Building materials

News and Updates

Steel-Reinforced Concrete Building with Severe Corrosion Damage

Move Over, Superman! NIST 'Spectral Fingerprinting' Sees Through Concrete to Detect Early Corrosion

April 26, 2017

When you suffer a fall, an on-the-field collision or some other traumatic blow, the first thing the doctor will do is...

Making Sure that Lumber Measures Up

March 01, 2017

For some, it is a shocking revelation. But most Americans eventually come to accept the fact that a “two by four” board...

Fort Collins, Colorado, Making Community Resilience a Reality Using NIST Guide

July 28, 2016

Guided in part by strategies and procedures developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for...

Colorado County Adopts NIST Community Resilience Guidelines

June 29, 2016

The Boulder County Collaborative, a partnership of Boulder County, Colorado, communities formed in response to the...

Publications

Grout-Concrete Interface Bond Performance: Effect of Interface Moisture on the Tensile Bond Strength and Grout Microstructure

March 08, 2018

Author(s):

Igor de la Varga, Jose Munoz, Dale P. Bentz, Paul E. Stutzman, Benjamin Graybeal

Bond between two cementitious materials is crucial in applications such as repairs, overlays, and connections of prefabricated bridge elements (PBEs), to name...

“Unexpected” frequency behavior in QCM-D: When can frequency increase with increased adhered mass?

February 23, 2018

Author(s):

Christopher C. White, Wiener Clinton, Robert A. Weiss, Vogt D. Bryan

For the qualitative interpretation of quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) data, a decrease in frequency is generally indicative of increased coupled mass to the...

A Kinetics Based Models for Environmentally Induced Sealant Degradation

February 13, 2018

Author(s):

Donald L. Hunston, Christopher C. White

Caulks and sealants are a critical part of any structure that is exposed to the environment. Although they are good materials, they eventually fail, and the...

Accelerated Testing: Challenges and Opportunities.

December 19, 2017

Author(s):

Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston

Materials exposed to outdoor weathering will change properties. Currently there are no test methods that result in predictions for those materials. This lack...

Projects & Programs

Quantification of Material, Loading, and Modeling Uncertainties of Reinforced Concrete Columns and Steel Beam-Columns under Seismic and Gravity Loads for Use in PBSE

Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) has provided a probabilistic framework to predict the response of the structural systems by incorporating the...

Seismic Performance of Wind Load-Controlled Steel Buildings in the Central and Eastern United States Project

This project will investigate the consequences of wind-controlled design on the seismic performance of steel buildings in the central and eastern United States...

Measurement Science to Assure the Performance of Innovative Concretes

The concrete industry has developed strategies for making innovative concrete, which is defined as a sustainable concrete that uses less resources for...

Advanced Sensing Systems for Building Energy Monitoring

Advances in sensing technologies through miniaturization of sensors, wireless communications, and the integration of sensors with microprocessing capabilities...

Software

Prediction of a Chloride Ion Penetration Profile for a Concrete

Prediction is based on a one-dimensional finite difference solution of Fick's second law of diffusion, with a variable external chloride concentration and a...

MicroChar

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) Accurate quantitative data on cement and clinker microstructure images can prove valuable for...

VCCTL Software

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) The Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory (VCCTL) software provides a virtual testing...

Stokes Three-Dimensional Permeability Solver

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) A set of C and Fortran computer programs have been developed for computing the permeability of...

Building materials

News and Updates

Move Over, Superman! NIST 'Spectral Fingerprinting' Sees Through Concrete to Detect Early Corrosion

Making Sure that Lumber Measures Up

Fort Collins, Colorado, Making Community Resilience a Reality Using NIST Guide

Colorado County Adopts NIST Community Resilience Guidelines

Publications

Grout-Concrete Interface Bond Performance: Effect of Interface Moisture on the Tensile Bond Strength and Grout Microstructure

“Unexpected” frequency behavior in QCM-D: When can frequency increase with increased adhered mass?

A Kinetics Based Models for Environmentally Induced Sealant Degradation

Accelerated Testing: Challenges and Opportunities.

Projects & Programs

Quantification of Material, Loading, and Modeling Uncertainties of Reinforced Concrete Columns and Steel Beam-Columns under Seismic and Gravity Loads for Use in PBSE

Seismic Performance of Wind Load-Controlled Steel Buildings in the Central and Eastern United States Project

Measurement Science to Assure the Performance of Innovative Concretes

Advanced Sensing Systems for Building Energy Monitoring

Software

Prediction of a Chloride Ion Penetration Profile for a Concrete

MicroChar

VCCTL Software

Stokes Three-Dimensional Permeability Solver

Tools & Instruments

Large Aperture Scanner

Integrating Sphere-based Weathering Device

Line Heat-Source Guarded Hot Plate