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Intelligent buildings require integration of a variety of computer-based automation and control system products that are usually made by different manufacturers...
Two analytical results are presented that are of use to concrete material technologists. Using a model of concrete in which the aggregates are spherical, but...
George W. Mulholland, K D. Childs, D Narum, L A. LaVanier, P M. Lindley, B W. Schueler, A C. Diebold
Particulate contamination can result in a significant yield loss during semiconductor device fabrication. As device design rule dimensions decrease the critical...
The AASHTO Materials Reference Laboratory (AMRL) is a research associate program located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the...
A series of computer simulations were developed to investigate the removal of multicomponent, thermoplastic binders from two- and three-dimensional model...
A computer program (4SIGHT) to facilitate performance assessment of underground concrete vaults for low level waste (LLW) disposal facilities is being developed...
A model was developed previously for calculating combined buoyancy- and pressure-driven (i.e., forced) flow through a shallow, circular, horizontal vent where...
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Committee on Structural Condition Assessment and Rehabilitation of Buildings prepares standards in three areas...
As multi-phase composites, cement-based materials have physical properties that are strongly influenced by the volume fractions and topologies of the individual...
This report presents the results of two years of research in support of the objective to identify and make ready for use the optimal near-term fluid to replace...
George W. Mulholland, Takashi Kashiwagi, M Y. Choi, A Hamins
Simultaneous optical and gravimetric measurements were performed in the postflame region of an acetylene/air premixed flame where the temperature of the soot...
Steven J. Fenves, K A. Reed, J H. Garrett, H Kiliccote, K H. Law
Standards representation and processing in the United States has had a long and interesting history of development. The work in the past has focussed primarily...
William L. Grosshandler, Cary Presser, Daniel L. Lowe, William J. Rinkinen
A coaxial turbulent spray burner was built to evaluate the relative effectiveness of different chemicals for suppressing fires in a jet engine nacelle. The fire...
Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Walter W. Jones, Richard W. Bukowski, V Babrauskas
Recent advances in passenger rail transportation, fire test methods, and hazard analysis necessitate re-examination of requirements for fire safety. Several...
T L. Farias, M G. Carvalho, U O. Koylu, G M. Faeth
A computational evaluation of an approximate theory for the optical properties of soot is described, emphasizing the small-angle (Guinier) regime. The...
A widely accepted consensus on entrainment models for large fires in compartments does not yet exist. To obtain further information on such entrainment rates...
The following generic problem must be solved if one is to be able to establish the fire safety of building designs: [*] Given: Initiation of a fire in a...
Theoretical and experimental studies were carried out on the transport of cations in the channel between a polymer coating and a metal substrate from a defect...
An algorithm based on finite elements applied to digital images is described for computing the linear elastic properties of heterogeneous materials. As an...
Computer simulations of multizone airflow and contaminant transport were performed in four large buildings using the program CONTAM88. This paper describes the...
In the fall of 1985 Jene Golovchenko from Bell Laboratories presented a staff colloquium at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) on scanning tunnelling...
Recent analyses revealed that chaotic behavior is possible in a model of currents induced by wind over topography that slopes offshore and varies approximately...
BACnet is a communication protocol for Building Automation and Control networks that has been developed by ASHRAE Standards Project Committee (SPC) 135P. The...