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

2019 Disaster Resilience Symposium

August 07, 2019 to August 08, 2019

The Engineering Laboratory at NIST, Gaithersburg, will be hosting its second annual symposium, August 7-8, 2019, featuring the Disaster Resilience Grant...

2020 Service Life Prediction Meeting

March 23, 2020 to March 27, 2020

Welcome to the website for the 2020 Service Life Prediction Meeting in Denver, CO March 23-27, 2020. Service Life Prediction of Polymers and related materials...

Publications

Comparison of Models for Heat Transfer in High-Density Fibrous Insulation

May 13, 2019

Author(s):

Sergio A. Carvajal, Edward J. Garboczi, Robert R. Zarr

This paper evaluates different models for calculating the effective thermal conductivity of fibrous insulation by comparing predicted values with certified...

Certification of SRM 2497: Standard Reference Concrete for Rheological Measurements

April 22, 2019

Author(s):

Nicos Martys, Max A. Peltz, William L. George, Blaza Toman, Edward J. Garboczi, Chiara Ferraris

Rotational rheometers are commonly used to determine the rheological properties of fluids such as viscosity and yield stress [Fer12]. Manufacturers generally...

Certification of Standard Reference Material® SRM2687a Portland Cement Clinker

March 20, 2019

Author(s):

Paul E. Stutzman, Nathanael A. Heckert

A new Standard Reference Material (SRM) for portland cement clinker has been produced for the Office of Standard Reference Materials at the National Institute...

Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) Online 2.0 Technical Manual

December 17, 2018

Author(s):

Joshua D. Kneifel, Anne L. Greig, Priya D. Lavappa, Brian J. Polidoro

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...

Water-to-Cement Distance Analysis Software

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) A menu-based system for computing the water-to-cement distance (proximity) function for user...

Internal Curing with Lightweight Aggregates

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) The American Concrete Institute in 2010 defined internal curing as "supplying water throughout a...

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

2019 Disaster Resilience Symposium

2020 Service Life Prediction Meeting

Publications

Comparison of Models for Heat Transfer in High-Density Fibrous Insulation

Certification of SRM 2497: Standard Reference Concrete for Rheological Measurements

Certification of Standard Reference Material® SRM2687a Portland Cement Clinker

Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) Online 2.0 Technical Manual

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

Water-to-Cement Distance Analysis Software

Internal Curing with Lightweight Aggregates

Tools & Instruments

Integrating Sphere-based Weathering Device

Large Aperture Scanner

Line Heat-Source Guarded Hot Plate