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The number concentration, ionization chamber output, and mass concentration were recorded continuously for five different test smokes generated in the fire...
Mini-mattresses of a size used for commercial display, were subjected to a pair of NIST-developed gas burners and the resulting heat release behavior was...
This report describes results obtained from a fire protection engineering analysis of an historic government office building located in Washington, DC. The...
William D. Davis, Walter W. Jones, David Holmberg, K A. Reed
This paper identifies building and building related information that would be useful to first responders (fire, police, EMS) and discusses examples of how the...
Walter W. Jones, Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke
CFAST is a zone model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It calculates the time evolving distribution...
It is possible to generate electrical energy from the motion of water due to ocean tides and waves. Oceans are a much more ubiquitous source of flowing water...
This report identifies and examines the important issues associated with a measurement and modeling program intended to evaluate how contaminants accidentally...
This manuscript contains the end-user documentation for the MatML Editor, an enabling technology intended to support widespread adoption of the language. The...
This manuscript contains the technical documentation for the MatML Editor, an enabling technology intended to support widespread adoption of the language. The...
This is the April 2005 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...
There are many types of sensor devices available in today s market with many still in development. These devices send signals representing the detection of...
Stephen J. Treado, S Cook, Banty Jain, Michael Galler
This report describes a typical implementation of a building access control system integrated with other portions of a building automation system, using some of...
The Fire Dynamics Simulation (FDS) research program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has produced software that simulates fire...
The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) version 3.0 software implements a rational, systematic technique for selecting environmentally...
A series of measurements and performance evaluations has been conducted in the Temperature Control Module (TCM) for three control system vendors in order to...
Mark E. Palmer, M Burns, T L. Teague, Mary Turton, Rurik Turton
The AEX XML Schema Reference Guide summarizes the design principles and the structures of the AEX (Automating Equipment Information eXchange) XML schemas...
This is the April 2004 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...
This is the April 2006 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...
The Advanced Technology Program (ATP) represents one of the principal efforts of the U.S. government to proactively foster technological innovation. The ATP...
This is the April 2003 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...
The tests reported herein were intended to gain information on how manufactured home shear walls perform under extreme loads. The specimens tested represent...
X Feng, Edward Garboczi, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Kenneth A. Snyder, Paul E. Stutzman, T Mason
This report summarizes a project that dealt with the characterization of a fly ash and fly-ash blended cement material, so that these could be incorporated into...
Innovations in residential construction have faced many barriers to adoption. One critical barrier is the absence of metrics that allow homeowners, home...
The Advanced Technology Program (ATP) is a federal science and technology program whose mission is to accelerate the development of innovative technologies for...
The problem of generating a generalized solution is further exasperated by the varying nature of reporting requirements placed by clients on the construction...