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Projects from Colorado

Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties Database (REFPROP)

The NIST REFPROP database provides the most accurate thermophysical property models for a variety of industrially important fluids and fluid mixtures, including

Cover of the ASME International Steam Tables for Industrial Use, Third Edition

Contributions to International Standards on the Properties of Water

Researchers in the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division play a leading role in the development of international standards for the properties of water. This

A stainless steel micro tensile specimen in a silicon frame.

Microsystems for Harsh Environment Testing

Our goal is to develop and demonstrate a MEMS-based methodology for evaluating time-dependent mechanical properties of materials that undergo exposure to

Planar absolute cryogenic radiometer with multiwall vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes. Superconducting transition-edge sensor. Fully-lithographic fabrication.

Photonic Radiometry

Accurate characterization of photonic equipment is important for optical communications, medical devices, semiconductor lithography, manufacturing and materials

Testing a multi-specimen chain in fatigue in pressurized hydrogen

Materials Testing in Hydrogen Gas

This project develops measurements, modeling, and science relevant to the effect of hydrogen on materials. Mechanical measurements focus on the fatigue and

Pipeline Safety

Our goal is to provide standard test methods and critical data to the pipeline industry to improve safety and reliability. Of particular interest is the testing

Nanotube Quality Control

Our goal is to develop new methods to rapidly screen bulk carbon nanotubes for chemical purity and homogeneity. The different synthesis routes used to produce

The SPMforAMP project develops novel SPM methods

Scanning Probe Microscopy for Advanced Materials and Processes

Local material-property information is essential to evaluate emerging micro- and nanoscale materials, which many manufacturers would like to leverage for their

Charpy Machine Verification Program

CERTIFIED LOW- AND HIGH-ENERGY CHARPY SPECIMENS AVAILABLE FOR TESTING AT 21 °C (70 °F) SRM 2092 AND 2096 (LOW-ENERGY AND HIGH-ENERGY, -40 °C) HAVE BEEN

Reliability Metrologies for Advanced Electronic Interconnects

This project, now concluded, developed methods to evaluate the reliability of thin films and interconnects in their as-manufactured states. Such tests are