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Technical Note (NIST TN)

Pool Boiling of Low GWP Replacements for R134a on a Reentrant Cavity Surface; Extensive Measurement and Analysis

October 10, 2017

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski, Lingnan Lin, Donggyu Kang

Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Neutral Environment Software Tool (NEST) Technical Manual

October 10, 2017

Author(s)

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

A Methodology for Estimating Seismic Retrofit Costs

September 28, 2017

Author(s)

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

Presidential Executive Order 13717 (EO 13717), Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard, encourages federal agencies to enhance resilience...

Wireless Activities in the 2 GHz Radio Bands in Industrial Plants

September 27, 2017

Author(s)

Yongkang Liu, Nader Moayeri

Wireless connections are becoming popular in industrial environments that increasingly carry sensing and actuation data over the air. In industrial plants...

Characterization of Emissions from Spray Polyurethane Foam - Final Report to U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

September 8, 2017

Author(s)

Dustin G. Poppendieck, Mengyan Gong, Steven J. Emmerich

Spray polyurethane foam (SPF) insulation increases building energy efficiency by reducing conductive and convective heat losses through the building envelope...

Measurement Uncertainty in the Hydronic System in the IBAL

September 7, 2017

Author(s)

Amanda J. Pertzborn

The Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL) has been designed to demonstrate the potential for distributed, intelligent software agents to perform...

Horizontal Convective Boiling of R1234yf, R134a, and R450A within a Micro-Fin Tube; Extensive Measurement and Analysis

August 10, 2017

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski, Donggyu Kang

3.5 GHz Radar Waveform Capture at Fort Story

August 4, 2017

Author(s)

Paul D. Hale, Jeffrey A. Jargon, Peter J. Jeavons, Michael R. Souryal, Adam J. Wunderlich, Mark Lofquist

We describe measurements to create a library of high-fidelity waveforms of federal incumbent radar signals currently operating in the 3550 MHz 3650 MHz (3.5...

Mobile Manipulator Performance Measurement Data

June 27, 2017

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, YaShian Li-Baboud, Steven Legowik, Tsai H. Hong, Sebti Foufou

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Intelligent Systems Division has collected data detailing the performance measurement of a mobile...

Influence of Aggregate Characteristics on Concrete Performance

May 16, 2017

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, Scott Z. Jones, Paul E. Stutzman, Joshua Arnold, Michael Boisclair, Paul Rothfeld, Jussara Tanesi, Haejin Kim, Jose Munoz, Mengesha Beyene

While the influence of paste properties on concrete performance has been extensively studied and in many cases reduced to quantitative relationships, that...

3.5 GHz Radar Waveform Capture at Point Loma

May 11, 2017

Author(s)

Paul D. Hale, Jeffrey A. Jargon, Peter J. Jeavons, Michael R. Souryal, Adam J. Wunderlich, Mark Lofquist

We describe measurements to create a library of high-fidelity waveforms of federal incumbent radar signals currently operating in the 3550 MHz 3650 MHz (3.5...

Using Photoelectric Smoke Detection to Warn of Pre-Ignition Conditions of Unattended Cooking Fires

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Erik Johnsson, Mariusz Zarzecki, Thomas Cleary

A series of experiments was conducted to examine the potential to use kitchen-installed photoelectric smoke detection devices to warn of approaching ignition of...

Public Safety User Interface R&D Roadmap

April 26, 2017

Author(s)

Jeremy E. Benson, Harris Feldman, Marc Leh, Ryan Felts

Numerical Modeling and Analysis of Heat Transfer in Composite Slabs with Profiled Steel Decking

April 25, 2017

Author(s)

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

This report presents detailed and reduced-order finite element modeling of heat transfer in composite floor slabs with profiled steel decking. The detailed...

Test & Evaluation of the Safety App from 911Cellular, LLC at NIST

April 20, 2017

Author(s)

Nader Moayeri, Lu Shi, Chang Li

The paper does not have an abstract. Please see the paper for an Executive Summary.

