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Jason Fox, Christopher Evans, Aarush Sood, Romaine Isaacs, Brigid Mullany, Angela Allen, Ed Morse
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is one of a group of manufacturing technologies capable of producing complex structures and surfaces in small batches and with...
Rezvaneh Rezapour, Sravana Reddy, Rosie Jones, Ian Soboroff
Abstractive summarization of podcasts is motivated by the growing popularity of podcasts and the needs of their listeners. Podcasting is a markedly different...
This paper presents the lessons regarding the construction and use of large Cranfield-style test collections learned from the TREC 2021 Deep Learning track. The...
Given the recent focus on recovery-based design, this study examines the effect of increased design strength and stiffness requirements on the functional...
Automatic emotion recognition plays a key role in computer-human interaction as it has the potential to enrich the next generation artificial intelligence with...
Guowen Li, Yangyang Fu, Amanda Pertzborn, Zheng O'Neill, Jin Wen
Model Predictive Control (MPC) has been demonstrated to be an efficient way to reduce building operating costs, especially for buildings with thermal storage...
Thomas Roth, Wenqi Guo, Chenli Wang, Himanshu Neema, Anirban Bhattacharjee
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are complex systems of computational, physical, and human components integrated to achieve some function over one or more networks...
Building seismic stability is provided when a structural system is capable of carrying gravity loads while developing large inelastic deformations and...
Zhidong Zhang, Matthew Speicher, Amanpreet Singh, Tara Hutchinson, Benjamin Schafer
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of structural and non-structural detailing that is not directly accounted for in conventional...
Yating Zhang, Juan Fung, Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar
Wood-frame soft-story buildings have been responsible for massive loss of life and property in past earthquakes. To reduce future earthquake losses, several...
Zhelun Chen, Jin Wen, Steven T. Bushby, Caleb Calfa, Yangyang Fu, Gabriel Grajewski, Yicheng Li, L. James Lo, Zheng O'Neill, Vance (Wm.) Payne, Amanda Pertzborn, Zhiyao Yang
The goals of reducing energy costs, shifting electricity peaks, increasing the use of renewable energy, and enhancing the stability of the electric grid can be...
To address the growing need for functional recovery design of U.S. built environment, a recent NIST and FEMA report recommends the development of a national...
We are developing software and data tools which parametrize coarse-grained force-fields in a systematic way while preserving the chemistry, thermodynamics, and...
Julie Haney, Jody Jacobs, Fernando Barrientos, Susanne M. Furman
Security information workers (SIW) are professionals who develop and use security-related data within their jobs. Qualitative methods -- primarily interviews --...
Lingnan Lin, Marylia Duarte Batista, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti
Pressure losses in pipe fittings are important design information for sizing pipelines and selecting pumps. Currently, there is no standard method of test for...
Lingnan Lin, Marylia Duarte Batista, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti
Pressure losses in pipe fittings are important design information for sizing pipelines and selecting pumps. Currently, there is no standard method of test for...
Joshua Kast, Paritosh Manurkar, Kate Remley, Rob Horansky, Dylan Williams
We apply a large-signal network analyzer to the measurement of arbitrarily long repetitive millimeter-wave modulated signals transmitted by user equipment...
Pete Hopkins, Manuel Castellanos Beltran, John Biesecker, Paul Dresselhaus, Anna Fox, Logan Howe, David Olaya, Adam Sirois, Dylan Williams, Samuel P. Benz, Alirio De Jesus Soares Boaventura, Justus Brevik
Global investment in the research and development of quantum information systems by industry, government, and academic institutions continues to accelerate and...
Face coverings are a critical tool in the fight against the spread of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic [1]. These...
The presentation provides historical perspective and a short summary of the screening process for medium- and high-pressure fluids indicating that the...
Zhelun Chen, Jin Wen, Steven T. Bushby, L James Lo, Zheng O'Neill, Vance (Wm.) Payne, Amanda Pertzborn, Caleb Calfa, Yangyang Fu, Gabriel Grajewski, Yicheng Li, Zhiyao Yang
Accurate simulation of building system dynamics is particularly important for understanding building energy flexibility. Among all dynamics in a building, a...
Indoor carbon dioxide has been used for decades to evaluate indoor air quality (IAQ) and ventilation. However, many applications of CO2 as an indicator or...
Andrew K. Persily, William Bahnfleth, Howard Kipen, Josephine Lau, Corinne Mandin, Chandra Sekhar, Pawel Wargocki, Lan Chi Nguyen Weekes
Indoor CO2 concentrations are often discussed in the context of ventilation and IAQ, most recently in relation to airborne infectious disease transmission...
In the era of COVID19, we need to quickly find and fix classrooms that have inadequate ventilation to reduce long-range airborne transmission of diseases...
Containerization, while getting popular in data centers, faces practical challenges due to the sharing nature of cloud networks among tens of thousands...