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Measurements of the flow and the energy content of natural gas rely on equations of state to compute four thermodynamic properties: 1) compressibility factor; 2...
The manufacturing companies are facing the challenging dilemma on how to achieve better quality products while reducing manufacturing costs and define the...
This paper recommends practices for development and deployment of modeling, simulation and analysis (MS&A) tools for homeland security applications. The set of...
This paper proposes a framework for application of system dynamics modeling to sustainable manufacturing. Sustainable manufacturing involves interaction of...
Substantial global climate changes due to global warming and the growing rate resource depletion have compelled several researchers to focus their research in...
Antonio Izquierdo Manzanares, Nada T. Golmie, Richard A. Rouil
In this paper we study the performance of the authentication process in media independent handovers, and consider the impact of using IEEE 802.21 link triggers...
Thomas A. Germer, Heather J. Patrick, Richard M. Silver, Benjamin Bunday
This article describes how an uncertainty analysis may be performed on a scatterometry measurement. A method is outlined for propagating uncertainties through a...
Chiara F. Ferraris, Zughuo Li, Mona Mohseni, Nicholas Franson
Oil is the most used standard material for the calibration of rheometers. Other products are used to calibrate flow devices, i.e., the flow table is calibrated...
Charles S. Tarrio, Robert E. Vest, Thomas B. Lucatorto, R. Caudillo
Optics in EUVL exposure tools are known to suffer reflectivity degradation, mostly from the buildup of carbon. The sources of this carbon have been difficult to...
Fiber optic networks are an attractive means for the remote distribution of highly stable frequencies from optical clocks. The highest performance is achieved...
Standard materials certified using electrochemical techniques include many of the most-used certified reference materials (CRMs). These CRMs provide...
At NIST, said Dr. Rochford, "we are very broad, but we focus like a laser on measurement science." NIST also helps develop standards and promote technology. He...
Modeling and simulation (M&S) techniques are increasingly being used to solve problems and aid decision making in many different fields. It is particularly...
A number of modeling, simulation and analysis (MSA) efforts have evolved to support homeland security initiatives. Various organizations involved in homeland...
This paper focuses on efforts by the Mass and Force Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to enhance the data taking operations of...
Gale A. Holmes, Eun S. Park, Jae Hyun Kim, Walter G. McDonough, John R. Sieber, Haruki Kobayashi, Michael A. Riley, Kirk D. Rice
The use of high performance fibers (such as, poly[(benzo-[1,2-d;5,4-d ]-benzoxazole-2,6-diyl)-1,4-phenylene]1 (PBO), ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene2...
Jeffrey T. Fong, Roland deWit, Pedro V. Marcal, James J. Filliben, Nathanael A. Heckert, Stephen R. Gosselin
In a 2007 paper entitled "Application of Failure Event Data to Benchmark Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics (PFM) Computer Codes" (Simonen, F. A., Gosselin, S. R...
Over the last thirty years, much research has been done on the development and application of inservice inspection (ISI) and failure event databases for...
Charles J. Burroughs, Alain Rufenacht, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz, Mike Elsbury
The output voltage of Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard (PJVS) circuits has reached the 10 V benchmark, which was set over twenty years ago by...
The understanding of shape and size of the human head and faces is vital for design of facial wear products, such as respirators, helmets, eyeglasses and for...
We are developing a device for measuring the heat capacity of candidate absorber materials for gamma-ray microcalorimeters with the goal of finding materials...
Donald L. Hunston, Kar T. Tan, Sushil K. Satija, Christopher C. White, Bryan D. Vogt, Cyril Clerici
It is well-known that moisture will attack many adhesive joints. A particularly interesting feature is the observation that when the moisture level in certain...
The CBC-MAC, or cipher block chaining message authentication code, is a well-known method to generate message authentication codes. Unfortunately, it is not...
In opinion-finding, the retrieval system is tasked with re- trieving not just relevant documents, but those that also express an opinion towards the query...
A computational approach to analyzing respirator fit is demonstrated using geometries generated by laser scanning, mechanical drawings, and CAD files. Three fit...
Tinh Nguyen, Bastien T. Pellegrin, Alexander J. Shapiro, Xiaohong Gu, Joannie W. Chin
Nanofillers are increasingly used to enhance multifunctional properties of polymers. However, recent research suggests that nanomaterials may have a negative...
Carl G. Simon Jr., Kaushik Chatterjee, Sheng Lin-Gibson, William E. Wallace, Marian F. Young
A combinatorial method to rapidly screen cell-material interactions in three-dimensional (3-D) culture format was developed for accelerating tissue engineering...
We demonstrate a new technique to monitor the polarization-mode dispersion in a fiber communication channel by analyzing the modulated data at the fiber output...
Metrology frames have proven to be an excellent tool for improving the accuracy of machine tools, and because of the small sizes and travels involved, they may...
We examine several methods for testing disparate, heterogeneous systems that intercommunicate through message exchanges governed by a set of well defined...