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The purpose of this research is to investigate how thermal comfort dynamics are impacted by energy-efficient or thermal comfort improvements in a low-load house
Mark White, Eric Holterman, Tim Bakker, Larry Maggiano
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing is currently constructing an open, standards-based flexible manufacturing cell. The manufacturing cell must
Francis M. Lavelle, Charles Goodhue, Douglas Lyons
The critical path method (CPM) is investigated as a tool for identifying recovery activities that control the timeline for restoration of key community
Achieving the vision of "smart manufacturing and "Industrie 4.0" requires building on successes in computational control of processes to create generic
Hyojin Kim, Khiem Nguyen, Anne McGuinness, Toan V. Dai
Despite broad recognition that air distribution plays an important role in comfort for residential buildings, previous efforts to evaluate and characterize the
Robert Pickering, Kathleen Onorevole, Rob Greenwood, Sarah Shadid
In August 2018, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WaterSense program, and the Water
Richard Kesler, Constandinos Mitsingas, Adam G. Quiat, Tonghun Lee, Daniel Madrzykowski, Gavin Horn
In todays structure fires, evolving fire loads and higher heat release rates mean that fires grow larger and faster than ever before. Firefighting personal
David D. Evans, Lavern R. Scott, William D. Walton
This report documents twenty-one structures that were ignited or significantly damaged by burning wildland vegetation in Virginia over a two-year period
Cryptography is a branch of applied mathematics concerned with developing complex algorithms for scrambling information ("plaintext") into an indecipherable
This report is a supplement to the paper published as "Transient Thermal Response of an Extended Temperature Range 500-mm diameter Guarded Hot-plate Apparatus"
This report is a supplement to the paper published as Transient Thermal Response of an Extended Temperature Range 500-mm diameter Guarded Hot-plate Apparatus
Nathan W. Hartman, Jesse Zahner, Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Allison Barnard Feeney
Industrial practice is in a state of transition, away from the use of drawings towards the use of annotated 3D CAD models as a means of communication. Working
Civil infrastructure systems play an important role in community resilience. Without proper functioning of the infrastructure, especially power delivery
Alexis Kwasinski, Royce Francis, Trainor Joseph, Cynthia Chen, Francis Lavelle
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is sponsoring the Community Resilience Assessment Methodology (CRAM) project. The CRAM project team is
David Urbina, Jairo Giraldo, Alvaro Cardenas, Junia Valente, Mustafa Faisal, Niles O. Tippenhauer, Justin Ruths, Rick Candell, Heinrik Sandberg
Monitoring the "physics" of control systems to detect attacks is a growing area of research. In its basic form a security monitor creates time-series models of
Kevin Fischer, Phil Rosche, Asa Trainer, Allison Barnard Feeney, Thomas D. Hedberg Jr.
To achieve industry's vision of the Model-Based Enterprise (MBE), the MBE strategy must include model-centric data interoperability for design to manufacturing
A methodology for measuring the product and manufacturing information (PMI) modeling capability of computer-aided design (CAD) systems has been developed to