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The WTC 7 investigation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) identified several factors that alone, or in combination, led to fire
Christopher C. White, Kar T. Tan, Donald L. Hunston
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Sustainability has become a very significant research topic since it impacts many different manufacturing industries. The adoption of sustainable manufacturing
Minna S. Lanz, Mahesh Mani, Swee K. Leong, Kevin W. Lyons, Ari Ranta, Kimmo Ikkala, Nils Bengtsson
OOver the past years, institutions in general are increasingly interested and involved in sustainability and social responsibility. In addition, social and
Alexander Weissman, Satyandra K. Gupta, Anantha Narayanan, Ram D. Sriram
Today's ubiquitous use of plastics in product design and manufacturing presents significant environmental and human health challenges. Injection molding, one of
Eric P. Whitenton, April L. Cooke, Jarred Heigel, Ivan Arriola Aldamiz
Process models, including finite element modeling simulations, are important for optimizing the metal cutting process, allowing industry to make parts faster
Robert E. Chapman, David T. Butry, Allison L. Huang
Although the construction industry is a major component of the U.S. economy, it has experienced a prolonged period of decline in productivity. Due to the
Ruediger Kessel, Raghu N. Kacker, Klaus-Dieter Sommer
The Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty (GUM) in Measurement established a general procedure to evaluate measurement uncertainty. The Guide covers only the
Karen M. Siegrist, David F. Plusquellic, Michael E. Thomas
Weak multiphonon bands dominate absorption at the lower absorption band edge which lies in the THz and submillimeter spectral regions for radome materials of
The Single-query, Bi-directional, Lazy roadmap (SBL) algorithm successfully builds upon the traditional Probabilistic Roadmaps (PRM) approach by introducing a
The thermal decomposition of RP-2 and mixtures of RP-2 with four different additives has been investigated. The mixtures with RP-2 contained one of the
Bret Windom, Tara Lovestead, Jennifer Riggs, Chris Nickell, Thomas J. Bruno
RP-1 is a long-established hydrocarbon fuel that continues to be widely used as the kerosene component in rocket propulsion systems. The desire in recent years
Elena R. Messina, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Rajmohan Madhavan
In recent years, the number of competitions in the robotic domain has increased tremendously. This growth is spurred by the appealing nature of robots, the
Until recently, attempting to experimentally quantify the vulnerabilities of structures to ignition from firebrand showers has remained elusive. The coupling of
Jae H. Lee, Steven J. Fenves, Conrad E. Bock, Hyo Won Suh, Sudarsan Rachuri, Xenia Fiorentini, Ram D. Sriram
Supporting different stakeholder viewpoints across the product s entire lifecycle requires semantic richness for representing product related information. This
Zhouhui Lian, Afzal A. Godil, Geert-Jan Giezeman, Ryutarou Ohbuchi, Waqar Saleem, Takahiko Furuya, Thomas Baumbach, Hannah Bast, Joachim Giesen
We present the results of the ULDS track of the shape retrieval contest SHREC 2010. The task was to perform 40 queries in a dataset of 10000 shapes. We describe
In this paper we describe a novel 3D shape retrieval method based on Multi-scale Integral Orientations. In our approach, a 3D model after normalization is
Non-rigid shape matching is one of the most challenging fields in content-based 3D object retrieval. The aim of the SHREC 2010 - Shape Retrieval Contest of Non
Helin Dutagaci, Afzal A. Godil, Chun Pan (Benny) Cheung
The SHREC 10 Shape Retrieval Contest of Range Scans aims at comparing algorithms that match a range scan to complete 3D models in a target database. The queries
A M. Bronstein, M M. Bronstein, U Castellani, B Falcidieno, A. Fusiello, Afzal A. Godil, L J. Guibas, I Kokkinos, Zhouhui Lian, M Ovsjanikov, G Patane, M. Spagnuolo, R Toldo
SHREC 10 robust large-scale shape retrieval benchmark simulates a retrieval scenario, in which the queries include multiple modifications and transformations of
Guarded Hamon transfer standards have been used at NIST for decades for scaling to high resistance levels. A recent project has been undertaken to apply
We present methodology and preliminary results of a Monte-Carlo simulation to perform a quantified analysis of regularized deconvolution in the context of full
Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Ian R. Coddington, William C. Swann, Esther Baumann, Nathan R. Newbury
Dual, coherent frequency combs are used to measure the spectrum of an incoherent, quasi-thermal source through Fourier spectroscopy. The source spectrum is
Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Ian R. Coddington, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury
The time-resolved frequency spectrum of a frequency agile CW laser is measured with a 300υs update rate and 3 kHz resolution/accuracy over a 28 nm wavelength
Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Ian R. Coddington, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury
Two coherent 1.5-µm frequency combs are transferred to 3.4 µm by difference frequency generation with a 1064 nm cw laser. From a multi-heterodyne measurement
Discussed are the efforts undertaken at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create a new set of high-resistance standards (specifically the 10
Fan Zhang, Kin P. Cheung, Jason Campbell, John S. Suehle
A popular defect depth-profiling technique, frequency-dependent charge-pumping is carefully re-examined. Without complicated math of modeling, the physics