Mobile Manipulator Stability Measurements

April 18, 2017

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai H. Hong

Mobile manipulators are being marketed for material handling and other tasks. Manufacturers suggest the stability of the vehicle best when the onboard loading...

Defining the Resilience Dividend: Accounting for Co-benefits of Resilience Planning

April 6, 2017

Author(s)

Juan Fung, Jennifer Helgeson

This report presents the concept of the resilience dividend as a useful metric for community resilience planning. The report suggests defining the resilience...

BIRDS v3.1 Tutorial for Low Energy Residential Database

March 9, 2017

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear, Priya D. Lavappa

BIRDS v3.1 Low-Energy Residential Database Technical Manual

March 6, 2017

Author(s)

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

Propane Gas Fire Experiments in Residential Scale Structures

February 27, 2017

Author(s)

Joseph M. Willi

Nine full-scale fire experiments were conducted in two residential-scale structures to study how different fire fighting tactics, specifically horizontal...

Email Authentication Mechanisms: DMARC, SPF and DKIM

February 16, 2017

Author(s)

J. S. Nightingale

In recent years the IETF has been making a range of efforts to secure the email infrastructure and its use. Infrastructure protection includes source...

LTE impacts on GPS

February 15, 2017

Author(s)

William F. Young, Ari D. Feldman, Sheryl M. Genco, Azizollah Kord, Daniel G. Kuester, John M. Ladbury, Duncan A. McGillivray, Audrey K. Puls, Andre R. Rosete, Adam J. Wunderlich, Wen-Bin Yang

This report describes the test methodology from LTE impacts on GPS: Test and Metrology Plan developed by National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test...

Outdoor Siren Systems: A review of technology, usage and public response during emergencies

February 6, 2017

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski, Katrina Wakeman

The NIST Technical Investigation of the 2011 Joplin, MO tornado identified that no widely accepted standards exist for emergency communications in tornado...

Industrial Wireless Systems: Radio Propagation Measurements

January 30, 2017

Author(s)

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

Radio frequency (RF) propagation measurements were conducted at three facilities representing a cross-section of different classes of industrial environments...

Whats in a butt? Environmental contamination from airborne cigarette butt emissions

January 27, 2017

Author(s)

Mengyan Gong, Shahana S. Khurshid, Dustin G. Poppendieck

Examination of Compressed Air Foam (CAF) for Interior Fire Fighting

January 23, 2017

Author(s)

Craig G. Weinschenk, Daniel M. Madrzykowski, Keith Stakes, Joseph M. Willi

Experiments were conducted to investigate the capabilities and limitations of compressed air foam (CAF) relative to water when used for interior structural fire...

Implementation Guidelines for Executive Order 13717: Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard

January 13, 2017

Author(s)

John(Jack) R. Hayes Jr., Steven McCabe, Michael Mahoney

Executive Order 13717 signed by President Obama on 2-2-2016 required NIST to draft Implementation Guidelines for Federal agencies to implement the requirements...

Preliminary Models for Viscosity, Thermal Conductivity, and Surface Tension of Pure Fluid Constituents of Selected Diesel Surrogate Fuels

January 5, 2017

Author(s)

Marcia L. Huber

We describe preliminary models for the viscosity, thermal conductivity, and surface tension for pure fluids that are constituents of four surrogate fuels for...

A Study on the Performance of Current Smoke Alarms to the New Fire and Nuisance Tests Prescribed in ANSI/UL 217 8th Ed.

December 20, 2016

Author(s)

Thomas G. Cleary

Research was conducted on the performance of currently available smoke alarms to the new fire and cooking nuisance source tests specified in ANSI/UL 217...

NIST Report based on the University of Michigan Final Grant Report (70NANB14H316)

December 16, 2016

Author(s)

Richard Candell, Nader Moayeri

The report does not have an abstract, but the following is the Introduction: The pervasive application of wireless communications is well known. One such...

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