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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Process Engineering Data STEP Application Protocol, Version 1.0

Author(s)
S W. Kline, Mark E. Palmer, J Fielding, M Gilbert, T Teague, D Witherall
This document specifies the scope and information requirements of the STEP application protocol (AP) for the exchange of process engineering data with a central...

Standard Test Methods and Data for Modeling Crashworthiness

Author(s)
Richard J. Fields, Timothy J. Foecke, Roland deWit, G E. Hicho, Lyle E. Levine
This report determines what data is typically needed for models predicting crash behavior, reviews the methods available to obtain such data, and identifies...

Process Specification Language: An Analysis of Existing Representations

Author(s)
Amy Knutilla, Craig I. Schlenoff, Steven R. Ray, Stephen T. Polyak, Austin Tate, S C. Cheah, Richard C. Anderson
The goal of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Process Specification Language (PSL) project is to investigate and arrive at a neutral...

Fracture Toughness Data for Brittle Materials

Author(s)
R G. Munro, Stephen W. Freiman, T L. Baker
Fracture toughness data, as represented by the critical stress intensity factor, K Ic, and the fracture energy, γ, have been compiled from publicly accessible...

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Tethered Chains

Author(s)
Raymond D. Mountain, Joseph B. Hubbard
A description is provided for a molecular dynamics code that simulates the dynamics of long chain molecules tethered to a smooth surface. The operation of the...

Aircraft Cargo Area Fire Detection (NISTIR 6146)

Author(s)
D Blake, J O'Sullivan, S Hammann, M L. Kolleck, Thomas Cleary
Overviews of fire deteciton in aircraft cargo areas were presented by David Blake of the Federal Aviation Administration, John O'Sullivan of British Airways...

Workspace Variation of a Hexapod Machine Tool

Author(s)
J Conti, C Clinton, Li Zhang, Albert J. Wavering
A method is presented to evaluate the workspace variation of a Stewart platform based machine tool. Three sets of constraints, covering strut lengths, platform...
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