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...

Events

Disaster Resilience Symposium

August 14, 2018 to August 15, 2018

The Engineering Laboratory at NIST, Gaithersburg, will be hosting a symposium featuring the 2016 Disaster Resilience Grant Research Program recipients . 12 of...

Publications

Performance Testing of Hydraulic Cements: Measuring Sulfate Resistance

May 25, 2018

Author(s):

Chiara F. Ferraris, Paul E. Stutzman, Max A. Peltz

The sulfate resistance of cements used in the construction industry is traditionally assessed by measuring the expansion of a prism of 280 mm (11inch) length...

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 46h: Fineness of cement - Addition of Blaine and Particle Size Distribution

May 03, 2018

Author(s):

Chiara F. Ferraris, Max A. Peltz, Blaza Toman

The standard reference materials (SRM) for fineness of cement are SRM 114 and SRM 46h. They are an integral part of the calibration materials routinely used in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

HCSSMODEL Software

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) A package of computer programs for simulating the microstructure of a three-dimensional cubic...

Finite Element/Finite Difference Programs

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) The effective properties of composites have been studied analytically for a long time, back to...

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

Events

Disaster Resilience Symposium

Publications

Performance Testing of Hydraulic Cements: Measuring Sulfate Resistance

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 46h: Fineness of cement - Addition of Blaine and Particle Size Distribution

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?

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

Advanced Sensing Systems for Building Energy Monitoring

Measurement Science to Assure the Performance of Innovative Concretes

Software

Prediction of a Chloride Ion Penetration Profile for a Concrete

MicroChar

HCSSMODEL Software

Finite Element/Finite Difference Programs

Tools & Instruments

Large Aperture Scanner

Integrating Sphere-based Weathering Device

Line Heat-Source Guarded Hot Plate