This dataset contains raw mechanical data (strain, stress and strain rate curvesand initial temperatures) for compression experiments performed on aluminum alloy 6061-T6using the NIST pulse-heated Kolsky Bar at strain rates between 2400 1/s and 2700 1/s and initialtemperatures from 23 °C to 527 °C and heating times ranging between 0.2 s and 3.5 s. At this time,the thermal history of the specimen during heating is not included in the dataset but this informationmay be included in a future update.

This data set contains files included in the detailed instructional demonstration paper submitted to Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation. The detailed instructional demonstration paper includes documentation detailing how to configure and carry out a repeatable Rietveld Refinement with the software MAUD. The data set provides: diffraction data from two different neutron diffraction measurements, crystallographic information files, and configuration files for the refinement process.

The NIST scan framework is a framework that greatly simplifies the process of writing and maintaining scans of experimental parameters using the ARTIQ control system and language. The framework adopts the philosophy of convention over configuration where datasets are stored for analysis and plotting in a standard directory structure. The framework provides a number of useful features such as automatic calculation of statistics, fitting, validation of fits, and plotting that do not need to be performed by the user.

The library multicomplex is an implementation of multicomplex algebra in C++ to allow for higher-order derivatives of numerical functions. Many (though not all) mathematical functions are implemented, allowing for calculation of derivatives (straight and mixed) to approximately numerical precision, which is difficult or impossible to achieve in conventional double precision

The absolute laser absorption was measured simultaneously with X-ray imaging during laser melting of Ti-6Al-4V solid metal. The data included here are the time-resolved absolute absorbed power and the Xray images acquired at the same time, along with timing data for synchronization. Also included is information about the experimental configuration including applied laser power, laser beam spatial profile, and the experimental setup. A text document is included that describes all files.

Python module "optbayesexpt" uses optimal Bayesian experimental design methods to control measurement settings in order to efficiently determine model parameters. Given a parametric model - analogous to a fitting function - Bayesian inference uses each measurement "data point" to refine model parameters. Using this information, the software suggests measurement settings that are likely to efficiently reduce uncertainties. A TCP socket interface allows the software to be used from experimental control software written in other programming languages.

Materials discovery and development necessarily begins with the preparation and identification of product phase(s). Crystalline compounds can be identified by their characteristic diffraction patterns using X-rays, neutrons, and or electrons. An estimated 20,000 X-ray diffractometers and a comparable number of electron microscopes are used daily in materials research and development laboratories for this purpose.

SEDCORR is an open-source Python module designed to correct for the systematic energy deficits in atom probe mass spectra of electrically insulating samples. The assumption of the algorithm is that the mass spectrum for a dataset is conserved throughout the dataset and that any changes to the peak positions arise from an unknown slowly-fluctuating accelerating voltage. For computational speed, the unknown accelerating voltage is determined using a template matching FFT-based cross correlation method.

SCATMECH is a library of object-oriented C++ computer codes originally developed for disseminating models for polarized light scattering from surfaces and aerosols and for diffraction from gratings. The pySCATMECH package has been developed as an interface to the SCATMECH library, simplifying use of the codes and allowing for more rapid development of software for these applications.

Python module 'optbayesexpt' uses optimal Bayesian experimental design methods to control measurement settings in order to efficiently determine model parameters. Given an parametric model - analogous to a fitting function - Bayesian inference uses each measurement 'data point' to refine model parameters. Using this information, the software suggests measurement settings that are likely to efficiently reduce uncertainties. A TCP socket interface allows the software to be used from experimental control software written in other programming languages.