Manufacturing Portal - OverviewProviding technical support to the nation's manufacturing industries as they strive to out-innovate and outperform the international competition has always been one of NIST's top priorities. Innovation and manufacturing work hand in hand. An innovation ecosystem has many interrelated elements—entrepreneurs, skilled workers, tax policies, to name a few. But without manufacturing, the economic magic of innovation is not nearly as potent and its benefits to the nation are not nearly as great. Programs and Projects
Marciniak Multiaxial Testing
A novel method for measuring multiaxial stress-strain curves in sheet metal has been designed based on a modified Marciniak punch stretching … more
Crystal Plasticity Modeling
Crystal Plasticity Modeling calculates multiaxial mechanical constitutive behavior by treating the sample as an interacting aggregate of single … more
Cruciform Multiaxial Mechanical Testing
The cruciform mechanical test is widely used to measure the multiaxial deformation behavior of materials. Standardization of this technique would … more
Crystallographic Databases
Components and devices used in a broad spectrum of technology sectors such as health care, communications, energy and electronics are manufactured … more
Ceramic Phase Equilibrium Data
Advanced ceramics and inorganic materials are critically enabling elements in devices and systems across many technology sectors, such as … more
Nanoscale Stress Measurements and Standards
Our objective is to develop accurate measurement methods for the nanoscale stress distributions and surface defects that control device … more Instruments
Aperture area measurement facility
NIST has established an absolute aperture area measurement facility for circular and near-circular apertures use in radiometric instruments. The … more
Advanced Manufacturing Test Bed
The NIST robot test bed is located in the NIST machine shops on the main campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It serves as a resource for research in … more Software
STEP File Analyzer
The STEP File Analyzer is a software tool that generates a spreadsheet from a STEP (ISO 10303 –STandard for Exchange of Product model … more
STEP Class Library (SCL)
The NIST STEP Class Library (SCL) is a set of C++ class libraries which are capable of representing information conforming to the EXPRESS (ISO … more
Exercise Control System
The Systems Integration Division's (SID) Manufacturing & Modeling Simulation Group (MSG) worked with San Francisco Communications to … more
DEXML
DEXML is a tool based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to aid in specifying and implementing data exchange specifications (known as DEXs) … more
Reeper
Reeper is a set of Ruby tools for manipulating ISO EXPRESS data models. The input to Reeper is the standard XML representation of the EXPRESS … more |
Selected Publications
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