An official website of the United States government
Here’s how you know
Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (
) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
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...
During a strong earthquake, commercial and residential buildings designed to meet current building codes and standards may sustain damage that significantly...
Inherent variability in the mechanical properties of reinforcing steel and concrete introduces uncertainty into the seismic assessment of reinforced concrete...
Codes and standards developing organizations, such as American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and American Concrete Institute (ACI), rely on experimental...
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...
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...
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...
This paper describes a metrology instrument designed for detecting noise and interference in digital communications. A quadrature detector downconverts in-phase...
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...
With the gaining popularity of performance-based engineering, it is essential to have reliable estimates of component (e.g., steel beam or column) performance...
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that integrates computing resources in wireless access networks to process computational tasks in close...
For accurate realization of the ac volt, the Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer (JAWS) must not be overly loaded by the electrical network in which it is...
Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, Ivan Ryger, Natalia A. Azarova, Paul A. Williams, John Lehman
Demonstration and validation of a linear radiation pressure-based high-power laser power meter is presented. To date, this device is the most promising real...
Brian Simonds, Jack R. Tanner, Alexandra B. Artusio-Glimpse, Paul A. Williams, Niranjan Parab, Cang Zhao, Tao Sun
During high-power laser metal processing, the absorbed light is intimately related to the molten metal cavity shape. For the first time, we directly and...
We investigate laser spot welding of 200 µm thick Cu and Al foils using laser-induced fluorescence (LIF). The key to strong Cu/Al welds is limited intermetallic...
S. Yang, Stefan Cular, Alain Rufenacht, Charles J. Burroughs, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel Benz, M. N. Ng
Standards and Calibration Laboratory (SCL) setup in 2018 a liquid helium based programmable Josephson voltage standard (PJVS) developed by the National...
Justus A. Brevik, Alirio De Jesus Soares Boaventura, Manuel C. Castellanos Beltran, Christine A. Donnelly, Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Anna E. Fox, Peter F. Hopkins, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Dylan Williams, Samuel P. Benz
We performed a preliminary calibrated measurement of the output power of a Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer up to 1 GHz. We present the results and...
The use of laser-induced fluorescence for detecting Cu in the vapor plume under laser welding conditions is investigated. It is found that LIF is sensitive...
This study investigates the thermal conductivity of 17-4PH stainless steel powder that was encapsulated into hollow specimens with different internal geometries...
Chunmei Liu, Chen Shen, Jack Chuang, Richard A. Rouil, Hyeong-Ah Choi
Public safety incidents typically involve a significant amount of group traffic and have a stringent requirement of connection reliability. Hence multicast...
The issue of Additive Manufacturing (AM) energy consumption attracts attention in both industry and academia, as the increasing trend of AM technologies being...
One of the most prevalent additive manufacturing processes, the powder bed fusion process, is driven by a moving heat source that melts metals to build a part...
Nenad Ivezic, Elena Jelisic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Scott Nieman, Hakju Oh, Zoran Marjanovic
Business context has a potential to become a powerful mechanism for interoperable usage and efficient maintenance of message standards. In the literature, there...
Seulki Cho, Son T. Le, Curt A. Richter, Arvind Balijepalli
We demonstrate that single-gated, commercially-sourced, field-effect transistors (FETs) operated with a lock- in amplifier (LIA) under closed-loop control can...
To reduce the possibility of fraudulent activity and market manipulation, the world's major stock exchanges require every clock involved in a stock market...