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Conferences

Physical and chemical characterization techniques for metallic powders

August 28, 2013

Author(s)

John A. Slotwinski, Paul E. Stutzman, Stephanie S. Watson, Edward J. Garboczi, Max A. Peltz, Chiara F. Ferraris

Systematic studies have been done on two different powder materials used for additive manufacturing: stainless steel and cobalt-chrome. An extensive array of...

Application of physical and chemical characterization techniques to metallic powders

August 28, 2013

Author(s)

Edward J. Garboczi, John A. Slotwinski, Max A. Peltz, Chiara F. Ferraris, Stephanie S. Watson, Paul E. Stutzman

Systematic studies have been done on two different powder materials used for additive manufacturing: stainless steel and cobalt-chrome. The characterization of...

Calibration of a Long-Wavelength Acoustic Flowmeter Using a Lumped Impedance Acoustic Model

August 26, 2013

Author(s)

Lee J. Gorny, Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover

As a part of NISTs program to standardize measurements of greenhouse gas emissions, we are developing long-wavelength acoustic flowmeter (LWAF) for accurate...

QKD on a Board Limited by Detector Rates in a Free-Space Environment

August 25, 2013

Author(s)

Alan Mink, Joshua Bienfang

We discuss a high-speed quantum key distribution (QKD) system with the protocol infrastructure implemented on a single printed circuited board that can operate...

Thermal Stability of RP-2 as a Function of Composition: The Effect of Linear, Branched, and Cyclic Alkanes

August 22, 2013

Author(s)

Jason A. Widegren, Thomas J. Bruno

The objective of this work is to identify compositional changes that could improve the thermal stability of RP-2. For this study, we tested the effect of alkane...

Differential Fault Attack Against Grain Family -- Pushing Towards Very Few Faults using SAT Solver

August 22, 2013

Author(s)

Santanu (. Sarkar

There are now a series of published works related to Differential Fault Attack (DFA) on the Grain family, but most of them require quite a large number...

Investigating the Application of Moving Target Defenses to Network Security

August 15, 2013

Author(s)

Rui Zhuang, Su Zhang, Alex Bardas, Scott DeLoach, Xinming Ou, Anoop Singhal

This paper presents a preliminary design for a moving-target defense (MTD) for computer networks to combat an attacker's asymmetric advantage. The MTD system...

Integration of Energy Information for Product Assembly and Logistics Processes

August 13, 2013

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, FNU Kumaraguru, Kincho H. Law, Kyeong Rim Ahn

This paper presents an on-going effort at NIST to model the energy performance in assembly and supply chain processes as a part of a larger sus-tainability...

Influence on Q-Factor of Proximity and Orientation with Respect to Large-Form-Factor Loads in a Reverberation Chamber

August 13, 2013

Author(s)

Willem Burger, Christopher L. Holloway, Kate Remley

In this paper, it is shown that the presence of largeform-factor loads in close proximity to an antenna under test can affect the measured Q-factor (if measured...

Correlation Coefficient and Loading Effects for MIMO Antennas in a Reverberation Chamber

August 13, 2013

Author(s)

Nick Janssen, Kate Remley, Christopher L. Holloway, William F. Young

The correlation coefficient is a common metric for assessing the performance of an antenna for a multiple-input, multiple-out wireless device. In this paper...

Soft X-ray Characterization of DSA Block Copolymers

August 12, 2013

Author(s)

Daniel F. Sunday, Wen-Li Wu, Regis J. Kline

Multilingual Summarization: Dimensionality Reduction and a Step Towards Optimal Term Coverage

August 9, 2013

Author(s)

Yi-Kai Liu, John M. Conroy, Sashka T. Davis, Jeff Kubina, Dianne P. O'Leary, Judith D. Schlesinger

In this paper we present three term weighting approaches for multi-lingual document summarization and give results on the DUC 2002 data as well as on the 2013...

On the Link Between Insertion Loss and Lower Bound of Efficiency

August 9, 2013

Author(s)

Levon Barsikyan, Jason Coder, Mark Golkowski, John M. Ladbury

We investigate the effect of chamber loss on the recently developed 2-port antenna model and the associated method of determining antenna efficiency. The loss...

Multiscale Correlative Microscopy of the Interaction of Au Nanoparticles with Rat Cortex Neural Progenitor Cells

August 8, 2013

Author(s)

Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Aric W. Sanders, Alexandra E. Curtin, Kavita M. Jeerage, Cindi Schwartz

Proximity and Antenna Orientation Effects for Large-Form-Factor Devices in a Reverberation Chamber

August 8, 2013

Author(s)

Willem Burger, Kate Remley, Christopher L. Holloway, John M. Ladbury

Recent research has shown that large-form-factor devices can affect radiated power measurements in a reverberation chamber due to absorbtion and physical...

