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This document specifies the addition of ellipses, hyperbolas, parabolas, and b-splines to the AMRF Part Model Report Format. These reports are used throughout...
The report describes a computer model, EVSIM, of a refrigerant-to-air heat exchanger of the type used in residential air conditioning as an evaporator. The...
The Product Data Exchange Specification (PDES) is an emerging standard that is intended to address the problems of data exchange and representation for a...
The various activities of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the development of a Product Data Exchange Standard (PDES) will be...
Refrigerant 22 flow through short tube restrictors was investigated. The analysis pertained to initially subcooled refrigerant flowing through short tubes with...
The Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) is a unique engineering laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for...
This report is a basic guide to the use of the GMAP System Architecture as installed on the NIST AMRF VAX as part of the National PDES Testbed Project. An...
A procedure is presented for determining the cooling performance ratings of air-source unitary air conditioners and heat pumps consisting of a condensing unit...
The course of the fire is traced in terms of developing fire phenomena. Special emphasis is given to burning rate of building furnishings, smoke layer...
Calculation of the flow through a horizontal vent located in a ceiling or floor of a multi-room compartment is considered. It is assumed that the environments...
In December 1983 the International Organization for Standardization initiated Technical Committee 184 on Industrial Automation Systems. Subcommittee four was...
Past users of octrees have been for representation of static objects. We discuss extensions necessary to model dynamic surfaces. One particularly important...
This paper discusses enhancements made between September 1987 and December 1988 to the preparation software for the Vertical Workstation (VWS) of the Automated...
This paper discusses geometric methods pertaining to planar curves consisting of sequences, straight line segments and arcs of circles joined end to end to make...