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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Round Robin Study of Total Heat Flux Gauge Calibration at Fire Laboratories

October 1, 2004

Author(s)

William M. Pitts, A V. Murthy, J L. de Ris, J R. Filtz, K Nyard, D Smith, I Wetterlund

Total heat flux gauges are widely employed in fire research and fire testing laboratories. Several fire laboratories have developed systems for calibrating

CFAST--Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport, Technical Reference Guide (Version 5)

October 1, 2004

Author(s)

Walter W. Jones, Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke

CFAST is a zone model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It calculates the time evolving distribution

CFAST: Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 5). Technical Reference Guide.

October 1, 2004

Author(s)

Walter W. Jones, Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke

THIS REPORT (NIST SP 1030) SUPERCEEDS REPORT (NISTIR 7080) CFAST ia a two-zone fire model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure

Autonomy Levels for Unmanned Systems (ALFUS) Framework Volume I: Terminology Version 2.0

September 30, 2004

Author(s)

Hui-Min Huang

This document identifies and defines terms to support the system (UMS) community, particularly from the perspectives of characterizing the autonomy and

Electronic Authentication Guideline

September 27, 2004

Author(s)

William E. Burr, Donna F. Dodson, William T. Polk

[Superseded by SP 800-63 Ver. 1.0.2 (April 2006): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=918434] This recommendation provides technical

Drive Compatibility Test (Phase 2) for DVD-R(General) and DVD+R Discs, including DVD Creation Plan

September 15, 2004

Author(s)

Oliver T. Slattery

Phase 2 test procedure is designed to test the compatibility of DVD drives with DVD writable media including DVD-R (for general) and DVD+R. The test plan

Drive Compatibility Test (Phase 2) for DVD-R (General) and DVD+R Discs, Including DVD Creation Plan

September 1, 2004

Author(s)

Oliver T. Slattery

Phase 2 test procedure is designed to test the compatibility of DVD drives with DVD writable media including DVD-R (for general) and DVD+R. The test plan

Technical Digest, Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements 2004

September 1, 2004

Author(s)

Paul A. Williams, Gordon W. Day

This digest is made up of technical papers presented at the 13th biennial Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements (SOFM 2004)in Boulder, Colorado, September 28

User's Guide for Smokeview Version 4.0 - A Tool for Visualizing Fire Dynamics Simulation Data

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Glenn P. Forney, Kevin B. McGrattan

Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational fluid dynamics

Calibration Service for Low-level Pulsed-Laser Radiometers at 1.06 υm: Pulse Energy and Peak Power

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Rodney W. Leonhardt

This document describes the calibration service provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for peak-power or pulse-energy of low

Cook County Administration Building Fire, 69 West Washington, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 2003: Heat Release Rate Experiments and FDS Simulations

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

Daniel M. Madrzykowski, William D. Walton

On October 17, 2003, in the Cook County Administration Building, 69 West Washington, Chicago, Illinois, a fire resulted in six fatalities and several injuries

Fire Dynamics Simulator (Version 4) - User's Guide

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan

Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelof fire-driven fluid flow. The software described in this document solves numerically

Electronic Authentication Guideline

June 30, 2004

Author(s)

William E. Burr, Donna F. Dodson, William T. Polk

[Superseded by NIST SP 800-63 Ver. 1.0.1 (September 2004): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=151295] This recommendation provides

June 2004 Progress Report on the Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST SP 1000-5)

June 30, 2004

Author(s)

Sivaraj Shyam-Sunder, C Sawyer

Provides details of the technical progress made since the May 2003 progress report on the World Trade Center (WTC) Investigation. The report includes a

Gas Flowmeter Calibrations with the 34 L and 677 L PVTt Standards

June 23, 2004

Author(s)

John D. Wright, Aaron N. Johnson, Michael R. Moldover, Gina M. Kline

This document provides a description of the 34 L and 677 L pressure, volume, temperature, and time (PVTt) primary gas flow standards operated by the National

Environmentally Acceptable Flame Extinguishants

June 23, 2004

Author(s)

J D. Mather, R E. Tapscott

Engineering Principles for IT Security (A Baseline for Achieving Security), Revision A

June 21, 2004

Author(s)

G Stoneburner, Clark Hayden, Alexis Feringa

The Engineering Principles for Information Technology (IT) Security (EP-ITS) presents a list of system-level security principles to be considered in the design

Security Considerations in the Information System Development Life Cycle

June 16, 2004

Author(s)

Timothy Grance, Joan Hash, Marc Stevens

[Superseded by SP 800-64 Rev. 2 (October 2008): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=890097] The need to provide protection for federal

Guide for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security Categories (2 vols.)

June 10, 2004

Author(s)

William C. Barker, Annabelle Lee

[Superseded by SP 800-60 Rev. 1 (August 2008): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=152106] Title III of the E-Government Act, titled

Pore Characterization in Low-k Dielectric Films Using X-Ray Reflectivity: X-Ray Porosimetry

June 1, 2004

Author(s)

Christopher L. Soles, V. J. Lee, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu

X-ray porosimetry is developed as a technique for characterizing the pore structure in thin, low dielectric constant films supported on a silicon wafer. X-ray

NIST Measurement Services: Heat Flux Sensor Calibration

May 31, 2004

Author(s)

Benjamin K. Tsai, Charles E. Gibson, S. E. Nagler, D P. DeWitt, Robert D. Saunders

Guide for the Security Certification and Accreditation of Federal Information Systems

May 20, 2004

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Marianne M. Swanson, G Stoneburner, Stuart W. Katzke, L A. Johnson

[Superseded by SP 800-37 Rev. 1 (February 2010): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=904985] The purpose of this publication is to

NIST SP430, Household Weights and Measures

May 15, 2004

Author(s)

Kenneth S. Butcher

The purpose of this publication is to present, in a convenient form, the weights and measures tables most useful for household purposes, together with

Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: The CCM Mode for Authentication and Confidentiality [including updates through 7/20/2007]

May 12, 2004

Author(s)

Morris J. Dworkin

This Recommendation defines a mode of operation, called Counter with Cipher Block Chaining-Message Authentication Code (CCM), for a symmetric key block cipher

Improving the Usability and Accessibility of Voting Systems and Products

May 7, 2004

Author(s)

Sharon J. Laskowski, James H. Yen, Marguerite W. Autry, J Cuginin, William H. Killam

The goal of this report is to describe how research and best practices from the human factors, human-machine and human-computer interaction, and usability

Recommendation for the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA) Block Cipher

May 1, 2004

Author(s)

William C. Barker

[Superseded by SP 800-67 Rev. 1 (January 2012): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=910079] The selective application of technological

The Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference, TREC 2003

May 1, 2004

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees, Lori P. Buckland

Operation and Reference Manual for the NIST Automated Ac/dc Calibration Systems and Software

May 1, 2004

Author(s)

Thomas E. Lipe

This document provides a reference for the NIST automated systems for the determination of the ac-dc difference of thermal converters. It presents the structure

Improving the Usability and Accessibility of Voting Systems and Products

April 1, 2004

Author(s)

Sharon J. Laskowski, James H. Yen, M Autry, John V. Cugini, W Killam

In the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, Public Law 107-252, the Election Assistance Commission, in consultation with the National Institute of Standards

National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) Directory of Accredited Laboratories (2004 Edition)

February 27, 2004

Author(s)

Vanda R. White

The NVLAP Directory of Accredited Laboratories is published annually and provides a listing of laboratories accredited by the National Voluntary Laboratory