Concrete / cement

News and Updates

Building that has been destroyed by a tornado

NIST, NSF Award More Than $7.6 Million to Support Disaster Resilience Research

May 4, 2022

The agencies are funding 20 projects to be conducted across 24 institutions through the Disaster Resilience Research Grant (DRRG) program, which they manage

A fire test of an office building floor replica occurring in a fireproof compartment.

How Fire Causes Office-Building Floors to Collapse

March 24, 2020

Engineers and technicians at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent months meticulously recreating the long concrete floors supported

Sticking Together

January 16, 2018

NIST helps to ensure the strength of buildings, bridges, roadways, and other critical structures all over the world. The Material Measurement Lab at NIST makes

Projects and Programs

Accelerated Weathering Laboratory: Metrology and Technology Transfer

Ongoing

The NIST Accelerated Weathering Laboratory provides researchers with well-quantified accelerated aging environments, using a unique SPHERE (Simulated

Carbon Capture and Carbon Sequestration

Ongoing

Direct Assessment of Concrete-Making Materials for Standards and Specifications

Ongoing

Today's cement and concrete specifications are based on the 1948 work,” Long-Time Study of Cement Performance in Concrete”. While the 1948 study established

Low Carbon Cements and Concretes Consortium

Ongoing

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce, in support of efforts to develop standards for

Publications

Material Research Support for the Structural Performance of Nuclear Power Plant Concrete Structures Affected by Alkali-Silica Reaction

May 16, 2022

Author(s)

Kenneth A. Snyder, Richard Eason, Peter Bajcsy, Steven Feldman

Technology readiness: A global snapshot of 3D concrete printing and the frontiers for development

March 29, 2022

Author(s)

Guowei Ma, Richard Buswell, Wilson Ricardo Leal da Silva, Li Wang, Jie Xu, Scott Jones

QUANTIFYING SHAPE OF STAR-LIKE OBJECTS USING SHAPE CURVES AND A NEW COMPACTNESS MEASURE

March 3, 2021

Author(s)

Edward Garboczi, Gopal Mulukutla, Emese Hadnagy, Matthew Fearon

Shape is an important indicator of the physical and chemical behavior of natural and engineered particulate materials (e.g., sediment, sand, rock, volcanic ash)

How Do Specific Surface Area and Particle Size Distribution Change When Granular Media Dissolve?

February 14, 2021

Author(s)

Jeffrey W. Bullard, Qingxu Jin, Kenneth A. Snyder

The measured dissolution rate of a granular medium depends on its surface area and how the surface area changes during the course of the measurement. Moreover

Software

Prediction of a Chloride Ion Penetration Profile for a Concrete

January 13, 2017

Prediction is based on a one-dimensional finite difference solution of Fick's second law of diffusion, with a variable external chloride concentration and a two

MicroChar

April 1, 2015

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) Accurate quantitative data on cement and clinker microstructure images can prove valuable for

SULFATE2 Software

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) SULFATE2 is user-friendly software for computing the resistance of concrete to sulfate

Stokes Three-Dimensional Permeability Solver

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) A set of C and Fortran computer programs have been developed for computing the permeability of

Concrete / cement

News and Updates

NIST, NSF Award More Than $7.6 Million to Support Disaster Resilience Research

How Fire Causes Office-Building Floors to Collapse

Sticking Together

Projects and Programs

Accelerated Weathering Laboratory: Metrology and Technology Transfer

Carbon Capture and Carbon Sequestration

Direct Assessment of Concrete-Making Materials for Standards and Specifications

Low Carbon Cements and Concretes Consortium

Publications

Material Research Support for the Structural Performance of Nuclear Power Plant Concrete Structures Affected by Alkali-Silica Reaction

Technology readiness: A global snapshot of 3D concrete printing and the frontiers for development

QUANTIFYING SHAPE OF STAR-LIKE OBJECTS USING SHAPE CURVES AND A NEW COMPACTNESS MEASURE

How Do Specific Surface Area and Particle Size Distribution Change When Granular Media Dissolve?

Software

Prediction of a Chloride Ion Penetration Profile for a Concrete

MicroChar

SULFATE2 Software

Stokes Three-Dimensional Permeability Solver

Awards

Long Phan Receives American Concrete Institute (ACI) Concrete Research Council Arthur J. Boase Award

Dale Bentz Elected American Concrete Institute (ACI) Fellowship

Paul Stutzman Receives the Bryant Mather Award from ASTM Committee C01