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A cross-platform comparison of dynamic material strength for tantalum

Flicker, Dawn; Prime, Michael; Gray, Gt; Chen, Shuh-Rong; Schraad, Mark; Dattelbaum, Dana; Fensin, Sayu; Preston, Dean; Buttler, W.; Sjue, Sky; Arsenlis, Tom; Park, Hye-Sook; Mcnabb, Dennis; Barton, Nathan; Remington, Bruce; Prisbey, Shon; Austin, Ryan; Swift, Damian; Foulk, James W.; Lane, James M.D.; Brown, Justin L.; Lim, Hojun; Battaile, Corbett C.; Mattsson, Thomas; Sun, Amy C.; Moore, Alexander

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TYPE Conference Poster YEAR 2017
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HedgeHOGS: A Rapid Nuclear Hedge Sizing and Analysis Tool

Reynolds, Adam F.; Steinfeldt, Bradley; Lafleur, Jarret M.; Hawley, Marilyn F.; Shannon, Lisa M.

The U.S. nuclear stockpile hedge is an inventory of non-deployed nuclear warheads and a force structure capable of deploying those warheads. Current guidance is to retain this hedge to mitigate the risk associated with the technical failure of any single warhead type or adverse geopolitical developments that could require augmentation of the force. The necessary size of the hedge depends on the composition of the nuclear stockpile and assumed constraints. Knowing the theoretical minimum hedge given certain constraints is useful when considering future weapons policy. HedgeHOGS, an Excel-based tool, was developed to enable rapid calculation of the minimum hedge size associated with varying active stockpile composition and hedging strategies.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2017
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Regional Test Center Operations Manual

Stein, Joshua; Burnham, Laurie; Jones, Christian B.

The U.S. DOE Regional Test Center for Solar Technologies program was established to validate photovoltaic (PV) technologies installed in a range of different climates. The program is funded by the Energy Department's SunShot Initiative. The initiative seeks to make solar energy cost competitive with other forms of electricity by the end of the decade. Sandia National Laboratory currently manages four different sites across the country. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory manages a fifth site in Colorado. The entire PV portfolio currently includes 20 industry partners and almost 500 kW of installed systems. The program follows a defined process that outlines tasks, milestones, agreements, and deliverables. The process is broken out into four main parts: 1) planning and design, 2) installation, 3) operations, and 4) decommissioning. This operations manual defines the various elements of each part.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2017
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Improving performance of CDCL SAT solvers by automated design of variable selection heuristics

2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2017 - Proceedings

Illetskova, Marketa; Bertels, Alex R.; Tuggle, Joshua M.; Harter, Adam; Richter, Samuel; Tauritz, Daniel; Mulder, Samuel A.; Bueno, Denis; Leger, Michelle A.; Siever, William M.

Many real-world engineering and science problems can be mapped to Boolean satisfiability problems (SAT). CDCL SAT solvers are among the most efficient solvers. Previous work showed that instances derived from a particular problem class exhibit a unique underlying structure which impacts the effectiveness of a solver's variable selection scheme. Thus, customizing the variable scoring heuristic of a solver to a particular problem class can significantly enhance the solver's performance; however, manually performing such customization is very labor intensive. This paper presents a system for automating the design of variable scoring heuristics for CDCL solvers, making it feasible to tailor solvers to arbitrary problem classes. Experimental results are provided demonstrating that this system, which evolves variable scoring heuristics using an asynchronous parallel hyper-heuristics approach employing genetic programming, has the potential to create more efficient solvers for particular problem classes.

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TYPE Conference Poster YEAR 2017
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Distribution Development for STORM Ingestion Input Parameters

Fulton, John

The Sandia-developed Transport of Radioactive Materials (STORM) code suite is used as part of the Radioisotope Power System Launch Safety (RPSLS) program to perform statistical modeling of the consequences due to release of radioactive material given a launch accident. As part of this modeling, STORM samples input parameters from probability distributions with some parameters treated as constants. This report described the work done to convert four of these constant inputs (Consumption Rate, Average Crop Yield, Cropland to Landuse Database Ratio, and Crop Uptake Factor) to sampled values. Consumption rate changed from a constant value of 557.68 kg / yr to a normal distribution with a mean of 102.96 kg / yr and a standard deviation of 2.65 kg / yr. Meanwhile, Average Crop Yield changed from a constant value of 3.783 kg edible / m 2 to a normal distribution with a mean of 3.23 kg edible / m 2 and a standard deviation of 0.442 kg edible / m 2 . The Cropland to Landuse Database ratio changed from a constant value of 0.0996 (9.96%) to a normal distribution with a mean value of 0.0312 (3.12%) and a standard deviation of 0.00292 (0.29%). Finally the crop uptake factor changed from a constant value of 6.37e-4 (Bq crop /kg)/(Bq soil /kg) to a lognormal distribution with a geometric mean value of 3.38e-4 (Bq crop /kg)/(Bq soil /kg) and a standard deviation value of 3.33 (Bq crop /kg)/(Bq soil /kg)

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Milestone Completion Report WBS 1.3.5.05 ECP/VTK-m FY17Q3 [MS-17/02] Faceted Surface Normals STDA05-3

Moreland, Kenneth D.

