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Technical Note (NIST TN)

Smoke Component Yields from Bench-scale Fire Tests: 1. NFPA 269 / ASTM E 1678

December 19, 2013

Author(s)

Richard G. Gann, Nathan D. Marsh, Jason D. Averill, Marc R. Nyden

Smoke Component Yields from Bench-scale Fire Tests: 3. ISO 5660-1 / ASTM E 1354 with Enclosure and Variable Oxygen Concentration

December 19, 2013

Author(s)

Nathan D. Marsh, Richard G. Gann

Smoke Component Yields from Bench-scale Fire Tests: 4. Comparison of Bench-scale and Full-scale Results

December 19, 2013

Author(s)

Nathan D. Marsh, Richard G. Gann

Performance Criteria For an ASTM XRF Standard Test Method For Chemical Analysis of Hydraulic Cements: Inter-Laboratory Study on Cements A and B

December 6, 2013

Author(s)

Paul E. Stutzman

Bulk oxide determinations from a pair of portland cements provides the basis for calculation precision and accuracy values for X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis...

Performance Criteria For an ASTM XRF Standard Test Method For Chemical Analysis of Hydraulic Cements: Inter-Laboratory Study Cements E and F

December 6, 2013

Author(s)

Paul E. Stutzman

Bulk oxide determinations from a pair of portland cements provides the basis for calculation precision and accuracy values for X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis...

Additive Manufacturing Technical Workshop Summary Report

December 4, 2013

Author(s)

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...

Guidance on Fire Emergency Procedures for Emergency Stair Travel Devices

November 26, 2013

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski

This document provides specific detailed guidance and recommendations on the use of emergency stair travel devices, or stair descent devices, for evacuation of...

Simulating Occupancy in The NIST Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility

November 21, 2013

Author(s)

Farhad Omar, Steven T. Bushby

The Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF), at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is a research...

The Process of Verification and Validation of Building Fire Evacuation Models

November 21, 2013

Author(s)

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...

Model Based Enterprise Summit Report

November 4, 2013

Author(s)

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...

Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Technical Manual and User Guide

September 30, 2013

Author(s)

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...

Effect of Concentration on R134a/Al2O3 Nanolubricant Mixture Boiling on a Reentrant Cavity Surface with Extensive Measurement and Analysis Details

September 25, 2013

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski

This paper quantifies the influence of Al2O3 nanoparticles on the pool boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a Turbo-BII-HP boiling surface...

Applying the Hedonic Method

September 18, 2013

Author(s)

Stanley W. Gilbert

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...

Best Practices Guide for High-Volume Fly Ash Concretes: Assuring Properties and Performance

September 18, 2013

Author(s)

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...

Exploratory Study of Airflow from SCBA Exposed to Elevated Temperatures

September 18, 2013

Author(s)

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...

High Pressure Release and Dispersion of Hydrogen in a Partially Enclosed Compartment : Effect of Natural and Forced Ventilation

September 2, 2013

Author(s)

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...

Characterization of Airborne Nanoparticle Released from Consumer Products

August 29, 2013

Author(s)

Li Piin Sung, Joannie W. Chin, Andrew K. Persily

This interim report summarizes research results to date under the FY2012 interagency agreement between CPSC and NIST to develop testing and measurement...

Feature Information Model for Disassembly

August 20, 2013

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng

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...

Report of Special Nuclear Material Validation Measurements for Backpack Type Radiation Detectors

August 19, 2013

Author(s)

Leticia S. Pibida, Christina Ward

This report provides results and recommendations from the validation testing for the different source configurations and radiation fields produced by special...

Horizontal Convective Boiling of R134a, R1234yf/R134a, and R1234ze(E) within a Micro-Fin Tube with Extensive Measurement and Analysis Details

August 15, 2013

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski, Ki-Jung Park

This report presents local convective boiling measurements in a micro-fin tube for R134a and two low global warming potential (GWP ) refrigerants: R1234yf/...

Generation of Large Directional Wind Speed Datasets from Smaller Synoptic Storm or Thunderstorm Data Samples

August 15, 2013

Author(s)

Donghun Yeo

For structures sensitive to wind directionality, methods for the estimation of wind effects require the use of time series of directional wind speeds covering...

Improving the Performance of a Roof Top Air-Conditioning Unit by Refrigerant Circuitry Optimization

August 2, 2013

Author(s)

David A. Yashar, Sunil Lee

This study demonstrates the performance improvement of an air-to-air roof top unit (RTU) achieved by optimizing an evaporators refrigerant circuitry using...

Test Report-Exposure and Ambient dose Equivalent Rate Measurements in Support of the ITRAP+10 Testing

August 1, 2013

Author(s)

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...

Residential Carbon Monoxide Exposure due to Indoor Generator Operation: Effects of Source Location and Emission Rate

June 25, 2013

Author(s)

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...

Lessons Learned in Establishing the NIST Metal Additive Manufacturing Laboratory

June 21, 2013

Author(s)

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...

Characterizing the Response of Direct-Reading Particulate Detectors for the Fire Overhaul Environment

June 21, 2013

Author(s)

Rodney A. Bryant, Paul Greenberg

Limited information exists on what respiratory threats are present in the fire overhaul environment. Hand-held direct-reading particulate detectors have long...

A Case Study of a Community Affected by the Witch and Guejito Fires: Report #2 Evaluating the Effects of Hazard Mitigation Actions on Structure Ignitions

June 5, 2013

Author(s)

Alexander Maranghides, Derek McNamara, William Mell, Jason Trook, Blaza Toman

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a suite of research projects addressing risk reduction in Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)...

Mass diffusion of organic fluids: a molecular dynamics perspective

May 31, 2013

Author(s)

Alexander Y. Smolyanitsky, Andrei F. Kazakov, Thomas J. Bruno, Marcia L. Huber

A well-established interaction potential, the Optimized Potential for Liquid Simulation All-Atom (OPLS-AA) force-field, within the MD framework was used to...

R134a/Al2O3 Nanolubricant Mixture Boiling on a Rectangular Finned Pool Boiling Surface with Extensive Measurement and Analysis Details (NIST TN 1721)

May 16, 2013

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski

This paper quantifies the influence of Al2O3 nanoparticles on the pool boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a rectangular finned boiling surface...

Impact of Test and Foam Design on Smoldering

May 14, 2013

Author(s)

Mauro Zammarano, Szabolcs Matko, Rick D. Davis

Smoldering propensity of fabrics used in upholstered furniture can be assessed using foam mockups according to the CPSC proposed regulation. This approach...

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