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Technical Note (NIST TN)

Users Guide to the NIST Data Alignment Tool V1.0

September 4, 2018

Author(s)

Michael A. Galler

The Data Alignment Tool (DAT) was built to assist with the analysis of data used in testing Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) tools and building...

Improving the Economic Viability of Investment in Building Sustainability through the Valuation of Resilience-based Co-Benefits

August 29, 2018

Author(s)

Jennifer F. Helgeson, Eric O'Rear

Alerting under Imminent Threat: Guidance on alerts issued by outdoor siren and short message alerting systems

August 16, 2018

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski, Amanda Kimball

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)s Technical Investigation of the 2011 Joplin, MO tornado identified that no widely accepted standards...

Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Commercial Database Technical Manual: Update

August 9, 2018

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear, Shannon A. Grubb, Anne L. Greig, Sangwon Suh

Development of Airborne Nanoparticle Exposure Modeling Tools

July 27, 2018

Author(s)

William S. Dols, Andrew K. Persily, Brian J. Polidoro

Engineered nanoparticles (ENP) are being used in many applications including consumer products. There are many different means by which ENPs may be incorporated...

Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Low-Energy Residential Incremental Energy Efficiency Improvements Database Technical Manual: Update

July 23, 2018

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear, Priya D. Lavappa, Anne L. Greig, Sangwon Suh

Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Building Code-Based Residential Database Technical Manual: Update

July 19, 2018

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear, David Webb, Anne Landfield Greig, Sangwon Suh

Building stakeholders need practical metrics, data, and tools to support decisions related to sustainable building designs, technologies, standards, and codes...

NIST Special Database 301: Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge Dry Run

July 11, 2018

Author(s)

Gregory P. Fiumara, Patricia A. Flanagan, Matthew Schwarz, Elham Tabassi, Christopher Boehnen

In April 2017, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) held a dry run for the data collection portion of its Nail to Nail (N2N) Fingerprint...

Database-Assisted Design and Equivalent Static Wind Loads for Mid- and High-Rise Structures: Concepts, Software, and Users Manual

June 28, 2018

Author(s)

Sejun Park, Donghun Yeo, Emil Simiu

This report presents the software DAD_ESWL v1.0 capable of computing efficiently the response to wind of mid- and high-rise structures consisting of up to...

Introductory Tutorial for DAD: Design Examples of High-Rise Building for Wind

June 28, 2018

Author(s)

Sejun Park, Donghun Yeo

This report presents the introductory tutorials for the use of the software DAD_ESWL v1.0 capable of computing efficiently the response to wind of mid- and high...

Estimating Structural Seismic Retrofit Costs for Federal Buildings

June 14, 2018

Author(s)

Juan F. Fung, David T. Butry, Siamak Sattar, Steven L. McCabe

In NIST TN 1973 [1], we develop a methodology for estimating seismic retrofit costs. The general approach is to build a predictive model of seismic retrofit...

NIST Special Database 300: Uncompressed Plain and Rolled Images from Fingerprint Cards

June 14, 2018

Author(s)

Gregory P. Fiumara, Patricia A. Flanagan, John D. Grantham, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, John M. Libert

A new collection of legacy inked rolled and plain fingerprint card scans are being released to the public. The cards were scanned at three resolutions in the 8...

Juliet 1.3 Test Suite: Changes From 1.2

June 14, 2018

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

The Juliet test suite is a systematic set of thousands of small test programs in C/C++ and Java exhibiting over 100 classes of errors, such as buffer overflow...

Calibration of Dynamic Pressure in a Tubing System and Optimized Design of Tube Configuration: A Numerical and Experimental Study

June 12, 2018

Author(s)

Matthew Kovaerk, Luke Amatucci, Keith A. Gillis, Florian Potra, James Ratino, Marc L. Levitan, DongHun Yeo

Accurate prediction of aerodynamic pressures on a building is a key factor in the estimation of wind loads on the building. Since the analytical approach has...

Investigation of Residential Cooktop Ignition Prevention Technologies

May 31, 2018

Author(s)

Sung Chan Kim, Anthony Hamins, Matthew Bundy

Several international standards and regulations regarding residential cooktop ignition prevention have existed for as long as a decade. A series of cooking...

