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Energy Storage Test Pad (ESTP)
Facility • ESTP, in conjunction with the Energy Storage Analysis Laboratory (ESAL), provides long-term testing and validation for electrical energy storage systems. The goal of the ESTP is to develop advanced energy storage technologies that will increase reliability, performance, and competitiveness of electricity generation and transmission.
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Engineering Science
Page • REDESIGNED BRAINS FOR WARHEAD ONE-OF-A-KIND MATERIALS TESTING FACILITY NEW WEAPONS TESTING CAPABILITY The Engineering Science research area at Sandia leads engineering transitions in advanced, highly critical systems by integrating theory development, experimental discovery and diagnostics, modeling, and computational approaches to refine our understanding of complex behavior in engineered systems.  Why...

Ensure machine learning results are accurate
News Article, April 22, 2024 • Computational simulation, or CompSim, models are digital prototypes of something a researcher is interested in building or testing. These prototypes make it easier and faster for the researcher to design a product that accomplishes a specific goal without first having to build and test a long list of physical prototypes....

Exascale Earth System Model will harness the next level of supercomputer
News Article, October 12, 2022 • Sandia visualization experts are working with climate scientists to visualize complex simulation results from the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) as part of a DOE project sponsored by the Office of Science. The Sandia team has developed visualization workflows that incorporate DOE open-source visualization tools like ParaView with commercial...
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Explore capabilities in popular AI models
News Article, April 10, 2024 • With a couple thousand years and modern science, humanity now knows quite a bit more about human intelligence and the natural world. However, artificial intelligence has humanity once again asking, “What do we really know?” Read more about Capabilities in popular AI models
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Explosive Components Facility (ECF)
Facility • The ECF provides unique capabilities allowing staff to design, test, and prototype a wide variety of energetic components in support of Sandia's ND mission.
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Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Decision Support Tools
Page • X-ray Toolkit (XTK) X-ray Toolkit (XTK) is a software program developed by Sandia National Laboratories for the United States Government under funding from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Technical Support Working Group. XTK is a radiography planning, acquisition, processing, and analysis program designed specifically for explosive ordnance...

Explosive Technology Group (ETG)
Facility • ETG provides diverse technical expertise and an agile, integrated approach to solve complex challenges for all classes of energetic materials (EM) and explosive components.
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Fin-ion tunable transistor for ultra-low power computing 
News Article, June 7, 2023 • Work on this project revealed fundamental principles of electrochemical random access memory and established a viable path toward its integration with complementary metal-oxide semiconductor. Data-heavy workflows such as AI require in to increase system efficiency. Work on this memory computing, so this LDRD team focused on creating analog resistive nonvolatile...
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Future hypersonics could be artificially intelligent
News Article, April 22, 2024 • 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 urgent, mobile or...

Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF)
Facility • The GIF provides high-fidelity simulation of nuclear radiation environments for materials and component testing.
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Gamma Irradiation Facility and Low-Dose-Rate Irradiation Facility
Page • The Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF) provides high-fidelity simulation of nuclear radiation environments for materials and component testing. The GIF can produce a wide range of gamma radiation environments (from 10-3 to over 6.5 x 10^2 rad/second) using cobalt-60 sources and can irradiate objects as small as electronic components and as...

Gemini-Scout Mine Rescue Vehicle
Page • The Gemini-Scout Mine Rescue Robot was designed by Sandia robotics engineers to replace humans in the early stages of rescue planning and response during a mining accident. The robot can enter potentially dangerous situations ahead of rescuers to evaluate hazardous environments and help them determine how operations should proceed, even...

Geochemistry of Interfaces
Page • From surfaces to interlayers to clusters A geoscience project under Sandia's Energy, Climate, & Infrastructure Security mission area. Problem Molecular phenomena at the metal oxide-water interface control many geochemical and environmental processes critical to water quality and treatment, the fate and transport of contaminants, radionuclide isolation and waste forms, carbon...

Geomechanics Laboratory
Facility • The Geomechanics Laboratory enables researchers to measure rock properties under a wide range of simulated environmental conditions, including high-pressure and complex load paths
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Guided Bullet Technology
Page • Leveraging the capabilities of the High Consequence, Automation, & Robotics Precision Micro Assembly Lab, we have designed a self-guided .50 caliber projectile that utilizes a laser designated target and is configured to be fired from a small caliber, smooth bore gun barrel. Self-guided projectiles increase the probability of hit at...

Heavy Ion Backscattering Spectrometry (HIBS)
Page • Description of Technique: HIBS is used to detect ultra-trace levels of heavy impurities on the surface of a Si wafer. HIBS has advantages over TXRF, including: Improved sensitivity for most elementsQuantifying composition without standardsMeasurement on rough surfaces. HIBS is accomplished by focusing a 120 keV beam of C+ions onto a...

High Altitude Chamber
Page • High Altitude Chamber Technical Characteristics 27-foot diameter vacuum sphereSimulate altitudes up to 230,000 feetTest articles up to 1-ton weight and 60 inch diameterTesting centrifuge to 600 rpm15-20 minutes to reach maximum altitudeExplosive and pyrotechnic testingEjection, inflation, and free-fall testingRemote high-speed video capability

High Operating Temperature (HOT)
Facility • The HOT site researchers simulate conditions found deep underground to study the effects of heat on the drill rig hammer, and drill into various types of rock.
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High-Consequence Automation
Page • High Consequence, Automation, & Robotics specializes in the research, design, and development of automated systems for high-consequence tasks; tasks where a system failure can result in catastrophic consequences. These systems must be robust to a wide variety of failure modes and in the event of a failure, must fail-safely. In...

High-quality feedstocks address sustainability challenges associated with rising global demand for protein
News Article, January 23, 2023 • RuBisCO variants increase Methionine and Lysine content. (Graphic courtesy of Sandia Licensing and Technology Transfer.) Ryan Davis, a principal member of Sandia’s technical staff in Bioresource and Environmental Security, and his team developed a high-quality feedstock to address sustainability challenges to meet the growing global demand for protein. RuBisCO (Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate...
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Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Page • Technical Characteristics Blowdown to vacuumM = 5, 8, 14Re = 0.2 - 10 x 106/ftRun times: ~45 sec at 45 minute intervalsGases:air at Mach 5N2 at Mach 8 and 1418" diameter test section4" - 5" maximum diameter model sizeStagnation temperature to 2500°R Related Links Wind tunnel operation mapsOverview briefing of...

Hyperspectral Upper-Bound Spectrum
Page • Sandia Hyperspectral Upper-Bound Spectrum (Sandia Hyper-UBS) v 1.0 Download (Matlab Code) Sandia Hyper-UBS is designed to remove cosmic ray spikes from hyperspectral data sets. This software was based upon the UBS-DM algorithm by D.M. Zhang and D. Ben-Amotz.1 The UBS-DM-HS algorithm is designed to be more robust and is better...
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