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Measurement Science for Service Life Prediction of Polymers Used in Photovoltaic Systems Project
Last Updated Date: 12/31/2012 Standards for quantitatively characterizing the performance and predicting the service lives of polymeric materials and components used in … more
Smart Firefighting Project
Last Updated Date: 12/31/2012 New opportunities to fuse emerging sensor and computing technologies with building control systems and firefighting equipment and apparatus are … more
Surface Damage of Polymer Nanocomposites Project
Last Updated Date: 12/31/2012 By 2014, this project will develop and implement measurement science to characterize, model, and predict surface damage and nanofiller release as … more
Early-Age Performance of Concrete Project
Last Updated Date: 12/31/2012 Successfully delivering the desired early-age performance of concrete, upon which long-term prediction of sustainable performance depends, … more
Reduced Ignition of Building Components in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fire problem is a structure ignition problem. To reduce the risk of structural ignition, the technical … more
WUI Fire Data Collection and Exposure Modeling Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is defined as a location where structures meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland. Since 2000 … more
WUI Building and Fire Codes and Standards Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 Within the Fire Risk Reduction in Communities Program at NIST, projects seek (through laboratory experiments, field measurements, and computer … more
High Temperature Performance of Fire Fighter Equipment Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 Current test methods and standards do not fully characterize the performance of fire fighter equipment in high temperature, rough duty … more
Enhanced Effectiveness of Fire Fighting Tactics Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 Firefighting is hazardous. In 2010, the fire departments in the United States responded to more than 480,000 [1] structure fires. These fires … more
Fire Research Grants and Cooperative Agreements Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 Fire Research Grants and Cooperative Agreements support extramural work to reduce the total burden of fire on the U.S. economy, which is estimated … more
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Transport Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 The capabilities of the NIST National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) will be extended to provide a test bed for performance evaluation of … more
Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in Low-Energy Buildings Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 NIST is developing tools and metrics to both reduce the building heating and cooling loads associated with ventilation and infiltration and to … more
Measurement Techniques for Advanced Insulation Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 The use of thermal insulation in building and equipment enclosures is a primary approach to reducing heating and cooling loads in buildings, which … more
Whole Building Energy Modeling and Measurements Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 Residential buildings use approximately 22% of the total energy consumed in the U.S. The objective of this project is to increase the energy … more
Performance Measurements of Photovoltaics and Distributed Generation Systems Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 Distributed generation, especially as provided by renewable sources like solar photovoltaics (PV), is required to achieve net-zero energy … more |
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