The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) Program has a variety of tools for AM. If you are interested in measuring mechanical, structural, chemical, or thermal properties, our campuses in Boulder, CO and Gaithersburg, MD have a variety of tools to do so. Learn more below. Feel free to contact us with questions or opportunities to collaborate.
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Boulder, Colorado
Acoustic Non-Destructive Evaluation Atom Probe Tomography Atomic Force Microscope Atomic Force Microscopy Decay Energy Spectrometer Dynamic Mechanical Analysis Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy Mechanical Testing (Including Small-Scale, High/Low Temperature, Extreme Environments, Static and Dynamic, etc.) Metallographic Equipment (Cutting, Grinding, Polishing, Mounting, Examining) Microhardness Mapping Nanoindentation Nanoindentation Mapping Optical Coherence Tomography Optical Microscopy Rheometry SEM TEM UV-Vis Spectroscopy X-Ray Computed Tomography X-Ray Diffraction X-Ray Micro Computed Tomography XRCT Back to Top
NIST's campus in Boulder, Colorado.
Credit:
NIST
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Advion ExpressION Single Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer AFM Anton Parr Shear Controlled Rheometer Arc Melter With Suction Casting ARES G2 Rheometer ARES G2 Strain Controlled Rheometer Capillary Rheometer CCD Cameras/Custom Print Heads, Conveyor Belts Ceramic Synthesis (High Energy Planetary Milling, High Speed Mixing, High Temperature Furnaces) Cold Sintering Stage Compression and Tension Kolsky Bars (Often Referred to as Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar) (Strain Rates up to 5000 1/s, Temperatures to 1000 °C) Computer Controlled Potentiostat/Galvanostat Confocal Microscopes CTCMS Customized Electromechanical Tensile Frame DACA Microcompounder DART Mass Spectrometer Decay Energy Spectrometer Differential Scanning Calorimeter Digital Holographic Microscopy Du Nuoy Ring Tensiometer DXR Raman Spectrometer Electron Backscatter Diffraction Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy FIB FLIR IR Camera Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer High Resolution Digital Image Correlation (DIC) Systems High Speed Digital Image Correlation (DIC) Systems High Speed Thermography System High Temperature Furnaces High-Speed Servohydraulic Material Testing System (Velocities up to 12 m/s) Instrumented Hardness Indenter Instrumented Hardness System Instrumented Indentation Tester Instrumented Microhardness Indenter (Vickers, Berkovich, Knoop, and Flat Punch Tips IonTOF TOF-SIMS Knoop, Vickers, Brinell, And Rockwell Hardness Testers Laboratory X-Ray Diffraction Laser Confocal Laser Confocal Microscope Link AM CSS450 Optical Shear Cell Materials Deposition Printer Metallographic Equipment (Cutting, Grinding, Polishing, Mounting, Examining) Metallographic Preparation Systems Microfab Facility Multiple Commercial Trace Detectors NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) NIST-Built Rheo-Raman Microscope Ocean Insights Jaz UV-Vis Olympus BX-51 Optical Microscope Ondax/Kaiser THz Raman Spectrometer Optical Camera Optical Coherence Tomography Optical Microscopes Photon High Speed Birefringence Camera Planetary Mixer "Quasi-Static Screw Driven Material Testing System (5 kN Capacity)" Quasi-Static Servohydraulic Material Testing System (Velocities Up To 50 mm/s and 50 kN Capacity) Quenching Pushrod Dilatometer Rheometer Ring Tensiometer Rotational Rheometer Sample Prep (Grinding, Cutting, Polishing) Scanning Electron Microscope Scanning Electron Microscopy Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer SEM Shear Cell Shimadzu UV-Vis SPS STEM TEM ThermoFisher Minijet Pro ThermoFisher Process 11 Thermogravimetric Analyzer Time-Gated Raman Spectrometer Transmission Electron Microscope Various LC-MS, GC-MS, and Microscopy Characterization Tools X-Ray Diffraction Back to Top
NIST's campus in Gaithersburg, MD.
Credit:
J. Stoughton/NIST
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