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TRIP$ - Transportation Risk-Recovery Investment Planning Solutions: Optimizing Earthquake Resilience & Functional Recovery of Highways

September 29, 2025
Author(s)
Aspasia Nikolaou, Angelos Tsatsis, Maria Antoniou, Juan Fung, Yalda Saadat, Fani Gelogoti, Rallis Kourkoulis, Steven McCabe
The United States (US) faces significant challenges in maintaining and modernizing its aging infrastructure, particularly in the transportation sector, which includes roadways, bridges, rail, air, ports, and pipelines. Infrastructure vulnerabilities

The JARVIS Infrastructure is All You Need for Materials Design

July 23, 2025
Author(s)
Kamal Choudhary
The Joint Automated Repository for Various Integrated Simulations (JARVIS) is a unified platform for multiscale, multimodal, forward, and inverse materials design. It integrates diverse theoretical and experimental approaches, including density functional

Supporting Production Consistency for Cement

May 12, 2025
Author(s)
Aron Newman, Cody Strack
Concrete is the second most used substance in the world after water. Concrete manufacturers produce 14 billion cubic meters annually, with a market size of $440 billion. The concrete industry is developing new technologies to decrease its carbon footprint

Microstructure effects on the fracture surface resistance of base metal in line pipe steels in high pressure H2 gas

April 29, 2025
Author(s)
Andrew LeBoeuf, Santigopal Samanta, Joseph Ronevich, Christopher San Marchi, Zachary Buck, Matthew Connolly, Lawrence Cho, Kip Findley
Cost-effective transportation of gaseous hydrogen requires the use of long-distance low-carbon steel pipeline networks. Employing higher strength (X65-X70) grades can allow for economic viability by enabling operation at higher pressures. While higher

Pyrrhotite Reference Material Synthesis

April 4, 2025
Author(s)
Michael Mengason, Stephanie Watson
The mineral pyrrhotite was synthesized from iron and sulfur starting materials for one component in a four-component reference material (RM 8154-Pyrrhotite in Concrete) to be used to evaluate the presence of sulfur in aggregate (crushed rock) and concrete

Time transfer performance of Broadcast Positioning System (BPS)

January 28, 2025
Author(s)
Tariq Mondal, Jeffrey Sherman, David Howe
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is the most prevalent Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) that provides Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). GNSS vulnerability is well-known, and the search continues to find another independent system that can

Additive Construction - The Path to Standardization II: Workshop Report

January 16, 2025
Author(s)
Shawn Platt
The "Additive Construction – The Path to Standardization II" workshop, hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), brought together key players from the additive

PVDF-based Backsheet Cracking: Mapping In Situ Phase Evolution by X-ray Scattering

December 15, 2024
Author(s)
Stephanie Moffitt, Sona Ulicna, Song-Syun Jhang, Po-Chang Pan, Michael Owen-Bellini, Peter Hacke, Michael Kempe, Jared Tracy, Kaushik Choudhury, Laura Schelhas, Xiaohong Gu
One of the most common polymers in commercial photovoltaic (PV) backsheets is polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). However, recent reports have shown the potential for PVDF-based backsheets to crack and fail prematurely. Previous work has suggested that polymer

C-V2X Interoperability Testing Datasets: Description and Use

November 22, 2024
Author(s)
Eugene Song, Davide Pesavento, YaShian Li-Baboud
This paper introduces a set of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) datasets collected at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Internet of Thing (IoT) Devices Interoperability Testbed. These datasets can be used to display, analyze

