An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Programs Fiscal Year 1994 (1994) / Chapter Skim
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6 Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
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Chapter 6 Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory \
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by its Chair, Harvey W Schaciler, this assessment of the fiscal year 1994 activities of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory is based on site visits by, ant!
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This mission complements the MSEL vision of being the central resource within the federal government in support of technology development in advanced materials and advanced processing of materials for application in the civilian economy, with the laboratory exercising leadership through coordinated participation with other federal laboratories, industrial laboratories, and universities in national materials technology programs. (Within this context, advanced materials are man-made materials designed to meet specific needs and are the most recent evolutionary developments within a materials class or an applications category.)
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Also assessed in this chapter are the activities of the Reactor Radiation Division, which includes the NIST research reactor and Cold Neutron Research Facility. The panel believes that this well-managed facility, with its attendant materials characterization instruments, is a national asset that makes critical contributions to NIST programs and the progress of U
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For near-term impact, the division is focusing its resources on ultrasonic characterization, micrometer-scale measurements, intelligent processing, and infrastructure materials. Resources The estimated 1994 budget for the Materials Reliability Division is $4.6 million, with $2.S million from STRS.
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The Materials Reliability Division should continue its strong cooperative research with other organizations. in intelligent processing, the division should place emphasis on automation procedures to start and stop weld process and on weld repair.
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The results agree and demonstrate that waveform signatures can improve source location by acoustic emission. Ceramics Division Mission The Ceramics Division provides measurement methods, standard reference materials (SRMs)
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endorses the Ceramics Division's strategy and encourages the division's strengthening of its ceramic powder forming, sintering, and microstructure programs. The division should continue to identify generic industrial needs in ceramic processing and property characterization and to focus its technical effort on solving problems thus identified.
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Far from being comprehensive, these selected examples are presented to provide evidence of the accomplishments of the Ceramics Division and emphasize its prominent status in ceramic processing and property characterization research. Recommendation The following .
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The pane! acknowledges the division's increased emphasis in, for example, the industrial partners' effort of ceramic powder characterization, the ceramic coatings thermal spray effort, and ceramic valves for diesels.
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and encourages initiation of programs supporting other industrial sectors. The role of the Polymers Division in the development of sensors and monitoring technology for the chemical industry has failed to reach the customer because there has been no input from sensor producers on design for manufacturablility, maintenance, or cost.
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The Polymers Division's role in this effort is important and its targets are aggressively chosen; the division appears to be pushing the envelope in technology for modeling and permeability measurements. The program could be accelerated if industrial partners carried out their experiments more quickly to provide data for model verification.
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The chemistry of compatibilization should be left to industrial partners and universities, who are dealing well with this aspect of polymer blends. A well-coordinated program with selected partners is encouraged, with the Polymers Division concentrating on polymer physics and associated measurements.
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. "The division should move away from the practice of listing in publications only those workshops that are initiated and led by the Polymers Division.
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for collaboration. It is a large-scale project involving a number of companies; NIST and Sandia National Laboratories provide the science base, and the industrial partners set the broad programmatic directions.
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The successful final phase of the powder processing study should be noted. With major milestones approaching completion and with the industrial partners expressing satisfaction, it is fair to say that MSEL's first major entry into the arena of intelligent processing of materials has been a success.
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The pane} recognizes and notes above the broader nature of spray forming and its growing impact. Reactor Radiation Division The following annual assessment of the activities of the Reactor Radiation Division (RRD)
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Resources The staff of the Reactor Radiation Division consists of 3 ~ scientific professionals (PhDs) , 13 professional engineers, 37 technical support staff, and ~ administrative and clerical staff(all given in FTE units)
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The subpane} encourages the RRD management to continue to search for innovative ways to support and express appreciation to the scientific staff performing this service function. Recommendations The following are the subpanel's recommendations for the Reactor Radiation Division.
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recommencis that RRD scientists take an active role in designing, constructing, and using instruments to be installed at the ANS, thereby strengthening both the national and NIST programs in neutron scattering. Reactor Radiation Division Responses to Fiscal Year 1993 Recommendations On the whole, the subpane!
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As the Cold Neutron Research Facility program continues to expand, the types of arrangements for accommodating the users have diversified, as have the procedures developed for access to the various RRD facilities. Proposal review procedures are in place, and plans for reorganizing RRD scientific staff responsibilities are under discussion.
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