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Twenty-Nine Concrete Testing Labs Mark 66 Years Of Quality

June 28, 1995

Being the best over many consecutive years doesn't come easily. The Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls are the only professional basketball teams to win more than...

Commerce's NIST Celebrates 40 Years of Semiconductor Research in Partnership with Industry

June 21, 1995

The Commerce Department and the U.S. semiconductor industry next month will celebrate the 40th anniversary of a partnership in a field that has enabled such...

Fire Safety in Health Care Facilities Is Now Cause for 'Alarm'

April 13, 1995

Helping fire safety officers and building managers at health care facilities achieve cost-effective compliance with a widely accepted fire safety code is the...

Consortium to Evaluate Performance of Tape-Bonded Seams for Sealing EPDM Roofing Membranes

April 11, 1995

Five companies and two trade associations have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in a cooperative research consortium to evaluate the...

Low-Cost, Thin-Film Multijunction Thermal Converter Wins 1994 R&D; 100 Award

September 22, 1994

A multilayer, thin-film multijunction thermal converter, or MJTC, developed jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Ballantine...

New NIST Solar Device May One Day Keep Americans In Hot Water

September 13, 1994

Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology have invented a novel solar water heating system that is believed to be...

Consortium to Help U.S. Paint Industry Get Better Products to Market Faster

June 30, 1994

Three paint manufacturers and the Federal Highway Administration, a large user of paint products, have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

New Facility Opens as Part of 65-Year-Old Partnership to Improve Quality of Construction Materials

May 18, 1994

Government and construction industry officials today dedicated a new facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help improve the quality...

California Quake Highlights Many Structural Success Stories, Some Major Shortcomings, Says NIST

April 21, 1994

The strong earthquake that struck the Los Angeles area last January 17 provided the first full-scale test of modern seismic structural codes and revealed both...

NIST, Industry Partners Form Consortium To Help Building Systems Communicate

March 1, 1994

Nine control system manufacturers and one software company have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in a cooperative research and...

Wozny Named New Head Of NIST Manufacturing Lab

January 14, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that Michael J. Wozny is the new director of the technology agency's Manufacturing Engineering...

NIST Develops Tests to Determine Fire Safety of Cigarettes

December 16, 1993

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed two tests that can be used to measure the likelihood that a cigarette will...

NIST Computer Program Helps Predict, Solve Moisture Problems in Walls, Ceilings

November 19, 1993

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, along with colleagues at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, have...

IN-CORE v1.0.0 Released!

Following several years of development as part of the NIST-funded Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning (CoE), the Interdependent Networked...

Evidence Suggests Increased Flow Time Suppressed US Manufacturing Productivity

Between 2005 and 2016, US multifactor productivity declined an average 0.3 % annually. Some debate has ensued about the cause of this decline or whether there...

NIST Tools for Searching the Coronavirus Dataset

New resources developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts in natural language processing and data curation and discovery allow researchers to get the most...

El NIST informa progreso en el aprendizaje de los impactos del Huracán María en Puerto Rico

El Instituto Nacional de Estándares y Tecnología (NIST) ha publicado un informe que resume el progreso de su estudio de varios años sobre los impactos del...

New update to SysPhS, a standard that translates between SysML models and 1D simulation tools

Disclaimer: Any mention of commercial products within NIST web pages is for information only; it does not imply recommendation or endorsement by NIST. The...

A new “dictionary” for additive manufacturing data

ASTM just released a standard “dictionary” for defining, analyzing, and sharing additive manufacturing (AM) data. Existing AM data are stored in different...

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