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Books

Recent Advances in Industrial Robotics - Introduction

March 15, 2021

Author(s)

Satyandra K. Gupta, Venkat Krovi, Craig I. Schlenoff

Manufacturing is the staged transformation of raw materials into finished goods (using human-labor, machines, tools, mechanical, chemical or biological...

Redefining the kilogram and other SI units

February 10, 2021

Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger

Units are at the heart of science and technology. Most measurements require units to express their result. The International System of Units (SI) provides a...

Distributing Time and Frequency Information

December 15, 2020

Author(s)

Judah Levine

This chapter discusses the statistics that are used to characterize the performance of clocks, oscillators, and the networks that are used to calibrate and...

Chapter 4: Oxidatively induced DNA damage: Mechanisms and measurement

November 20, 2020

Author(s)

Miral M. Dizdar, Erdem Coskun, Gamze Tuna, Melis Kant, Pawel Jaruga

Oxidatively induced damage to DNA occurs in living organisms by endogenously or exogenously generated reactive species including free radicals. Mounting...

Electromagnetics for Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

July 20, 2020

Author(s)

Stephen E. Russek, Karl F. Stupic, Joshua R. Biller, Michael A. Boss, Kathryn E. Keenan, Elizabeth Mirowski

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is based on radio frequency (RF) interrogation of the human body at frequencies between 40 MHz to 300 MHz. An RF transmitter...

Book: Cryocoolers - Theory and Applications Chapter: Joule Thomson Cryocoolers and Cryoablation

June 1, 2020

Author(s)

Harrison M. Skye, John M. Pfotenhauer

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Large-Scale Structure-Fire Interaction: National Fire Research Laboratory Commissioning Test, Experiment and Modeling

June 1, 2020

Author(s)

Randall J. McDermott, Glenn P. Forney, Matthew S. Hoehler, Matthew F. Bundy, Lisa Y. Choe, Chao Zhang

The photograph on the left shows a large-scale experiment studying the interaction between fire and mechanically- loaded building elements performed during the...

Direct Lagrangian Forcing Methods Based on Moving Least Squares

May 15, 2020

Author(s)

Marcos Vanella, Elias Balaras

The application of computational fluid dynamics to complex engineering flow problems necessitates the adoption of numerical algorithms that are accurate, robust...

Role of Standards for Testing and Performance Requirements of Biomaterials

May 5, 2020

Author(s)

Carl Simon, Liisa Kuhn

Chalcogenide Topological Insulators

November 15, 2019

Author(s)

Joseph A. Hagmann

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the chalcogenide materials systems that host the topological insulator phase of quantum matter...

John Werner Cahn

September 15, 2019

Author(s)

William J. Boettinger, C A. Handwerker, Frank W. Gayle

John Werner Cahn, retired Senior Fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), died in Seattle, WA on March 14, 2016 at age 88. After...

Practical Guidelines to 13C-based NMR Metabolomics

August 29, 2019

Author(s)

Arthur S. Edison, Adrien Le Guennec, Frank Delaglio, Eriks Kupce

We present an overview of 13C-based NMR metabolomics. At first glance, the low sensitivity of 13C relative to 1H NMR might seem like too great an obstacle to...

Solid State NMR of Organic Electronics

August 2, 2019

Author(s)

Ryan C. Nieuwendaal

Collective Dynamics in Model Biological Membranes Measured by Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Elizabeth Kelley, Paul Butler, Michihiro Nagao

Cell membranes are extraordinarily heterogeneous environments composed of a multitude of different molecules with many thousands of chemically distinct lipids...

Structural Investigations of Membrane-Associated Proteins by Neutron Reflectometry

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Rebecca Eells, David Hoogerheide, Paul A. Kienzle, Mathias Loesche, Charles Majkrzak, Frank Heinrich

Neutron reflectometry is a powerful technique for probing the structure of lipid bilayer membranes and membrane-associated proteins. Measurements of the...

