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Material Measurement LaboratoryApplied Chemicals and Materials Division

# Fatigue and Fracture Group

We provide metrology, standard reference materials, documentary standards support, property data, and predictive models to ensure materials reliability against fatigue and fracture. We specialize in structural applications (e.g., buildings, bridges, pipelines, and some medical devices).

The Structural Materials Group will become the Fatigue and Fracture Group in the spring of 2017. The Fatigue and Fracture group assists industry, government agencies, and universities in assessing material durability under extreme operational and environmental conditions and conducting failure analyses post-mortem. The effect of material processing on fatigue and fracture is also considered. Where test techniques do not already exist, new methods for performance characterization are developed to ensure that materials can be adequately tested under conditions as close to real-world as possible.

## News and Updates

### Spotlight: The Unfortunate Origin of a NIST Metal Toughness Program Still Going Strong

October 19, 2023

### Martin Organizes International Hydrogen Conference

August 22, 2023

### Spotlight: Putting Steel to the Test Under Cryogenic Temperatures

May 24, 2023

### Spotlight: Searching for 3D-Printed Titanium’s Breaking Point With Jake Benzing

May 24, 2023

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## Projects and Programs

### 3D Strain Mapping: Transmission Bragg Edge Strain Tensor Tomography (TBESTT)

### Additive Manufacturing Fatigue and Fracture

### Advanced Mechanical Characterization of Mesoscale Materials

### Cardiac Device Reliability

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## Publications

### New NIST Acquisition System for Reading Charpy Machine Encoders

November 13, 2023

Enrico  LuconJohn S.  QuintavalleDamian  Lauria

### Enhanced strength of additively manufactured Inconel 718 by means of a simplified heat treatment strategy

October 27, 2023

Jake  BenzingNicholas  DerimowOrion  KafkaNik  Hrabe

### A Study of Ductile Crack Corrections for Elastic-Plastic Fracture Toughness Tests

October 14, 2023

Enrico  Lucon

### Additive Manufacturing Benchmark 2022 Subcontinuum Mesoscale Tensile Challenge (CHAL-AMB2022-04-MeTT) and Summary of Predictions

September 11, 2023

Orion  KafkaJake  BenzingNewell  MoserLi-Anne  LiewJordan  WeaverNik  Hrabe

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## Awards

### 2023 - ASTM AM CoE Young Professional in Additive Manufacturing Award---Jake Benzing

### Nik Hrabe Honored by ASTM International

### 2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Damian S. Lauria, Peter E. Bradley, Matthew Connolly, Andrew Slifka

### MML Project Leader Enrico Lucon Receives ASTM International Award of Merit

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## Contacts

### Group Leader

                -  Andrew Slifka  andrew.slifka@nist.gov      (303) 497-3744   

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