Journal of Research (NIST JRES)

Comparison of Models for Heat Transfer in High-Density Fibrous Insulation

May 13, 2019

Author(s)

Sergio A. Carvajal, Edward Garboczi, Robert R. Zarr

This paper evaluates different models for calculating the effective thermal conductivity of fibrous insulation by comparing predicted values with certified

A Reference Schema for the Unit Manufacturing Process Information Model

May 7, 2019

Author(s)

William Bernstein, David Lechevalier

This document presents supporting documentation for a reference implementation of the Unit Manufacturing Process (UMP) information model presented in ASTM E3012

Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry (HDX-MS) Centroid Data Measured between 3.6 °C and 25.4 °C for the Fab Fragment of NISTmAb

May 2, 2019

Author(s)

Jeffrey W. Hudgens, Elyssia S. Gallagher, Ioannis L. Karageorgos, Kyle W. Anderson, Richard Y. Huang, Guodong Chen, George M. Bou-Assaf, Alfonso Espada, Michael J. Chalmers, Edu Harguindey, Hui-Min Zhang, Benjamin T. Walters, Jennifer Zhang, John Venable, Caitlin Steckler, In Hee Park, Ansgar Brock, Xiaojun Lu, Ratnesh Pandey, Arun Chandramohan, Ganesh Srinivasan Anand, Sasidhar N. Nirudodhi, Justin Sperry, Jason C. Rouse, James A. Carroll, Kasper D. Rand, Ulrike Leurs, David D. Weis, Mohammed A. Al-Naqshabandi, Daniel Deredge, Patrick Wintrode, Malvina Papanastasiou, John D. Lambris, Sheng Li, Sarah Urata

The spreadsheet file reported herein provides centroid data, descriptive of deuterium uptake, for the Fab Fragment of NISTmAb (PDB: 5K8A) reference material, as

Fatigue Testing of Pipeline Welds and Heat-Affected Zones in Pressurized Hydrogen Gas

April 26, 2019

Author(s)

Elizabeth S. Drexler, Andrew J. Slifka, Robert L. Amaro, Jeffrey W. Sowards, Matthew J. Connolly, May L. Martin, Damian S. Lauria

Several welds and associated heat-affected zones (HAZs) on two API X70 and two API X52 pipes were tested to determine the fatigue crack growth rate (FCGR) in

Apparatus for Characterizing Gas-Phase Chemical Precursor Delivery for Thin Film Deposition Processes

March 26, 2019

Author(s)

James E. Maslar, William A. Kimes, Brent A. Sperling

Thin film vapor deposition processes, e.g., chemical vapor deposition, are widely utilized in high volume manufacturing of electronic and optoelectronic devices

A Black-Box Non-Invasive Characterization Method for Industrial Wireless Networks

March 18, 2019

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, Kang B. Lee

Industrial control systems are increasingly using wireless communications to enable monitoring and control of processes that had once been economically

interlab: A Python module for analyzing interlaboratory comparison data

March 15, 2019

Author(s)

David A. Sheen

interlab was developed as a software tool to perform consensus analysis on spectral data from interlaboratory studies. It is designed to estimate the spread in

Viscosity Measurements of Three Base Oils and One Fully Formulated Lubricant and New Viscosity Correlations for the Calibration Liquid Squalane

February 13, 2019

Author(s)

Arno D. Laesecke, Clemens Junker, Damian S. Lauria

The viscosities of three pentaerythritol tetraalkanoate ester base oils and one fully formulated lubricant were measured with an oscillating piston viscometer

Design, Manufacturing, and Inspection Data for a Three-Component Assembly

February 12, 2019

Author(s)

Thomas D. Hedberg, Michael E. Sharp, Toby M. Maw, Mostafizur M. Rahman, Swati Jadhav, James J. Whicker, Allison Barnard Feeney, Moneer M. Helu

To better understand and address the challenges faced in linking all stages of a manufacturing and design process, an investigative fabrication process was

X-ray Metrology for the Semiconductor Industry Tutorial

February 1, 2019

Author(s)

Daniel F. Sunday, Wen-Li Wu, Scott Barton, Regis J. Kline

The semiconductor industry is in need of new, in-line dimensional metrology methods with higher spatial resolution for characterizing their next generation

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Standards for Microfluidics

January 28, 2019

Author(s)

Darwin R. Reyes-Hernandez, Henne van Heeren

In the last two decades, the microfluidics/lab-on-a-chip field has evolved from the concept of micro total analysis systems, where systems with integrated

A Model for the Binding of Fluorescently Labeled Anti-Human CD4 Monoclonal Antibodies to CD4 Receptors on Human Lymphocytes

December 14, 2018

Author(s)

Lili Wang, Adolfas Gaigalas, Paul C. DeRose

The CD4 glycoprotein is a component of the T cell receptor complex which plays an important role in the human immune response. This manuscript describes the

Industrial Wireless End-to-End Measurements and Impacts in a Gas Sensing Scenario

December 11, 2018

Author(s)

Mohamed T. Hany, Richard Candell

Industrial wireless becomes a potential networking solution in many scenarios due to its flexibility and ease of communications in harsh environments

