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Technical Note (NIST TN)

CBRS Sharing Ecosystem Assessment (SEA) Sensor Data Manual

Author(s)
Aric Sanders, Anthony Romaniello, Daniel Kuester, Todd Schumann, Adam Wunderlich
The purpose of the National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test Network (NASCTN) Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) Sharing Ecosystem Assessment (SEA...

Wind-Driven Fire Spread to a Structure from Composite Fences

Author(s)
Kathryn Butler, Erik Johnsson, Marco Fernandez, Shonali Nazare, Alexander Maranghides
Field observations show that combustible landscaping features are a common pathway leading fire spread directly to homes during wildland-urban interface (WUI)...

Evaluation of Variations in Solution Annealing, Intercritical Annealing, and Aging Treatments on Cobalt-free Maraging Steels

Author(s)
Nicholas Derimow, Jake Benzing, Alec Saville, Cassidy Allen, Jordan Weaver, Nikolas Hrabe, Timothy Quinn, Timothy Weeks, Newell Moser, Chad Beamer, Christin Aumayr, Tilman Seifert, Michael Hirtler
This work is a compilation and summary of the quasi-static mechanical properties of a novel cobalt-free maraging steel, M789, that underwent a series of various...

Topological Initialization for Multidimensional Scaling

Author(s)
Melinda Kleczynski, Anthony Kearsley
Multidimensional scaling is a popular technique for visualizing dissimilarities between objects in complex datasets. For a single dataset, different initial...

Thermal Exposure of Objects Near Burning Electrical Enclosures

Author(s)
Kevin McGrattan, Isaac Leventon, Scott Bareham, Gabriel Taylor
This report documents a series of fire experiments performed within steel electrical enclosures and on open "ladder back" cable trays. The first objective is to...

Eave and Vent Experiments (EaVE) Phase A

Author(s)
Christopher Brown, Alexander Maranghides, Giovanni Di Cristina Torres, Diana Bailey, Lucy Fox, Eric Link, Selvarajah Ramesh, Monica Flores, Shonali Nazare, J. Houston Miller, Erin McCaughey
This report documents a series of full-scale fire experiments conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to characterize the...

MEMSDuino: An Arduino-Based MEMS Switch Controller

Author(s)
Lafe Spietz, Adam Sirois, Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Peter Hopkins, Samuel Benz, Steve Waltman
Radio frequency cryogenic switches are a critical enabling technology for quantum information science, both for calibration and high throughput testing of...

The Burning Characteristics of 3 m to 6 m Dry Douglas-Fir Trees

Author(s)
Erik Johnsson, Giovanni Di Cristina Torres, Eric Mueller, Matthew Bundy, Anthony Chakalis, Marco Fernandez, Anthony Hamins
A series of experiments are reported on the burning behavior of dry, 3 m to 6 m tall, Douglas fir trees. The measurements were conducted in the open under quasi...

Wind-Driven Fire Spread to a Structure from Landscape Timbers

Author(s)
Erik Johnsson, Kathryn Butler, Marco Fernandez, Wei Tang, Shonali Nazare, Philip Deardorff, Sebastian Arana, Alexander Maranghides
NIST is studying how combustible landscape features around a home burn to better understand their levels of hazard and potential roles in spreading wildland...

Guia Breve sobre la Incertidumbre de Medicion

Author(s)
Antonio Possolo, Maria Victoria Gelabert, David Hibbert, Jürgen Stohner, Olha Bodnar, Juris Meija
Esta Guía Breve reintroduce a los lectores en los principales conceptos y herramientas técnicas utilizadas para la evaluación y expresión de la incertidumbre de...

Pyrrhotite Reference Material Synthesis

Author(s)
Michael Mengason, Stephanie Watson
The mineral pyrrhotite was synthesized from iron and sulfur starting materials for one component in a four-component reference material (RM 8154-Pyrrhotite in...
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