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Engineering Laboratory

Materials and Structural Systems Division

Projects/Programs

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

Structural Performance for Multi-hazards Program

Completed
Objective: To develop and deploy advances in measurement science to enhance the robustness of buildings and infrastructure to natural and manmade hazards. What is the technical idea? The fundamental new idea is that structural robustness can be significantly enhanced by developing reliable...
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
Objective: Currently, it is impossible to accurately measurethe release of nanofillers from surface-damaged polymer nanocomposites. By 2014, this project will develop and implement measurement science to characterize, model, and predict surface damage and nanofiller release as a function of...

Sustainable Engineered Materials

Ongoing
NIST will advance measurement science tools to reliably assess the performance of sustainable materials for the manufacturing, construction, and transportation industries. These industrial sectors must meet demands for higher performance, multi-functionality, and for longer life to ensure a...

Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory

Ongoing
The intended impact of this project is to enable a rapid and convenient virtual computing environment for evaluating and optimizing cementitious materials. Substantial savings in time, materials (purchase and disposal), human resources, and money can be achieved by reducing the number of physical...
Structural damage from extreme wind

Windstorms and Tornadoes: Hazard Characterization and Structural Design

Ongoing
Objective To significantly reduce the loss of life and property caused by extreme wind events and to enhance the resilience of American communities through improved characterization of extreme windstorms and tornadoes, development of performance-based design methods for extreme winds, and...
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