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Engineering Laboratory

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NIST to Release Report and Recommendations from Investigation of World Trade Center Building 7

August 18, 2008

Gaithersburg, Md. -- The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold a media briefing and live public webcast on Aug

Three Experts Named to Earthquake Advisory Board

August 6, 2008

Three new experts have been tapped to serve on the Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction (ACEHR) of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction

Image of nanoparticle additives in lubricants

Cool! Nanoparticle Research Points to Energy Savings

July 22, 2008

Adding just the right dash of nanoparticles to standard mixes of lubricants and refrigerants could yield the equivalent of an energy-saving chill pill for

High Rise Fire Fighting—Effective Use of Positive Pressure Ventilation

June 24, 2008

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) engineers recently released a two-disk DVD set that demonstrates how Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV)

Tests Check Out Rescue Robots' Life-Saving Vision

June 10, 2008

To save lives, search and rescue robots crawling through the rubble of a collapsed building or surveying a chemical spill area must be capable of beaming back

Word/Logic Bank to Help Build 'Thinking' Machines

May 28, 2008

Information scientists announced an agreement last month on a "concept bank" programmers could use to build thinking machines that reason about complex problems

Comments Requested on Draft Earthquake Hazards Plan

April 15, 2008

Earthquakes cannot be prevented, but their impacts on life, property and the economy can and should be managed. That's the challenge that Congress has given the

Graph from the EtherNet/IP Performance Test Tool

Software Tackles Production Line Machine 'Cyclic Jitters'

April 1, 2008

Electronic commands passed from machine to machine over data networks increasingly drive today's precisely timed and sequenced manufacturing production lines

NIST Third Interoperability Week April 28-May 2

April 1, 2008

For manufacturing engineers and linguists "interoperability" and "ontology" go together like horse and carriage—"you can't have one without the other." The

Web Site Offers Easy Access to Life-Saving Fire Service Research

March 18, 2008

A new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Web site offers easy access to reports of NIST fire investigations, summaries of research projects

April Conferences Focus on Scanning Advances

March 18, 2008

Since the advent of the scanning electron microscope (SEM) in the 1930s, that instrument and its many and diverse descendents—including atomic force, scanning

High rise building with smoke coming out of upper windows. Two people in bucket trucks.

NIST Evaluates Firefighting Tactics In NYC High-Rise Test

March 18, 2008

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) fire protection engineers turned an abandoned New York City (NYC) brick high-rise into a seven-story fire

A NIST researcher adjusts a multi-gas analyzer which will measure carbon monoxide, oxygen, carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons concentrations produced by such a generator located, against safety advice, in a garage.

NIST to Study Hazards of Portable Gasoline-Powered Generators

March 5, 2008

The same gasoline-powered portable generators that keep the lights burning, the freezer cold, and the house warm when a storm shuts off the electricity, can

Energy Upgrades Pay Off for Taxpayers and Feds

March 5, 2008

Buildings account for 40 percent of the energy consumed within the United States and a similar percentage of carbon dioxide emissions. National Institute of

Failure Investigations Report Highlights Efforts for Safer Buildings

March 5, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has submitted to Congress the annual report of activities under the National Construction Safety Team

NIST Web Site Features Waldseemüller Map Video

March 5, 2008

Visitors to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Web site can view a video that portrays NIST's construction of an encasement for the1507

NIST Building Safety Efforts Mark Fifth Anniversary of R.I. Nightclub Fire

February 19, 2008

Five years ago on Feb. 20, 2003, pyrotechnics lit during a concert at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., started a rapidly spreading fire that caused

Workshop Offers U.S. Industry Access to International R&D Collaborations

February 5, 2008

Companies interested in participating in international advanced manufacturing research and development can learn about new collaboration opportunities offered

Urban search and rescue robot and its control unit sit atop one of the packing crates

'Nitty-Gritty' but Vital Data Helps Field Rescue Robots

February 5, 2008

A new ASTM International standard for urban search and rescue robots and components tackles humble logistics problems that, left unsolved, could hamper the use

NIST Helps Heat Pumps 'Go With the Flow' to Boost Output

January 23, 2008

Air-source heat pumps typically deliver 1 1/2 to three times more heating energy to a home than the electric energy they consume. This is possible because heat

NIST technician putting bolts into the map encasement

NIST Encasement Now Protecting 'America's Birth Certificate'

December 12, 2007

A hermetically sealed glass and aluminum encasement built by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will protect the first world map to label

Photo of the front of a truck cab that has been instrumented for NIST tests of collision warning systems.

NIST Measures Performance of Auto Crash Warning Systems

November 27, 2007

Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and tested a laser-based ranging system to assess the performance of

Elevators Seen as Playing Hi-Rise Fire Evacuation Role

October 25, 2007

"In case of fire use the stairs, not the elevator"—appears on signs posted in elevator lobbies throughout the United States. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001

NIST Official Testifies on Fire Research Program

October 11, 2007

On Oct. 2, 2007, S. Shyam Sunder, director of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), testified

Home Sprinklers Score 'A' in NIST Cost-Benefit Study

October 11, 2007

Sometimes life-saving technologies seem beyond the reach of the average person. If you put residential fire sprinklers in that category, think again. National

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