NCMRL Group Photo, AMPP 2026 Houston AMPP 2026 was another standout year for the National Corrosion and Materials Reliability Lab (NCMRL)! This year’s conference was practically in our own backyard at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, and NCMRL showed up in a big way. We brought an impressive 12 speakers to workshop ideas, share research, and present projects with peers from industry and academia. You could definitely spot us in the crowd thanks to our new maroon lab uniform...

Last week, our lab team headed out to the Texas A&M RELLIS Campus airstrip to kick off the first in a series of soil and pipeline corrosion surveys. The initiative supports model validation for both sacrificial and impressed current anode systems. Both are critical technologies that protect pipelines from corrosion and prevent costly infrastructure failures. Beyond the technical objectives, this project also serves as a valuable hands-on training opportunity. Several of our researchers...

Entrance to AMPP Expo Hall, Nashville TN. April 2025 This past week, students and staff with the National Materials Reliability and...