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Impacts of wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires continue to rise in the U.S., as evidenced by the string of devastating and record-breaking events occurring
This document serves as the documentation for the Fire Data Generator (FD-Gen), an automated tool designed to streamline the creation of multiple Fire Dynamics
The NIST Neutron Source (NNS) is the proposed reactor for ensuring continued future availability of neutrons for the United States' scientific needs. The NNS
Erik Johnsson, Giovanni Di Cristina Torres, Eric Mueller, Matthew Bundy, Anthony Chakalis, Marco Fernandez, Anthony Hamins
A series of experiments are reported on the burning behavior of dry, 3 m to 6 m tall, Douglas fir trees. The measurements were conducted in the open under quasi
This report presents a comprehensive update to the collection of dwellings used to represent the U.S. housing stock, reflecting changes and trends up to the
The Flexible Resource Controller (FRC) is a multiple-objective controller that manages residential heat pumps (HP), electric water heaters (DHW), electric
Executive Order (EO) 13717: Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard establishes minimum seismic requirements for new and existing buildings
Accurate flow measurements at the exhaust systems of large fire test facilities are critical for achieving accurate measurements of heat release rate. A
Abstract. A non-iterative direct blind deconvolution procedure, previously used successfully to sharpen Hubble Space Telescope imagery, is now found useful in
A set of approximate first-order ordinary differential equations was derived from the general dynamic equation (GDE) to study the aerosol dynamics with
This report documents a series of fire experiments performed within steel electrical enclosures and on open "ladder back" cable trays. The first objective is to
Andre Thompson, Andrew Maizel, Meghanne Tighe, Samuel Escobar Veras, Alix Rodowa, Bruce Benner, Audrey Tombaugh, Jessica Reiner, Michelle Donnelly, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, John Kucklick, Catherine Rimmer, Rick Davis
Firefighter turnout gear has been found to contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and is a potential source of PFAS exposure to firefighters
This paper considers the ill-posed data assimilation problem associated with hyper- bolic/parabolic systems describing 2D coupled sound and heat flow. Given
The NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) hosts the National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR), which has been operational since 1967. The NBSR is aging, and
This paper introduces a set of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) datasets collected at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Internet
Daniel Rhee, DongHun Yeo, Mehedy Mashnad, Brian Carman, Charys Clay
This NIST Technical Note presents the User's Manual for the DAD_PBD version 2.0 software, a user-friendly tool for the advanced structural design of dynamically
Kunhyuk Sung, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Matthew Bundy, Marco Fernandez, Anthony Hamins
A series of experiments are reported that characterize key features of the structure of eight medium-scale pool fires (0.3 m to 0. 4 m) burning a variety of
Peng Liu, Kyehwan Lee, Fernando Cintron, Simeon Wuthier, Bhadresh Savaliya, Douglas Montgomery, Richard Rouil
This documentation serves as a blueprint for new researchers, offering a comprehensive guide on establishing an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) testbed from
Algorithms based on gradient descent for computing the elastic shape registration of two simple surfaces in 3−dimensional space and therefore the elastic shape
Christina Gore, Sindhuja Lakshmipuram Ranganath, Joshua D. Kneifel, Dunsin Fadojutimi, Jennifer Helgeson
This report contains a review of relevant literature to battery electric vehicle adoption. The first section outlines key trends in battery electric vehicle
Ronald Lankone, Mauro Zammarano, Song Jhang, Ickchan Kim, David Goodwin, Gianluca Sarti, Stefano Gardi, Camillo Cardelli, Lipiin Sung
Vinyl siding has become a popular choice for residential exteriors across the United States. In its insulated form, this siding includes a shell, capstock, and
New smoke alarms that have passed the broiling hamburger nuisance test introduced in 2015 to ANSI/UL 217 Standard for Safety Smoke Alarms have reached the
Industrial wireless is crucial for the vision of increased intelligence in industrial automation and enhanced connectivity in various industrial scenarios
We report the results of the second Charpy Interlaboratory Comparison between NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, USA) and
In the U.S., commercial buildings are responsible for approximately 36 % of total energy consumption, and the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytic tool for measuring mass-to-charge ratios of molecules or molecular fragments. It is often used to identify and classify
The Middle-Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act created the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division at the National Institute of Standards and
Wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires are a threat to thousands of communities in the United States. Thousands of structures are destroyed, and thousands of