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Don’t set it and forget it — scan it and fix it with tech that detects wind blade damage

June 24, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Drones and crawling robots outfitted with special scanning technology could help wind blades stay in service longer, which may help lower the cost of wind energy at a time when blades are getting bigger, pricier and harder to transport, Sandia National Laboratories researchers say. As part of...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: autonomous inspections, drones, LIDAR, robots, wind blade, wind energy

Thwarting oil-pipeline corrosion by identifying a nanoscale villain

June 6, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Steel pipes rust and eventually fail. To preempt disasters, oil companies and others have created computer models to predict when replacement is needed. But if the models themselves go wrong, they can be modified only through experience, a costly problem if detection comes too late. Now, researchers...

Categories: Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Aramco Research Center, DOE Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, nanoscale corrosion, rust, steel

Sandia launches a bus into space

May 23, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories recently launched a bus into space. Not the kind with wheels that go round and round, but the kind of device that links electronic devices (a USB cable, short for “universal serial bus,” is one common example). The bus was among 16 total experiments...

Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: HOT SHOT, NNSA, Sandia National Laboratories, sounding rocket

Terrorist, timed scenarios challenge bomb squads at Sandia’s Robot Rodeo

May 13, 2019, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bomb squad teams from New Mexico and beyond are converging at Sandia National Laboratories for a five-day Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise where emergency preparedness skills will be put to the test. Twelve challenges for 10 military and civilian teams have been set up for the 13th...

Categories: Media advisories, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: bomb squads, explosives, Robot Rodeo, robotics, robots, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Labs, simulated, training

National security, science collaboration bolstered by new agreement

May 9, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico are joining forces to bolster national security and advance science and engineering with an agreement signed this week. “Once we have that umbrella in place, it opens the knowledge cache of both institutions — our scientific researchers collaborating...

Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: academic alliance, Atlas Detector, CERN, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, Gamma Irradiation Facility, Higgs boson, Ion Beam Laboratory, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, University of New Mexico, unm

High-speed experiments improve hypersonic flight predictions

May 2, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When traveling at five times the speed of sound or faster, the tiniest bit of turbulence is more than a bump in the road, said the Sandia National Laboratories aerospace engineer who for the first time characterized the vibrational effect of the pressure field beneath one of...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: hypersonic, large-scale testing, pressure, pressure-sensitive paint, Sandia National Laboratories, turbulence, vibration

Future hypersonics could be artificially intelligent

April 18, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A test launch for a hypersonic weapon — a long-range missile that flies a mile per second and faster — takes weeks of planning. So, while the U.S. and other states are racing to deploy hypersonic technologies, it remains uncertain how useful the systems will be against...

Categories: Computing, Conferences / Symposia, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: aerospace, autonomy, AutonomyNM, aviation, collaboration, hypersonics

Nanomaterials researcher wins mid-career research award

April 17, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Hongyou Fan is the sole recipient of this year’s Mid-Career Researcher Award from the Materials Research Society, the largest materials society in the United States. The distinction is given midway in a researcher’s career for exceptional achievements in materials research and for...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Hongyou Fan, Kaifu Bian, nanomaterials, Sandia National Laboratories

New device in Z machine measures power for nuclear fusion

April 10, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If you’re chasing the elusive goal of nuclear fusion and think you need a bigger reactor to do the job, you first might want to know precisely how much input energy emerging from the wall plug is making it to the heart of your machine. If somewhere...

Categories: Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Line VISAR, physics, Sandia National Laboratories

Mirage software automates design of optical metamaterials

March 27, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New software lets users design science-fiction-like materials with the same efficiency that architects draft building plans. Sandia National Laboratories has created the first inverse-design software for optical metamaterials — meaning users start by describing the result they want, and the software fills in the steps to get...

Categories: Computing, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: automation, metamaterials, optics, software

Sandia spiking tool improves artificially intelligent devices

February 27, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Whetstone, a software tool that sharpens the output of artificial neurons, has enabled neural computer networks to process information up to a hundred times more efficiently than the current industry standard, say the Sandia National Laboratories researchers who developed it. The aptly named software, which greatly reduces...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: artificial neurons, machine learning, neural algorithms, neuromorphic, spiking neural networks

Steve Verzi, William Severa, Brad Aimone, and Craig Vineyard hold different versions of emerging neuromorphic hardware platforms

700,000 submunitions demilitarized by Sandia-designed robotics system

February 21, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 700,000 Multiple Launch Rocket System submunitions have been demilitarized since the Army started using an automated nine-robot system conceptualized, built and programmed by Sandia National Laboratories engineers. “This is by far the most complex, automated robotic demilitarization system that Sandia has built in the last...

Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Army, automated system, automation, demilitarization, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, DoD, DOE, MLRS, Multiple Launch Rocket System, robot, robotics, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Labs

Three Sandia Labs researchers earn national honors in leadership and technology

February 11, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia National Laboratories researchers were honored at the BEYA (Black Engineer of the Year) STEM Global Competitiveness Conference for their leadership and technological achievements. Warren Davis, Quincy Johnson and Olivia Underwood received their awards during the conference in Washington, D.C., Feb. 7-9. The annual meeting recognizes...

