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Conferences

Frequency tunable label-free surface acoustic wave-based flow sensor

October 7, 2020

Author(s)

Aurore F. Quelennec, Jason J. Gorman, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez

We present a label-free SAW-based flow sensor with enhanced precision and repeatability. This sensor improves the signal-to-noise ratio by one order of...

Link-Level Abstraction of IEEE 802.11ay based on a Multi-Path Fading Channel Model from Measurements

October 6, 2020

Author(s)

Neeraj Varshney, Jiayi Zhang, Jian Wang, Anuraag Bodi, Nada T. Golmie

This paper presents a performance analysis of the link-level abstraction for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and single-carrier (SC) modes in...

Matching and comparing objects in a serial cytometer

October 4, 2020

Author(s)

Nikita Podobedov, Matthew DiSalvo, Jason A. Hsu, Paul Patrone, Gregory A. Cooksey

Flow cytometers are indispensable for clinical studies, yet are hindered by inherent uncertainties. We have developed an optofluidic device capable of multiple...

Serial microfluidic cytometry with inertial and hydrodynamic flow focusing

October 4, 2020

Author(s)

Matthew DiSalvo, Paul Patrone, Gregory A. Cooksey

Microfluidics are increasingly used to develop flow cytometers with novel functionalities. Although various approaches exist to control particle positioning...

DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT OF NANOLITER PER MINUTE FLOW BY SCALED DOSAGE OF FLUORESCENT SOLUTIONS

October 3, 2020

Author(s)

Gregory A. Cooksey, Paul Patrone, James R. Hands, Stephen E. Meek, Anthony J. Kearsley

This work describes a new method for continuous measurement of flow in a microchannel from 1 nL/min to 1000 nL/min using an optofluidic device with waveguides...

SCALABLE THERMAL SIMULATION OF POWDER BED FUSION

October 1, 2020

Author(s)

Paul Witherell, Vadim Shapiro, Yaqi Zhang

Powder bed fusion (PBF) has become a widely used additive manufacturing (AM) technology to produce metallic parts. As the PBF process is driven by a moving heat...

NDN-DPDK: NDN Forwarding at 100 Gbps on Commodity Hardware

September 29, 2020

Author(s)

Junxiao Shi, Davide Pesavento, Lotfi Benmohamed

Since the Named Data Networking (NDN) data plane requires name-based lookup of potentially large tables using variable-length hierarchical names as well as per...

Adaptive Estimation of Near-Optimal Electrostatic Force in Micro Energy-Harvesters

September 28, 2020

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Masoud Roudneshin, Amir G. Aghdam

Recent advancements in micro-electronics have led to the development of miniature-sized wearable sensors that can be used for a variety of health monitoring...

It's the Company, the Government, You and I: User Perceptions of Responsibility for Smart Home Privacy and Security

September 25, 2020

Author(s)

Julie M. Haney, Yasemin Acar, Susanne M. Furman

Smart home technology exposes adopters to increased risk to network security, information privacy, and physical safety. However, users may lack understanding of...

Anteater: Interactive Visualization for Program Understanding

September 24, 2020

Author(s)

Rebecca Faust, Kartherin Isaacs, William Z. Bernstein, Michael Sharp, Carlos Scheidegger

Debugging is famously one the hardest parts in programming. In this paper, we tackle the question: what does a debugging environment look like when we take...

Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Seismic Retrofit Costs

September 23, 2020

Author(s)

Juan F. Fung, Siamak Sattar, David Butry, Steven L. McCabe

Aging building clusters all around the world, especially in high seismic regions, will require a retrofit approach to improve the resilience of the built...

Vulnerability trends in web servers and browsers

September 21, 2020

Author(s)

M S Raunak, David Kuhn, Richard Kogut, Raghu Kacker

In previous work we have looked at trends in vulnerabilities due to ordinary programming errors [2, 3]. This analysis focuses on two of the most widely used...

GRADIENT ELUTION MOVING BOUNDARY ELECTROPHORESIS OF HOMEMADE FUEL-OXIDIZER EXPLOSIVES

September 21, 2020

Author(s)

Thomas Forbes, Shannon T. Krauss, Dillion Jobes

The analysis of complex samples without extensive preparation steps (e.g., filtration or centrifugation) is a persistent challenge for applications ranging from...

Economic considerations for recovery-based design

September 20, 2020

Author(s)

Juan Fung, Dustin Cook, Yating Zhang, Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar

Current building design practice targets life safety performance for the design-level earthquake. While some buildings (e.g., schools, hospitals) may be...

Towards Usable Updates for Smart Home Devices

September 17, 2020

Author(s)

Julie M. Haney, Susanne M. Furman

Smart home device updates are important tools for users to remediate security vulnerabilities and protect devices from future attacks. However, no prior...

