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Conferences

Air-Java: Networking for Smart Spaces

Author(s)
Kevin L. Mills
Increasingly people work and live on the move. To support this mobile lifestyle, especially as work becomes more intensely information-based, companies are...

Concealment and Obstacle Detection for Autonomous Driving

Author(s)
Tommy Chang, Tsai Hong Hong, Steven Legowik, Marilyn N. Abrams
Obstacle detection and mapping are essential for unmanned autonomous driving. This paper describes both the sensors and the supporting software used in our...

Shaping of Filamentary Streamers by the Ambient Field

Author(s)
H A. Fowler, J E. Devaney, John G. Hagedorn
We have simulated the fast streamer stage of liquid dielectric breakdown as stochastic growth of a branching fractal tree. Breakdown and threshold properties of...

Anisotropic Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Studies of Ceramics

Author(s)
Andrew J. Allen, Lin-Sien H. Lum, K T. Faber, M H. Zimmerman, Jay S. Wallace
This paper discusses how small-angle neutron scattering studies can be applied in two variations to obtain a representative characterization of the large...

Stabilizing and Measuring Optical Frequencies

Author(s)
John L. Hall, M S. Taubman, Scott A. Diddams, B Tiemann, Jun Ye, L -. Ma, D J. Jones, Steven T. Cundiff
Many factors are coming together to make this an exciting time in the development of optical frequency standards. These include improved strategies for...

Research Trends in Lead-Free Soldering in the U.S.: NCMS Lead-Solder Project

Author(s)
I Artaki, D Noctor, C Desantis, W Desaulnier, L Felton, M Palmer, J Felty, J Greaves, C A. Handwerker, J D. Mather, S Schroeder, D Napp, TG Y. Pan, J Rosser, P Vianco, G Whitten, Y Zhu
In 1997, the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences Lead Free Solder Project carried out by a consortium of 11 industrial corporations, academic...

Collaboration Technologies for Global Manufacturing

Author(s)
Michelle P. Steves, Amy Knutilla
One impact of the globalization of manufacturing is the growing requirement for teams that are not co-located to collaborate using shared information. In this...

Variation in Optical Disc Retardance Measurements

Author(s)
Kent B. Rochford, S. T. Kreger, John W. West
An intercomparison of optical disc birefringence measurements using commercial instrumentation found in manufacturing settings showed significant measurement...

Toward a 2-eV Microcalorimeter X-ray Spectrometer for Constellation-X

Author(s)
C. K. Stahle, Simon R. Bandler, T W. Barbee, J. Beeman, R.P. Brekosky, B. Cabrera, M. Cunningham, Steven Deiker, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, F. M. Finkbeiner, G R. Frank, K. C. Gendreau, E. E. Haller, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, R. L. Kelley, S. E. Labov, M. J. Li, N. Madden, John M. Martinis, D. McCammon, Sae Woo Nam, F. S. Porter, H. Schnopper, E. H. Silver, A. E. Szymkowiak, G. S. Tucker, A. Walker, David A. Wollman
Constellation-X is a cluster of identical observatories that together constitute a promising concept for a next-generation, high-throughput, high-resolution...

A Welding Cell That Supports Remote Collaboration

Author(s)
James D. Gilsinn, William G. Rippey, Joseph A. Falco, Timothy P. Quinn, Robert Russell, Keith A. Stouffer
Discrete part manufacturers using robotic arc welding cells often have several more geographically distributed plants than welding experts. This ratio often...

The Application of HFCs as Refrigerants

Author(s)
David Didion
The technical criteria for using hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), as refrigerants in the vapor compression cycle, is presented. If thermodynamic performance is to be...

Advances in Concrete Mixture Optimisation. Keynote Paper

Author(s)
Kenneth A. Snyder, G J. Frohnsdorff, M Simons
The complexity of high performance concrete (HPC) mixture designs continues to increase, along with the number of criteria that a particuhu mixture must satisfy...
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