Preliminary observations of the April 5th, 2024, Mw4.8 New Jersey Earthquake

October 1, 2024
Author(s)
Oliver Boyd, William Barnhart, James Bourke, Martin Chapman, Paul Earle, Guo-chin Dino Huang, Jessica Thompson Jobe, Won-Young Kim, Frederik Link, Mairi Litherland, Andrew Lloyd, Maureen D. Long, Sara McBride, Andrew Michael, Walter Mooney, Gregory Mountain, Aspasia Nikolaou, Alexandros Savvaidis, Felix Waldhauser, Cecily Wolfe, Clara Yoon
On April 5, 2024, at 10:23 am local time, a moment magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Tewksbury Township, NJ, about 65 km west of the New York City metropolitan area. Millions of people from Virginia to Maine and beyond felt the ground shaking, resulting in

State of the Art and Research Needs in Design for Tornadoes: Structural Engineering Institute Workshop Report

September 30, 2024
Author(s)
Donald Scott, Jennifer Goupil, Shane Crawford, Alex Griffin, Cherylyn Henry, Marc Levitan, Franklin Lombardo, John van de Lindt, Peter Vickery
The Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) has a long history of working with NIST and other federal partners to improve ASCE/SEI 7 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criterial for Buildings and Other Structures, the national loading standard. Following

Summary Report: CHIPS R&D Program Standards Summit

September 27, 2024
Author(s)
Mary Bedner, Chris Greer
The mission of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) CHIPS Research and Development Office (CHIPS R&D) under the Department of Commerce's CHIPS for America Program is to accelerate the development and commercial deployment of

Measurement of Chloride in Concrete by Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation

September 1, 2024
Author(s)
Richard A. Livingston, Preethi Sridhar, Neal Berke, Amde M. Amde, Heather H. Chen-Mayer
Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis (PGAA) is an elemental analysis method based on radiative neutron capture that is isotope-specific and has a high sensitivity to chlorine (Cl). To evaluate the feasibility of replacing the conventional wet chemistry method

Assessing girth weld quality of pipeline steels and their susceptibility to hydrogen embrittlement

August 28, 2024
Author(s)
Zack Buck, Newell Moser, Nicholas Derimow, May Ling Martin, Damian Lauria, Enrico Lucon, Douglas Stalheim, Peter Bradley, Matthew Connolly
Hydrogen has long been considered a viable carbon-free option for ever-increasing societal desires to transform our energy infrastructure towards more renewable and alternative technologies. However, the effects of hydrogen-assisted damage mechanisms that

Test Facility for Pressure Losses in Plumbing Pipes and Fittings

July 15, 2024
Author(s)
Lingnan Lin, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Glen A. Glaeser
This report describes a new test facility at NIST for the measurement of pressure losses in pipes and fittings used in plumbing systems. Pressure losses are fundamental inputs to the design of premise plumbing systems, yet the available technical data on

Global Community Technology Challenge (GCTC) Strategic Plan 2024-2026

June 28, 2024
Author(s)
Michael Dunaway, Thomas Roth, Edward Griffor, David A. Wollman
This document provides a strategy and a project plan for the Global Community Technology Challenge, a federal smart cities program led by the Smart Connected Systems Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S

Assessing girth weld quality of pipeline steels and their susceptibility to hydrogen embrittlement

June 16, 2024
Author(s)
Zack Buck, Newell Moser, May Ling Martin, Nicholas Derimow, Damian Lauria, Enrico Lucon, Douglas Stalheim, Peter Bradley, Matthew Connolly
Hydrogen is known to cause premature failure in various steel infrastructures due to effects of embrittlement, which is particularly detrimental to ferritic steel structures such as pipelines and pressure vessels. Therefore, understanding the

Spherical harmonic reconstruction and preferred parameter research of 3D morphology of manufactured aggregate with different particle sizes

May 23, 2024
Author(s)
Edward Garboczi, Peng Gao, Juan Wu, Peiyun Qiu, Jingzhe Li, Hongjie Liu, Zhiwei Qian, Jiangziong Wei, Qijun Yu
The spherical harmonic (SH) series have been widely used in recent years to reconstruct three-dimensional (3D) particle shape for reducing the memory requirements of morphological data and facilitating the calculation of various particle shape parameters
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