A Survey of Standards for Product Lifecycle Management of Structural Composites

August 7, 2013

Author(s)

Christopher U. Brown, Joshua Lubell, Robert R. Lipman, Gaurav Ameta

Composites are needed when designing components with a high strength (along a particular direction) to weight ratio. Composites are widely used in the...

IDENTIFYING THE MATERIAL INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR SUSTAINABLE DECISION MAKING

August 7, 2013

Author(s)

Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Paul W. Witherell, Jae H. Lee, Katherine C. Morris, Sudarsan Rachuri

Materials play a central role in product manufacturing, contributing to each phase of product development in the form of either a component or process material...

An Integrated Approach to Information Modeling for the Sustainable Design of Products

August 7, 2013

Author(s)

Paul W. Witherell, Douglas Eddy, Ian Grosse, Sundar Krishnamurty

The design process for more sustainable products can be best accomplished in a tradeoff-based design process that can methodically handle conflicting objectives...

Sustainable Process Analytics Formalism: A Case Study of Book Binding System for Energy Optimization

August 7, 2013

Author(s)

Duck B. Kim, Guodong Shao, Alexander Brodsky, Ryan Consylman

Energy is considered as one of important factors in sustainable manufacturing due to its relevance to depletion of material resources and generation of carbon...

A Model Based Continuous Improvement Methodology for Sustainable Manufacturing

August 7, 2013

Author(s)

Sanjay Jain, Guodong Shao, Alexander Brodsky, Frank H. Riddick

This paper proposes a model based continuous improvement methodology to support efforts to achieve sustainable manufacturing, i.e., to increase efficiency and...

SUSTAINABILITY CHARACTERIZATION FOR DIE CASTING PROCESS

August 7, 2013

Author(s)

Megan F. Watkins, Mahesh Mani, Kevin W. Lyons, Satyandra K. Gupta

The manufacturing sector accounts for approximately one-third of the total energy consumption in the United States. Today, sustainable manufacturing has become...

A Decade of Automatic Content Evaluation of News Summaries: Reassessing the State of the Art

August 5, 2013

Author(s)

Peter Rankel, John M. Conroy, Hoa T. Dang, Ani Nenkova

How good are automatic content metrics for news summary evaluation? Here we provide a detailed answer to this question, with a particular focus on assessing the...

Statistical Analysis of Single PPTA Fibers

August 2, 2013

Author(s)

Nathanael A. Heckert

Discuss statistical methods used for analysis of single fiber tensile strength tests. Kernel density plots and quantile-quantile plots were used to graphically...

Determination of Interfacial Shear Strength in Epoxy/Glass Composites by Multi-Fiber Fragmentation Test (MFFT)

August 2, 2013

Author(s)

Edward D. McCarthy, Jae H. Kim, N. Alan Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Gale A. Holmes, Jeffrey W. Gilman

The mechanical strength of a structural composite is strongly affected by the strength and toughness of the interface achieved between the continuous matrix...

Determination of Interfacial Shear Strength in Epoxy/Glass Composites by Multi-Fiber Fragmentation Test (MFFT)

August 2, 2013

Author(s)

Edward D. McCarthy, Jae H. Kim, N. Alan Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Gale A. Holmes, Jeffrey W. Gilman

The mechanical strength of a structural composite is strongly affected by the strength and toughness of the interface achieved between the continuous matrix...

Three Years of DLMF: Web, Math & Search

August 1, 2013

Author(s)

Bruce R. Miller

DLMF was released to the public in May 2010 and is now completing its 3rd year online. As a somewhat early adopter of large-scale MathML content online, and...

The Effects of Wildfire Prevention Activities

August 1, 2013

Author(s)

Douglas S. Thomas, David T. Butry, Jeffrey P. Prestemon

Eighty percent of wildfires are human caused, so it is important for decision makers and land managers to consider the role of prevention activities that...

Performance Assessments of Android-powered Military Applications Operating on Tactical Handheld Devices

August 1, 2013

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, Lisa J. Fronczek, Emile L. Morse, Zeid Kootbally, Craig I. Schlenoff

Transformative Apps (TransApps) is a DARPA-funded program whose goal is to develop a range of militarily-relevant software applications ("apps") to enhance the...

An Efficient Approach to Assessing the Risk of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

July 31, 2013

Author(s)

M. Albanese, Sushil Jajodia, Anoop Singhal, Lingyu Wang

Computer systems are vulnerable to both known and zero-day attacks. Although known attack patterns can be easily modeled, thus enabling the definition of...

Theoretical Failure Envelopes of Open Hole Composite Laminates with A- and B-Basis Allowables Estimated from Smooth Specimen Properties

July 29, 2013

Author(s)

Jeffrey Fong, Carlos A. Cimini, Jose D. Melo, N. Alan Heckert, James J. Filliben

Composite material property databases are important information to guide designers. Aeronautical companies spend a great deal of effort in terms of money and...

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