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William D. Walton, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., W H. Twilley, John Albers
A series of fire experiments were conducted in vacant single family dwellings on South Bristol Street in Santa Ana, California. Fire experiments were conducted
Geraldine S. Cheok, William C. Stone, S. D. Nakaki
A rational design procedure is presented to compute the probable moment, the nominal moment, and the story drift capacities of a hybrid precast moment-resisting
This paper addresses the subject of automated metrology (surveying) for use on construction sites. Specifically, the research is directed to the development of
In the absence of a-priori information about the environment, an autonomous mobile robot relies on sensory information to make local judgments about its
The laminar, single-phase heat transfer and friction characteristics of a porcupine-like surface (integral-spine-fin) within an annulus are presented. The heat
This report describes a static structural analysis of a rigid planar platform supported by elastic legs. The platform deformations are computed relative to a
During the 1996 CMSC conference, undoubtedly one of the hottest topics was how to achieve traceability for the laser tracker. This paper reviews the concepts of
This report documents a survey of standards relevant to the U.S. Fiber/Textile/Apparel (FTA) industry. The standards are discussed in four major groups
The NIST Manufacturing Systems Integration Division established the Engineering Design Technologies (EDT) Group to address the critical design needs of U.S
This report briefly introduces the LaTeX document preparation system and then the paper descibes the LaTeX software environment within the Manufacturing Systems
A standard neutral file format for facilitating apparel pattern data sharing among dissimilar CAD/CAM systems has been long awaited by the apparel industry
A wide range of applications deal with the manipulation and expression of collections of activities. Examples include project management, workflow management
The AutoSTEP Pilot Project, directed by the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), is an effort whose goal is to promote the use of STEP (STandard for the
This paper presents observations and recommendations regarding the organization of MSID''s (Manufacturing systems Integration Division) publicly accessible
This paper reports results of the Computer-Aided Manufacturing Engineering (CAME) Forum Second Technical Meeting held inAugust 1995. This meeting built on work
US. office buildings consume approximately 1.2 EJ (1.1 Quadrillion BTUS or Quads) of energy, 0.72 EJ (0.68 Quads) of which is associated with space heating
Broadening of image features due to non-vanishing tip size is a well-known imaging artifact in scanned probe microscopy (SPM) topographs. This need not be a
Pool boiling of R123 on four commercial enhanced surfaces was investigated both calorimetrically and visually. The four surfaces were: (1) Turbo-BII(TM) (2)