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Conferences

Algorithm for Estimating Carbon Monoxide Formation in Enclosure Fires

March 3, 1997

Author(s)

William M. Pitts

This paper introduces an engineering approach for estimating the generation rate of carbon monoxide (CO) within a room containing a fire. Four CO formation...

Effect of Sample Size on the Heat Release Rate of Charring Materials

March 3, 1997

Author(s)

S J. Ritchie, Kenneth D. Steckler, Anthony P. Hamins, Thomas G. Cleary, Jiann C. Yang, Takashi Kashiwagi

The burning of a horizontal wood slab situated atop an insulating substrate was modeled using three coupled submodels for the gas-phase, wood, and substrate...

Neutron Beam Methods in the Analysis of Reference Materials

March 1, 1997

Author(s)

Richard M. Lindstrom

Analytical Applications of Neutron Capture Gamma Rays

March 1, 1997

Author(s)

Richard M. Lindstrom, D L. Anderson, Rick L. Paul

The Role of Neutron Activation Analysis in the Development and Certification of NIST Environmental Standard Reference Materials

March 1, 1997

Author(s)

Robert R. Greenberg

Manufacturing Evaluation of Designs: A Knowledge-Based Approach

March 1, 1997

Author(s)

Ronald Giachetti, Kevin K. Jurrens

Manufacturing evaluation is performed with heuristics that are developed internally by the manufacturing experts in the company. Many of the existing...

Emergence, Creativity, and Computational Tractability in Shape Grammers

March 1, 1997

Author(s)

Scott Chase

Emergence supports creativity in that emergent features can be considered unanticipated or accidental. The body of shape grammar research over the past quarter...

Optimization as a Driver for Design Space Exploration

March 1, 1997

Author(s)

Simon Szykman

This paper describes an approach toward the use of optimization which is a departure from the traditional role optimization plays in the design process...

Surge Recordings That Make Sense: Joule Deposition: Yes! - "Joule Content": Never!

March 1, 1997

Author(s)

G. Lindes, A. Mansoor, Francois D. Martzloff, D. Vannoy

Developing a Consumer-Oriented Guide on Surge Protection

March 1, 1997

Author(s)

T. S. Key, Francois D. Martzloff, R. Witt, J. May, S. Black

Concrete Fire Test Programs in Taiwan.

February 13, 1997

Author(s)

T D. Lin, S Chou

Analysis of Pore Pressure, Thermal Stress and Fracture in Rapidly Heated Concrete

February 13, 1997

Author(s)

Z P. Bazant

Nanofabrication via Atom Optics with Chromium

February 10, 1997

Author(s)

Jabez J. McClelland, W Anderson, Robert Celotta

Through the use of light forces exerted by near-resonant laser light, chromium atoms are focused as they deposit onto a substrate, forming nanometer-scale...

Plasma Diagnostics on the Gaseous Electronics Conference Radio-Frequency Reference Cell

February 1, 1997

Author(s)

James K. Olthoff

Surges and Transients

February 1, 1997

Author(s)

Francois D. Martzloff

Proceedings Plug and Play Software for Agile Manufacturing

February 1, 1997

Author(s)

Barbara L. Goldstein

Photomask Metrology in the Era of Neolithography

February 1, 1997

Author(s)

James E. Potzick

The appearance of smaller photomask feature sizes, high density patterns, and optical enhancements such as phase shifters and OPC features, and the increasing...

Using Incandescent Lamp Failure Levels for Assessment of the Surge Environment

February 1, 1997

Author(s)

H. Bachl, Francois D. Martzloff, D. Nastasi

Models for Integrating Scheduling and Shop Floor Data Collection

February 1, 1997

Author(s)

Frank H. Riddick, V. Lourenco

Increasing shop floor efficiency through scheduling has become one of the major concerns of manufacturing companies. Two of the problems that manufacturers have...

The NIST Electronic Kilogram

January 1, 1997

Author(s)

David B. Newell, K Fujii, Andrew Gillespie, P. T. Olsen, Alain Picard, Richard L. Steiner, Gerard N. Stenbakken, Edwin R. Williams

Quantum Harmonic Oscillator State Synthesis and Analysis

January 1, 1997

Author(s)

Wayne M. Itano, C R. Monroe, D M. Meekhof, Dietrich G. Leibfried, B E. King, David J. Wineland

We laser-cool single beryllium ions in a Paul trap to the ground (n = 0) quantum harmonic oscillator state with greater than 90% probability. From this starting...

Tip and Surface Reconstruction in Scanned Probe Microscopy

January 1, 1997

Author(s)

John S. Villarrubia

The non-vanishing size of tips in scanned probe microscopes (e.g., atomic force microscope or scanning tunneling microscope) results in imaging errors...

Measurement Comparison of Stylus Radii

January 1, 1997

Author(s)

Jun-Feng Song, Theodore V. Vorburger

Three methods were used for measuring the radii of the same stylus of our stylus instrument. The measurement results were compared and showed good agreement...

The Calculation of CMM Measurement Uncertainty via The Method of Simulation by Constraints

January 1, 1997

Author(s)

Steven D. Phillips, Bruce R. Borchardt, Daniel S. Sawyer, William T. Estler, David E. Ward, K Eberhardt, M. Levenson, Marjorie A. McClain, B Melvin, Ted Hopp, Y Shen

The calculation of task specific measurement uncertainty when using coordinate measuring machines is an important and challenging task. Current methods to...

New NIST-Certified Small Scale Pitch Standard

January 1, 1997

Author(s)

James E. Potzick

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing a dimensional pitch standard covering the range 1 ?m to 10 mm, intended for the calibration of...

Finish and Figure Metrology for Soft Xray Optics

January 1, 1997

Author(s)

Theodore V. Vorburger, Christopher J. Evans, V W. Tsai, Joseph Fu, E. C. Williams, Ronald G. Dixson, P Sullivan, T. McWaid

Abstract not available.

The dynamics of chip formation in machining

January 1, 1997

Author(s)

Matthew A. Davies, Christopher J. Evans, Timothy J. Burns

In this paper, we provide experimental, numerical and analytical evidence suggesting that the onset of segmented chip formation is the result of a Hopf...

The Dynamics of Chip Segmentation in Machining

January 1, 1997

Author(s)

Matthew A. Davies, Christopher J. Evans, Timothy J. Burns

The Guidelines for Expressing Measurement Uncertainties and the 4:1 Test Uncertainty Ratio

January 1, 1997

Author(s)

Jun-Feng Song

In 1988, MIL-STD-45662A adopted the 4:1 Test Uncertainty Ratio (TUR); this was later incorporated into the ANSI/NCSL Z540-1 standard in 1994. However, in 1992...

Ultrasensitive high resolution laser spectroscopy and its application to optical frequency standards

January 1, 1997

Author(s)

Jun Ye, L -. Ma, John L. Hall

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