Implementation of an Effective Bond Energy Formalism in the Multicomponent Calphad Approach

November 26, 2018

Author(s)

Nathalie Dupin, Ursula R. Kattner, Bo Sundman, Mauro Palumbo, Suzana G. Fries

Most models currently used for complex phases in the calculation of phase diagrams (Calphad) method are based on the compound energy formalism. The way this

Gain Calibration of Current-to-Voltage Converters

November 19, 2018

Author(s)

Thomas C. Larason, Carl C. Miller

Current-to-voltage converters are used in many photometric and radiometric applications. The calibration of current- to-voltage converters at a few input

A Model of a Wireless Factory Work-Cell Using the Systems Modeling Language

October 25, 2018

Author(s)

Richard Candell

Wireless technology is a key enabler of the vision of the future factory work-cell. Such a work-cell will operate autonomously with a high degree of mobility

Calibration Fluids and Calibration Equations: How Choices May Affect the Results of Density Measurements Made with U-Tube Densimeters

October 9, 2018

Author(s)

Stephanie L. Outcalt

Data on the calibration fluids water and toluene individually, and the combination of those two sets of data, were correlated with two different equations

Effect of Charpy Striker Configuration on Low- and High-Energy NIST Verification Specimens

September 12, 2018

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon, Jolene D. Splett

Charpy machines can be equipped with strikers having two different configurations, corresponding to an edge radius of 2 mm or 8 mm. Both striker types are

A Normalized Congruent Matching Area Method for the Correlation of Breech Face Impression Images

August 6, 2018

Author(s)

Zhe Chen, Jun-Feng Song, Wei Chu, Mingsi Tong, Xuezeng Zhao

The congruent matching cells (CMC) method was invented at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for firearm evidence identification and

Software to Determine Sphere Center from Terrestrial Laser Scanner Data per ASTM Standard E3125- 17

July 12, 2018

Author(s)

Prem K. Rachakonda, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Daniel S. Sawyer, Luc Cournoyer

Terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) are instruments that can measure 3D coordinates of objects at high speed using a laser, resulting in high density 3D point

Dispersion and Burning Behavior of Hydrogen Released in a Full-Scale Residential Garage in the Presence and Absence of Conventional Automobiles - Supplemental Video Materials

July 11, 2018

Author(s)

William M. Pitts, Jiann C. Yang, Kuldeep Prasad, Marco G. Fernandez

The supplemental materials reported here provide standard high-definition (HD), high-speed, and infrared videos of 13 full-scale hydrogen dispersion and burning

Realizations of the Triple Point of Sulfur Hexafluoride in Transportable-Refillable Cells

July 1, 2018

Author(s)

Weston L. Tew

The Minamata Convention on Mercury has created a near-term need to develop alternative fixed points to replace the mercury triple point (Hg TP) for calibration

Concept to Commercialization of an Artifact for Evaluating 3D Imaging Systems per the ASTM E3125- 17

June 29, 2018

Author(s)

Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Prem K. Rachakonda, Vincent D. Lee, Katharine M. Shilling, Daniel S. Sawyer, Geraldine S. Cheok, Luc Cournoyer, Joe Gleason

The newly released ASTM E3125-17 standard describes several point-to-point distance tests to evaluate the performance of spherical coordinate 3D imaging systems

Measurements of scatter peaks in 137Cs and 60Co sources

June 28, 2018

Author(s)

Leticia S. Pibida

The results of the testing of radiation detection instruments with radionuclide identification capabilities will depended on the sources used for the tests

Baseline Tailor

June 26, 2018

Author(s)

Joshua Lubell

Baseline Tailor is an innovative web application for users of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework and Special

Correlation of Neutron-Based Strain Imaging and Mechanical Behavior of Armor Steel Welds Produced with the Hybrid Laser Arc Welding Process

June 11, 2018

Author(s)

Jeffrey W. Sowards, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Stan Ream, Paul A. Williams

Bragg edge neutron transmission imaging was used to characterize the spatial distribution of thermally induced residual strains in a steel armor plate welded

Performance Testing of Hydraulic Cements: Measuring Sulfate Resistance

May 25, 2018

Author(s)

Chiara F. Ferraris, Paul E. Stutzman, Max A. Peltz

The sulfate resistance of cements used in the construction industry is traditionally assessed by measuring the expansion of a prism of 280 mm (11inch) length

A Software Assurance Reference Dataset: Thousands of Programs With Known Bugs

April 16, 2018

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

The Software Assurance Reference Dataset (SARD) is a growing collection of over 170 000 programs with precisely located bugs. The programs are in C, C++, Java

FEASST: Free Energy and Advanced Sampling Simulation Toolkit

March 1, 2018

Author(s)

Harold W. Hatch, Nathan Mahynski, Vincent K. Shen

The Free Energy and Advanced Sampling Simulation Toolkit (FEASST) is a free, open-source, modular program to conduct molecular and particle-based simulations

NISTfit: A natively multithreaded C++11 framework for model development

February 12, 2018

Author(s)

Ian H. Bell, Matthias Kunick

The current trend in computer architecture is for increasingly parallel computation while the clock frequency stagnates. The increase in computing speed is