The FY17Q3 milestone of the ECP/VTK-m project includes the completion of a VTK-m filter that computes normal vectors for surfaces. Normal vectors are those that point perpendicular to the surface and are an important direction when rendering the surface. The implementation includes the parallel algorithm itself, a filter module to simplify integrating it into other software, and documentation in the VTK-m Users’ Guide. With the completion of this milestone, we are able to necessary information to rendering systems to provide appropriate shading of surfaces. This milestone also feeds into subsequent milestones that progressively improve the approximation of surface direction.

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Environmental Restoration Operations: Consolidated Quarterly Report January -March 2017

Cochran, John R.

This Environmental Restoration Operations (ER) Consolidated Quarterly Report (ER Quarterly Report) provides the status of ongoing corrective action activities being implemented at Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico (SNL/NM) during the January, February, and March 2017 quarterly reporting period. Table I-1 lists the Solid Waste Management Units (SWMUs) and Areas of Concern (AOCs) identified for corrective action at SNL/NM. Sections I.2.1 and I.2.2 summarize the work completed during this quarter. Section I.2.1 summarizes the quarterly activities at sites undergoing corrective action field activities. Field activities are conducted at the three groundwater AOCs (Burn Site Groundwater [BSG AOC], Technical Area [TA]-V Groundwater [TAVG AOC], and Tijeras Arroyo Groundwater [TAG AOC]). Section I.2.2 summarizes quarterly activities at sites where the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Hazardous Waste Bureau (HWB) issued a certificate of completion and the sites are in the corrective action complete (CAC) regulatory process. Currently, SWMUs 8 and 58, 68, 149, 154, and 502 are in the CAC regulatory process. Corrective action activities are deferred at the Long Sled Track (SWMU 83), the Gun Facilities (SWMU 84), and the Short Sled Track (SWMU 240) because these three sites are active mission facilities. These three active mission sites are located in TA-III. This Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico Environmental Restoration Operations (ER) Consolidated Quarterly Report (ER Quarterly Report) fulfills all quarterly reporting requirements set forth in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Facility Operating Permit and the Compliance Order on Consent.

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Integration of Dakota into the NEAMS Workbench

Swiler, Laura P.; Lefebvre, Robert A.; Langley, Brandon R.; Thompson, Adam B.

This report summarizes a NEAMS (Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation) project focused on integrating Dakota into the NEAMS Workbench. The NEAMS Workbench, developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is a new software framework that provides a graphical user interface, input file creation, parsing, validation, job execution, workflow management, and output processing for a variety of nuclear codes. Dakota is a tool developed at Sandia National Laboratories that provides a suite of uncertainty quantification and optimization algorithms. Providing Dakota within the NEAMS Workbench allows users of nuclear simulation codes to perform uncertainty and optimization studies on their nuclear codes from within a common, integrated environment. Details of the integration and parsing are provided, along with an example of Dakota running a sampling study on the fuels performance code, BISON, from within the NEAMS Workbench.

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HyMARC (Sandia) Annual Report

Allendorf, Mark; Stavila, Vitalie; Klebanoff, Leonard E.; Kolasinski, Robert; El Gabaly, Farid; Zhou, Xiaowang; White, James L.

The Sandia HyMARC team continued its development of new synthetic, modeling, and diagnostic tools that are providing new insights into all major classes of storage materials, ranging from relatively simple systems such as PdHx and MgH2, to exceptionally complex ones, such as the metal borohydrides, as well as materials thought to be very well-understood, such as Ti-doped NaAlH4. This unprecedented suite of capabilities, capable of probing all relevant length scales within storage materials, is already having a significant impact, as they are now being used by both Seedling projects and collaborators at other laboratories within HyMARC. We expect this impact to grow as new Seedling projects begin and through collaborations with other scientists outside HyMARC. In the coming year, Sandia efforts will focus on the highest impact problems, in coordination with the other HyMARC National Laboratory partners, to provide the foundational science necessary to accelerate the discovery of new hydrogen storage materials.

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