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Performance Evaluation of DARPA's Advanced Soldier Sensor Information Systems and Technology (ASSIST) Program

May 14, 2021

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff

Soldiers are often asked to perform missions that can last many hours and be under great stress. After a mission is complete, the soldiers are asked to provide

An EV Managed Charging Framework: Simplifying Managed Charging with Energy Service Contracts

March 29, 2021

Author(s)

David G. Holmberg

This document provides a business and technical approach to integrate and coordinate electric vehicle (EV) charging within distribution areas and across a

Cybersecurity Standards and Guidelines to Assist Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers

March 21, 2021

Author(s)

Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, Keith A. Stouffer

Cybersecurity standards and guidelines produced by NIST can assist small and medium-sized manufacturers to protect their operational technology from

A Study on Experimental Tests and Numerical Simulations of Boeing 747 Overhead Inaccessible-Area Fires

March 19, 2021

Author(s)

Haiqing Guo, Marcos Vanella, Richard Lyon, Randall J. McDermott, Sean Crowley, Paul Scrofani

Hidden fire in an aircraft overhead inaccessible-area is hazardous to in-flight safety and could lead to catastrophic disaster. In this case, fire detection at

Ignition Vulnerabilities of Combustibles around Houses to Firebrand Showers: Further Comparison of Experiments

March 6, 2021

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Wildland fires and wildland urban-interface (WUI) fires have become a significant problem in recent years. The mechanisms of home ignition in WUI fires are

Measuring the Impact of 16 CFR Part 1633 on Bed Fire Fatalities and Injuries in the United States

March 4, 2021

Author(s)

Stanley W. Gilbert, David Butry, Rick D. Davis, Richard Gann

QUANTIFYING SHAPE OF STAR-LIKE OBJECTS USING SHAPE CURVES AND A NEW COMPACTNESS MEASURE

March 3, 2021

Author(s)

Edward Garboczi, Gopal Mulukutla, Emese Hadnagy, Matthew Fearon

Shape is an important indicator of the physical and chemical behavior of natural and engineered particulate materials (e.g., sediment, sand, rock, volcanic ash)

TREC-COVID: Constructing a Pandemic Information Retrieval Test Collection

February 19, 2021

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees, Ian Soboroff, Tasmeer Alam, William Hersh, Kirk Roberts, Dina Demner-Fushman, Kyle Lo, Lucy L. Wang, Steven Bedrick

TREC-COVID is a community evaluation designed to build a test collection that captures the information needs of biomedical researchers using the scientific

Revision of the International System of Units (SI)

February 10, 2021

Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger, Peter J. Mohr

Rationally bounded in a storm of complex events: small businesses facing natural hazard resilience during a pandemic

January 14, 2021

Author(s)

Jennifer Helgeson, Juan F. Fung, Alfredo R. Roa Henriquez

High-level economic estimates of disaster events typically report upon direct losses and do not capture indirect and longer-term impacts. In turn, these

Determination of PAHs in combustion-related samples via multi-dimensional chromatographic methods.

December 1, 2020

Author(s)

Hugh V. Hayes, Walter B. Wilson, Lane C. Sander, Stephen A. Wise, Andres D. Campiglia

Complete normal-phase liquid chromatography (NPLC) retention behavior was investigated for 25 molecular mass (MM, g mol-1) 302 PAHs on an aminopropyl (NH2)

Community Resilience: A New Challenge to the Practice of Structural Engineering

November 2, 2020

Author(s)

Bruce Ellingwood, John W. van de Lindt, Therese P. McAllister

The certification of electrophoretic mobility/zeta potential of silica particles in aqueous solution: ERM-FD305/SRM 1992

October 27, 2020

Author(s)

Y. Ramaye, V. Kestens, J. Charoud-Got, S. Mazoua, G. Auclair, Tae Joon Cho, Blaza Toman, Vincent A. Hackley, T. Linsinger

This report describes the production of ERM-FD305/SRM 1992, silica nanoparticles suspended in a borate buffer, certified for electrophoretic mobility and zeta

The certification of electrophoretic mobility/zeta potential of silica particles in aqueous solution: ERM-FD306/SRM 1993

October 23, 2020

Author(s)

Yannic Ramaye, Vikram Kestens, J. Charoud-Got, S. Mazoua, G. Auclair, Tae Joon Cho, Blaza Toman, Vincent A. Hackley, T. Linsinger

This report describes the production of ERM-FD306/SRM 1993, silica nanoparticles suspended in a borate buffer, certified for electrophoretic mobility and zeta

Activities and Lessons Learned from ACI Committee 133 - Disaster Reconnaissance

September 13, 2020

Author(s)

Lucas A. Laughery, Aishwarya Y. Puranam, Christopher Segura, Anahid A. Behrouzi

ACI Committee 133 Disaster Reconnaissance was established with the mission of reporting on the effects of major disasters on reinforced concrete (RC) structures

Standards for 3D Imaging Systems for Manufacturing Applications

July 31, 2020

Author(s)

Geraldine S. Cheok, Kamel S. Saidi

Role of Accumulation for Ignition of Fuel Beds by Firebrands

July 10, 2020

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Large outdoor fires are one of the prominent fire problems in the world. Spot fires, caused by firebrands, are known as a key mechanism of rapid fire spread

Charpy Instrumented Test Suite and User's Manual

July 9, 2020

Author(s)

Damian Lauria, Enrico Lucon, Felipe Baldner

The NIST Instrumented Charpy Test Suite is a set of standalone programs intended to allow anyone with appropriate hardware to perform and analyze instrumented

Technology Development and Field Monitoring in nZEB

July 1, 2020

Author(s)

Vance (Wm.) Payne, Brian P. Dougherty

The International Energy Agency (IEA) Heat Pumping Technologies (HPT) Annex 49, "Design and Integration of Heat Pumps for Nearly Zero Energy Buildings," deals

Production Method for Machine-Readable Manufacturing Data Standards

June 19, 2020

Author(s)

Tim Shinbara, Russell Waddell, Moneer Helu

Standards to represent and manage manufacturing data are proliferating as industry rapidly digitizes. The existing global standards development paradigm for

Improved Video Capture for Severe Fire Environments

June 17, 2020

Author(s)

Matthew S. Hoehler

This short presentation shows the functional concept, Do It Yourself (DIY) construction details and select deployment examples for the current (May 2020) water

Status of IEEE RAS Standardization Efforts

June 10, 2020

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff

The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's (RAS) standards study and working groups are strong and growing stronger. As of the time of this publication, we have

Response Bias of Electrical Cable Coatings at Fire Conditions (REBECCA-FIRE)

June 9, 2020

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan, Edward J. Hnetkovsky, Scott D. Bareham, Michael J. Selepak, Morgan Bruns

This report contains results of a multi-year experimental program called REBECCA-FIRE (Response Bias of Electrical Cable Coatings at Fire Conditions). Volume 2