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Conferences

Evolution of Anisotropic Stress Factors with Texture in the Biaxial Deformation of HSLA50 Steel

January 3, 2012

Author(s)

Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, Adam A. Creuziger, Mark A. Iadicola

The effects of crystallographic texture produced by biaxial deformation on the diffraction elastic constants (DEC) are discussed. Predictions of DEC values from...

Texture Evolution in TRIP 590 Steels

January 3, 2012

Author(s)

Adam A. Creuziger, Lin Hu, Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, A. D. Rollett

A Novel Method for Determining the Lower Bound of Antenna Efficiency

December 31, 2011

Author(s)

Jason B. Coder, John M. Ladbury, Mark Golkowski

Determining the absolute antenna efficiency has been a difficult task since the inception of the antenna itself. While there are methods that can measure an...

Through-focus Scanning Optical Microscopy

December 31, 2011

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota

Through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) method provides three-dimensional information (i.e. the size, shape and location) about micro- and nanometer...

The LaTeXML Daemon: Editable Math on the Collaborative Web

December 31, 2011

Author(s)

Deyan Ginev, Heinrich Stammerjohanns, Bruce R. Miller, Michael Kohlhase

The language of the \TeX/\LaTeX} typesetting system has become all-pervasive in scientific publications and has proven its stability, convenience and...

Vulnerability Hierarchies in Access Control Configurations

December 27, 2011

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn

This paper applies methods for analyzing fault hierarchies to the analysis of relationships among vulnerabilities in misconfigured access control rule...

NATURAL AND FORCED VENTILATION OF BUOYANT GAS RELEASED IN A FULL-SCALE GARAGE: COMPARISON OF MODEL PREDICTIONS AND EXPERIMENTAL DATA

December 19, 2011

Author(s)

Kuldeep R. Prasad, William M. Pitts, Marco G. Fernandez, Jiann C. Yang

Increase in the number of hydrogen fueled applications in the marketplace will require a better understanding of the potential for fires and explosion...

When Does a Circuit Really Fail?

December 15, 2011

Author(s)

Jason T. Ryan, Lan Wei, Jason P. Campbell, Richard G. Southwick, Kin P. Cheung, Tony Oates, Phillip Wong, John S. Suehle

Influence of Interfacial Chemistry and Molecular Length on the Electronic Properties of Metal-Molecule-Silicon Junctions Produced by Flip Chip Lamination

December 15, 2011

Author(s)

Michael A. Walsh, Mariona Coll, Benjamin Jones, Curt A. Richter, Christina A. Hacker

Experimentally Based Methodology for Charge Pumping Bulk Defect Trapping Correction

December 15, 2011

Author(s)

Jason T. Ryan, Richard G. Southwick, Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, Chadwin Young, John S. Suehle

We develop a simple experimental approach to remove bulk trap contributions from charge pumping data collected on devices which suffer from large amounts of...

Thermodynamic analysis of suppressant-enhanced overpressure in the FAA Aerosol Can Simulator

December 14, 2011

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Fumiaki Takahashi, Viswanath R. Katta, Harsha K. Chelliah

Halon 1301 has been banned for most applications but it is still used in come critical applications for which suitable replacements have not yet been found. One...

A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS USING SIMULATION

December 14, 2011

Author(s)

Erik Lindskog, Linus Lundh, Jonatan K. Berglund, Yung-Tsun Lee, Anders Skoogh, Bjorn Johansson

Effective assessment and communication of environmental footprint is increasingly important to process development and marketing purposes. Traditionally, static...

Energy Efficiency Analysis for a Casting Production System

December 14, 2011

Author(s)

Jonatan K. Berglund, John L. Michaloski, Swee K. Leong, Guodong Shao, Frank H. Riddick, Jorge Arinez, Stephan Biller

A growing number of manufacturing industries are initiating efforts to address sustainability issues. A study by the National Association of Manufacturers...

Universal Low-rank Matrix Recovery from Pauli Measurements

December 12, 2011

Author(s)

Yi-Kai Liu

We study the problem of reconstructing an unknown matrix M of rank r and dimension d using O(rd poly log d) Pauli measurements. This has applications in quantum...