Cryptanalysis of LEDAcrypt

September 16, 2020

Author(s)

Daniel C. Apon, Ray A. Perlner, Angela Y. Robinson, Paulo Santini

We report on the concrete cryptanalysis of LEDAcrypt, a 2nd Round candidate in NIST's Post- Quantum Cryptography standardization process and one of 17...

Time Series Feature Extraction and Selection Tool for Fire Data

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

Jun Wang, Youwei Jia, Eugene Yujun Fu, Jiajia Li, Andy Tam

This paper aims to facilitate the use of machine learning to carry out supervised classification/regression tasks for time series data in fire research...

Uncertainty in the Seismic Response of Structural Components due to Material Variability

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

Christopher L. Segura, Siamak Sattar

Inherent variability in the mechanical properties of reinforcing steel and concrete introduces uncertainty into the seismic assessment of reinforced concrete...

RECOMMENDED OPTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

Siamak Sattar, Katherine J. Johnson

During a strong earthquake, commercial and residential buildings designed to meet current building codes and standards may sustain damage that significantly...

QUANTIFICATION OF SEISMIC ENERGY DEMAND IN NONLINEAR STRUCTURES THROUGH ANALYTICAL DERIVATIONS

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

Kevin K. Wong, Steven L. McCabe

IDENTIFICATION OF GEOMETRIC NONLINEARITY FORMULATIONS AND THE INFLUENCES ON STRUCTURAL DYNAMIC RESPONSES

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

Kevin K. Wong

Both ASCE/SEI 7-16 and ASCE/SEI 41-17 design standards require that P-D effects be included in the nonlinear dynamic analysis procedure for designing new and...

On the Use of Machine Learning Models to Forecast Flashover Occurrence in a Compartment

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

Jun Wang, Andy Tam, Paul A. Reneke, Richard Peacock, Thomas Cleary, Eugene Yujun Fu, Grace Ngai, Hong Va Leong

This paper presents a study to examine the potential use of machine learning algorithms to build a model to forecast the likelihood of flashover occurrence for...

DEVELOPMENT OF A DATABASE OF EXPERIMENTAL TESTS ON FRP RETROFITTED REINFORCED CONCRETE SHEAR WALLS

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

Jazalyn D. Dukes, Siamak Sattar

Codes and standards developing organizations, such as American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and American Concrete Institute (ACI), rely on experimental...

Stress and Strain Heuristics for a Layered Elastomeric Foam at Medium Impact Rates

September 14, 2020

Author(s)

Alexander Landauer, Jared C. Van Blitterswyk, Michael Riley, Aaron Forster

Impact mitigating materials (IMMs) are used to reduce injury or damage due to a blunt impact, which often occurs at high rates or energies. Innovation in IMMs...

Comparison of theoretical and experimental failure distributions for twisted yarns

September 14, 2020

Author(s)

Amy E. Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Amanda Forster

Both untwisted and twisted bundles of fibers and wires can be found in a myriad of applications, from ballistic body armor to suspension bridge cables...

Elevated Temperature and Humidity Effects on Fibers Based on 5-amino-2-(p-aminophenyl) benzimidazole (PBIA)

September 14, 2020

Author(s)

Amanda Forster, Amy E. Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Thanh N. Hoang, Viviana Bentley, Ajay Krishnamurthy, Lucas H. Kaplan

Terahertz Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Cesium Atoms

September 14, 2020

Author(s)

Sumit Bhushan, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma

We outline a proposal to realize Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) with the potential to store Terahertz (THz) optical pulses in Cesium atoms. Such...

Calibration of free-space and fiber-coupled single-photon detectors

September 14, 2020

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Alan L. Migdall, Joshua C. Bienfang, John H. Lehman, Sae Woo Nam, Oliver T. Slattery, Jolene D. Splett, Igor Vayshenker, Chih-Ming Wang

We present our measurements of the detection efficiency of free-space and fiber-coupled single- photon detectors at wavelengths near 851 nm and 1533.6 nm. We...

Digital Radiometer for Traceable Spectrum Sensing

September 14, 2020

Author(s)

Xifeng Lu, Dazhen Gu, Daniel G. Kuester

This paper describes a metrology instrument designed for detecting noise and interference in digital communications. A quadrature detector downconverts in-phase...

Loading Protocols and Backbone Curves: U.S. and Japan Perspectives

September 13, 2020

Author(s)

Bruce F. Maison, Kazuhiko Kasai, Matthew Speicher

With the gaining popularity of performance-based engineering, it is essential to have reliable estimates of component (e.g., steel beam or column) performance...

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