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Projects/Programs

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Advanced Cements and Concretes Consortium

Concrete, the predominant construction material, is used globally due to its properties such as strength, workability, elasticity, and durability and materials availability. To reduce costs, increase local sourcing, and ensure supply chain security, new strategies are being developed including the

Advanced Manufacturing Data Infrastructure and Analytics Program

Ongoing
Objective The Advanced Manufacturing Data Infrastructure and Analytics (AMDIA) Program will develop and deploy measurement science to advance a data infrastructure that will improve the productivity, resiliency, and sustainability of manufacturing operations and supply chains to enhance U.S

Building Joint Sealant Service Life Prediction

Ongoing
The primary building sealant problem is that no method exists to provide high quality data for elucidating the relative importance of the k = 4 major weathering factors: X1: temperature, X2: humidity, X3: ultra-violet radiation, and X4: mechanical loading(and interactions) on the change in pre

Circular Economy Closed Loop Recovery

Ongoing
Objective To define critical material and information pathways to support the development of closed-loop systems to establish reliable sources of secondary material feedstocks that divert critical resources away from landfills using material recovery strategies - recycling, remanufacturing, and

Circular Economy Product Design and Digital Thread

Ongoing
Objective The objective of the Circular Economy Product Design project is to develop methods and standards to create products intentionally designed to minimize waste and maximize resource efficiency throughout their entire lifecycle, resulting in positive social and environmental impacts. Technical

Community Resilience Program

Ongoing
Objective - By 2028, deliver novel resilience planning and analysis methods and tools to support informed decision making by communities of all sizes. By 2028, implement multifaceted outreach, collaboration, and engagement to ensure the effective dissemination of community resilience guidance

Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things Program

Ongoing
Objective - Enable scalable, dependable design methods and reproducible performance measurement for effective and trustworthy (reliable, safe, secure, resilient and privacy-enhancing) cyber-physical systems and IoT, by means of new measurement science, advanced testing and assurance capabilities and

Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things for Smart Cities

Ongoing
Objective - To provide the measurement science and standards-based foundations for interoperable, replicable, scalable, and trustworthy cyber-physical systems that can be readily and cost-effectively deployed by cities and communities of all types and sizes to improve their efficiency

Design Methods for Resilient Community Systems

Completed
Objective - To advance design and assessment methods for buildings and infrastructure to improve their ability to support the social and economic functions they support and community resilience. What is the technical idea? Quantitative approaches to identify and evaluate the performance of the built

Development and Implementation of the Community Resilience Planning Guides

Ongoing
Objective - By 2028, publish updated community resilience planning and decision-making guidance documents that are supported by multi-objective resilience planning & analysis tools, based on collaboration and engagement with end-user communities, professional organizations, and government agencies

Industrial Artificial Intelligence Management and Metrology (IAIMM)

Ongoing
IAIMM has identified IAI systems for decision making, planning, and control in manufacturing as a prime candidate for better Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) centered on both use and evaluation. The specific use case of multi-stage manufacturing presents a broad scope of application to

Integrated Data Management for Materials Discovery

Ongoing
Learn more about the Thermodynamics Research Center (TRC); it's history, capabilities, and expanding role in chemical processing, experimental planning, and process design. TRC overview TRC's growth in becoming the nation's leading repository of thermodynamics data, along with evolving programing

Methods for Community Resilience Tradeoffs

Completed
Objective - To support community resilience planning in the context of multiple competing objectives, including sustainability, adaptation, and public health, by evaluating complementarities and tradeoffs. What is the technical idea? Communities face multiple competing objectives in planning

Metrics and Tools for Sustainable Buildings

Ongoing
Objective To develop and deploy transparent, open source standards-based data and tools that quantify the life-cycle cost and sustainability performance of building technologies and systems by 2027 through parallel activities focused on developing, releasing, and expanding capabilities and adoption

Modeling Dispersion Rheology for Non-Spherical Particles

Completed
The goal of this MGI project is to establish an interactive database, generated by sophisticated modeling, such as dissipative particle dynamics and smooth particle hydrodynamics, to compute the rheological properties of polymer composites, where interaction among inclusions, inclusion particle

Molecular Innovation in Agriculture

Ongoing
Plant science and breeding aim to develop new plant phenotypes with desired qualities, increased production, disease resistance, and traits that reduce water usage. At the federal level, plant research is conducted by the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Agricultural

Net-Zero Energy, High-Performance Buildings Program

Ongoing
Objective: To develop and deploy advances in measurement science to continue moving the nation toward net-zero energy, high-performance buildings while maintaining healthier and more resilient indoor environments. What is the problem? Buildings account for 40 % of the primary energy consumption, 74

NIST Accelerated Weathering Laboratory: Metrology and Operations Project

Ongoing
Objective - To maintain, improve and expand capabilities at the NIST Accelerated Weathering Laboratory (AWL) and to use the facility to conduct safe, accurate and traceable aging experiments. Enable the technology transfer of the SPHERE technology to industrial stakeholders. What is the new

Omics Technological Advances in Aquaculture

Ongoing
According to the NOAA Fisheries of the U.S. report, in 2020 U.S. seafood consumption was estimated at ~6B pounds (~2.7 x 109 kg). Of that, 85% is imported and U.S. exports have seen a significant decline. Globally, the U.S. ranked only 18th in aquaculture production (2020). NIST aims to enhance the

Open Access to Research (OAR)

Ongoing
Major Capabilities: Data Services and Tools: The OAR systems provide end-to-end workflow to deliver research outputs to the public. NIST Management of Institutional Data Assets (MIDAS) is a comprehensive application suite developed for orchestrating research data and code publication, data

Operations-driven Performance Measurement for Smart Manufacturing Systems

Ongoing
Objective: Develop and deploy standards, guidelines, and reference data for measuring the performance of manufacturing systems to inform the design and aid in analysis of factory improvements. Technical Idea: Manufacturers are adopting smart systems to drive gains in agility, productivity, quality

Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing

Ongoing
NEWS September 2021: NIST and Radtech have launched a Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance (PAMA) to advance strategic goals for research, sustainability, and regulation in PAM. PAMA is on a mission to make photopolymer additive manufacturing (PAM) more accessible and to increase the safe

Properties of Sustainable Fresh Concrete Project

Completed
Objective - Provide the industry with measurement science tools to predict whether a concrete can be pumped, with SRMs (Standard Reference Materials) to calibrate concrete rheometers and with tools for quality control in the field. What is the new technical idea? Fresh concrete is intended a