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This presentation provides information about the proposed SSPC Coatings Knowledge Center and activities of a national program for a computer integrated...
The Internet is a ready source of current information relevant to the coatings industry. Hundreds of World Wide Web sites on the Internet have information on...
This paper describes a software environment recently implemented for maintaining a registry of unique short names for each of the entity data types within each...
Industry need for standards to support integration of distributed manufacturing information technology systems is driving a process for creating validated pre...
Developing SGML applications involves making choices driven by end user requirements and by the availability and functionality of third party SGML parsers...
The percentage of deaths due to smoke inhalation (mainly from carbon monoxide poisoning) has risen 1% ever year since 1980, and was responsible for 76% of the...
William D. Davis, Kathy A. Notarianni, Kevin B. McGrattan
The purpose of this study is to examine the predictive capabilities of fire models using the results of two fire experiments conducted in an aircraft hangar...
Jeffrey W. Gilman, Takashi Kashiwagi, David L. VanderHart, S M. Lomakin, V Nagy
Additives that increase the amount of charcoal-like residue or carbonaceous char that forms during polymer combustion are very effective fire retardants...
Urban/wildland intermix conflagrations occur when dry vegetative fuels of the wild areas combine with structural fuels from houses to product a combustible...
The NIST Annual Conference on Fire Research has long been the prime forum for presentation and discussion of the latest advances in the science of fire and the...
To test the flammability of materials, a sample is placed on a substrate and exposed to a uniform heat flux. Measurements include sample mass and upper and...
NIST researchers have developed a reference implementation and companion demonstration for this currently defined set of specifications to provide a concrete...
The temperature glide of zeotropic mixtures during phase change provides the opportunity to limit throttling losses of the refrigerant leaving the condenser...
A number of countries around the world are using or developing performance-based regulations. To provide a forum for discussion on the transition to a...
Walter W. Jones, J. L. Bailey, P. A. Tatem, Glenn P. Forney
This paper describes a new algorithm of the Consolidated Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (CFAST) fire model and compares to data from real scale fire tests...