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Building and Fire Research Portal - OverviewThe mission of the building and fire research programs at NIST is to anticipate and meet the measurement science, standards, and technology needs of the U.S. building and fire safety industries in areas of critical national need. Strategic goals include net-zero energy high-performance buildings, advancing infrastructure delivery and improving construction productivity through information integration and automation technologies, sustainable infrastructure materials, innovative fire protection, and disaster-resilient structures and communities, which includes work on hurricanes, earthquakes, and fires. NIST has specific statutory responsibilities for fire prevention and control, earthquake hazards reduction, windstorm impact reduction, and building and fire safety investigations. More information may be available on the Engineering Laboratory homepage. Instruments
Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed
The Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed is comprised of three major components: Computer-Aided Technologies (CAx) Lab Manufacturing Lab … more
Integrating Sphere-based Weathering Device
In the artificial ultraviolet (UV) weathering of materials, a need exists for weathering devices that can uniformly illuminate test specimens with … more
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wildland-Urban Interface Fires
wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. NIST with US Forest Service (USFS) have invested in the development of instrument packages and measurement … more
Cone Calorimeter
In the late 1970s and early 1980s the fire community was pushing for reliable bench-scale tools to measure material flammability based on heat … more
Standard Firebrand Generator
This apparatus, developed at EL, has been constructed to generate a controlled and repeatable size and mass distribution of glowing firebrands. … more
Indoor Air Quality Test House
In order to enable studies of a range of indoor air quality and ventilation issues, EL maintains a highly instrumented three-bedroom test house. … more Software
SteelVis
SteelVis is a viewer for CIS/2 files and a translator from CIS/2 to IFC files. The CIMSteel Integration Standards (CIS/2) is the product model and … more
IFC File Analyzer
The IFC File Analyzer generates a spreadsheet or CSV files from an IFC file. IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) is the data exchange standard used … more
Software: EVAP-COND
EVAP-COND is a software package that contains NIST's simulation models for a finned-tube evaporator and condenser. The “tube-by-tube” modeling … more
Finite Element/Finite Difference Programs
(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) The effective properties of composites have been studied analytically for a long … more
Software: CFAST
The Consolidated Model of Fire and Smoke Transport, CFAST, is a computer program that fire investigators, safety officials, engineers, architects … more
Software: FDS and Smokeview
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The software solves numerically a form of … more |
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