BFRL: High Performance Building Materials

BFRL Goal

High Performance Construction Materials and Systems

To enable scientific and technology-based innovation to modernize and enhance the performance of construction materials and systems.

The strategy to meet this goal includes the development of world-class science based tools – measurements, data, models, protocols, and reference standards – to

fully integrate and automate the construction process to achieve significant cycle time reductions;

predict and optimize the performance and minimize the environmental impact of concrete in the built environment;

predict the service life of high performance polymeric infrastructure materials; and

enhance the safety and performance of structures under extreme loads;

The desired outcomes are to enhance global competitiveness of U.S. industry and the safety and sustainability of the Nation’s buildings and physical infrastructure.

Component Programs:

SLP: Service Life Prediction of High Performance Polymeric Construction Materials

HYPERCON: Prediction and Optimization of Concrete Performance

CONSIAT: Construction Integration and Automation Technologies

Contact:

Materials and Construction Research Division
Jonathan Martin, Chief
301-975-6717
jonathan.martin@nist.gov

Autonomous steel beam docking using the NIST RoboCrane™.

A model concrete mixture, using real-shaped aggregates, being sheared computationally. The aggregate shapes were taken from x-ray computed tomography, reconstructed using spherical harmonic mathematical techniques, and incorporated into the DPD codes.

Last updated: 2/25/2008

The strategy to meet this goal includes the development of world-class science based tools – measurements, data, models, protocols, and reference standards – to fully integrate and automate the construction process to achieve significant cycle time reductions; predict and optimize the performance and minimize the environmental impact of concrete in the built environment; predict the service life of high performance polymeric infrastructure materials; and enhance the safety and performance of structures under extreme loads; The desired outcomes are to enhance global competitiveness of U.S. industry and the safety and sustainability of the Nation’s buildings and physical infrastructure. Component Programs: SLP: Service Life Prediction of High Performance Polymeric Construction Materials HYPERCON: Prediction and Optimization of Concrete Performance CONSIAT: Construction Integration and Automation Technologies Contact: Materials and Construction Research Division Jonathan Martin, Chief 301-975-6717 jonathan.martin@nist.gov
	Autonomous steel beam docking using the NIST RoboCrane™.


	A model concrete mixture, using real-shaped aggregates, being sheared computationally. The aggregate shapes were taken from x-ray computed tomography, reconstructed using spherical harmonic mathematical techniques, and incorporated into the DPD codes.