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Hurricane Ian workshop #2 Report

May 6, 2026
Author(s)
Daniel Cox, David Roueche, Aaron Anton, Mehrshad Amini, Amina Meselhe, Donald Slinn
This report summarizes the second Hurricane Ian workshop, held on March 17 and 18, 2025, in Fort Myers, Florida. This second Ian workshop focused on the state of research for coastal surge and wave hazards and impacts on the built environment. Participants

Modeling of Hurricane Surge and Waves in the Built Environment: Hurricane Ian Workshop #3 Report

May 6, 2026
Author(s)
Daniel Cox, Mehrshad Amini, Keenan Hubbard, James Kaihatu, Andrew Kennedy, Erick Velasco-Reyes, Dylan Sanderson, Donald Slinn
This report summarizes the proceedings and outcomes of the third Hurricane Ian Workshop, held on September 5, 2025, in Alexandria, Virginia. The purpose of the workshop was to explore the state-of-the-art in numerical modeling of overland flow in the built

High-Performance Computing (HPC) Security Overlay

May 4, 2026
Author(s)
Yang Guo, Jeremy Licata, Jeff Neel, Gary Key, James Waterman, Ian Lee, Catherine Hinton, David Shrader, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Ted Bohrer, Katsutoshi Ishisoko, Kyle Earley, Aron Warren, Tony DeNardo, Ian Czarnezki, Erik Deumens
High-performance computing (HPC) systems provide fundamental computing infrastructure for large-scale and complex simulations, big data analysis, and the training of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models, all at exceptional speeds

Hurricane Ian Research Study Volume 1: Hurricane Ian Data Synthesis Workshop Report

February 17, 2026
Author(s)
James LaDue, Daniel Cox, Marc Levitan, Mershad Amini, Sebastiao Figueira
This report documents the results of the Hurricane Ian Data Synthesis Workshop, held on June 6, 2023, at the American Society of Civil Engineers headquarters in Reston, Virginia. The purpose of the workshop, which was conducted in collaboration between

NIST Workshop Report: Whole Community Preparedness in Smart Cities and Communities

November 28, 2025
Author(s)
William Dunaway, Cheyney O'Fallon, Wenqi Guo, Thomas Roth
In August 2024, the Smart Connected Systems Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a workshop entitled, "Whole Community Preparedness in Smart Cities and Communities." The purpose of the workshop was to determine

Feasibility Study of a Neutron-based Method for Field Measurement of Chloride in Concrete

September 30, 2025
Author(s)
Huaiyu Chen-Mayer, Shannon Hoogerheide, Aiysha Ashfaq, Jacob LaManna, Scott Jones, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly, Richard A. Livingston
Chloride in concrete is known to promote corrosion of the interior metal enforcement which leads to structural degradation. Chloride content monitoring is an important task for maintaining infrastructure integrity. The current industrial practice of

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
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