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Conferences

Evaluation of existing infiltration models used in building energy simulation

September 1, 2021

Author(s)

Yeonjin Bae, Jaewan Joe, Seungjae Lee, Piljae Im, Lisa Ng

Infiltration modeling is one of the major sources of uncertainty in building energy simulation. Although many infiltration models exist, their structures and...

Behavior of Composite Floor Assemblies Subject to Fire: Influence of Slab Reinforcement

September 1, 2021

Author(s)

Lisa Choe, Selvarajah Ramesh, Chao Zhang, Charles Clifton

A series of fire experiments are being conducted on the 2-story steel framed building with composite floors in the National Fire Research Laboratory. This paper...

OpenASR20: An Open Challenge for Automatic Speech Recognition ofConversational Telephone Speech in Low-Resource Languages

September 1, 2021

Author(s)

Kay Peterson, Audrey N. Tong, Jennifer Yu

In 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity (IARPA), conducted...

Smoothing Techniques in Dynamic Building System Simulation

August 27, 2021

Author(s)

Zhelun Chen, Jin Wen, Anthony Kearsley, Amanda Pertzborn

Efficiently, robustly, and accurately solving systems of nonlinear differential algebraic equations (DAE) for dynamic building system simulation is becoming...

Investigating Sub-bandgap Spectral Effects in GaInP-on-Ge Solar Cells

August 26, 2021

Author(s)

Brianna Conrad, Behrang Hamadani

There is a fundamental understanding in photovoltaics that sub-bandgap light will not be absorbed in the solar cell and therefore will not affect the power...

Exploring Registration of Optical, CMM and XCT for Verification of Supplemental Surfaces to Define AM Lattices: Application to Cylindrical and Spherical Surfaces

August 25, 2021

Author(s)

Maxwell Praniewicz, Jason Fox, Gaurav Ameta, Felix Kim, Paul Witherell, Christopher Saldana

The use of lattice structures produced using additive manufacturing (AM) is of great interest to the aerospace and medical industries because of their potential...

AUTO-CALIBRATION FOR VISION-BASED 6-D SENSING SYSTEM TO SUPPORT MONITORING AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT FOR INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS

August 25, 2021

Author(s)

Guixiu Qiao, Guangkun Li

Industrial robots play an important role in manufacturing automation for smart manufacturing. Some high-precision applications, for example, robot drilling...

The Model Made Me Do It! A Cautionary Tale from a Security Control Baseline Tool Developer

August 24, 2021

Author(s)

Joshua Lubell

Even the best written specifications can be complicated documents to read and understand. Normative prose is often supported by tables and diagrams intended to...

Feature Extraction and Classification for Communication Channels in Wireless Mechatronic Systems

August 24, 2021

Author(s)

Jing Geng, Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, Yongkang Liu, Karl Montgomery, Shuvra Bhattacharyya

For accurate characterization and evaluation of wireless mechatronic systems, effective modeling of wireless communication channels is of paramount importance...

Quantifying Machining Process Inventories In Detailed Design

August 24, 2021

Author(s)

William Z. Bernstein, Till Boettjer, Deverajan Ramanujan

This paper quantifies machining process inventories based on commonly used techniques in various stages of the detailed design process. We investigate...

Visualizing Model-based Product Definitions in Augmented Reality

August 23, 2021

Author(s)

Teodor Vernica, Robert R. Lipman, William Z. Bernstein

Augmented reality (AR) technologies present immense potential for the design and manufacturing communities. However, coordinating traditional engineering data...

Evaluating solder joint failures and solder joint reliability: A side-by-side comparison of Direct Current and Microwave Based Monitoring Techniques

August 23, 2021

Author(s)

Yaw S. Obeng, Papa Amoah

Historically, the evaluating solder joint failures and solder joint reliability have been done with DC methods using event detectors or data loggers for high...

Segmentation of Addictive Manufacturing Defects Using U-Net

August 17, 2021

Author(s)

Vivian Wong, Max Ferguson, Kincho Law, Yung-Tsun Lee, Paul Witherell

Additive manufacturing (AM) provides design flexibility and allows rapid fabrications of parts with complex geometries. The presence of internal defects...

'Passwords Keep Me Safe' – Understanding What Children Think about Passwords

August 11, 2021

Author(s)

Mary Theofanos, Yee-Yin Choong

Children use technology from a very young age, and often have to authenticate. The goal of this study is to explore children's practices, perceptions, and...

Optimizing Unlicensed Band Spectrum Sharing With Subspace-Based Pareto Tracing

August 6, 2021

Author(s)

Zachary Grey, Susanna Mosleh, Angela Folz, Yao Ma, Jason Coder, Andrew Dienstfrey

In order to meet the ever-growing demands of data throughput for forthcoming and deployed wireless networks, new wireless technologies like Long-Term Evolution...

Microstructure and Tensile Test Data Alignment for Additive Manufacturing Data Registration

August 6, 2021

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, Yan Lu, Albert T. Jones

Microstructural and tensile test data are becoming increasingly available and important in additive manufacturing (AM). These data can be used as inputs to a...

