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In the event of a suspected or confirmed biological threat, public safety, law enforcement and public and environmental health authorities may collect samples
When a building emergency occurs, it is not always sufficient to simply initiate alarm bells. Individuals may not know what the alarm bell means and as a result
This report uses input-output data from the World Input-Output Database along with the methods developed by Wassily Leontief to track the intermediate goods and
Application profiling tools are the instruments used to measure software performance at the function and application levels. The most powerful measurement
Bulk oxide determinations from a pair of portland cements provides the basis for calculation precision and accuracy values for X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis
Bulk oxide determinations from a pair of portland cements provides the basis for calculation precision and accuracy values for X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis
Christopher U. Brown, Joshua Lubell, Robert R. Lipman
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions, and recommendations from the Additive Manufacturing Technical Workshop held during the PDES, Inc. offsite
This document provides specific detailed guidance and recommendations on the use of emergency stair travel devices, or stair descent devices, for evacuation of
The Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF), at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is a research
Enrico Ronchi, Erica D. Kuligowski, Paul A. Reneke, Richard Peacock, Daniel Nilsson
To date, there is no International standard on the methods and tests to assess the verification and validation (V&V) of building fire evacuation models, i.e
Joshua Lubell, Simon P. Frechette, Robert R. Lipman, Frederick M. Proctor, John A. Horst, Mark G. Carlisle, Paul J. Huang
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions, and recommendations from the Model-Based Enterprise Summit held at the National Institute of Standards
Barbara C. Lippiatt, Joshua D. Kneifel, Priya Lavappa, Sangwon Suh, Anne Landfield Greig
Building stakeholders need practical metrics, data, and tools to support decisions related to sustainable building designs, technologies, standards, and codes
This paper quantifies the influence of Al2O3 nanoparticles on the pool boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a Turbo-BII-HP boiling surface
Often, advances in measurement science will enable the development of new product innovations. When trying to estimate the value of the benefits of an advance
Dale P. Bentz, Chiara F. Ferraris, Kenneth A. Snyder
A best practices guide is developed from a synthesis of recent research on high-volume fly ash (HVFA) concrete mixtures. These best practices can be applied by
Michelle K. Donnelly, Daniel M. Madrzykowski, Anthony D. Putorti Jr.
This exploratory set of experiments investigated the impact of external exposure temperatures on Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) supply air, and the
Kuldeep R. Prasad, Thomas G. Cleary, Jiann C. Yang
The study of compressed hydrogen release from high-pressure storage systems has practical application for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Such releases may
This interim report summarizes research results to date under the FY2012 interagency agreement between CPSC and NIST to develop testing and measurement
As sustainability becomes an important issue nowadays, disassembly becomes one of the key processes to turn out-of-service products into new or rebuilt products
This report provides results and recommendations from the validation testing for the different source configurations and radiation fields produced by special
This report presents local convective boiling measurements in a micro-fin tube for R134a and two low global warming potential (GWP ) refrigerants: R1234yf/
For structures sensitive to wind directionality, methods for the estimation of wind effects require the use of time series of directional wind speeds covering
This study demonstrates the performance improvement of an air-to-air roof top unit (RTU) achieved by optimizing an evaporators refrigerant circuitry using
Leticia S. Pibida, Ronaldo Minniti, Larry L. Lucas, C M. O'Brien
In this work we studied the response of two different Victoreen® instruments as a function of the exposure rate, the instrument orientation and photon energy
Andrew K. Persily, Yanling Wang, Brian J. Polidoro, Steven J. Emmerich
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and others are concerned about the hazard of acute residential carbon monoxide (CO) exposures from portable
Shawn P. Moylan, John A. Slotwinski, April Cooke, Kevin K. Jurrens, M A. Donmez
This publication presents a summary of lessons learned by NIST staff during establishment of the NIST Metal Additive Manufacturing Laboratory and implementation