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NSF industry-university research center

Materials that last.
Insight that matters.

MDS-Rely advances the science of material reliability — combining advanced data analytics with industry and academic expertise to understand how materials degrade and build models that predict failure before it happens.

$3.2M+
In NSF funding secured
8
Member organizations
15
Papers published
40+
Students mentored
Our mission
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MDS-Rely advances the science behind material reliability.

We combine advanced data analytics with industry and academic expertise to understand how materials degrade. We also build predictive models and set standards to measure this behavior allowing engineers to improve durability in real time.

MDS-Rely is a National Science Foundation Industry University Cooperative Research Center between Case Western Reserve University, University of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University. If you are interested in learning more about our center, please contact Dr. Laura Bruckman or Dr. Paul Leu.

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Lithium-ion battery degradation & thermal runaway prediction
Battery safety · 2025
netSEM: network structural equation modeling for reliability
Software · CRAN package
JaxLayerLumos: optical thin-film simulation toolkit
Software · Open source
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March 2026
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Battery safety research: early prediction of thermal runaway events
2025
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