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Conferences

Understanding Consistency Maintenance in Service Discovery Architectures During Communication Failure

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Christopher E. Dabrowski, Kevin L. Mills, J R. Elder

Current trends suggest future software systems will comprise collections of components that combine and recombine dynamically in reaction to changing conditions...

Modeling Moisture in Residential Buildings with a Multizone IAQ Program

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Steven J. Emmerich, Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Nabinger

Multizone airflow and contaminant transport modeling is a valuable tool for researchers and others studying indoor air quality (IAQ) problems in buildings...

Control of Hysteretic Structures Using H(inf) Algorithm and Stochastic Linearization Techniques

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Fahim Sadek, M Ben Ftima, S El-Borgi, G P. McCormick, Michael A. Riley

This paper presents a robust static output feedback H(infinity) algorithm for control of hysteretic civil engineering structures subjected to earthquake ground...

Equivalent Number of Loading Cycles for the Seismic Testing of Passive Energy Dissipation Devices

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Fahim Sadek, Michael A. Riley

Prototype testing of passive energy dissipation devices is required to verify their response characteristics and demonstrate their capacity to withstand the...

NDE of Concrete Structures Strengthened with FRP Using Infrared Thermography

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

M A. Starnes, Nicholas J. Carino, E A. Kausel

Numerical and experimental methods are used to investigate the effectiveness of infrared thermography to estimate the width of subsurface flaws in fiber...

Global Response Modification Factors vs. Member Ductility-Based Modifiers

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

S K. Kunnath, Hai S. Lew, D Friis

Most building structures today are designed using the response modification factors (R-factors) given in the code for different types of structural systems...

Greener Chlorine Wastewater Disinfection Using Alternative Dechlorination Agents

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

William A. MacCrehan, Mary Bedner, G. R. Helz

The Challenge of Nanometrology

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek

The promise and challenge of nanotechnology is immense. The National Nanotechnology Initiative provides an opportunity to develop a new technological base for U...

Advanced Numerical Methods for Polymer Mass Spectral Data Analysis

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

William E. Wallace, Charles M. Guttman, Anthony J. Kearsley, Javier Bernal

A mathematical algorithm is presented that accurately locates and calculates the area beneath peaks using only reproducible mathematical operations and a single...

Investigation of Morphology and Interface in Polymer Composite Thin Films

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

C. K. Chiang, Li Piin Sung, R Popielarz

Laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) has been applied to examine the filler particles and their distribution in BaTiO3-polymer composite films. We have...

A Facility for Nanoscience Research: An Overview

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Joseph A. Stroscio, E Hudson, Steven R. Blankenship, Robert Celotta, Aaron P. Fein

We describe the development of an experimental system, consisting of a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope coupled to UHV tip and sample preparation...

Autonomous Mobility for the Demo III Experimental Unmanned Vehicles

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Alberto Lacaze, Karl Murphy, M DelGiono

This paper will describe the autonomous mobility controller used under the U.S. Army sponsored Demo III eXperimental Unmanned Vehicle (XUV) project. The...

Quantifying Usability: The Industry Usability Reporting Project

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Jean C. Scholtz, Emile L. Morse, Sharon J. Laskowski, A Wishansky, K Butler

The paper describes the Common Industry format (CIF) developed in the Industry Usability Reporting Project (IUSR), which is now an ANSI standard. Four pilot...

An Empirical Approach to Determining Rockwell Hardness Measurement Uncertainty

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Samuel R. Low III, Walter S. Liggett Jr

Characteristics of the empirically developed Rockwell hardness test make it difficult to determine measurement uncertainty using methods traditionally applied...

Use of Thermodynamic Software in Process Modelling and New Applications of Thermodynamic

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Ursula R. Kattner, G Eriksson, I Hahn, R Schmid-fetzer, Bo Sundman, V Swamy, A Kussmaul, P J. Spencer, T J. Anderson, T G. Chart, A Costa e Silva, B Jansson, B J. Lee, M Schalin

The strongly related nature of the topics allocated to Groups 4 and 5 was such that a close interaction between the two groups appeared essential at all stages...

