Keith Pilkey, Queen's University

Latest funding

Role of damage in the failure of heterogeneous materials
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$168,000
Investigation of local features and mechanisms that lead to global failure in heterogeneous materials
NSERC · 2013 · Principal investigator
$110,000
Automobile of the 21st Century/L'automobile du XXIe siècle
NSERC · 2012 · Co-investigator
$13,487,000

All 14 grants and awards

Role of damage in the failure of heterogeneous materials

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Pilkey, Keith

$168,000

Investigation of local features and mechanisms that lead to global failure in heterogeneous materials

Principal investigatorNSERC2013Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Pilkey, Keith

$110,000

Automobile of the 21st Century/L'automobile du XXIe siècle

Co-investigatorNSERC2012Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Frise, Peter

$13,487,000

Advanced tomographic reconstruction

Co-investigatorNSERC2011Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Daymond, Mark

$31,590

Using 3D micro-computed tomography to investigate structure-property relationships in heterogenous materials

Principal investigatorNSERC2008Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Pilkey, Keith

$132,500

Automobile of the 21st Century/L'automobile du XXIe siècle

Co-investigatorNSERC2008Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Frise, Peter

$17,400,000

Reflectance fluorescent microscope for applied biomedical research

Co-investigatorNSERC2008Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Waldman, Stephen

$84,702

multi-axial loading

Co-investigatorNSERC2007Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Diak, Bradley

$79,208

Micromechanical testing system

Co-investigatorNSERC2007Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Dumas, Genevieve

$89,377

Real time 3D strain measurement

Co-investigatorNSERC2005Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Daymond, Mark

$142,857

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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