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Research is being conducted to describe the characteristics of an improved fire detector which promptly reacts to smoke while discriminating between smoke and
In most engineering design processes, there are three major phases of design: functional, conceptual, and detailed design (Gui94). However, most current
Coordinate measuring systems (CMSs) determine dimensional (length) characteristics of mechanical parts by analyzing 3-dimensional point data acquired on part
The objective of this study was to evaluate the ability of sprinkler activation models to predict activation time. Large scale compartment fire tests were used
The Real-time Control System (RCS) architecture developed at NIST and elsewhere over the past two decades [1] defines a canonical form for a nested intelligent
Ken L. Stricklett, J. M. Kassoff, James K. Olthoff, Richard J. Van Brunt
Methods are described, which are based on the use of a commercial mass spectrometer, for determination of ionization and fragment ion appearance potentials by
This paper addresses the development and implementation of real-time reactive scheduling and control decision-making in hierarchical manufacturing environments
Leo W. Hollberg, J Aman, S Waltman, J. H. Marquardt, M Stephens, Richard W. Fox, D A. Van baak, C S. Weimer, Hugh Robinson, A S. Zibrov, N Mackie, T P. Zibrova, L Pendrill