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Projects/Programs

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Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics

Ongoing
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a rapidly growing suite of technologies that has been a national priority since 2012. Compared to metals and polymers AM, the commercial adaptation of ceramics AM is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, ceramics AM is actively explored for applications in aerospace

Additive Manufacturing Fatigue and Fracture

Ongoing
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) is not used in fatigue and fracture critical applications despite industrial need. The goal of this project is to enable confident use of metal AM in critical applications through: Advancing metrological practice for AM-specific performance metrics encompassing the

Advanced Data Exchange Standards for the Biomanufacturing Supply Chain

Ongoing
Objective The objective of this project is to develop measurement science that includes methods, workflow models, information meta-models, interoperability metrics, and prototype tools to help U.S. manufacturers reduce the time and cost associated with making supply chain data accessible for better

Advanced Informatics and Artificial Intelligence for Additive Manufacturing

Ongoing
Objective To develop and deploy the metrics, models, and best practices for implementing and adopting advanced informatics (including product definition, digital twins, machine learning and advanced analytics) and artificial intelligence to enhance additive manufacturing design, process planning

Advanced Machines, Monitoring, and Control for AM

Ongoing
Objective To develop, integrate, and implement real-time feedback and other cutting-edge process control techniques using advanced monitoring tools such as high-speed imaging and diffraction for single and multi-laser AM systems. Technical Idea The current methods for AM control predominantly rely

Advanced Manufacturing Data Infrastructure and Analytics Program

Ongoing
Objective The Advanced Manufacturing Data Infrastructure and Analytics (AMDIA) Program will develop and deploy measurement science to advance a data infrastructure that will improve the productivity, resiliency, and sustainability of manufacturing operations and supply chains to enhance U.S

Advanced Mechanical Characterization of Mesoscale Materials

Ongoing
Knowledge of a material’s mechanical properties is key to designing safe and reliable structural components for applications ranging in size from medical implants to large civil engineering structures. Traditionally, a material’s mechanical properties are measured by performing mechanical tests on

Advanced Metrology to Enable Next Generation EUV Photoresists

Ongoing
EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography, the technology that “saved Moore’s Law,” is widely regarded as the future of cutting-edge nanofabrication. It was developed in the United States and U.S. companies in many parts of the EUV ecosystem have established dominance in the field that must be defended

Advancing Power Electronics with Defect Metrology

Ongoing
Power electronics play a central role in all aspects of electrical energy storage, distribution, conversion, and consumption. Currently, power electronics heavily rely on Si-based insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBT), which have large footprints, are inefficient, and require extensive cooling

Agility Performance of Robotic Systems

Ongoing
Objective Deliver robot agility performance metrics, test methods, information models, datasets, combined virtual/real testbeds, and planning approaches that will enable manufacturers to more easily and rapidly reconfigure, retask, and redeploy robotic systems. Technical Idea The project is

Agri-Food Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Integration

Ongoing
Objective: Deploy new standards and reference data supporting agri-food manufacturing systems to enable industry to more efficiently and cost effectively produce food-based products of higher quality and with improved food safety. Technical Idea: Today, food producers face many challenges include

Augmented Intelligence for Manufacturing Systems (AIMS)

Ongoing
Objective To overcome existing measurement challenges via augmented intelligence, the fusion of integrated metrology, physics-based models, and artificial intelligence, to enable monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics of manufacturing systems and their processes. Technical Idea One research

Automotive Lightweighting

Ongoing
The US auto industry spends $600M per year fixing and tweaking forming dies that do not make correct parts. The primary reason that the dies are inaccurate is that the computer models of the dies utilize materials models that are inaccurate. Upon surveying our industrial partners, we determined that

Biofabrication of Tissue Engineered Constructs

Ongoing
OCT imaging was assessed using a model scaffold-cell system consisting of a polysaccharide-based hydrogel seeded with human Jurkat cells. Four test systems were used: hydrogel seeded with live cells, hydrogel seeded with heat-shocked or fixed dead cells and hydrogel without any cells. Time series

Characterization of Additive Manufacturing Materials

Completed
Objective: Deliver new standardized feedstock and AM-built material characterization methods, exemplar data, and databases to accelerate the design and use of additive manufacturing parts in high-performance applications (e.g., critical parts in high-stress applications such as turbine blades or

Characterization of 3D Photovoltaics

Completed
First Generation (thick layers of crystalline silicon) and Second Generation (thin films of CdTe, CIGS, and related materials) PV devices are both well established in the marketplace, with well defined techniques for fabrication and characterization. Third Generation PV encompasses a wide diversity

Chemical Functionalization and Manipulation of Nano Materials

Ongoing
This project focuses on manipulating nanomaterials, including weakly bonded van der Waals systems, and probing emergent phenomena in these nanoengineered systems to impact technologies such as nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, quantum sensing, and quantum computing. Developing processes to

Commissioning Building Systems for Improved Energy Performance

Ongoing
Objective - To improve the operating efficiency of building systems by providing the measurement science needed to develop improved building commissioning techniques that utilize embedded capabilities of building control systems, and accelerate the adoption of cost-effective commissioning as

Cruciform Multiaxial Mechanical Testing

Ongoing
A new ARRA funded cruciform test machine is being installed in the NIST Center for Automotive Lightweighting. Its capabilities include 500kN load per axis, two DIC strain mapping systems (one for large field mapping and one for zooming in to study localizations or features), a high resolution, high

Crystal Plasticity Modeling of Yield Surface Evolution

A robust multiaxial constitutive law is needed to predict stresses within parts formed from sheet metal to be able to compensate for such phenomena as elastic springback. Ideally, the constitutive law would not need to be "trained" using empirical mechanical property data alone, but would be able to

Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things Program

Ongoing
Objective - Enable scalable, dependable design methods and reproducible performance measurement for effective and trustworthy (reliable, safe, secure, resilient and privacy-enhancing) cyber-physical systems and IoT, by means of new measurement science, advanced testing and assurance capabilities and

Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things Testbed

Ongoing
Objective - To develop general design principles useful to all cyber-physical systems testbed developers and the co-simulation community; to develop specific design concepts to guide the development, operation, and evolution of NIST’s IoT/CPS testbed; and to establish a cross-sector IoT/CPS testbed