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Projects/Programs

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AI-Assistance for Resilience Research and Practice

Ongoing
Objective - In FY25, the project will focus on developing and evaluating human-in-the-loop AI-assisted methods for data curation, data analysis, and behavioral experiments. These efforts will support decision-making to enhance community resilience against compound risks from extreme weather events...

Assuring the Long-Term Performance of Additively Constructed Structures

Ongoing
Objective Develop the metrology, best practices, and standardized test methods that are needed to develop building codes that can ensure adequate structural performance throughout the intended service lifetime of AC structures. Technical Idea [Focus on the Layer Interface] These problems can be...

Building-Level Seismic Performance Assessment

Ongoing
Objective This research effort will identify and evaluate methods to enhance the seismic performance of buildings in areas prone to moderate-to-high earthquake shaking through the utilization of new conventional and low-damage seismic design approaches, improved seismic code provisions and design...

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 for Smart Cities

Ongoing
Objective - To provide the measurement science and standards-based foundations for interoperable, replicable, scalable, and trustworthy cyber-physical systems that can be readily and cost-effectively deployed by cities and communities of all types and sizes to improve their efficiency...

Design Methods for Resilient Community Systems

Completed
Objective - To advance design and assessment methods for buildings and infrastructure to improve their ability to support the social and economic functions they support and community resilience. What is the technical idea? Quantitative approaches to identify and evaluate the performance of the built...

Design for Tornadoes

Completed
Objective To advance tornado hazard mitigation through improved characterization of tornadoes and their interaction with buildings and structures, providing the technical foundation for improvements to tornado load design guidelines, standards, codes, and code adoptions. This includes research and...

Development of a First-Generation Community-Resilience Systems Model

Ongoing
Objective Develop an efficient, interactive computer-based tool, Alternatives for Resilient Communities (ARC), to facilitate exploration of decision alternatives at the community scale for infrastructure systems (buildings, water, power, transportation) for a range of natural hazard events and...

Development and Implementation of the Community Resilience Planning Guides

Ongoing
Objective By 2028, publish updated community resilience planning and decision-making guidance documents that are supported by natural hazard and resilience planning & analysis tools, based on collaboration and engagement with end-user communities, professional organizations, and government agencies...

Forward-Looking Building Standards Workshops and Roadmap

Ongoing
Objective Publish A Roadmap to Advance Standards for the Built Environment Subject to Future Hazards and Conditions. Technical idea Engineers, planners, and communities are addressing future hazards and conditions to meet client requests and are looking for consensus guidance and standards to...

Functional Recovery of Buildings and Lifelines

Ongoing
Objective To improve the recovery time of buildings and lifeline infrastructure by strengthening the design of the built environment to withstand future earthquake impacts, considering economic and implementation issues, providing a standard framework for the U.S. construction industry to deliver...

Materials and Structures for Resilience Program

Ongoing
Objective To improve building codes, standards, and engineering practice by developing and deploying advances in measurement science that enhance the robustness, resilience, and durability of materials and structures against natural and manmade hazards. Technical Idea The Materials and Structures...

Metrology for Accelerated Laboratory Weathering

Ongoing
Objective To develop and implement measurement science using the NIST Accelerated Weathering Laboratory technology for conducting accurate and traceable aging experiments and service life prediction of resilient infrastructure materials. Technical Idea The integrating sphere-based technology used in...

National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program Coordination

Ongoing
Objective - To support NIST's statutory Lead Agency role of coordinating National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program (NWIRP) research and implementation activities. What is the new technical idea? This project supports coordination, management, and leadership of the National Windstorm Impact...

NEHRP Extramural Research

Completed
Objective - A task order to assist NIST and the NEHRP agencies in updating the NEHRP Strategic Plan will be awarded to a policy contractor. In addition, other planned FY 2020 extramural research will be assigned by task order to the new IDIQ contractor once that award is made. It is anticipated that...

Novel Sources for Focused-ion Beams

Completed
Commercial focused ion beams (FIBs) are used in a wide variety of applications. For example, they serve as diagnostic tools, slicing through a nanodevice to expose its internal structure. They can also shape nanoscale materials either by adding atoms to a structure or by shaving them off. And they...

Performance Criteria Development

Ongoing
Objective Advance component-level seismic performance criteria in current design standards by conducting focused experimental tests and analytical studies. Technical Idea In the following, the technical idea for each of the RTs is presented separately: RT1: High-Strength Reinforcement in Earthquake...

Proximity Detection for Electronic Contact Tracing

Completed
We are developing performance metrics for not just ranging, but also for detecting close contacts, which in the context of COVID-19 is the situation where two people are less than six feet apart with no obstacles between them. Obviously, the duration of a close contact is important, as it affects...

Resilient Communities for Future Hazards and Changing Conditions

Ongoing
Objective Publish (by 2026) a guidance document on flood mitigation alternatives for Community Resilience Planning specific to the built environment that effectively incorporates future hazards. Publish (by 2028) guidance documents for characterizing future hazards and conditions to support...

Resilient Infrastructure and Future Hazard Impacts: Windstorms

Ongoing
Objective By 2026, publish A Roadmap to Advance Standards for the Built Environment Subject to Future Hazards and Conditions. By 2028, have provisions for future wind hazards incorporated into the ASCE 7-28 Standard for Minimum Design Loads on Buildings and Other Structures. Technical Idea Engineers...

Risk Assessment for Forward-Looking Building Standards

Ongoing
Objective This project will significantly advance industry capacity for measuring and quantifying impacts from building damage/failure and develop guidance for the design and assessment of geotechnical considerations and multiple hazards that threaten buildings and infrastructure. Technical Idea To...

Risk Evaluation and Mitigation

Ongoing
Objective To improve techniques currently used for risk evaluation (including uncertainty quantification) and mitigation (including FRP retrofit) of structural systems and integrate them within the performance based earthquake engineering framework. Technical Idea The technical idea for each of the...
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