Metrological Assessment of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Materials by Optical Methods

March 1, 2019

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Fagan, Angela R. Hight Walker, Ming Zheng, Lefebvre Jacques, Paul Finnie

This chapter discusses the metrology i.e. the science of measurement of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with optical methods. Professor Mildred (...

Compositional Models for Complex Systems

January 19, 2019

Author(s)

Spencer J. Breiner, Ram D. Sriram, Eswaran Subrahmanian

In this chapter we argue for the use of representations from category theory to support better models for complex systems, and provide an example of such an...

Aligning Community Resilience and Sustainability

December 21, 2018

Author(s)

Therese P. McAllister, Steve Moddemeyer

Structural Fire Engineering, Ch 10 Structural Analysis for Fire Effects

October 15, 2018

Author(s)

Therese P. McAllister, Spencer E. Quiel, Kevin J. LaMalva, Erica C. Fischer, Reza Imani, Ruirui Sun, Matthew Brightman

Computational vs. Wind Tunnel Simulation of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flow for Structural Engineering Applications

September 1, 2018

Author(s)

DongHun Yeo, Liang Shi

ABL simulations using LES have been performed to assess the suitability of the simulated flow for structural wind engineering applications. The governing...

Designing an Accelerated Test Method to Determine the Design Life of Building Joint Sealant using the ASTM C1850 Procedure

August 15, 2018

Author(s)

Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston, Adam L. Pintar, James J. Filliben

Determination of Design Life in less than real time as eluded researchers for decades. Recently, ASTM has issued a new standard, ASTM C1850, that outlines a...

Competitive solvation effects in polyelectrolyte solutions

August 1, 2018

Author(s)

Alexandros Chremos, Jack F. Douglas

An understanding of the solution properties and phase behavior of natural and synthetic polyelectrolytes requires an understanding of the competitive...

DETECTORS FOR LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY

June 1, 2018

Author(s)

Thomas J. Bruno, Paris D. Svoronos

The following table provides some comparative data for interpretation of results from the more common detectors applied to high-performance liquid...

Materials and Processes for CO2 Capture, Conversion and Sequestration

May 26, 2018

Author(s)

Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Lan Li, Lawrence P. Cook, Kevin Huang

The book Materials and Processes for CO2 Capture, Conversion and Sequestration (CCS) which will be published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is a result of the...

Microstructural and Structural Characterization of Materials for CO2 storage using Multi-Scale X-Ray Scattering Methods

May 1, 2018

Author(s)

Greeshma Gadikota, Andrew Allen

A multi-scale understanding of CO2 interactions with natural materials is essential for engineering the safe and permanent storage of CO2 in geologic formations...

Methods for Evaluation of Transmittance Minima in Wavenumber Standards Spectra: A Comparison and Analysis

April 19, 2018

Author(s)

Leonard Hanssen, C. J. Zhu

The final two elements in the process of wavenumber calibration of a spectrometer involve software processing. These are (a) the generation of a spectrum...

Test Methods for Exoskeletons Lessons Learned from Industrial and Response Robotics

March 1, 2018

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai H. Hong

Exoskeletons are devices that can assist the human wearer's limbs to provide functional, normal or amplified human capabilities. Recent research on exoskeletons...

THERMODYNAMICS - Fundamentals and Engineering Applications

February 2, 2018

Author(s)

Elisabeth Mansfield

Web Microanalysis of Big Image Data

February 1, 2018

Author(s)

Peter Bajcsy, Joe Chalfoun, Mylene H. Simon

This book looks at the increasing interest in running microscopy processing algorithms on big image data by presenting the theoretical and architectural...

The orthogonality of Al-Salam-Carlitz polynomials for complex parameters

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Howard Cohl, Wenqing Xu, Roberto Costas-Santos

In this contribution, we study the orthogonality conditions satisfied by Al-Salam-Carlitz polynomials $U^(a)}_n(x;q)$ when the parameters $a$ and $q$ are not...

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