Extracting Hierarchies With Overlapping Structure From Network Data

December 11, 2011

Author(s)

Brian D. Cloteaux

Relationships between entities in many complex systems, such as the Internet and social networks, have a natural hierarchical organization. Understanding these...

Linear Algebra and Sequential Importance Ssampling for Network Reliability

December 11, 2011

Author(s)

David G. Harris, Francis Sullivan, Isabel M. Beichl

The reliability polynomial of a graph gives the probability that a graph is connected as a function of the probability that each edge is connected. The...

Three-dimensional Nanometrology with TSOM Optical Method

December 10, 2011

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota

Through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) is a new metrology method that achieves 3D nanoscale measurement sensitivity using conventional optical...

Graphene: Plane and Simple Electrical Metrology?

December 7, 2011

Author(s)

Randolph E. Elmquist, Felipe Hernandez-Marquez, Mariano Real, Tian T. Shen, David B. Newell, Colin J. Jacob, George R. Jones

The development of large-area graphene has direct application to electrical standards including the quantized Hall resistance because of unique characteristics...

Effects of Fire Suppressants on Ignition Characteristics of Propane-Air Mixtures

December 6, 2011

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Viswanath R. Katta, Fumiaki Takahashi, Harsha K. Chelliah, Oliver Meier

A numerical investigation is performed for understanding the ignition behaviors of CF3Br and R- 125 fire-suppressing agents in propane-air-agent mixtures. Two...

A Software for Diffraction Stress Factor Calculations for Textured Materials

December 5, 2011

Author(s)

Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold

A software for the calculation of diffraction elastic constants (DEC) for materials both with and without preferred orientation was developed. All grain...

Determining Ignition Regime Maps of Building Materials Exposed to Continuous Wind-Driven Firebrand Showers

December 5, 2011

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka S. Suzuki

Firebrands are a major cause of structural ignition in urban fires in Japan and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires in the USA, yet little research has been...

Versus: A Framework for General Content-Based Comparisons

December 5, 2011

Author(s)

Peter Bajcsy, Antoine Vandecreme, Benjamin J. Long, Paul Khouri Saba, Joe Chalfoun, Luigi Marini, Devin Bonnie, Rob Kooper, Michal Ondrejcek, Kenton McHenry

AbstractWe present a framework for the execution and dissemination of customizable content-based file comparison methods. Given digital objects such as files...

Firebrand Generation Data Obtained from a Full Scale Structure Burn

December 5, 2011

Author(s)

Sayaka S. Suzuki, Samuel Manzello

A full-scale, proof-of-concept experiment was conducted to investigate firebrand production from a burning structure. In this experiment, NIST researchers were...

The New SI: The Role of CODATA

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

David B. Newell, Peter J. Mohr, Barry N. Taylor

The mission of the International Council for Science : Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA ) is to strengthen international science for the...

Cooperative Self-Deployment Strategies in a Mobile Sensor Network with Prioritized Coverage Plan

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian

Efficient deployment strategies are proposed for a mobile sensor network, where the coverage priority of different points in the field is specified by a...

A Genetic Algorithm for Generating RF Circuit Models from Calibrated Broadband Measurements

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Thomas M. Wallis

A genetic algorithm has been developed to generate circuit models from calibrated broadband measurements of coaxial and on-wafer devices under test (DUTs). The...

Distributed Application of the Traffic Scheduling Technique for Smart Grid Advanced Metering Applications Using Multi-Gate Mesh Networks

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

In this paper, we present a multi-gate mesh network architecture that has been developed to ensure high performance and reliability under emergency conditions...

Objective Evaluation of Imager Performance

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Francine K. Amon, Dennis D. Leber, Nicholas Paulter

We describe a method by which the evaluation and characterization of the performance of an imager can be done objectively and scientifically, that is, without...

Comparing VM-Placement Algorithms for On-Demand Clouds

November 29, 2011

Author(s)

Kevin L. Mills, James J. Filliben, Christopher E. Dabrowski

Much recent research has been devoted to investigating algorithms for allocating virtual machines (VMs) to physical machines (PMs) in infrastructure clouds...

VM Leakage and Orphan Control in Open-Source Clouds

November 29, 2011

Author(s)

Christopher E. Dabrowski, Kevin L. Mills

Computer systems often exhibit degraded performance due to resource leakage caused by erroneous programming or malicious attacks, and computers can even crash...

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