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Francine K. Amon, Nelson P. Bryner, Anthony P. Hamins
This workshop provided a forum to discuss the strategies, technologies, procedures, best practices, research and development that can significantly improve...
This is the collection of papers presented at the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, held at NIST on August 24, 25, and 26, 2004. This was...
This Recommendation specifies a message authentication code (MAC) algorithm based on a symmetric key block cipher. This block cipher-based MAC algorithm, called...
The Recommended Practice Guide describes nearly 200 standard measurement methods (standards) used by the surface engineering community. The standards compiled...
Jeffrey W. Gilman, Takashi Kashiwagi, A B. Morgan, Rick D. Davis, Richard H. Harris Jr., L D. Brassell
In 1997 NIST reported that polymer layered-silicate (clay) nanocomposites exhibit reduced flammability, in the form of reduced heat release rate (HRR). The...
This workshop on Coatings for Corrosion Protection: Offshore Oil and Gas Operation Facilities, Marine Pipelines, Ship Structures, and Port Facilities was held...
People face a variety of hazards in built environments. The emergency management field has developed various approaches applicable to building emergencies, and...
Understanding how strategies that protect building occupants can best be selected and effectively deployed is a critical task for a research agenda that tackles...
Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) refers to the transmission of speech across data-style networks. This form of transmission is conceptually superior to...
Joan Hash, N Bartol, H Rollins, W Robinson, J Abeles, S Batdorff
Traditionally, information technology (IT) security and capital planning and investment control (CPIC) processes have been performed independently by security...
P J. Disimile, J R. Tucker, B Croswell, John M. Davis
The current work is presented as part of an effort to develop a spray transport model that would be used within the computational fire code currently under...
Results are presented for a series of fire-suppression tests conducted in a full-scale nacelle along with the results of pretest predictions carried out using...
Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA) is a widely used measurement technique capable of non-intrusively measuring a droplet diameter and up to three components of its...
The current paper introduces a facility to be used for the investigation of fire suppressant transport and pool fire extinction in an environment similar to an...
CF3I has been considered to be a candidate replacement of CF3Br used in aircraft for fuel inerting and for fire fighting. In this study, the chemical effects of...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology hosted a two-day workshop focusing on needed research on occupant behavior and movement during building...
Hans P. Mumm, Maynard S. Dewey, Jeffrey S. Nico, Alan K. Thompson, A Garcia, J F. Wilkerson, S J. Freedman, B K. Fujikawa, T E. Chupp, R L. Cooper, C A. Trull, Fred E. Wietfeldt, G L. Jones