Between 1922 and 1940, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) conducted a long-term investigation into the corrosion of bare steel and iron, pipes buried underground at 47 sites representing different soil types in the United States. Following the passage of the 2004 Pipeline Safety Improvement Act, the Department of Transportation's Office of Pipeline Safety requested that NIST review and reanalyze the data from the NBS study using modern statistical analysis tools. For this analysis, NIST compiled an updated database from the data in the publications by K. H. Logan (i.e.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, as part of its report on the collapse of the World Trade Center, characterized many important steels recovered from the buildings to provide stress-strain models to analyze the impact, fires, and resulting collapse. Those tests represent a large additional data set that can be used for modeling the response of steel structures to fire.

NIST is developing metrics and test methods to benchmark the performance of robotic systems when performing manufacturing tasks. The ability to perform simple insertions is critical for robotic systems in manufacturing. A simple peg-in-hole test was designed to measure a robotic system's capability for performing these simple insertions. The dataset captures the performance metrics of a robotic system outfitted with a robotic hand and a robotic gripper to study the effect of next-generation robotic hand technology versus conventional parallel gripper technologies.

This software provides a framework to generate events with both application payload identification and timestamps. Events information is logged at each producer and consumer. The logs can be used to derive latency and reliability metrics for cyber-physical systems experiments in which wireless communication is used for messaging.

JARVIS (Joint Automated Repository for Various Integrated Simulations) is a repository designed to automate materials discovery using classical force-field, density functional theory, machine learning calculations and experiments.

The Force-field section of JARVIS (JARVIS-FF) consists of thousands of automated LAMMPS based force-field calculations on DFT geometries. Some of the properties included in JARVIS-FF are energetics, elastic constants, surface energies, defect formations energies and phonon frequencies of materials.

The Free Energy and Advanced Sampling Simulation Toolkit (FEASST) is a free, open-source, modular program to conduct molecular and particle-based simulations with flat-histogram Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics methods. It is a software written in C++ and python which is made publicly available to aid in reproducibility. It is also provided as a service to the scientific community in which there are few , if any, Monte Carlo programs that support flat histogram methods and advanced sampling algorithms. This software is expected to be updated frequently with new methods.

Source of the Refl1d program for modeling and analyzing neutron and X-ray reflectometry data, with the addition of distributed roughness capability.

Polymer Reference Interaction Site Model (PRISM) theory describes the equilibrium spatial-correlations of liquid-like polymer systems including melts, blends, solutions, block copolymers, ionomers, liquid crystal forming polymers and nanocomposites. Using PRISM theory, one can calculate thermodynamic (e.g., second virial coefficients, Flory-Huggins interaction parameters, potentials of mean force) and structural (eg., pair correlation functions, structure factors) information for these macromolecular materials.

A method was developed to reduce the point-based registration error by restoring the rigid body condition (RRBC method). Registration is the process of transforming one coordinate frame to another coordinate frame. The coordinate frame from which points are transformed is called the working frame and the coordinate frame to which points are transformed is called the destination frame. The RRBC method can be used to reduce the uncertainty of a hole location and thus, improve the success rate for insertion tasks.

In this study, a rail of a linear axis testbed was intentionally degraded to various levels, affecting the carriage motion, which can be deduced with either an inertial measurement unit (IMU) or a laser-based reference system. The rail was degraded over a 10-cm-long region. Thus, the two trucks that move on the rail interact with this region of the rail, changing the translational and angular error motions of the carriage. To mechanically simulate spalling, a handheld grinder was used to wear the surface of the raceway groove of the rail.