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Engineering Laboratory

Materials and Structural Systems Division

Projects/Programs

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Topic Area

Measurement Science to Assure the Performance of Green Concretes Project

Completed

An effective strategy for making a more "green" concrete is to replace the portland cement (the binding component with large energy and CO 2 footprints) with

Measurement Science to Assure the Performance of Innovative Concretes

Completed

The concrete industry has developed strategies for making innovative concrete, which is defined as a sustainable concrete that uses less resources for

Measurement Science for Service Life Prediction of Polymeric Components Used in Photovoltaic (PV) Systems

Ongoing

Due to intensified pricing pressure and rapid growth of photovoltaic (PV) technology, low cost and emerging polymeric materials are being used increasingly in

Measurement Science Tools for Accelerated Weathering of Polymers Project

Ongoing

There is pressure on U.S. industry to develop innovative solutions to meet increasing customer and regulatory demands for sustainable manfactured materials

Measures of Building Resilience and Structural Robustness Project

Ongoing

Disaster resilience of a building or a community is the capability to quickly restore full functionality following an extreme event. Buildings play a critical

Methods for Community Resilience Tradeoffs

Ongoing

Communities facing natural hazard risks are often concerned with other risks as well, including sea-level rise, resource depletion, and pandemics. Thus

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Coordination

Completed

This is an annually renewed project that supports NIST's Lead Agency coordination of National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) research and

NEHRP Extramural Research

Completed

Research performed by the EL Earthquake Engineering Group (2EG) consists of a combination of in-house and extramural research. Policy related work is awarded to

NIST Accelerated Weathering Laboratory: Metrology and Operations Project

Ongoing

Accurate prediction of the time to failure (service life) for polymeric materials is needed to support precise life cycle costs and sustainability assessments

Options for Improving Post-Earthquake Re-Occupancy and Functional Recovery Time

Ongoing

The goal of this project is to assess and recommend options for improving the built environment and critical infrastructure to reflect performance goals stated

Performance Criteria Development

Ongoing

Experimental and analytical data are vital for advancing seismic design standards (e.g., ASCE 7, ASCE 41, AISC 341, ACI 318) and are essential for developing

Performance-Based Design Methodologies for Structures in Fire Project

Ongoing

This project will develop and implement performace-based tools, methodology, guidance, and draft standards for designing and evaluating structures for fire

Properties of Sustainable Fresh Concrete Project

Completed

The construction industry is becoming increasing reliant on pumping for the placement of concrete; thus, implying that a concrete must have the desired early

Quantification of Material, Loading, and Modeling Uncertainties of Reinforced Concrete Column Components and Frame Systems under Seismic and Gravity Loads for Use in PBSE

Completed

Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) has provided a probabilistic framework to predict the response of the structural systems by incorporating the

Reliability of Fiber Reinforced Composite Systems in Resilient Infrastructure

Ongoing

The resilience of infrastructure is often improved using fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites and fiber reinforced fabric cementitious matrices (FRCMs)

Repair Materials Project

Completed

In spite of advances in materials and construction technologies, our nation's civil infrastructure remains in a state of serious decay. The 2013 American

Risk Evaluation and Mitigation

Ongoing

Quantitative risk analysis (QRA) is a systematic approach to quantify risks associated with the operation of an engineering process. QRA is an essential tool to

Robust Structural Systems for Multi-Hazard Mitigation

Ongoing

In the context of codes and standards for structural design, the term robustness has been used to indicate the ability of a structural system to resist damage

Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Pre-Northridge Earthquake Panel Zones in Steel Moment Frames

Completed

Steel moment frame design prior to the 1994 Northridge Earthquake (1985-1994 era) favored 1) panel zones that would yield before the adjacent beams and 2)

Seismic Performance of Steel Buildings in the Central and Eastern United States

Completed

In certain regions of moderate seismicity, particularly in the central and eastern United States (CEUS), member sizes of the seismic force-resisting systems

Service Life of Nano-enabled Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (NeFRP) Composites Project

Ongoing

This project will utilize chemical spectroscopy of stressed composites to quantify the magnitude and mode of stress transfer at the fiber-matrix interface in

Service Life Prediction of Filled Polymers Project

Ongoing

Prior efforts at NIST demonstrated the feasibility of quantitative service life prediction by linking the field and laboratory for an unfilled polymer. This

Worker looks over the disaster site at New York City's World Trade Center

Structural Performance for Multi-hazards Program

Ongoing

This program addresses the gap between basic research and building codes, standards, and practice through measurement science research to: (1) predict

severe surface damage (left), heterogeneous degradation (right), surface accumulation of nanoparticles (bottom), and nanoparticle release (top) in polymer nanocomposites

Surface Damage of Polymer Nanocomposites Project

Ongoing

Surface damage caused by environmental and/or mechanical stresses can lead to the release of nanofillers incorporated within polymer nanocomposites, leading to

Sustainable Engineered Materials

Ongoing

To develop and deploy measurement science tools that enable the manufacturing, construction, and transportation industries to reliably assess the performance of

