Shape Configuration, The National Science  Foundation,  $171,000;  Duration  36 months;  start  date  September  1, 1988.  Principal Investigators:  J.H. Kane, S. Saigal and R.H. Gallagher.

  • Structural Shape Optimization of Solid Objects Using a  Boundary  Element Formulation,  United  Technologies Corporation, E. Hartford, CT, $80,000; and Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, New London, CT,  $76,000; Duration  24 months; start date August 1, 1987. Principal Investigators: S. Saigal and J.H. Kane.

    Faculty Associate

  • Computer  Aided  Simultaneous  Engineering; General Motors Research Corporation;  Budget;  $38,000;  start  date  September  1, 1989; faculty associate; Principal Investigator: S. Talukdar.