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The room temperature elastic-plastic fracture toughness of additively manufactured (AM) Ti 6Al- 4V was characterized by means of Elastic Compliance (EC) tests
James R. Matey, George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother
The IRis EXchange (IREX) program at NIST employs best measurement practices to support the development, standardization, and interoperability of iris-based
Mixing rules are proposed and used to correlate well-mixed forest fuel bed fire spread data from the literature using the dimensionless correlations previously
The Beijing Institute of Metrology (BIM, China) and NIST have participated in an interlaboratory comparison, in which reference Charpy specimens of three energy
A web-based radiation code, OpenSC, is developed to provide an ease-of-use calculation tool to evaluate total emissivity and total absorptivity of a typical
Robert D. Horansky, Jason B. Coder, John M. Ladbury
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Defense Spectrum Organization (DSO) throughthe Spectrum Sharing Test and Development (SSTD) program proposed a
The purpose of this document is to provide instructions for using a newly developed TRNSYS component (Type277). Type277 enables the loosely-coupled integration
Firebrand showers have been identified as the primary mechanism of fire spread and cause of destruction in wildland-urban interface fires. The heat transfer
Dennis D. Leber, Leticia S. Pibida, Alexander L. Enders
Often, experimenters wish to confirm that a test artifact meets some predefined, fixed performance criterion or claim. For example: does the newly formulated
Jeffrey A. Marron, Avi M. Gopstein, Nadya Bartol, Larry Feldman
The Smart Grid Profile is an initial attempt to apply risk management strategies from the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
This study reports on the change in flammability of cotton fabrics caused by water-insoluble gel coatings applied from a single bath solution formulated with
The Slope Determination by the Analysis of Residuals (SDAR) algorithm has recently been standardized in ASTM E3076-18 for the determination of the slope in the
Steven J. Emmerich, Stephen M. Zimmerman, Steven J. Nabinger, Matthew J. Brookman
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is focused on addressing the hazard of acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning of consumers from portable
Steven J. Emmerich, Brian J. Polidoro, Matthew J. Brookman, Janet Buyer, Matthew Hnatov
This report was written by staff of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC, the
Lisa Ng, Stephen M. Zimmerman, Jeremy Good, Brian Tool, Steven Emmerich, Andrew Persily
Minimum outdoor air ventilation rates specified in standards such as ASHRAE Standard 62.2 are generally based on envelope airtightness, building floor area
For homes to become active participants in a smart grid, intelligent control algorithms are needed to facilitate autonomous interactions that take homeowner
Binary classification problems include such things as classifying email messages as spam or non-spam and screening for the presence of disease (which can be
Paul A. Reneke, Morgan Bruns, Stanley W. Gilbert, Chandler P. MacLaren, Richard D. Peacock, Thomas G. Cleary, David T. Butry
There are a variety of fire protection technologies that have the potential to improve life safety in residences including barrier fabrics for upholstered
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Smart Grid Program seeks to accelerate the development of conformity assessment or testing and
Shonali Nazare, William M. Pitts, Mauro Zammarano, John R. Shields, Elizabeth Knowlton, Benito De Leon
Cone calorimetric experiments have been conducted on bare flexible polyurethane foam (FPUF) samples as well as FPUF covered with a variety of fire-blocking
Semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) are ubiquitous indoors and associated with adverse health effects. y0 (the SVOC concentration in air close to the
Ryan L. Falkenstein-Smith, Kevin B. McGrattan, Blaza Toman, Marco G. Fernandez
This report documents the measurement of the wind resistance of different types of vegetation. The measurements are made in a wind tunnel with a 2.0 m test
Matthew S. Hoehler, Blanca Andres Valiente, Matthew F. Bundy
This report presents experimental investigations of the performance of cold-formed steel lateral force-resisting systems (CFS-LRFS) under combinations of
The Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL) has been designed and constructed to demonstrate the potential for distributed, intelligent software agents to
Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Michael A. Galler, Justin A. Sorra, Steven T. Bushby
ASHRAE Guideline 36 High Performance Sequences of Operation for HVAC Systems was developed to provide a reference set of high-performance control sequences for
State levels are a fundamental waveform parameter that are essential for the computation of most other waveform parameters. The histogram-mode method has been
Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Michael A. Galler, Steven T. Bushby, Robert Leader, J. M. Whitcomb, David W. Rush
This paper presents the use of a semi-automated commissioning tool for the energy retro-commissioning of the Performing Arts Center at Montgomery College in
Shuvo Bardhan, Douglas C. Montgomery, James J. Filliben, Nathanael A. Heckert
Externally-launched computer worms which maliciously propagate within networks are one of the most serious and dangerous security threats facing the commercial
David T. Butry, David H. Webb, Cheyney M. O'Fallon, Harvey Cutler
This report develops an approach to evaluate the direct and indirect impacts from wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires that result in the loss of functionality