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This annotated bibliography contains all of the completed studies of the ATP prepared by the staff of the Economic Assessment Office and its contractors.
The Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory (EEEL), working in concert with other NIST Laboratories, is providing measurement and other generic
On November 16, 1990, the United States Congress enacted the Fastener Quality Act (FQA), P.L. 101-592 (the Act). The Act was amended in 1996 by Section 11 of P
On November 16, 1990, the United States Congress enacted the Fastener Quality Act (FQA), P.L. 101-592 (the Act). The Act was amended in 1996 by Section 11 of P
On November 16, 1990, the United States Congress enacted the Fastener Quality Act (FQA), P.L. 101-592 (The Act). The Act was amended in 1996 by Section 11 of P
This report describes the World Trade organization (WTO) Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement) activities conducted by the National Institute
This manual has been prepared to show some of the theory behind, and the practical details for using, various finite element and finite difference computer
An induced draft, gas-fired furnance orignally designed for outdoor installation without a flue pipe was tested by the tracer gas method to determine its off
In responding to ASHRAE SPC 155P's interest and to provide additional evidence on the envisioned linear relationship between output and input of a boiler under
Face recognition is a K class problem, where K is the number of known individuals; and support vector machines (SVMs) are a binary classification method. By
The NIST Metallurgy Division has initiated a research program to investigate coatings produced by thermal spray techniques. The focus of this research is the
Increasing shop floor efficiency has always been a major concern of manufacturing companies. Scheduling applications have been successfully employed to create
This is the fifty-ninth issue of a quarterly publication providing information on the technical work of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
On September 23, 1998, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) co-hosted a summit
Recent work conducted in this laboratory has demonstrated the application of molecular modeling techniques to the design of flame retardants and fire resistant
Thomas R. Kramer, Frederick M. Proctor, William G. Rippey, Harry A. Scott
This report describes an interpreter which reads a file of numerical control code for a coordinate measuring machine (CMM), produces calls to a set of canonical
Jeffrey W. Gilman, Takashi Kashiwagi, Marc R. Nyden, James E. Brown, C L. Jackson, S M. Lomakin, E P. Giannelis, E Manias
In the pursuit of improved approaches to fire retarding polymers a wide variety of concerns must be addressed, in addition to the flammability issues. First
NIST is assisting the FAA in its research to improve fire detection in Class C and D aircraft cargo compartments. Class C and D compartments are inaccessible in
Tables are provided for the density, enthalpy, entropy, and volume of water and steam calculated from the IAPWS Formulation 1 995 for the Thermodynamic
For many thermoplastic materials exposed to a strong heat flux from above, a layer of bubbles forms in the melted region near the upper surface. The action of
William M. Pitts, E Braun, Richard D. Peacock, Henri E. Mitler, Erik L. Johnsson, Paul A. Reneke, L G. Blevins
Gas-phase temperature is the most ubiquitous measurement recorded in fire environments and plays a central role in understanding of fire behavior. Generally
One important goal of fire research is to study the formation and consumption of chemical species in and around a fire. Instruments which possess rapid temporal