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... The objectives ofthe workshop were to: define the objectives for infrastructure-based research that would use accelerated testing and computational simulations to determine life-cycle performance assess the state of the knowledge base to identify gaps and overlaps in research activities establish outcome-oriented metrics for setting research priorities identify promising lines of research and collaborations As a result of the discussions at the workshop and the committee's deliberations, the committee appointed by the NRC to conduct the workshop believes that NSF should develop mechanisms (~) to promote the materials-based issues associated with the life prediction and reliability of infrastructure in order to attract the interest of scientists at the forefront of the study of complexity in materials research and (2)
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... The government and professional organizations will play major roles in encouraging the acceptance of new materials.


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