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Wind Engineering and Multi-Hazard Failure Analysis Project
Last Updated Date: 01/02/2013 Multi-hazard design is a potentially powerful means to achieve structures that meet the requirement of risk consistency with respect to safety … more
Reduced Ignition of Building Components in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fire problem is a structure ignition problem. To reduce the risk of structural ignition, the technical … more
WUI Fire Data Collection and Exposure Modeling Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is defined as a location where structures meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland. Since 2000 … more
WUI Building and Fire Codes and Standards Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 Within the Fire Risk Reduction in Communities Program at NIST, projects seek (through laboratory experiments, field measurements, and computer … more
Nanomagnetic Imaging
Last Updated Date: 08/20/2012 The microscopic arrangement of the magnetic structure within a thin metal film plays a fundamental role in many technological applications ranging … more
Novel Sources for Focused-ion Beams
Last Updated Date: 08/14/2012 Focused beams of ions have a wide range of uses, from nanoscale imaging to the fabrication of nanomaterials. At the CNST, researchers … more
Electron Transport in Graphene
Last Updated Date: 06/06/2012 Graphene, a one-atom thick sheet of carbon, shows great promise as a material for building nanometer-scale electronic devices that would help to … more
Seismic Response of Reinforced Concrete Walls Project
Last Updated Date: 01/20/2012 This project includes two critical problem-focused tasks in Performance Based Seismic Engineering (PBSE): (1) the evaluation of reinforced … more |
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