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Sanjay Jain, Yung-Tsun Lee, Charles R. McLean, Charles W. Hutchings
Modeling and simulation tools and capabilities can enable understanding of the complex nature of interconnected critical infrastructure (CI) systems. For...
Effects of sample surface free energy (s) and relative humidity (RH) of the tip-sample environment on image contrast and friction characteristics measured with...
Coralie Bernard, Tinh Nguyen, Bastien T. Pellegrin, Mat Celina, Alexander J. Shapiro, Deborah Jacobs, Kar T. Tan, Sungjin Park, R. S. Ruoff, Joannie W. Chin
Graphene oxides are potentially a new class of nanomaterial to enhance multifunctional properties of polymers because of their remarkable thermal conductivity...
We consider the effects of finite spectral bandwidth and numerical aperture in scatterometry measurements and discuss efficient integration methods based upon...
Zhuopeng Tan, Edwin J. Heilweil, Leonid A. Bendersky
In this paper we report on kinetics studies on growth rates of a hydride phase during metal-hydride phase transformation of Mg films doped with transition...
Xinran Zhang, Steven Hudson, Dean DeLongchamp, David J. Gundlach
Organic electronic materials are desired for low-cost printed circuits. As expected, the microstructure of these materials is crucial for their performance...
Joe Chalfoun, Antonio Cardone, Alden A. Dima, Michael Halter, Daniel P. Allen
In order to facilitate the extraction of quantitative data from live cell image sets, automated image analysis methods are needed. This paper presents an...
Interoperability is the ability of systems or software applications to communicate with each other. Interoperability testing verifies that systems can work...
Guodong Shao, Nils E. Bengtsson, Bjoern J. Johansson
Sustainability has become a very significant research topic, it impacts many different manufacturing industries. To achieve sustainable manufacturing, designing...
The long-term performance and stability of composites made from renewable feedstocks will be strongly dependent on the inherent viscoelastic relaxation...
Donald L. Hunston, Kar T. Tan, Bryan D. Vogt, Sushil K. Satija, Cyril Clerici, David E. White
The ability of water to dramatically weaken many types of adhesive bonds has been widely studied. One surprising result is the existence of a critical moisture...
Kar T. Tan, Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston, Kristen L. Steffens, Hatlee Timothy, Kristen Hamilton, Vogt D. Bryan
Adhesion loss due to moisture is a fundamental problem in a large diversity of industries ranging from microelectronics and automotive to aerospace. This study...
John A. Howarter, Edwin Chan, Christopher Stafford
Microstructural and hierarchical patterns are able to enhance the fracture toughness of adhesive interfaces. This phenomenon has been observed naturally in the...
Although existing techniques can measure the viscoelastic properties of bulk polymers, few are available for measuring these properties in polymer thin films...
The performance of intelligent unmanned systems (UMS) must be able to be measured to ensure that they can meet the operational requirements. A generic framework...
The manufacturing industry is facing the challenge of measuring sustainability performance in a product s life cycle. Developing metrics for sustainable...
Ram D. Sriram, Albert W. Jones, Mahesh Mani, Sudarsan Rachuri, Eswaran Subrahmanian
The early part of this millennium has witnessed the emergence of an Internet-based engineering marketplace. Here, engineers, designers, and manufacturers from...
Human vision by a clinical practitioner is often the first disease detection tool. Illumination for such procedures as endoscopy use broadband white light, with...
There are many improvements needed in concrete, especially for use in renewal and expansion of the world's infrastructure, e.g. increased durability, decreased...
This paper describes the methods used during formative utility assessments for speech-to-speech, real-time translation systems intended for tactical use. The...
This paper posits the need for comprehensive theories about human behavior in fire evacuations. These would be of value in and of themselves to improve training...
C. R. Fitzpatrick, C. M. Natarajan, R. E. Warburton, G. S. Buller, Burm Baek, Sae Woo Nam, Shigehito Miki, Z. Wang, Masahide Sasaki, A. G. Sinclair, Robert Hadfield
Single-photon sources and detectors are key enabling technologies for photonics in quantum information science and technology (QIST). QIST applications place...
The evacuation process is influenced by historical events. These can reflect previous incidents, training, and the routine use of the structure. These need to...
Jun-Feng Song, Theodore V. Vorburger, Robert M. Thompson, Thomas Brian Renegar, Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Li Ma, James H. Yen, Martin Ols
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has developed the...
Nathan R. Newbury, Ian R. Coddington, William C. Swann
We describe a frequency-comb based system for time-domain spectroscopy in the near infrared. Our configuration implements synchronous, repetitive sampling of...
Shin G. Chou, Hyeong G. Kang, Matthew L. Clarke, Jeeseong Hwang
By using a multi-color, multi-modal imaging platform, we look into the effects of exciton-plasmon coupling on a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) that is coupled...
We propose using an on-off fluid source model for queuing statistics under TCP. This model was originally introduced to model queuing statistics of ATM...
Helin Dutagaci, Afzal A. Godil, Bulent Sankur, Yucel Yemez
View-based indexing schemes for 3D object retrieval is gaining popularity since they provide good retrieval results. These schemes are coherent with the theory...
Common Logic (CL) is an ISO standard that specifies a family of knowledge representation languages. The function of modules within CL is to support local...