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Assessment of Corrosion Education (2009)

The threat from the degradation of materials in the engineered products that drive our economy, keep our citizenry healthy, and keep us safe from terrorism and belligerent threats has been well documented over the years. And yet little effort...

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Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium (2009)

This book is the product of a congressionally mandated study to examine the feasibility of eliminating the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU2) in reactor fuel, reactor targets, and medical isotope production facilities. The book focuses...

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Review of the Bureau of Reclamation's Corrosion Prevention Standards for Ductile Iron Pipe (2009)

Ductile iron pipe (DIP) was introduced about 50 years ago as a more economical and better-performing product for water transmission and distribution. As with iron or steel pipes, DIP is subject to corrosion, the rate of which depends on the...

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Integrated Computational Materials Engineering: A Transformational Discipline for Improved Competitiveness and National Security (2008)

Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) is an emerging discipline that can accelerate materials development and unify design and manufacturing. Developing ICME is a grand challenge that could provide significant economic benefit. To...

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Managing Materials for a Twenty-first Century Military (2008)

Since 1939, the U.S. government, using the National Defense Stockpile (NDS), has been stockpiling critical strategic materials for national defense. The economic and national security environments, however, have changed significantly from the time...

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Proceedings of a Workshop on Materials State Awareness (2008)

In order to ensure effective military operations and continued warfighter safety, the functionality and integrity of the equipment used must also be ensured. For the past several years, the Nondestructive Evaluation Branch at the Air Force Research...

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A Path to the Next Generation of U.S. Banknotes: Keeping Them Real (2007)

The rapid pace at which digital printing is advancing is posing a very serious challenge to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of Printing (BEP). The BEP needs to stay ahead of the evolving counterfeiting threats to U.S. currency. To help...

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Proceedings of the Materials Forum 2007: Corrosion Education for the 21st Century (2007)

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The National Science Foundation's Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program: Looking Back, Moving Forward (2007)

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC) Impact Assessment Committee was convened by the National Research Council in response to an informal request from the National Science Foundation. Charged to examine the impact of the...

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Globalization of Materials R&D: Time for a National Strategy (2005)

Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) R&D is spreading globally at an accelerating rate. As a result, the relative U.S. position in a number of MSE subfields is in a state of flux. To understand better this trend and its implications for the U.S....

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