Current Focus

To be determined

Other Goals

Obtain buy-in to strategic plan by key stakeholders.

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Identify publicly available resources (commercial and academic); provide links and test cases.

• Best place for this might be our web site, or use existing NIST framework from NIST internal web site.

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Explore the possibility of developing a flow chart/web tool for best methods based on property, material and conditions.

• DIPPR has started this.
• Best to hire a post-doc at NIST to complete.
• Start with a list of properties and methods, then prioritize based on industrial need.
• This activity aligns well with the Challenge.
• Need to ask public for input!
• Dow has put together a straw man on this (recently published by Jim Olson et al.) and will share with team.
• Note that John O'Connell tried to set up a similar scheme for Eqn. of State methods about 4-5 years ago. We don't think that came to fruition but we assume that John would be interested in our proposal.
• Tool could be web-based and owned/administered by NIST.

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Develop a process to provide benchmark data for periodic Challenges.

Develop the appropriate work process before the next contest.

• ensure that the resources are available to perform testing
• ensure that the materials are available in sufficient purity
• ensure that the state points are experimentally accessible within reason
• ensure that the "answers" are not already in the open literature (if that is desired)
• ensure that the testing is completed in a timely fashion

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Offer a periodic challenge in some form to test methods and stimulate development of new methods.

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Develop a flow chart/web tool for best methods based on property, material and conditions.