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

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

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

Progress and Challenges in Quantifying and Evaluating Building Sustainability

November 15, 2018

Author(s):

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear

Reference Materials and Proficiency Testing for Validating X-Ray Powder Diffraction Measurements of Cement Composition

September 11, 2018

Author(s):

Paul E. Stutzman

Validation of quantitative X-ray powder diffraction measurements traditionally involved compounding test mixtures of known phase compositions. Validation is...

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...

CONCLIFE Software

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

SULFATE2 Software

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) SULFATE2 is user-friendly software for computing the resistance of concrete to sulfate attack...

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

Publications

Certification of Standard Reference Material® SRM2687a Portland Cement Clinker

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

Progress and Challenges in Quantifying and Evaluating Building Sustainability

Reference Materials and Proficiency Testing for Validating X-Ray Powder Diffraction Measurements of Cement Composition

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

CONCLIFE Software

SULFATE2 Software

Tools & Instruments

Integrating Sphere-based Weathering Device

Large Aperture Scanner

Line Heat-Source Guarded Hot Plate