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

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...

Designing an Accelerated Test Method to Determine the Design Life of Building Joint Sealant using the ASTM C1850 Procedure

August 15, 2018

Author(s):

Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston, Adam L. Pintar, James J. Filliben

Determination of Design Life in less than real time as eluded researchers for decades. Recently, ASTM has issued a new standard, ASTM C1850, that outlines a...

Implementing ASTM C1735 into Conventional Methods for Assessing Durability of Sealants

August 15, 2018

Author(s):

Christopher C. White, Kelly Allore, Larry Carbary

The recent introduction of ASTM C1735 allows a durability assessment of a sealant joint assembly without incurring destruction. Conventional testing of sealant...

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

August 13, 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...

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

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

Designing an Accelerated Test Method to Determine the Design Life of Building Joint Sealant using the ASTM C1850 Procedure

Implementing ASTM C1735 into Conventional Methods for Assessing Durability of Sealants

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

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

Integrating Sphere-based Weathering Device

Large Aperture Scanner

Line Heat-Source Guarded Hot Plate