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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Second Workshop on Wireless Sensing Proceedings

Author(s)
James D. Gilsinn, Kang B. Lee, Richard D. Schneeman, Hui-Min Huang
The second Workshop on Wireless Sensing was held on October 4, 2001, at the Sensors Expo & Conference at the Philadelphia Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA...

CONTAMW 2.0 User Manual

Author(s)
William S. Dols, George Walton
This manual describes the computer program CONTAMW version 2.0 developed by NIST. CONTAMW is a multizone indoor air quality and ventilation analysis program...

Fire Dynamics Simulator (Version 3): Users Guide (NISTIR 6748)

Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan, Glenn P. Forney, J E. Floyd, Simo A. Hostikka, Kuldeep R. Prasad
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The software described in this document solves...

Software Engineering for Intelligent Control Systems

Author(s)
Tony Barbera, Elena R. Messina, Hui-Min Huang, Craig I. Schlenoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky
Understanding how humans manage information and carry out actions provides a foundation for the software engineering of intelligent control systems. The Real...

A Glyph Toolbox for Immersive Scientific Visualization

Author(s)
H W. Bullen, J S. Chang, A V. Harn, Steven G. Satterfield, Peter M. Ketcham, J E. Devaney
We describe a set of software, the Glyph ToolBox (GTB), for creating three dimensional (3D) glyphs. This software defines a single, general format for...

Calibration Experiments of a Laser Scanner

Author(s)
Geraldine S. Cheok, Stefan D. Leigh, Andrew L. Rukhin
The potential applications of laser scanners or LADARs (Laser Detection and Ranging) are numerous, and they cross several sectors of the industry construction...

Baseline Measures for Improving Housing Durability

Author(s)
Robert E. Chapman, C A. Izzo
The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH), a program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, is a public/private partnership...

4D/RCS Version 2.0: A Reference Model Architecture for Unmanned Vehicle Systems

Author(s)
James S. Albus, Hui-Min Huang, Elena R. Messina, Karl Murphy, Maris Juberts, Alberto Lacaze, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Michael O. Shneier, Tsai H. Hong, Harry A. Scott, Frederick M. Proctor, William P. Shackleford, John L. Michaloski, Albert J. Wavering, Thomas Kramer, Nicholas Dagalakis, William G. Rippey, Keith A. Stouffer, Steven Legowik
The 4D/RCS architecture provides a reference model for military unmanned vehicles on how their software components should be identified, organized, and...

Failure Analysis of the WWVB Tower

Author(s)
Joseph D. McColskey, Christopher N. McCowan, Raymond L. Santoyo
A failure analysis was conducted on the collapse of the NIST WWVB tower. The analysis included mechanical testing, chemical analysis, and metallographic...

Fire Safety Research at NIST

Author(s)
Anthony P. Hamins
The Fire Research Division is one of four Divisions in the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Community-Scale Fire Spread

Author(s)
Ronald G. Rehm, Anthony P. Hamins, Howard R. Baum, Kevin B. McGrattan, D D. Evans
This paper addresses community-scale fires, which have also been called urban/wildland interface or intermix fires. These fires arise when wildlandfires invade...
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