Advanced communications
-Open Radio Access Network (Open-RAN)
-Quantum communications
-Spectrum sharing
-Wireless (RF)
Bioscience
-Bioinformatics
-Biomanufacturing
-Biomaterials
-Cell biology
-Engineering / synthetic biology
-Genomics
-Glycomics
-Metabolomics
-Microbial measurements
-Proteomics
Buildings and Construction
-Building codes and standards
-Building control systems
-Building damage and repair
-Building economics
-Building materials
-Energy efficiency
-Heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment
-Indoor air quality
-Structural engineering
-Thermal comfort
Chemistry
-Analytical chemistry
-Chemical engineering and processing
-Chemical thermodynamics and chemical properties
-Molecular characterization
-Theoretical chemistry and modeling
-Thermochemical properties
Electronics
-Electromagnetics
-Flexible electronics
-Magnetoelectronics
-Optoelectronics
-Organic electronics
-Semiconductors
-Sensors
-Superconducting electronics
Energy
-Alternative energy
-Conventional energy
-Electric power / smart grid
-Fuels
Environment
-Air / water / soil quality
-Climate
-Environmental health
-Greenhouse gas measurements
-Marine science
-Sustainability
Fire
-Emergency building evacuation
-Fire detection
-Fire dynamics and science
-Fire fighting
-Fire modeling
-Fire risk reduction
-Materials flammability
-Structural fire resistance
-Wildland urban interface fire
Forensic Science
-Digital evidence
-Drugs and toxicology
-Firearms and toolmarks
-Forensic biometrics
-Forensic genetics
-Trace evidence
Health
-Biopharmaceuticals
-Clinical diagnostics
-Dentistry
-Food and nutrition
-Medical imaging
-Precision medicine
-Regenerative medicine and advanced therapy
Information technology
-Artificial intelligence
--AI measurement and evaluation
--Applied AI
--Fundamental AI
--Hardware for AI
--Machine learning
--Trustworthy and responsible AI
-Biometrics
-Cloud computing and virtualization
-Complex systems
-Computational science
-Conformance testing
-Cyber-physical systems
--Smart cities
-Cybersecurity
--Cryptography
--Cybersecurity education and workforce development
--Cybersecurity measurement
--Identity and access management
--Privacy engineering
--Risk management
--Securing emerging technologies
--Trustworthy networks
--Trustworthy platforms
-Data and informatics
--Human language technology
--Information retrieval
--Natural language processing
-Federal information processing standards (FIPS)
-Health IT
-Internet of Things (IoT)
-Interoperability testing
-Location based services
-Mobile
-Networking
--Mobile and wireless networking
--Network management and monitoring
--Network modeling and analysis
--Network security and robustness
--Network test and measurement
--Next generation networks
--Protocol design and standardization
--Software defined and virtual networks
-Privacy
-Software research
--Software testing
-Usability and human factors
--Accessibility
-Video analytics
-Virtual / augmented reality
-Visualization research
-Voting systems
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
-Additive manufacturing
-Factory communications
-Factory operations planning and control
-Interoperability in manufacturing
-Machining
-Manufacturing economics
-Manufacturing systems design and analysis
-Monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics
-Process improvement
-Process measurement and control
-Product data
-Quality assurance
-Robotics in manufacturing
--Agility and adaptability
--Collaborative robots
--Dexterous grasping
--Manipulation
--Mobility and industrial autonomous vehicles
--Navigation / actuation / control
--Sensing and perception
-Supply chain
-Sustainable manufacturing
-Systems engineering
-Systems integration
-Technology commercialization
Materials
-Ceramics
-Composites
-Concrete / cement
-Materials characterization
--Composition and structure
--Mechanical properties
--Thermal properties
-Metals
-Modeling and computational material science
-Polymers
-Superconductors
Mathematics and statistics
-Experiment design
-Image and signal processing
-Modeling and simulation research
-Numerical methods and software
-Statistical analysis
-Uncertainty quantification
Metrology
-Amount of substance
-Dimensional metrology
-Electrical / electromagnetic metrology
-Flow metrology and rheology
-Force metrology
-Humidity metrology
-Ionizing radiation metrology
-Mass metrology
-Metric
-Optical / photometry / laser metrology
-Pressure and vacuum metrology
-Thermometry metrology
-Time and frequency metrology
-Weights and measures
Nanotechnology
-Nanobiotechnology
-Nanochemistry
-Nanoelectronics
-Nanofabrication / manufacturing
--Lithography
--Self-assembly
-Nanofluidics
-Nanomagnetics
-Nanomaterials
-Nanomechanics
-Nanometrology
-Nanophotonics
-Nanophysics
-Nanoplasmonics
Neutron research
Performance excellence
-Assessment tools and services
-Baldrige award
-Baldrige examiners
-Baldrige Framework and Criteria
-Best practices
-Leadership development
Physics
-Atomic / molecular / quantum
-Biological physics
-Condensed matter
-Electron physics
-Magnetics
-Nuclear physics
-Optical physics and communications
-Quantum information science
-Radiation
-Spectroscopy
-Thermodynamics
-Time and frequency
Public safety
-Chemical / Biological / Radiological / Nuclear / Explosives (CBRNE)
-First responder preparedness
-Law enforcement
-Public safety communications research
-Response robots
Resilience
-Community resilience
-Disaster and failure studies
-Earthquake risk reduction
-Resilience economics
-Resilient materials
-Windstorm impact reduction
Standards
-Accreditation
-Calibration services
-Conformity assessment
-Documentary standards
-Frameworks
-Reference data
-Reference instruments
-Reference materials
-Standards education
Transportation
-Aerospace
-Automotive