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On a brisk November morning in 2018, a fire sparked in a remote stretch of canyon in Butte County, California, a region nestled against the western slopes of
Engineers and technicians at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent months meticulously recreating the long concrete floors supported
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is awarding more than $6.6 million to fund research
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This study explores an instrumentation strategy using distributed fiber optic sensors to measure strain and temperature through the concrete volume in large
Ana Sauca, Rachel Chicchi, Chao Zhang, Lisa Y. Choe
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