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Successful collaborative engineering depends on clear communication between all members of the development process. As that communication becomes more and more...
In water calorimetry, numerous ancillary effects such as radiation-induced chemical reactions, scattering and excess heat from nonwater materials, and dose...
This paper describes the proposed Smart Transducer Web Services (STWS) developed at the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) based on the...
Jean-Louis Vigouroux, Laurent Deshayes, Sebti Foufou, Lawrence A. Welsch
Uncertainty analysis with intervals is an alternative to stochastic optimization for machining optimization problems with uncertainties. This paper presents a...
This paper presents open systems architecture-based software design for an online spindle health monitoring system. The software is implemented using the...
Charles R. McLean, Sanjay Jain, Andreas Craens, Deogratias Kibira
Studies have documented the high cost of the lack of software interoperability on manufacturing. New interface standards are being developed by various...
Charles R. McLean, Sanjay Jain, Frank H. Riddick, Yung-Tsun T. Lee
Manufacturing systems are often costly to develop and operate. Simulation technology has been demonstrated to be an effective tool for improving the efficiency...
Gas-filled capacitors are being used as primary thermometers and they show promise as primary pressure standards and for measuring the Boltzmann constant. With...
Tracy S. Clement, Frans Verbeyst, Rik Pintelon, Yves Rolain, Johan Schoukens
A system identification approach is applied to estimate the time base drift introduced by a high-frequency sampling oscilloscope. First, a new least squares...
John H. Lehman, Katie Hurst, Anne Dillon, A. M. Radojevic, R M. Osgood
The spectral responsivity (600 nm to 1800 nm) of a pyroelectric detector fabricated from crystal ion slicing (CIS) is enhanced by a MWNT coating without...
J Irvine, G O'Brien, J Miller, S Israel, Charles D. Fenimore, John W. Roberts, Michelle Brennan, Jeffrey Bartolucci, D Cannon
Motion imagery will play a critical role in future intelligence and military missions. The ability to provide a real time, dynamic view and persistent...
G O'Brien, S Israel, J Irvine, Charles D. Fenimore, John W. Roberts, Michelle Brennan, D Cannon, J Miller
A fundamental problem in image processing is to find objective metrics that parallel human perception of image quality. In this study, several metrics were...
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is emerging as a promising approach that uses models to support various phases of system development lifecycle such as Code...
Contemporary circuit designers are requiring larger bandwidths from microsystems to accomodate the ever-increasing demand for denser content. The electrical...
Philippe P. Darcis, Christopher N. McCowan, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Joseph D. McColskey, Avigdor Shtechman, Thomas A. Siewert
The increasing demand for natural gas as an alternative energy source implies continued growth of gas pipeline installations. This trend compels the natural gas...
All cells experience strain under physiological conditions. However, experiments that are performed under macroscopic strain conditions prevent a direct...
Dental composites are widely used yet still face challenges including incomplete conversion, polymerization shrinkage, and poor adhesion to tooth structures...
W J. Pitz, N Cernansky, F L. Dryer, F N. Egulfopoulos, J T. Ferrell, Daniel G. Friend, Heinz Pitsch
The present status of the development of surrogate mixtures that represent gasoline combustion behavior is reviewed. Combustion chemistry behavioral targets...
J T. Ferrell, N Cernansky, F L. Dryer, Daniel G. Friend, C A. Hergart, C K. Law, R M. McDavid, Christian Mueller, A K. Patel, Heinz Pitsch
Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations that include realistic combustion/emissions chemistry hold the promise of significantly shortening the development...
Market-based compute grids encompass service providers offering limited resources to potential users with varying quality of service demands and willingness to...
Bloom filters are a probabilistic data structure used to evaluate set membership. A group of hash functions are used to map elements into a Bloom filter and to...
Douglas T. Smith, Gordon A. Shaw, R M. Seugling, D Xiang, Jon R. Pratt
Instrumented indentation testing (IIT), commonly referred to as nanoindentation when small forces are used, is a popular technique for determining the...
Charles Dietlein, A. Luukanen, J. S. Penttila, H. Sipola, L. Gronberg, H. Seppa, P. Helisto, Erich N. Grossman
We report the experimental results of a comparison between free-standing Nb and NbN microbolometer bridges coupled to equiangular spiral antennas on Si...
Anne Dillon, Rohit Deshpande, Paul Rice, Katie Hurst, John H. Lehman
Carbon single-wall nanotubes (SWNTs) have been studied as the thermal-absorption coatings on large area pyroelectric detectors used for the precise measurement...
Erich N. Grossman, Charles Dietlein, Jonathan Chisum, A. Luukanen, J. E. Bjarnason, E. R. Brown
We investigate the spectral response of a THz imaging system based on ultrawideband cryogenic microbolometers. The bandwidth if this system, nominally 0.2 - 1.8...
We describe a broadband calibration source for the millimeter-wave to terahertz (THz) frequency range, the Aqueous Blackbody Calibration (ABC) source. The...
Mabel Ramirez, Erich N. Grossman, Charles Dietlein, Zoya Popovic
This work presents the application of a basic unsupervised classification algorithm for the segmentation of indoor passive Terahertz images. The 30,000 pixel...
Jon R. Pratt, John A. Kramar, Gordon A. Shaw, Douglas T. Smith, John M. Moreland
We describe the design, fabrication, and calibration testing of a new piezoresistive cantilever force sensor suitable for the force calibration of atomic force...
Ndubuisi G. Orji, Ronald G. Dixson, B Bunday, M R. Bishop, Michael W. Cresswell, J Allgair
One of the key challenges in critical dimension (CD) metrology is finding suitable calibration standards. Over the last few years there has been some interest...