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Technical Note (NIST TN)

Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory: Air System Design

September 27, 2018

Author(s)

Amanda J. Pertzborn, Daniel A. Veronica

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has constructed the Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL) to demonstrate the potential for...

A Computable General Equilibrium Model of Cedar Rapids

September 27, 2018

Author(s)

Jennifer Helgeson, Juan Fung, Cheyney O'Fallon, David Webb, Harvey Cutler

This report presents the development of a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for the regional economy of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The general approach that...

Impact of Ground Motion Selection Methods on the Seismic Assessment of Steel Special Moment Frames

September 27, 2018

Author(s)

Raul Uribe, Siamak Sattar, Matthew Speicher

This study quantifies the impact of different ground motion selection methods on the seismic performance evaluation of steel special moment frames. Two methods...

Shear Behavior of High-strength Bolts at Elevated Temperatures: Testing and Formulation of Reduced-order Model

September 21, 2018

Author(s)

Mina S. Seif, Rafaela Peixoto, Jonathan M. Weigand, Joseph A. Main, Luiz Vieira

Interlaboratory mechanical property study for Cobalt-Chromium alloy Made by Laser Powder-Bed-Fusion Additive Manufacturing

September 19, 2018

Author(s)

John A. Slotwinski, William Luecke, Eric Lass, Antonio Possolo

An eight-laboratory study of the mechanical properties of provided the data to evaluate variability in tensile mechanical properties of cobalt-chrome alloy (UNS...

Iris Cameras: Standards Relevant for Camera Selection - 2018

September 18, 2018

Author(s)

James R. Matey, George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother, Craig I. Watson, Shahram Orandi

This paper is a summary of our current recommendations for iris camera selection. NIST is developing these recommendations in collaboration with the FBI, other...

Assessing the Performance of Residential Energy Management Control Algorithms: Multi-Criteria Decision Making Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process

September 18, 2018

Author(s)

Farhad Omar, Steven T. Bushby, Ronald D. Williams

For homes to become active participants in a smart grid, intelligent control algorithms are needed to facilitate autonomous interactions that take homeowner...

Thermal Energy Storage for the NIST Net-Zero House Heat Pump

September 18, 2018

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski, William V. Payne, Harrison M. Skye

Spectrum Occupancy and Ambient Power Distributions for the 3.5 GHz Band Estimated from Observations at Point Loma and Fort Story

September 11, 2018

Author(s)

Max Lees, Adam Wunderlich, Peter J. Jeavons, Paul D. Hale, Michael R. Souryal

This report presents descriptive statistics characterizing a set of over 14,000 spectrograms that were recorded by a recent measurement campaign at two coastal...

Low-GWP Alternative Refrigerant Blends for HFC-134a

September 7, 2018

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski, Mark O. McLinden, Ian H. Bell, Gregory T. Linteris

The goal of this study was to identify non-flammable, non-toxic, low global-warming-potential (GWP) replacements for HFC-134a in an air-conditioning system that...

REDUCED-ORDER THERMAL ANALYSIS OF FIRE EFFECTS ON COMPOSITE SLABS

September 4, 2018

Author(s)

Jian Jiang, Joseph A. Main, Jonathan M. Weigand, Fahim Sadek

This paper describes a reduced-order modeling approach for thermal analyses of composite slabs with profiled decking. The reduced-order modeling approach...

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...

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