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Book Chapters

Chemical Kinetics and Fire

Author(s)
Gregory Linteris, John Griffiths
The purpose of this chapter is to set out the principles of chemical kinetics as they apply to combustion in flames and fires. Chemical equilibrium, which was...

Smart City Standardization: A Global Perspective

Author(s)
William Dunaway, Cheyney O'Fallon
The Global Community Technology Challenge (GCTC) is the smart cities program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. Department...

Ionization Constant of Water

Author(s)
Hugues Arcis, Allan Harvey
This is an update of two tables in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (for the 106th ed.) to reflect a new standard formulation adopted in 2024 by the...

Digital Twins for Robot Systems in Manufacturing

Author(s)
Ali Malik, Guodong Shao, Jane Tarakhovsky
The surging demand for industrial automation is propelling the use of robots, with emerging trends like autonomous mobile robots and collaborative robotic arms...

Conformal Flame Retardant Coating Systems

Author(s)
Thomas Kolibaba, Federico Carosio, Jaime Grunlan
Surface coatings represent an important class of fire protective treatments. When deposited conformally, these treatments offer extremely effective fire...

Index of Refraction of Liquid Water

Author(s)
Allan H. Harvey
This is an item for the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (105th ed.), giving values calculated from the IAPWS formulation for the refractive index.

New Fire Protection Materials

Author(s)
Andre Thompson
Residential upholstered furniture (RUF) is the leading combustible in fatal fires in the United States. In the last few decades, fire-retardant (FRs) chemicals...

Building Fire Hazard Predictions Using Machine Learning

Author(s)
Eugene Yujun Fu, Wai Cheong Tam, Tianhang Zhang, Xinyan Huang
The lack of information on the fire ground has always been the leading factor in making wrong decisions . Wrong decisions can be made by individual firefighters...

EDFAS FA TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP DIE-LEVEL ROADMAP COUNCIL (DLRC) POST-ISOLATION DOMAIN TECHNICAL REPORT - JAN 2023

Author(s)
Vinod Narang, Zhang Chuan, David Su, Phil Kaszuba, Steven Herschbein, Alan Street, Eckhard Langer, Martin von Haartman, Yu Zhu, Baohua Niu, Erwin Hendarto, Bryan Tracy, Jochonia Nxumalo, Rik Otte, Keana C. K. Scott
Semiconductor technologies are advancing at a rapid pace, with ongoing developments in logic and memory scaling, the introduction of new materials and...

AI for Materials

Author(s)
Debra Audus, Kamal Choudhary, Brian DeCost, A. Gilad Kusne, Francesca Tavazza, James A. Warren
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) methods to materials re- search and development (MR&D) is poised to radically reshape how materials are...

Size-exclusion chromatography

Author(s)
Andre Striegel
Over the past half-century, size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) has become the premier method by which to determine the molar mass (M) averages and the molar...
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