Investigations on SI-Traceable Dynamic Calibration of Instrumented Charpy Strikers

May 14, 2018

Author(s)

Akobuije D. Chijioke, Nicholas A. Vlajic, Enrico Lucon, Edward C. Mulhern

In this Technical Note, we report on investigations toward an SI-traceable dynamic calibration of instrumented Charpy strikers, performed at NIST from January...

'Software Science' revisited: rationalizing Halstead's system using dimensionless units

May 9, 2018

Author(s)

David W. Flater

The set of software metrics introduced by Maurice H. Halstead in the 1970's has seen much scrutiny and not infrequent criticism. This article takes a fresh look...

Burning Velocities of Marginally Flammable Refrigerant-Air Mixtures

May 1, 2018

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris

Refrigerant working fluids have been predicted to be large contributors to the increase in radiative forcing of the earth. Consequently, existing compounds will...

NIST Interlaboratory Study of Aerosol Absorption Measurements using Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

April 27, 2018

Author(s)

Christopher D. Zangmeister, James G. Radney

The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinated an interlaboratory study for laboratories that use photoacoustic spectroscopy to measure and...

The Influence of Walls, Corners and Enclosures on Fire Plumes

March 19, 2018

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan, Michael J. Selepak, Edward J. Hnetkovsky

This report documents two series of compartment fire experiments in which a natural gas burner is positioned in a corner, or against a wall, or inside a steel...

A Soot Deposition Gauge for Fire Measurements

March 12, 2018

Author(s)

Amy E. Mensch, Thomas G. Cleary

The goal of this exploratory project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a conductometric measurement to determine the time-resolved soot deposition on...

Investigation of Residential Cooking Fire Suppression Technologies

February 12, 2018

Author(s)

Anthony P. Hamins, Daniel Madrzykowski, Sung C. Kim, Jonathan Kent

A wide range of cooking fire experiments were conducted to examine the effectiveness of retrofit residential kitchen fire suppression systems. A series of...

National Fire Research Laboratory Commissioning Project: Testing Steel Beams under Localized Fire Exposure

February 5, 2018

Author(s)

Lisa Y. Choe, Selvarajah Ramesh, Matthew S. Hoehler, Mina S. Seif, John L. Gross, Chao Zhang, Matthew F. Bundy

CYCLE_D-HX: NIST Vapor Compression Cycle Model Accounting for Refrigerant Thermodynamic and Transport Properties, Version 1.0; User's Guide

January 16, 2018

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski, J S. Brown, Riccardo Brignoli

The CYCLE_D-HX package simulates the performance of single-component refrigerants and refrigerant blends in subcritical vapor-compression refrigeration cycles...

Measured Emission Spectra of Selected AWS-3 LTE Transmitters

January 16, 2018

Author(s)

Michael R. Frey, Geoffrey Sanders, Jolene Splett, John M. Ladbury, Frank Sanders, Azizollah Kord, Ryan T. Jacobs

Version three of Advanced Wireless Services (AWS-3) radio systems will soon use spectrum that is adjacent to bands currently used by airborne telemetry links at...

A Review of Public Response to Short Message Alerts under Imminent Threat

January 9, 2018

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski, Jessie Doermann

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)s Technical Investigation of the 2011 Joplin, MO tornado identified that no widely accepted standards...

Users Guide to HVAC-Cx v2.2

December 6, 2017

Author(s)

Michael A. Galler, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti

HVAC-Cx is a software tool designed to facilitate performance analysis for mechanical equipment buildings. It is used for ongoing monitoring and provides the...

NIST Channel Sounder Overview and Channel Measurements in Manufacturing Facilities

November 8, 2017

Author(s)

Jeanne T. Quimby, Richard Candell, Catherine A. Remley, David R. Novotny, Joseph Diener, Peter B. Papazian, Alexandra Curtin, Galen H. Koepke

Manufacturers are increasingly choosing wireless platforms to replace wired ones due to their ease of installation, upgrade, and reconfigurability. Reliable and...

Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Commercial Database Technical Manual: Update

October 19, 2017

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear, Shannon A. Grubb, Sangwon Suh, Anne Landfield Greig

Interference Tests at Room Temperature Applied to Deployed Low-Noise Receivers

October 18, 2017

Author(s)

Daniel G. Kuester, Duncan A. McGillivray, Adam J. Wunderlich, William F. Young

Wireless interference tests are often performed in shielded anechoic and semi-anechoic chambers near room temperature. The corresponding test condition...

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