Categories: Awards, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: BEYA, diversity, machine learning, product engineering, product realization

Deconstructing deleterious soot

February 7, 2019 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — In most situations, breaking things apart isn’t the best way to solve a problem. However, sometimes the opposite is true if you’re trying to characterize complex chemical compounds. That’s what Sandia National Laboratories scientists Nils Hansen and Scott Skeen did to definitively identify pollution-causing soot precursors in...

Categories: Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: diesel engines, PAHs, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Sandia National Laboratories, soot formation, soot particles

Modeling terrorist behavior with Sandia social-cultural assessments

January 24, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Part of what makes terrorists so frightening is their penchant for unpredictable, indiscriminate violence. One day they could attack a global financial center. And the next they could hit a neighborhood bike path. A team of Sandia social-behavioral scientists and computational modelers recently completed a two-year effort,...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: computer modeling and simulation, human behavior, human systems, modeling behavior

Second Act: Sandia retirees band together to help small businesses with tech challenges

January 22, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Retirement means different things to different people. To Mike Murphy it wasn’t about TV and golf, not after logging 40 years as an electrical engineer in the nuclear weapons program at Sandia National Laboratories. He wanted to put his experience to work. Murphy, who retired in 2009,...

Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Keshet, Keshet Dance, PanMuse, retired, retirees, small business, Technology Retirees Economic Catalysts, TREC

Quantum computing steps further ahead with new projects at Sandia

January 7, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Quantum computing is a term that periodically flashes across the media sky like heat lightning in the desert: brilliant, attention-getting and then vanishing from the public’s mind with no apparent aftereffects. Yet a multimillion dollar international effort to build quantum computers is hardly going away. And now,...

Categories: Computing, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: quantum algorithms, quantum computing, testbed

Sandia microneedles technique may mean quicker diagnoses of major illnesses

January 2, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When people are in the early stages of an undiagnosed disease, immediate tests that lead to treatment are the best first steps. But a blood draw — usually performed by a medical professional armed with an uncomfortably large needle — might not be quickest, least painful or...

Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: influenza, interstitial fluid, microneedles

Friendly electromagnetic pulse improves survival for electronics

December 6, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, emitted by a nuclear weapon exploded high above the United States could disable the electronic circuits of many devices vital to military defense and modern living. These could include complicated weapon systems as well as phones, laptops, credit cards and car computers....

Categories: Homeland security, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: electromagnetic pulse, EMP, nuclear explosion

Six Sandia researchers appointed fellows

November 26, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Six Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been appointed to the extraordinary positions of Sandia Fellows. The new appointees, from a wide variety of backgrounds, include the first female and first Hispanic fellows, Katherine Simonson and Gilbert Herrera, respectively. In announcing the fellows, Labs Director Steve Younger wrote...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: diversity, Sandia Fellows

CRADA enables resilient microgrid research between Sandia, Emera Technologies

November 15, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine a hurricane similar in magnitude to 2017’s Maria that pummels through islands and small communities, stripping out power lines and wreaking havoc on residents’ lives. Only imagine this time around there is a local power system that is more resilient and can withstand the storm, having...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, DC microgrids, Emera, Emera Technologies, microgrid design toolkit, microgrids, secure scalable microgrid testbed, virtual power plant

Astra supercomputer at Sandia Labs is fastest Arm-based machine on TOP500 list

November 13, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Astra, the world’s fastest Arm-based supercomputer according to the TOP500 list, has achieved a speed of 1.529 petaflops, placing it 203rd on a ranking of top computers announced at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis SC18 conference in Dallas. A petaflop is...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: ARM, arm-based supercomputing, Astra, supercomputer, supercomputing, Vanguard

Sandia engineer elected American Society of Mechanical Engineers fellow

November 8, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories engineer Larry Luna has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, marking significant achievements during more than 30 years of service and leadership. “I am pretty excited about it,” Luna said. “I think the fellow designation is a great honor...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME awards, Larry Luna, mechanical engineering, Sandia National Laboratories

Wind tunnel and lasers provide hypersonic proving ground at Sandia National Laboratories

November 7, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s about speed, and Sandia National Laboratories, with a hypersonic wind tunnel and advanced laser diagnostic technology, is in an excellent position to help U.S. defense agencies understand the physics associated with aircraft flying five times the speed of sound. With potential adversaries reporting successes in their...

Categories: Military / Defense, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: aerosciences, hypersonic, large-scale testing, Sandia, wind tunnel

Steven Beresh and Russell Spillers place a model in the hypersonic wind tunnel

‘Majority rules’ when looking for earthquakes, explosions

October 29, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A dormant volcano in Antarctica helped researchers at Sandia National Laboratories improve sensor data readings to better detect earthquakes and explosions and tune out everyday sounds such as traffic and footsteps. Finding the ideal settings for each sensor in a network to detect vibrations in the ground,...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

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