Construction of a Thermodynamic Database for Ni-Base Superalloys: A Case Study

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Ursula R. Kattner

Ni-base alloys are the most widely used superalloys in applications involving high temperatures and severe environmental conditions. To model the various...

Worldwide Comparisons of Rockwell Hardness Scales that Use a Diamond Indenter

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Samuel R. Low III, Jun-Feng Song

The United States has participated in two major worldwide comparisons of Rockwell hardness scales over the past twenty years. In 1983, fourteen countries...

An XML Namespace for IUPAC

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Stephen E. Stein

The author presented two talks at the IUPAC/CAS conference of Chemical identifiers and XML in Chemistry, on July 1, 2002 in Columbus Ohio. He will be sending...

Nanometer-Scale Metrology: Meeting the Nanotechnology Measurement Challenges

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek

NIST is responsible to U.S. industry for developing length intensive measurement capabilities and calibration standards in the nanometer scale regime. The...

Scanning Electron Microscope Analog of Scatterometry

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

John S. Villarrubia, Andras Vladar, J R. Lowney, Michael T. Postek

Optical scatterometry has attracted a great deal of interest for linewidth measurement due to its high repeatability and capability of measuring sidewall shape...

Comparison of Measured Optical Image Profiles of Silicon Lines with Two Different Theoretical Models

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Richard M. Silver, Ravikiran Attota, Michael T. Stocker, Jay S. Jun, Egon Marx, Robert D. Larrabee, B Russo, M P. Davidson

In this paper we describe a new method for the separation of too-induced measurement errors and sample-induced measurement errors. We apply the method to...

InGaAsP Ex-situ characterization

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Alexana Roshko, Kristine A. Bertness

An interlaboratory comparison has been undertaken of X-ray and photoluminescence measurements of InGaAsP on InP. Six 1 cm 2 specimens are being measured, with...

Rapid, Remote, Automated Card Sorting using WebCAT

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Emile L. Morse

WebCAT is a rapid, remote, and automated method for performing card sorting. WebCAT, a tool from the NIST Web Metrics Testbed, provides a web-based interface...

An Approach to the Design of Natural and Hybrid Ventilation Systems for Cooling Buildings

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

James W. Axley, Steven Emmerich, William Stuart Dols, George Walton

This paper presents an approach to the design of natural and hybrid ventilation systems that accounts for specific climatic and operational conditions and is...

A Priority Agenda for Energy-Related Indoor Environmental Quality Research

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

W J. Fisk, G Brager, M Brook, H Burge, J Cole, J Cummings, H Levin, V Loftness, T Logee, M J. Mendell, Andrew K. Persily, S Taylor, J Zhang

A multidisciplinary team of IEQ and energy researchers is working together to define a program of priority energy-related IEQ research. This paper describes the...

A Comparison of an R22 and an R410A Air Conditioner Operating at High Ambient Temperatures

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

William V. Payne, Piotr A. Domanski

R22 and R410A split air-conditioning systems were tested and compared as outdoor temperature ranged form 27.8 C (82.0 F) to 54.4 F (130 F). The R410A system...

A Monolithic Implementation of Interface Circuitry for CMOS Compatible Gas-Sensor System

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

Muhammad Afridi, John S. Suehle, Mona E. Zaghloul, David W. Berning, Allen R. Hefner Jr., Stephen Semancik, Richard E. Cavicchi

A monolithic CMOS micro-gas-sensor system, designed and fabricated in a standard CMOS process, is described. The gas-sensor system incorporates an array of four...

Chemical Ionization of Saturated Hydrocarbons Using Organometallic Ion Chemistry

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

H M. Byrd, Charles M. Guttman, D P. Ridge

Introduction: The potential for quick and direct measurement of chemical composition, absolute molecular mass (MM), MM distribution of linear and branched...

Quantitation of Polymer End Groups Using MALDI TOF MS

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

A P. Weaver, Charles M. Guttman, Kathleen M. Flynn

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI TOF MS) has been employed to analyze polystryrene mixtures of molecular mass...

Metal Powder Substrate-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Mass Spectrometry to Polyethylene

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

T Yalcin, William E. Wallace, Kathleen M. Flynn

This paper describes studies of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry of polyethylene using metal powder as the matrix...

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