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Technical Note (NIST TN)

On concrete spalling – BLEVE or no BLEVE

Author(s)
Jiann Yang
The BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion) hypothesis on fire-induced spalling of concrete was examined using the superheated liquid theory. Water...

An Instrumented Drop Tower for Impact and Stab Testing

Author(s)
Alexander Landauer, Ran Tao, Amanda Forster, Aaron Forster, Michael Riley
This report describes a 4 m instrumented drop tower (IDT) system in use at the National Institute Of Standards and Technology (NIST). Drop tower systems are a...

The Burning Character of 3 m to 7 m Douglas-Fir Trees with Varying Moisture Content

Author(s)
Giovanni Di Cristina Torres, Erik Johnsson, Eric Mueller, Matthew Bundy, Anthony Chakalis, Marco Fernandez, Artur Chernovsky, Aika Davis, Anthony Hamins
A series of experiments is reported on the burning behavior of 3.3 m to 7.4 m tall, Douglas-fir trees with the dry basis moisture content varying from 7 % to 55...

Formulating, Fitting and Fusing Fragility Functions (F5)

Author(s)
Mohammadamin Hariri Ardebili, Siamak Sattar
Fragility functions derived from nonlinear dynamic analysis are a central ingredient in seismic performance assessment and risk analysis of structural systems...

NIST Special Database 302: Annotated Latent Distal Phalanxes

Author(s)
Gregory Fiumara, Matthew Schwarz, Jessica Heising, Jennifer Peterson, Kenneth Ko, Patricia Flanagan, Karen Marshall
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Database 302 contains 10,000 latent impression distal phalanx images. This collection of data came...

NIST Special Database 303

Author(s)
Gregory Fiumara, Kenneth Ko, Kasey Wertheim
Thousands of latent impression distal phalanx images and associated exemplar fingerprint images were collected for a study of forensic fingerprint examiner's...
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