The Effect of Annealing Thin Film Parylene C-Platinum Interfaces Characterized by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy

August 6, 2021

Author(s)

Eugene Yoon, Angela Stelson, Nate Orloff, Chris Long, Jim Booth, Ellis Meng

Thin film Parylene C has increasingly been employed as a substrate material with metals like platinum (Pt), especially in MEMS implantable devices. To assist in...

Improved Speech Emotion Recognition using Transfer Learning and Spectrogram Augmentation

August 5, 2021

Author(s)

Sarala Padi, Omid Sadjadi, Ram D. Sriram, Dinesh Manocha

Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging task that plays a crucial role in natural human-computer interaction. One of the main challenges in...

Location and Orientation Dependency in Surface Roughness Of Nickel Super Alloy 625 Parts: Statistical and Distributional Analysis

August 4, 2021

Author(s)

Saina Abolmaali, Alexander Vinel, Jason Fox, Jia Liu, Daniel Silva, Nima Shamsaei

Surface roughness is an important characteristic of additively manufactured parts, as it can impact various mechanical properties, such as friction or fatigue...

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF LASER POWDER BED FUSION ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TESTBED CONTROL SOFTWARE

August 4, 2021

Author(s)

Ho Yeung, Keely Hutchinson, Dong Lin

The National Institute of Standards and Technology developed a facility titled the Additive Manufacturing Metrology Testbed to advance the research in laser...

Exploring Government Security Awareness Programs: A Mixed-Methods Approach

August 3, 2021

Author(s)

Jody Jacobs, Julie Haney, Susanne M. Furman, Fernando Barrientos

Organizational security awareness programs are often underfunded and rely on part-time security awareness professionals who may lack sufficient background...

A Novel Data Standards Platform using ISO Core Components Technical Specification

August 1, 2021

Author(s)

Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Elena Jelisic, Hakju Oh, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan

It is generally observed in inter-organizational communication that present-day data exchange standards are too costly and too complex to develop and use. These...

Communication Technology Problems and Needs of Rural First Responders

July 27, 2021

Author(s)

Kerrianne Buchanan, Yee-Yin Choong, Shanee Dawkins, Sandra Spickard Prettyman

Although new technology may benefit rural first responders to help them serve their communities, to date little is known about what communication technology...

Current Problems, Future Needs: Voices of First Responders about Communication Technology

July 27, 2021

Author(s)

Kerrianne Buchanan, Shanee Dawkins, Yee-Yin Choong, Mary Frances Theofanos, Kristen K. Greene, Susanne M. Furman, Sandra Spickard-Prettyman

With advances in network technologies, there has been increasing interest in developing new communication technology for first responders that utilizes wireless...

A System for Validating Resistive Neural Network Prototypes

July 27, 2021

Author(s)

Brian Hoskins, Mitchell Fream, Matthew Daniels, Jonathan Goodwill, Advait Madhavan, Jabez J. McClelland, Osama Yousuf, Gina C. Adam, Wen Ma, Muqing Liu, Rasmus Madsen, Martin Lueker-Boden

Building prototypes of heterogeneous hardware systems based on emerging electronic, magnetic, and photonic devices is an increasingly important area of research...

Practical Resource Optimization of Quantum-Enabled Communication Channels

July 21, 2021

Author(s)

Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, FNU Nur Fajar Rizqi Annafianto, Ivan Burenkov, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov

We introduce new practical modulation schemes inspired by the quantum measurement. We experimentally show that our quantum-enabled communication system...

Fluorescence Microscopy Reveals Structure-Property Relationships and Polymer Dynamics in Biocomposites

July 21, 2021

Author(s)

Quinn Easter, Shawn Chen, Jeremiah Woodcock, Amanda Souna, Sindhu Seethamraju, Jan Obrzut, Douglas M. Fox, Stephan J. Stranick, Jeffrey Gilman

OBJECTIVES: Developing the next generation of materials for use in restorative work requires a multifaceted approach. While mimicking the properties of the...

Accurate and Robust Trypan Blue-Based Cell Viability Measurement Using Neural Networks

July 19, 2021

Author(s)

Adele Peskin, Steven Lund, Chenyi Ling, Laura Pierce, Sumona Sarkar, Firdavs Kurbanov, Michael Halter, Joe Chalfoun, John T. Elliott

Trypan blue dye exclusion-based cell viability measurements are highly dependent upon image quality and consistency. In order to make measurements repeatable...

Performance Evaluation of the NDN Data Plane Using Statistical Model Checking

July 19, 2021

Author(s)

Siham Khoussi, Lotfi Benmohamed, Abdella Battou, Junxiao Shi, James J. Filliben, Saddek Bensalem, Ayoub Nouri

Named Data Networking (NDN) is an emerging technology for a future Internet architecture that addresses weaknesses of the Internet Protocol (IP). Since Internet...

Optimal Time of Use of Renewable Electricity Pricing: Three-Player Games Model

July 19, 2021

Author(s)

Siham Khoussi

Currently, the electricity demand is exponentially increasing due to the population growth. Therefore, the demand side management (DSM) is becoming unavoidable...

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