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 1, 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

2020 Service Life Prediction Meeting

Mon, Sep 14 - Fri, Sep 18 2020

NIST is closely monitoring guidance from Federal, State, and local health authorities on the outbreak of COVID-19. To

2020 NIST Disaster Resilience Symposium

Tue, Jul 28 - Wed, Jul 29 2020

The Engineering Laboratory at NIST, Gaithersburg, will be hosting its third annual symposium, July 28-29, 2020

Projects and Programs

Reduced Ignition and Flame Spread with Nano-Engineered Foam Project

This research will enable commercialization of a reduced flammability, inexpensive, and EHS[1] compliant polyurethane foam and a high smoldering reference foam

NIST Accelerated Weathering Laboratory: Metrology and Operations Project

Accurate prediction of the time to failure (service life) for polymeric materials is needed to support precise life cycle costs and sustainability assessments

Quantification of Material, Loading, and Modeling Uncertainties of Reinforced Concrete Column Components and Frame Systems 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

Sustainable Engineered Materials

To develop and deploy measurement science tools that enable the manufacturing, construction, and transportation industries to reliably assess the performance of

Publications

NIST-NPL Bilateral Comparison of Guarded-Hot-Plate Laboratories from 20 °C to 160 °C

January 3, 2020

Author(s)

Robert R. Zarr, Jiyu Wu, Hung-Kung Liu

A bilateral study to compare guarded-hot-plate measurements at extended temperatures be-tween laboratories at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) Online 2.1 Technical Manual

September 16, 2019

Author(s)

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

Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Commercial Database Technical Manual: Update

September 3, 2019

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear, Shannon A. Grubb, Anne L. Greig, Sangwon Suh

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

Software

Prediction of a Chloride Ion Penetration Profile for a Concrete

January 13, 2017

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 two

MicroChar

April 1, 2015

(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

CONCLIFE Software

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) WindowsTM-based software for estimating the service life of concrete pavements and bridge

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

2020 Service Life Prediction Meeting

2020 NIST Disaster Resilience Symposium

Projects and Programs

Reduced Ignition and Flame Spread with Nano-Engineered Foam Project

NIST Accelerated Weathering Laboratory: Metrology and Operations Project

Quantification of Material, Loading, and Modeling Uncertainties of Reinforced Concrete Column Components and Frame Systems under Seismic and Gravity Loads for Use in PBSE

Sustainable Engineered Materials

Publications

NIST-NPL Bilateral Comparison of Guarded-Hot-Plate Laboratories from 20 °C to 160 °C

Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) Online 2.1 Technical Manual

Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Commercial Database Technical Manual: Update

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

Software

Prediction of a Chloride Ion Penetration Profile for a Concrete

MicroChar

HCSSMODEL Software

CONCLIFE Software

Tools and Instruments

Integrating Sphere-based Weathering Device

Large Aperture Scanner

Line Heat-Source Guarded Hot Plate